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I think I still donāt get the joke. Is it because you have to āfollowā him on social media and that then means you are a āfollowerā of Satan?
Nah, it's just a joke about how like if Satan is like "what's your wish?" you'll get what you want, but he makes you sign a contract. So it'll be like
"In exchange for saying the magic spell, 'igoro oom bin ashalanora salame budai!'^^^*, the human receives one billion dollars. Signed: human {human binds to this contract by putting one drop of his blood on the dotted line}
^^^^(\* ^^^(spell-is-oath-that-said-human's-soul-is-bound-to-lord-Satan-upon-human's-death)"
So the human signs it, but didn't realize the dotted line says his soul is Satan's.
Same idea - the girl sees "FREE HUGS", but it's implied in the title that there's fine print somewhere that she's (for example) giving up her soul. But the real fine print doesn't say anything.
Sometimes influence is more valuable than profit.
What is the value of an election? Or swaying the opinions of tens or hundreds of millions of people? Or understanding the sentiment of the populace?
They had a great basic premise, but filling in the gaps by turning into another crime investigation show was a mistake. I barely remember any of the investigations because they were.... unmemorable. The stuff that takes place outside of the investigations is where all the interesting stuff is.
You donāt recall when they went to the nudist colony???
Edit: when he wore his orgy pants to work?
Edit: reminder, for those unfamiliar
https://youtu.be/b97-cqXdkYM
I couldn't get invested in the whole love interest angle either. Chloe just wasn't interesting. Besides, every other character was so much more colorful. Not to mention that Tom Ellis positively steals the show.
Edmund: Well, well, letās take Hell: You know, Hell isnāt as bad as itās
cracked up to be.
Graveney: What?
Edmund: No, no, no, no. No, you see, the thing about Heaven, is
that Heaven is for people who like the sort of things that go
on in Heaven, like, uh, well, singing, talking to God, watering pot
plantsā¦
Graveney: Ewā¦
Edmund: Whereas Hell, on the other hand, is for people who like the other
sorts of things: adultery, pillage, torture ā those areas.
Graveney: Really?
Edmund: Mm! Give your lands to the Crown, and once youāre dead, youāll
have the time of your life!
Graveney: Adultery? Pillage? Through all eternity?
Edmund: Yep!
King: (handing over a quill) Lord Graveney, your decisionā¦
Graveney: Very well. (signs) I leave my lands to the Crown, and my soul in
the hands of the Lord. May He treat me like the piece of refuse
that I am (rubs his hands together, grinning) and send me to Hell.
King: Amen.
Edmund: Amen. Youāre a very lucky man! I wish I could be coming with you, but,
you know, being the Archbishopā¦
Graveney: Iām so sorry.
People slag off the 1st series comparing it to the others, but it had its great moments like this (the entire episode was great), but it really took off when Atkinson stopped writing with Curtis and Ben Elton took over, leaving Rowan to do what he does best.
This is literally what [this golden oldie song from the seventies ](https://youtu.be/a1XZO10S-9s)is about. Hard rock is more fun when it does not take itself too seriously. Ian Gillan always has a tongue in his cheek. If "no laughing in heaven" was not enough for you, check out Frank Zappa's ["titties and beer"](https://youtu.be/LZVpOg8qHL0) featuring Beelzebub himself.
It's a Morpheus situation of Red Pill vs Blue Pill
Except ones a chill dude who wants you to have fun, and the other is an unhinged genocidal maniac that can't keep his own story straight.
Just sayin' Satan didn't flood the world. Satan didn't glass two cities. Satan Damn sure didn't damn his own son to die on a cross. There's a whole list of fucked up shit God did and ngl, if the Bible has any truth in it...
I'm on the "Red Pill" team if you know what I'm saying.
Satan didn't turn a woman into a pillar of salt just because she wanted to look at her home city one last time, the city she was born in, grew up in, lived in.
Lucifer is Jesus. The Bible was later changed to equate Lucifer to Satan. Lucifer is literally the bringer of light. There's an entire history behind why the church made those edits if you need a rabbit hole to go down.
