Michelle is correct
Hey, this is a great place to figure out which deranged religious cunts to block. If you do everything your shitty invisible friend says, raise your hand. Then stick it so far up your ass that you tickle the place where your frontal lobe should be
No if. Putting if in there excuses those who don’t believe in a sky figure.
Just don’t call transgender people mentally ill.
Ok. Good.
Carry on.
They so obviously don’t believe it is a mental illnesa themselves. If they did then they wouldn’t be dismissive of the medical professionals giving healthcare. Not to mention that people with mental illnesses generally don’t receive the same level of bigotry, hate and legislation against their existence. Says a lot about a person when their response to somebody with what they perceive as a mental illness is to bully and harass them.
What the hell is going on with Lemmy lately? We’ve got transphobia here and furrie hate over in Lemmy Shitpost.
Isn’t this post criticizing transphobia?
Lots of pro-AI sentiment too. Doesn’t seem coincidental.
Oh please, anything that isn’t “using AI makes you Hitler” is considered “pro-AI sentiment” around here.
Found the pro AI sentiment! /j
People out here really believing in sky daddy
My uncle went on a rant that god made people think they were transgender as a test to see if they would choose him. I asked “What if god made those people transgender to test if YOU would be nice to them?”
I’m not invited to his house anymore.
Congrats, his house sounds like a place to avoid.
You won twice
Your uncle went, “logic? In this house of mine? Heavens, no.”
This sounds like an absolute win
The actual biblical point is a nuanced one.
It’s not really nuanced. For any of that to make sense the starting point has to be grounded in hate. You have to believe that being trans, or engaging in whatever xyz acts (sexual or otherwise) with or as a trans person is sinful. On top of that you have to even agree and believe in the very concept of sin and there being some reward/punishment system for if you do or don’t sin.
So yeah, no there’s no nuance when the starting point for your opinion is “being trans = automatic sinner.”
It’s also bullshit
Of all the things that never happened… This right here.slaps top never happened the most.
Damn, you’ve made being a dickhead your entire personality, huh?
No, really I am more of a degenerate. And your name has piqued my interest.
Are you a fan of those who fist, like myself? Or are you one who fists and is enthused?
I’m not engaging with you
I don’t like you
He is the kind of gentleman who thinks it is funny to laugh at political assassinations. When they happen to people from the other side of the political divide. If anyone laughed at his political paragon, he would cut your head off, of course.
Do you have a crush on me?
👉👈🥹
It’s strange that you think I’d cut someone’s head off
Seems like something that religious types do, rather than me
Classic love triangle. Wants the person they like to have crush on them, but they won’t. Meanwhile I am over hear ready to do my best piston impressing and I go immediately blown off.
And I don’t need you to like me. I just need you to give in enough for us both to have a good time ;)
I generally don’t go for people who romanticize violence.
I’m not Christian, but from what I’ve read of Jesus, he’d want us to love and respect trans folk. You know, along with the widow, the orphan, the disabled, the foreigner and so on.
What the bible shows us is that hatred of the other, to the point of violence, is an old, old problem, and we actually have to put effort into exercising tolerance.
I learned this stuff from Sesame Street and Saturday-morning cartoons in the 1970s, a message that seems to have been lost since.
There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:28
an argument against identity politics?
Imagine being a Christian believing in an all knowing creator and thinking God mistakenly made trans people… Like have you never read genesis. Eve was cloned and transitioned in the first few paragraphs .
Sincerely a guy who believes in the teachings of Christ.
Yeah I see what sub this is in but you won’t defeat “Christian hate” with dismissal.
You defeat it by treating them like people who have been ruined by a dangerous violent mental illness. Possibly the only one that makes people more likely to hurt others than themselves. Cut that special exception out of the DSM and just diagnose it for what it is.
Transfer all that stigma where it belongs. Be condescending and cautious as you would about anyone else shouting about their imaginary friend in public.
you won’t defeat “Christian hate” with dismissal.
As Charlie Kirk so eloquently demonstrated.
Imagine being a Christian believing in an all knowing creator and thinking God mistakenly made trans people…
Are we not talking about a group of people whose central premise is they were ‘born in the wrong body’?
