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Yeah, what do the evangelicals think about worshipping false idols?

Just the whole thing is weird with analogies
Some of the freed Jews want a god to worship and they need a physical god not a concept of god.
Moses’s Brother says bring me your gold, I will make one (more of less this is a huge simplification). He melts the gold to make a golden calf and puts it on or near an alter. People start to worship the calf this violating the first commandment which they were all part of when Moses brought the texts down from the Mountain. Thus ignoring god. Keep in mind in the context of the story all these people witnessed gods power and various miracles.
God gets angry at them, Moses asks to handle the situation. God say okay Moses.
Moses returns and is angry, destroys the statue and I think grinds it up for all to consume. This last part gets strange in translations.

My takeaways:
Who is worshiping a false god
What does the true God think of the false idol
Gold=Campign donations, should one be donating to literally the greediest man on earth or donating that money to help the poor. The Bible is pretty clear about where that money should go
Who is strong enough to be Moses? Will it be Mitt or Liz or someone else
Consuming the broken statue is that bearing the shame of supporting it? Will Trumpers bear the shame of voting for him.
 

Jaskalas

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How is the public going to keep track of all these banned symbols? From the okay sign to a winged square. You are starting to compile quite a list.
 
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ch33zw1z

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How is the public going to keep track of all these banned symbols? From the okay sign to a winged square. You are starting to compile quite a list.

I guess the same way conservatives have kept track of what's banned for thousands of years.
 

Motostu

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Okay, I suck at making memes but have an idea for one. Trump speaking at CPAC saying "All your base are belong to us".

Maybe stupid? Makes me laugh to think about it though.

Edit: Or, better yet, "All your base are belong to ME!"
 
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My takeaways:
Who is worshiping a false god
What does the true God think of the false idol
Gold=Campign donations, should one be donating to literally the greediest man on earth or donating that money to help the poor. The Bible is pretty clear about where that money should go
Who is strong enough to be Moses? Will it be Mitt or Liz or someone else
Consuming the broken statue is that bearing the shame of supporting it? Will Trumpers bear the shame of voting for him.
I'm atheist and anyone who I know that is deeply religious, I don't get into conversations about it. But yeah I don't get how people that follow that there is a god, how could they get suckered into this wannabe orange monkey and worship him as one?
 
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hal2kilo

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I'm atheist and anyone who I know that is deeply religious, I don't get into conversations about it. But yeah I don't get how people that follow that there is a god, how could they get suckered into this wannabe orange monkey and worship him as one?
Emptiness!
 

VRAMdemon

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So basically, for Republicans - refusing to concede when you lose is going to become a thing now: - Figured it was just a matter of time.

He’s telling the party "Go ahead, refuse to concede. Claim fraud. Never admit defeat again - oh yeah, rig the system and suppress votes while you’re at it."

Don, Jr.: “Hey; look at me! I’m using words over here!” - You wouldn’t think “my daddy showed that you can lose like a whiny bitch and a destructive lying dipshit” would be a selling point, but that’s today's conservatives for ya.
 

HomerJS

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This can’t be real or maybe it is real and none of these dummies get the biblical reference

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Supposedly this is at CPAC.

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Aw fuck it is true (mostly)
The Golden Calf
32 When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods[a] who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.”

2 Aaron answered them, “Take off the gold earrings that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me.” 3 So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron. 4 He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, “These are your gods,[b] Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”

5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of the calf and announced, “Tomorrow there will be a festival to the Lord.” 6 So the next day the people rose early and sacrificed burnt offerings and presented fellowship offerings. Afterward they sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.

7 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt. 8 They have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and have said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.’

9 “I have seen these people,” the Lord said to Moses, “and they are a stiff-necked people. 10 Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”

11 But Moses sought the favor of the Lord his God. “Lord,” he said, “why should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand? 12 Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce anger; relent and do not bring disaster on your people. 13 Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self: ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give your descendants all this land I promised them, and it will be their inheritance forever.’” 14 Then the Lord relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.

15 Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back. 16 The tablets were the work of God; the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

17 When Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting, he said to Moses, “There is the sound of war in the camp.”

18 Moses replied:
“It is not the sound of victory,
it is not the sound of defeat;
it is the sound of singing that I hear.”

19 When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces at the foot of the mountain. 20 And he took the calf the people had made and burned it in the fire; then he ground it to powder, scattered it on the water and made the Israelites drink it.

21 He said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you, that you led them into such great sin?”

22 “Do not be angry, my lord,” Aaron answered. “You know how prone these people are to evil. 23 They said to me, ‘Make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.’ 24 So I told them, ‘Whoever has any gold jewelry, take it off.’ Then they gave me the gold, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf!”

25 Moses saw that the people were running wild and that Aaron had let them get out of control and so become a laughingstock to their enemies. 26 So he stood at the entrance to the camp and said, “Whoever is for the Lord, come to me.” And all the Levites rallied to him.