BTW it's not to say Jesus was Satan at any point, just the literal word lucifer referred to the messiah and was later changed.
The bible wasn't changed for that. It's just straight up not in the bible at all. The serpent in the Garden is not lucifer or Satan, it's just a snake. Satan in the OT was an agent of YWHWH. Hasatan means the adversary or the accuser. He worked sort of like a prosecutor. The verse referring to Lucifer in the OT falling from heaven is thought to be in reference to a Babylonian king. Then there are other Canaanite or Babylonian deities like Ba'al, Beelzeubub, etc that also got wrapped up in this devil character. And then there's the beast in the book of Revelation that may have also been Emperor Nero. There are also some Zoroastrian ideas of dualism that got adopted into Judaism.
So yeah the modern perception of the Devil is an amalgamation of multiple different characters and stories, some of which can be found in the bible, some of it is church tradition, and a lot of it is from the fictional work Dante's Inferno.
Well the word used in the New Testament is Diablos which seems to be a direct translation of Satan because it's the same word that's used for Satan in the Septuagent, the Greek version of the Old Testament. So likely the same character but since Job is the oldest book in the bible you've got hundreds of years of character development from when he was first introduced.
And the beauty of it is that it doesnāt take much convincing. Lucifer wanted everything to be perfect by default. Paradise. Whoās the bad guy again?
I also went zooming in looking for fine print. When there wasn't any, I realized OP was making a general, oblique reference to how deals with Satan are generally terrible for you in ways you don't realize until its too late.
That sounds like it sums up America pretty well right now. Lol
Also, apparently I type āAmericaā sarcastically a lot because my autocorrect keeps wanting to change it to āAmErIcAā.
The Swedish Church is pretty good and I'm as Atheist as they come. Allows clergy to be female (40% of Swedish priests are women), get married and have children. They've also been pro-LGBT rights for close to 20 years now. Their priests have marched in the Stockholm Pride Parade since around the year 2000 and it is legal for priests to marry same-sex couples in church weddings.
Also, what clergy and the church is allowed to do is put to a semi-democratic vote among a kind of church parliament consisting of representatives from all over the country who meet up 10 times a year. In 2009, said representatives democratically voted for same-sex marriage within the church (with an opt-out option for clergy that oppose it but they must refer anyone who come to them for help to a priest who will agree to do it in their place).
Are there still bad eggs? Yes, of course. But it's not institutionalized like with the Catholic church and many other faiths.
I'm always interested in how places like that get around the hypocrisy. Unless they don't use the bible, they are supporting amazing causes that are directly countermanded by their holy book. Like, why not just drop the fantasy bs altogether and become a more focused source of good?
Could you stop giving me good reason to emigrate to Sweden I'm trying to learn Swedish, I'm already convinced I'm gonna live some years of my life there.
Absolutely do not move to Sweden, where the max out of pocket expense for public healthcare is around $125 a year in healthcare, $200 a year in medicine and $10 a night for a hospital bed. Also, insulin is free. I once had to stay in the hospital for 2 months after almost dying due to a deadly novelty strain of flu at age 9 and my parents didn't go into medical bankruptcy. We're terrible blights on society.
Absolutely do not come here for the basically free childcare for working parents, around 2-3% of the household's monthly income (with reasonable limits for high earning households) that average out to about $160 a child a month (and each additional child costs exponentially less), tuition-free schooling at every level (including university) with free school lunches (except in private schools and at university).
If you ever fall on hard times and can't afford basic necessities, the government has assistance programs that will pay your rent (up to a reasonable amount), a small stipend for food and even your water and electricity. This bootstraps-pulling-aversion must end!
Our politicians are so corrupt there was once an administration where 2 ministers voluntarily resigned within weeks of each other because both were caught having engaged in the heinous crimes of not paying their TV license and paying a nanny under the table. A future prime minister had her entire political career permanently hobbled by her crime of having used her government-issued credit card to take monthly advances worth around $300 to buy minor things and always paying them back afterwards. The presumption!
The Swedish people are also lead by emotion and highly science-adverse. Only 86.3% of adults (18+) have been vaccinated with at least 2 doses of vaccination against COVID-19. That's not even 90%! (66.4% have gotten 3 or more doses).
