We will be GLAD to return when Christians & Those who fear God and HATE evil!
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“God fearing” has always struck me as a ridiculous statement. It’s supposed to be a positive, like, that person respected God. No. Jesus preached of a loving God. He was delusional, apocalyptic, and a product of his time and circumstances, but he said his god loved everyone. Throw that tired shit away.
You’re thinking New Testament God.
Old Testament God is a big mean motherfucker and he will fuck you up unless you follow his very strict rules. In fact, he won’t just fuck you up, he will fuck up your entire tribe collectively because you didn’t follow the rules.
Largely because he wasn’t the only God kicking around. Jehovah was originally just another local deity, but he beat up the others. You really were supposed to be afraid of the awesome power your god wielded. Ties back to the language of “you shall have no other gods before Me” - they were around, and they were real, but Jehovah was the baddest of them all.
Moses didn’t try to convince the Egyptians to worship Jehovah, he tried to make them scared of Jehovah.
okay but without fear isn’t there no morality? and, like, if nobody’s suffering, is there really such a thing as justice? if there’s not at least one child in a basement being tortured and treated like dirt, can you even call it a society? I mean, obviously the optimal number of people being horrible tortured in society is “everyone but me, in the sickest ways I can imagine”, but, y’know, progress is progress
-every fascist
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“We will be GLAD to return when Christians & Those who fear God and HATE evil! Thank ------ You,”
… yeah, that seems about right.
I mean. The actuall complaint is to early and Ill agree with that part. I don’t like holidays starting up more than a month before. october for holloween, november for thanksgiving, december for christmass, march for saint pats, febuary for valentines and whenever for easter if it can get its act together. Ill give that an exception as mardi gras is its own thing. Oh but if its fireworks can we keep those to just the day of and maybe before and after but we don’t need a week of it. blah blah. man yells at cloud.
You can bet they don’t mind Christmas decoration is up 4 months before Christmas though.
I have a problem when stores decorate for holidays so early, but I think in this case they were just selling their Halloween stuff. Lots of people like to get their decorations lined up early, and craft stuff can take time, so I have no issue with them selling stuff whenever.
I’m impressed the people of Tulsa put aside their differences to issue this joint statement