27 Then he said to them, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Each man strap a sword to his side. Go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and friend and neighbor.’” 28 The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people died. 29 Then Moses said, “You have been set apart to the Lord today, for you were against your own sons and brothers, and he has blessed you this day.”

30 The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. But now I will go up to the Lord; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”

31 So Moses went back to the Lord and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made themselves gods of gold. 32 But now, please forgive their sin—but if not, then blot me out of the book you have written.”

33 The Lord replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my book. 34 Now go, lead the people to the place I spoke of, and my angel will go before you. However, when the time comes for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.”

35 And the Lord struck the people with a plague because of what they did with the calf Aaron had made.



 

Jaskalas

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I guess the same way conservatives have kept track of what's banned for thousands of years.

Witch trials?
But it's not conservatives on the inquisition this time. Or at least not for these subjects.
And "thousands of years" didn't have the internet to make every single transgression a permanent scarlet letter. People could seek forgiveness and understanding. I don't see that in modern America. They seem to only want bloodletting and sacrificial lambs these days.
 

ch33zw1z

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Witch trials?
But it's not conservatives on the inquisition this time. Or at least not for these subjects.
And "thousands of years" didn't have the internet to make every single transgression a permanent scarlet letter. People could seek forgiveness and understanding. I don't see that in modern America.

yawn worthy. Conservatives of all kinds have been terrorizing "others" for thousands of years. #dealwithit

edit: It's amazing to watch them try to process what's going on. The sheer hate, fear, and subsequent anger is quite a site to behold. Par for the course, but still quite a site.
 
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hal2kilo

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yawn worthy. Conservatives of all kinds have been terrorizing "others" for thousands of years. #dealwithit

edit: It's amazing to watch them try to process what's going on. The sheer hate, fear, and subsequent anger is quite a site to behold. Par for the course, but still quite a site.
It's like watching a bad accident.
 
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I'm atheist and anyone who I know that is deeply religious, I don't get into conversations about it. But yeah I don't get how people that follow that there is a god, how could they get suckered into this wannabe orange monkey and worship him as one?

I mean just look at it as a basic story of how to act. We all know you shouldn't worship money, we all know you shouldn't hand over everything to a man to make a "God"
 
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How is the public going to keep track of all these banned symbols? From the okay sign to a winged square. You are starting to compile quite a list.

Nobody mentioned 'bans'. But keeping track doesn't seem that hard - a simple rule is if the actual, historical Nazis used it to denote...well, Nazis...then it's probably not a good look to use it and if you do use it decent people will know what you are.

The appropriation of the OK symbol and that frog cartoon and probably a few others are just part of the tiresome internet-obsessive meme thing that the alt-right are big on. I don't think there's any "correct" way to respond to that nonsense, because the whole point of it is to be confusing and retain "plausible deniability", and they'll go on appropriating formerly harmless symbols indefinitely. But it should be remembered that the actual Nazis, the ones who murdered millions, did much the same thing.
 

hal2kilo

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Nobody mentioned 'bans'. But keeping track doesn't seem that hard - a simple rule is if the actual, historical Nazis used it to denote...well, Nazis...then it's probably not a good look to use it and if you do use it decent people will know what you are.

The appropriation of the OK symbol and that frog cartoon and probably a few others are just part of the tiresome internet-obsessive meme thing that the alt-right are big on. I don't think there's any "correct" way to respond to that nonsense, because the whole point of it is to be confusing and retain "plausible deniability", and they'll go on appropriating formerly harmless symbols indefinitely. But it should be remembered that the actual Nazis, the ones who murdered millions, did much the same thing.
Everything is a conspiracy, you can find the symbols everywhere. Seems eerily like a movie.. like A Beautiful Mind.
 

ch33zw1z

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Nobody mentioned 'bans'. But keeping track doesn't seem that hard - a simple rule is if the actual, historical Nazis used it to denote...well, Nazis...then it's probably not a good look to use it and if you do use it decent people will know what you are.

The appropriation of the OK symbol and that frog cartoon and probably a few others are just part of the tiresome internet-obsessive meme thing that the alt-right are big on. I don't think there's any "correct" way to respond to that nonsense, because the whole point of it is to be confusing and retain "plausible deniability", and they'll go on appropriating formerly harmless symbols indefinitely. But it should be remembered that the actual Nazis, the ones who murdered millions, did much the same thing.

Nailed it.
 

Fenixgoon

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Everything is a conspiracy, you can find the symbols everywhere. Seems eerily like a movie.. like A Beautiful Mind.
and yet the trumpublicans continually manage to "coincidentally" do things thathave great symbolism. like planning a rally in tulsa on juneteenth, or any of the other myriad of things. there are no coincidences, only the illusion of coincidence. at least in this case.