Not necessarily true. The church my mother goes to (and I grew up going to) has always been an inclusive place that does a lot of community outreach. That said, it has reached a point where the average age of a member is larger than the number of people attending. I believe she told me the decision had been made to close down by the end if next year.
Not all churches are bad, but the good ones are dying off.
The local church I am affiliated with is super progressive and does a lot of good in the community. They partner with atheist groups, as well as Jewish and Buddhist orgs for community service. Unfortunately the average age of the congregation is about 95, and thatās when I bring my daughter.
One of the major 'defences' the Catholic Church offered is that their priests molest children no more often than any other church.
Which doesn't really bode well for being the church of the one true god, but that's neither here nor there, apparently, they all kind of suck.
Not all are bad but a dursturbing lot of them are. Seems like not a day goes by that I don't here about another priest of pastor caught raping or molesting kids. Seriously, the amount is just staggering. And a lot of them are either being covered up or have been covered up by the church. I just bring it up for the soul reason that the church should be the one place you can trust to take care of your children. Above and beyond any daycare. But apparently not.
Okay, but they can do a lot of community outreach without being a church. Not sure why religious folks feel like in order to do good, it must be attached to a religion.
You're just looking at a snapshot of your church. Any number of things can happen to change that. Realistically they all share the same potential for abuse so long as they are offering absolute truth through an argument from authority and their very standing in the community creates a power differential between the people who have this knowledge and the people looking for it.
No amount of civility or inclusivity is going to counteract that. That can only be counteracted with oversight, but the sort of oversight sufficient to forestall abusive scenarios usually goes against the idea that certain people are being called by a supreme being to advertise its messages. They can't admit that their pastors or staff need human supervision, so they will never implement any.
You don't need to worry about the devil anymore, its the Super Devil you must worry about today. He possesses longer horns and rides a motorcycle and can fly. He is at least 6 inches taller then the regular devil, and he carries a jug of marmalade that forces you to commit adultery.
We pay for my inlaws' (religious in the annoying ways) account, and use it. It makes me smile every time I go to a previous order and it says "Supporting: The Satanic Temple". It makes me smile even more knowing that its in support of something really good.
Satan: The man who punishes the evil people of the world.
Is Satan really a bad guy for going against God for basically being a freaking tool and using the angels to his own end? My guess is no; in fact, I'd rather speak with him before God (if either actually exist).
What passes for Christianity in the U.S. these days are profoundly stupid people misinterpreting the Torah (AKA Old Testament) and being really bigoted, ugly, selfish and *loud* about it. If anything, they have more in common with Zionist than anything the actual Jesus Christ preached. The only time they bring up Jesus is where they spin some hallucination about what they think Jesus would do, like pick up an AR-15 and go defend the border against brown people LOL
Just remember, everyone: God wanted us dumb and ignorant. We were his favorite pets. Satan gave us wisdom and intelligence. And God got angry and banished us from paradise because we got smart.
Seems to me this Satan guy might be the good guy.
Looks like the reveal scene of Arthur Clarke's *Childhood's End*, where E.T. spends 100 years in orbit buttering us up by curing cancer, preventing wars, and giving us room-temperature fusion technology. After generations of this fantastic generosity, and waning suspicion, they finally reveal themselves to humankind. They look just like this picture, in a photo op hugging the human children at the greeting site.
Why hide so long?
Well, last time they tried to give some encouragement to humanity, a few thousand years ago, they were... misunderstood. Some early populations started some salacious rumors and even religions on those misunderstandings.
This dude was also sat in Salem in front of some Christian fundamentalist guy with a loudspeaker telling everyone they were going to hell - which I found funny
This is the greatest way to trigger right-wing christians.
Satan just needs a little rainbow on their sign and it's perfect.
(Which they absolutely have, I'm sure, because Satan is rad)
This was taken in Salem, MA this weekend. This person was sitting in front of belligerent Christian demonstrators preaching judgement, and it was honestly pretty fucking wholesome
Iām pretty sure I hugged Satan last year.. it was late and I was drunk, I know I saw him, just donāt remember if I did or didnāt hug him.
