• conundorum@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    At this point, the phrase “David and Goliath” is basically a meme, and there are a lot more people that know a short guy named David fought a giant named Goliath than actually read 1 Samuel. And for that matter, more than know how the fight actually played out.

    Heck, there are a lot of people that probably only know about it from The Simpsons, that episode with the skits that cast the kids as Bible characters and basically parodied the stories they were based on… I think it had Bart as David, probably Nelson or one of the other bullies as Goliath, and Ralph killing one of Goliath’s brothers with a sling and a modern tombstone? That’s probably about as much as a lot of people know about David & Goliath, honestly.

  • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
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    1 day ago

    No they don’t. “Christians” don’t read, especially their own handbooks. To the point where if you quote something from the bible that disagrees with their ignorant bullshit they get extra mad.

  • ZeroOne@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Americans & intelligent are 2 things that should never be used together I realized that & accepted it

  • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    Love hypocrisy dunking on Christians, but why do we care if Jack Miladin is a bad Christian and doesn’t read his Bible, I mean - is he a person of note, a public official, a politician? I can’t find anything on this guy, it seems like he’s just a rando.

  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I stopped reading Reddit entirely save for deshittifying search results, but I braced myself and looked at the conservative subreddit today, and even they think this is quite dumb.

    • ByteJunk@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Hahaha I did the same, I was considering what rock I could turn to find them under and remembered Reddit.

      Can confirm, even they haven’t found a way of spinning this one. Their best shot was justifying this as an attempt of making Trudeau, who’s leaving, to look bad and ease up on the tariffs when the new guy comes in so he looks good and is more eager to work with Trump, but even then they see it as a shot in the foot.

      • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        They all seem pretty bewildered by this iteration of the orange rapist from the little bit I looked. I got the feeling that he doesn’t have a lot of support there anymore. Idk I’m not digging around but it’s just a sense I have.

        • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
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          2 days ago

          I glanced around old Facebox and mostly saw them yammering about trans people today and pretty quiet on the tariffs. It’s interesting.

          • Theonetheycall1845@lemmy.world
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            2 days ago

            I made a post on there, first one I’m years, about how whoever voted for Trump can’t fuck right off. My sister texts me “oh dear brother. You’ve unleashed the Maga folks” which happen to be my brother and my other sisters ex-husband. I haven’t even checked my notifications to see what they said. I don’t need to read it. I know it will be ignorance. Anywho, take care of yourself