c/cyanideandhappiness · by m_f@discuss.online · 19d2026-08-14 đź”— 381 points · 17 comments · view on lemmy.world
17 Comments
DupaCycki@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 19d
Priests wonder why people don't read the Bible, and then they keep spoiling the ending smh
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 19d
I tried reading it a few times before in my life... but it's a really boring thing to read, so was never able to get very far.
Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 19d
I began reading it, then got to Numbers, and the endless pages of whomst is related to whom ad nauseum drained the life out of me.
"Behold, 300 people!"
reader: okay
"They're not important individually."
reader: so why... ugh
EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 19d
Revelation is the only one I’ve read in its entirety.
All the other books in it are meh. Well except for the one with alien spaceship, that one’s pretty good.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 19d
Prose are super flat and stilted, and the dialogue is laughable. đź‘Ž
ceenote@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 19d
boobookittyfrick@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 18d
square@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 19d
Remember kids, if you don't sin, Jesus died for nothing!
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 19d
He went through all that trouble. May as well use them.
Truthtwopower@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 19d
Tbh he probably never read it either. That's why he believes in it still.
luciferofastora@feddit.org · 5 pts · 18d
Nah, the issue is that you, when you read a contradiction, conclude one of the premises must be wrong. He will instead believe his understanding of the premises or his logic is wrong.
porn_was_never_the_real_issue@fedinsfw.app · 9 pts · 19d
Or instead: ”No, it says right here in Leviticus 25 that I can keep slaves”
And cut to the missionary doing hard labor
arotrios@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 18d
This reminds me of the time the Mormons got pissed at me for asking if the Book of Mormon was a divine footnote.
lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 19d
Readers of the Bible are rarely “christian”
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 19d
Spoilers for a 2,000 to 15,000 year old collections of manuscripts.
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 19d
Is his death and resurrection actually the climax of the book?
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 19d
I giggled a bit