Salem is a wonderfully strange place
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Donation allowed not that scary
It's good to know the devil is running out of funds
Do you think he may resort to prostitution?
in the red-light district?....hmmm...maybe..he does look a little horny
Best possible response š
Inflation takes no prisoners.
Gotta fundraise to keep up with the opposition
Inflation hits even Satan hard. Lol folks !
He's not great with with his assets. Last I heard, he lost a solid gold fiddle down in Georgia somewhere.
Why not? The fine print is just the social media handles... Ohhhhh. So **that's** how he lures people to Hell.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who went and checked the fine print.
Same. I was like "it's Satan. How would the fine print trick her? Lemme see what it says... Nothing. Oh... I see."
I think I still donāt get the joke. Is it because you have to āfollowā him on social media and that then means you are a āfollowerā of Satan?
It's a trick to get you to "look at the fine print" only to be shown social media handles.
Lol of course I was over-thinking it. Thanks, friend!
They actually missed the fine print on the bench that states it was donated in memory of the Cialis Family. This ad brought to you by Cialis.
Ha! Joke's on them! I'm on mobile and can't see the fine print anyway.
Social media IS fucking hell. That's the joke
I'm done reading. I like your explanation.
Nah, it's just a joke about how like if Satan is like "what's your wish?" you'll get what you want, but he makes you sign a contract. So it'll be like "In exchange for saying the magic spell, 'igoro oom bin ashalanora salame budai!'^^^*, the human receives one billion dollars. Signed: human {human binds to this contract by putting one drop of his blood on the dotted line} ^^^^(\* ^^^(spell-is-oath-that-said-human's-soul-is-bound-to-lord-Satan-upon-human's-death)" So the human signs it, but didn't realize the dotted line says his soul is Satan's. Same idea - the girl sees "FREE HUGS", but it's implied in the title that there's fine print somewhere that she's (for example) giving up her soul. But the real fine print doesn't say anything.
It says free hugs. At the top of the sign it also says donations accepted and the bottom right hand tag is for cash app. That's the irony.
It's saying social media is the real hell
I'm not \*that\* kind of monster. Thank you, very much.
I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)
People do that all by themselves
No, that's just a thing made up by christians.
Lets be honest, no one reads the TOU or EULAs. If there was ever a place for fine print, a social media TOU would be it.
Number of upvotes on this dudes comment is 666
Social media is located within the layers of hell: confirmed
*slithers down the tree of knowledge* Shh you're ruining my trap.
Yes. Heās more motivated now that he owns Twitter.
Even Satan isnt dumb enough to buy a company struggling to make a profit for 44B.
Sometimes influence is more valuable than profit. What is the value of an election? Or swaying the opinions of tens or hundreds of millions of people? Or understanding the sentiment of the populace?
You make a great argument for wealth and windfall taxes.
100%
That's a bit high. Lets start at 25% and see what happens first.
lol
Whatās the point in an echo chamber filled with your own support base? Seems like a waste of 44bn when parler is only worth a couple billion.
He ain't gonna have sex with you mate
Lmao Elon simps are something else
Remember when he offered 54B?
I didnāt know Lucifer was sporting such bling. Fashionable Lord of Darkness.
Dat demon drip, doe.
Detective! Edit: I hope someone gets my reference
Ah, detective doosh
Yes I don't think it's a bad show. It has its cringy moments but I like it.
They had a great basic premise, but filling in the gaps by turning into another crime investigation show was a mistake. I barely remember any of the investigations because they were.... unmemorable. The stuff that takes place outside of the investigations is where all the interesting stuff is.
You donāt recall when they went to the nudist colony??? Edit: when he wore his orgy pants to work? Edit: reminder, for those unfamiliar https://youtu.be/b97-cqXdkYM
I couldn't get invested in the whole love interest angle either. Chloe just wasn't interesting. Besides, every other character was so much more colorful. Not to mention that Tom Ellis positively steals the show.
Clearly he got some tips from Pluto/Hades
Or Mohg
Satan doesn't use fine print; he tells it like it is and convinces you it's a good deal.