Who? Trans people? Not sure what you are going for here…
I just call Evangelicals devil worshipers. Conservative “Christians” sold their soul to the Devil by embracing hate. They love hate more than they love God. If you worship hate, you’re worshiping the Devil. Their religion is fundamentally evil.
Gender dysphoria and other dysphoria CAN be the result of illness, and CAN go away once said illness (like depression for example) is treated.
A religious upbringing however will almost always result in deep mental (and often physical) scars and should be considered child abuse.
A religious upbringing however will almost always result in deep mental (and often physical) scars and should be considered child abuse.
Really matters what kind of religious upbringing.
Although, to be fair: I want my foreskin back, bruh :'(
A cult demanded my foreskin be removed in infancy and I’m not very cool with that.
Medical technology and hygiene practices have advanced enough that circumcisions don’t make much of a difference.
But that same medical technology has not yet advanced enough to let me grow my foreskin back, and that upsets me.
The same society that introduced circumcision introduced washing things with water to clean them too. There’s just no fucking excuse no matter how you slice it. They should have known better.
The same society that introduced circumcision introduced washing things with water to clean them too. There’s just no fucking excuse no matter how you slice it. They should have known better.
You might find Foucault’s “The Birth of the Clinic” to be fascinating. Doctors, for the longest time, didn’t know germ theory. The clinic evolved accordingly and iirc (not sure if this is in the book) the first doctor that was convinced of their presence was institutionalized. (Ignaz Semmelweis)
Also, as an aside, water would not clean germs off in a way that will make the area actually clean. I tell my kids this every time they run the water only to wash their hands but THEY JUST WON’T LISTEN!!!
You and I already know all this. But a few thousand years ago, supposedly, their God told them that if they wash with water it makes things clean. They cut their dicks off anyway and still kept believing in their God, and forced other people to do it when conquering and enslaving them.
So I stand by my point that there is zero excuse to be found here.
Technically I believe there’s a stretching process involving weights, but that’s as much knowledge of it as my mind was willing to retain. I’d argue if someone needs their foreskin so bad they’re basically willing to further mutilate their body to get it, that’s it’s own mental illness.
Reddit had r/foreskinrestoration and similar subs but nothing similar has grown pun intended here on Lemmy. It took 4 or 5 years of dedicated stretching by hand and with a few different devices but the head of my penis is fully covered and in some ways the circumcision is reversed, and I’m happy with it. Still not the same but much better in terms of sensitivity, no regrets, and not really that much effort involved.
I’m happy that you’re happy! Though I gotta say, this:
It took 4 or 5 years of dedicated stretching by hand and with a few different devices
not really that much effort involved
…is slightly baffling lol.
Ha, yeah. I guess I mean that a few minutes every day or two didnt really impact my life that much. Less than say, going to the gym or learning a language or to play an instrument might.
So, no foreskin growing pills?
They’d need to test it on mice…
Mouse circumcision: we truly do create our own hell.
What nonsense! I had a religious upbringing. I’m an atheist now, but I don’t have any scars over it. I really miss my religious grandparents and uncle.
almost always
weasel words, spoken in the passive voice.
Weasel comment, dismissed in the same way.
I’m just quoting, take it up with the original commenter
It’s still a ridiculous claim. Basically saying most religious families are abusers. Where’s the evidence of that?
Here’s 33% of them doing one specific form of child abuse, don’t have evidence for >50% general abuse though.
Religion is used for abuse and control.
This is not a contested subject amongst people who do not consider themselves conservative.
gestures to myself, though I’d rather not be Subject A for this
I’m never going to invalidate you or try to diminish what you went through. I just take exception to the suggestion that it’s in any way the norm.
Strong religious belief is certainly some form of mental disorder, regardless of anything else.
My uneducated guess is it’s a form of narcissism in the sense that it gives people a reason to not take responsibility for their actions and not have accountability for the things that happen to them.
~It’s all a part of God’s plan. /s~
a form of narcissism in the sense that it gives people a reason to not take responsibility for their actions and not have accountability for the things that happen to them.
And also allows them to greatly inflate their idea of their own importance.
Persecution
OP is a dunce.
what? he only loves me if i tithe 10% and beat my wife
Drink coffee? Straight to Heck
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh…
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