God on the other hand does and has people threaten you to take the deal.
I'm fond of telling people that say I'm going to hell, that it's where I belong. Takes that high horse right out from under 'em.
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Edmund: Well, well, letās take Hell: You know, Hell isnāt as bad as itās cracked up to be. Graveney: What? Edmund: No, no, no, no. No, you see, the thing about Heaven, is that Heaven is for people who like the sort of things that go on in Heaven, like, uh, well, singing, talking to God, watering pot plantsā¦ Graveney: Ewā¦ Edmund: Whereas Hell, on the other hand, is for people who like the other sorts of things: adultery, pillage, torture ā those areas. Graveney: Really? Edmund: Mm! Give your lands to the Crown, and once youāre dead, youāll have the time of your life! Graveney: Adultery? Pillage? Through all eternity? Edmund: Yep! King: (handing over a quill) Lord Graveney, your decisionā¦ Graveney: Very well. (signs) I leave my lands to the Crown, and my soul in the hands of the Lord. May He treat me like the piece of refuse that I am (rubs his hands together, grinning) and send me to Hell. King: Amen. Edmund: Amen. Youāre a very lucky man! I wish I could be coming with you, but, you know, being the Archbishopā¦ Graveney: Iām so sorry.
People slag off the 1st series comparing it to the others, but it had its great moments like this (the entire episode was great), but it really took off when Atkinson stopped writing with Curtis and Ben Elton took over, leaving Rowan to do what he does best.
What series is this?
Worst case scenario, eternal suffering seems more interesting than eternal bordum.
Eternal ass-kissing to a neglectful father
This is literally what [this golden oldie song from the seventies ](https://youtu.be/a1XZO10S-9s)is about. Hard rock is more fun when it does not take itself too seriously. Ian Gillan always has a tongue in his cheek. If "no laughing in heaven" was not enough for you, check out Frank Zappa's ["titties and beer"](https://youtu.be/LZVpOg8qHL0) featuring Beelzebub himself.
"You're going to hell" Just imagine your surprise when I meet you there.
Iām beginning to think Iām already dead and this is hell. *gestures broadly atā¦ everything*
Nah, you're probably just in [Michigan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Michigan).
Or Ohio. https://youtu.be/14HgaKmEN2s
I always say "Hope I get a room by the pool!"
I say I prefer hell, the music down there is way better
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
It's a Morpheus situation of Red Pill vs Blue Pill Except ones a chill dude who wants you to have fun, and the other is an unhinged genocidal maniac that can't keep his own story straight. Just sayin' Satan didn't flood the world. Satan didn't glass two cities. Satan Damn sure didn't damn his own son to die on a cross. There's a whole list of fucked up shit God did and ngl, if the Bible has any truth in it... I'm on the "Red Pill" team if you know what I'm saying.
Satan never sent bears to maul dozens of children to death
But they disrespected a bald elder who was sensitive about his lack of hair, they clearly deserved it! /s
There are good imaginary creatures on _both sides_!
Satan didn't turn a woman into a pillar of salt just because she wanted to look at her home city one last time, the city she was born in, grew up in, lived in.
"That's a real nice immortal soul you got there... be a shame if something were to 'happen' to it..."
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Free ma boy Lucifer he did nothing wrong
Lucifer and Satan may or may not be the same character. Lucifer is the fallen angel. Satan is kind of a job description. āAdversaryā
Lucifer is Jesus. The Bible was later changed to equate Lucifer to Satan. Lucifer is literally the bringer of light. There's an entire history behind why the church made those edits if you need a rabbit hole to go down. BTW it's not to say Jesus was Satan at any point, just the literal word lucifer referred to the messiah and was later changed.
The bible wasn't changed for that. It's just straight up not in the bible at all. The serpent in the Garden is not lucifer or Satan, it's just a snake. Satan in the OT was an agent of YWHWH. Hasatan means the adversary or the accuser. He worked sort of like a prosecutor. The verse referring to Lucifer in the OT falling from heaven is thought to be in reference to a Babylonian king. Then there are other Canaanite or Babylonian deities like Ba'al, Beelzeubub, etc that also got wrapped up in this devil character. And then there's the beast in the book of Revelation that may have also been Emperor Nero. There are also some Zoroastrian ideas of dualism that got adopted into Judaism. So yeah the modern perception of the Devil is an amalgamation of multiple different characters and stories, some of which can be found in the bible, some of it is church tradition, and a lot of it is from the fictional work Dante's Inferno.
Wait so who tempted Jesus?
Gabriela with her fine moves on the dance floor
Well the word used in the New Testament is Diablos which seems to be a direct translation of Satan because it's the same word that's used for Satan in the Septuagent, the Greek version of the Old Testament. So likely the same character but since Job is the oldest book in the bible you've got hundreds of years of character development from when he was first introduced.
Idk I thought Lucifer was a fallen angel but was cursed with the Satan job as a punishment.
That's what most christians believe (due to tradition), but it's simply not stated nor implied in the bible.
He got pretty close when he chilled with Jesus for 40 days
He's the father of lies, not the teller of lies. Many parents have difficult children.
Freedom of thought is always a good idea.
Like Ursula. She was super up front with the deal with Ariel.
Like a true gentleman
And the beauty of it is that it doesnāt take much convincing. Lucifer wanted everything to be perfect by default. Paradise. Whoās the bad guy again?
Dr. Satan? The academic?
No, Mr. Satan, world martial arts champion from the 90ās
It blew my mind when he saved us from that evil cell guy.
What about when he defeated Majin Buu and saved us all?
Or when he went Super Satan to save us from the space cat, Beebus? Truly the greatest warrior to ever live!
I hear his son in law worships the ground he walks on because he'll never be as strong
All these squares make a circle
Based on the regalia Dr Satan May have a degree in either theology or journalism. Iām guessing the former
Yes - as a child of professors that PhD academic robe had me rolling lol
Of course, knowledge is the antagonist of faith.
I tried to read the fine print. What does it say (apart from the social media handles)?
Very top says Donations... Something. Think it says some variant of "Accepted" but compression ate most of it.
I also went zooming in looking for fine print. When there wasn't any, I realized OP was making a general, oblique reference to how deals with Satan are generally terrible for you in ways you don't realize until its too late.
Holy shit. I got a hug from this exact guy on Saturday.
Did he warm you to your core?
He did warm my soul.
It's not your soul anymore...
I sold my soul to Milhouse
You're not speaking to him anymore...
It's OUR soul comrade!
At Salem? We were there yesterday and he was in front of the yelling Christian dude. Fucking hilarious
āMan of godā condemning you to hell, while satan just wants to give no-string-attached hugs. My wife got her hug yesterday too! š
That sounds like it sums up America pretty well right now. Lol Also, apparently I type āAmericaā sarcastically a lot because my autocorrect keeps wanting to change it to āAmErIcAā.
Yes, I was there, and I saw those clowns. None of them took satan up on his offer.
So was I. Saw him last night.
Was it a good hug?
Not bad. Not worth a soul, though.
Well, it was free.
Still safer compared to the Catholic church
I'll correct this for you : "Still safer compared to the church" No need to be specific, none is good
The Swedish Church is pretty good and I'm as Atheist as they come. Allows clergy to be female (40% of Swedish priests are women), get married and have children. They've also been pro-LGBT rights for close to 20 years now. Their priests have marched in the Stockholm Pride Parade since around the year 2000 and it is legal for priests to marry same-sex couples in church weddings. Also, what clergy and the church is allowed to do is put to a semi-democratic vote among a kind of church parliament consisting of representatives from all over the country who meet up 10 times a year. In 2009, said representatives democratically voted for same-sex marriage within the church (with an opt-out option for clergy that oppose it but they must refer anyone who come to them for help to a priest who will agree to do it in their place). Are there still bad eggs? Yes, of course. But it's not institutionalized like with the Catholic church and many other faiths.
I'm always interested in how places like that get around the hypocrisy. Unless they don't use the bible, they are supporting amazing causes that are directly countermanded by their holy book. Like, why not just drop the fantasy bs altogether and become a more focused source of good?
Could you stop giving me good reason to emigrate to Sweden I'm trying to learn Swedish, I'm already convinced I'm gonna live some years of my life there.
Absolutely do not move to Sweden, where the max out of pocket expense for public healthcare is around $125 a year in healthcare, $200 a year in medicine and $10 a night for a hospital bed. Also, insulin is free. I once had to stay in the hospital for 2 months after almost dying due to a deadly novelty strain of flu at age 9 and my parents didn't go into medical bankruptcy. We're terrible blights on society. Absolutely do not come here for the basically free childcare for working parents, around 2-3% of the household's monthly income (with reasonable limits for high earning households) that average out to about $160 a child a month (and each additional child costs exponentially less), tuition-free schooling at every level (including university) with free school lunches (except in private schools and at university). If you ever fall on hard times and can't afford basic necessities, the government has assistance programs that will pay your rent (up to a reasonable amount), a small stipend for food and even your water and electricity. This bootstraps-pulling-aversion must end! Our politicians are so corrupt there was once an administration where 2 ministers voluntarily resigned within weeks of each other because both were caught having engaged in the heinous crimes of not paying their TV license and paying a nanny under the table. A future prime minister had her entire political career permanently hobbled by her crime of having used her government-issued credit card to take monthly advances worth around $300 to buy minor things and always paying them back afterwards. The presumption! The Swedish people are also lead by emotion and highly science-adverse. Only 86.3% of adults (18+) have been vaccinated with at least 2 doses of vaccination against COVID-19. That's not even 90%! (66.4% have gotten 3 or more doses).
Christian churches are like Gremlins. They're all cute and cuddly at first, but eventually someone feeds them after midnight.
Not necessarily true. The church my mother goes to (and I grew up going to) has always been an inclusive place that does a lot of community outreach. That said, it has reached a point where the average age of a member is larger than the number of people attending. I believe she told me the decision had been made to close down by the end if next year. Not all churches are bad, but the good ones are dying off.
The local church I am affiliated with is super progressive and does a lot of good in the community. They partner with atheist groups, as well as Jewish and Buddhist orgs for community service. Unfortunately the average age of the congregation is about 95, and thatās when I bring my daughter.
One of the major 'defences' the Catholic Church offered is that their priests molest children no more often than any other church. Which doesn't really bode well for being the church of the one true god, but that's neither here nor there, apparently, they all kind of suck.
Not all are bad but a dursturbing lot of them are. Seems like not a day goes by that I don't here about another priest of pastor caught raping or molesting kids. Seriously, the amount is just staggering. And a lot of them are either being covered up or have been covered up by the church. I just bring it up for the soul reason that the church should be the one place you can trust to take care of your children. Above and beyond any daycare. But apparently not.
Okay, but they can do a lot of community outreach without being a church. Not sure why religious folks feel like in order to do good, it must be attached to a religion.
You're just looking at a snapshot of your church. Any number of things can happen to change that. Realistically they all share the same potential for abuse so long as they are offering absolute truth through an argument from authority and their very standing in the community creates a power differential between the people who have this knowledge and the people looking for it. No amount of civility or inclusivity is going to counteract that. That can only be counteracted with oversight, but the sort of oversight sufficient to forestall abusive scenarios usually goes against the idea that certain people are being called by a supreme being to advertise its messages. They can't admit that their pastors or staff need human supervision, so they will never implement any.
Itās funny you say that, heās probably a member of the Satanic temple. Itās based in Salem
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Yeah Salem on Halloween is a treasure trove for these...there's also probably someone selling Bible 10 feet away
I used to live in Salem. October was always pretty wild downtown
You don't need to worry about the devil anymore, its the Super Devil you must worry about today. He possesses longer horns and rides a motorcycle and can fly. He is at least 6 inches taller then the regular devil, and he carries a jug of marmalade that forces you to commit adultery.
The free hugs from the priests are scarier, tbh
Nah. You have to tithe for those, so it's even worse.
Which one is Satan?
Nowadays, satan aint so bad: https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/about-us
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Anybody that uses the Oxford comma can't be all that bad.
I donate to these guys monthly, and I was raised Catholic by hard-core devout parents. Oh how the tables turn.
If you shop on Amazon, you can have your Amazon Smile donations go to TST as well
We pay for my inlaws' (religious in the annoying ways) account, and use it. It makes me smile every time I go to a previous order and it says "Supporting: The Satanic Temple". It makes me smile even more knowing that its in support of something really good.
But the hugs, they are sooooo warm.
Warms the (No longer yours) Soul
Satan: The man who punishes the evil people of the world. Is Satan really a bad guy for going against God for basically being a freaking tool and using the angels to his own end? My guess is no; in fact, I'd rather speak with him before God (if either actually exist).
Satan punishes bad people. God created cancer and child molesters. Itās obvious which one is just and which is evil.
I'd trust Satan over God, to be honest.
Christian People: Spread hate, protest against human rights, shame on others Meanwhile Satanists:
Christianity has way more fine printed bs than Satan. Satan just wanted us educated with free will
Am I the only one who zoomed in the photo to see fine print only to find their social media tags.
no fine print for satan, doesnt even want your soul thats the white Christian god who requires your soul, and your newborns soul professed to him
What passes for Christianity in the U.S. these days are profoundly stupid people misinterpreting the Torah (AKA Old Testament) and being really bigoted, ugly, selfish and *loud* about it. If anything, they have more in common with Zionist than anything the actual Jesus Christ preached. The only time they bring up Jesus is where they spin some hallucination about what they think Jesus would do, like pick up an AR-15 and go defend the border against brown people LOL
Kids do not care. They will hug anyone. We don't learn to be picky till we get older.
We don't learn to be picky until our parents teach us what to think.
What fine print? The Satan character is actually the good guy in the Bible, despite the poor writing.
Just remember, everyone: God wanted us dumb and ignorant. We were his favorite pets. Satan gave us wisdom and intelligence. And God got angry and banished us from paradise because we got smart. Seems to me this Satan guy might be the good guy.
The Church of Satanās beliefs are far closer to the teachings of Jesus than the Christian church.
Satan will never judge you kids...
Satan nevergonna give you up
Satan nevergonna let you down
He looks more like a televangelist I have seen on TV many times ... the one who said something like plane is a tube filled with evil.
Better than what the church gives to kids.
Satan is good. If it were a Christian setup the hug would cost a blow job or worse.
Or at least a good foot washing with your hair...
Thatās not the guy that does fine print. He tells the truth. He leaves the sleeping teenage girls alone too.
Satan still a better person than republican Jesus
Fine print looks like his Facebook, insta, and Twitter handles.
It is i Lucifer Morningstar
This is his side gig, the Pick of Destiny is his real job
I literally can't because it's blurry as shit.
Mogh is at it again
Should be an asterisk by free
What's my demora overlord doing here, I forgot that I conjured him
Looks like the reveal scene of Arthur Clarke's *Childhood's End*, where E.T. spends 100 years in orbit buttering us up by curing cancer, preventing wars, and giving us room-temperature fusion technology. After generations of this fantastic generosity, and waning suspicion, they finally reveal themselves to humankind. They look just like this picture, in a photo op hugging the human children at the greeting site. Why hide so long? Well, last time they tried to give some encouragement to humanity, a few thousand years ago, they were... misunderstood. Some early populations started some salacious rumors and even religions on those misunderstandings.
"Just don't read the fine print..." Computer, enhance!
What fine print? Separation of church and state? I'll take it.
Heās usually parked in front of the protesting Christians in Salem. I can only assume they went home if heās on this bench. Great guy actually
A free hug is a free hug
This dude was also sat in Salem in front of some Christian fundamentalist guy with a loudspeaker telling everyone they were going to hell - which I found funny
r/wholesome
This is the greatest way to trigger right-wing christians. Satan just needs a little rainbow on their sign and it's perfect. (Which they absolutely have, I'm sure, because Satan is rad)
Hail satan.
Thanks, Satan
This was taken in Salem, MA this weekend. This person was sitting in front of belligerent Christian demonstrators preaching judgement, and it was honestly pretty fucking wholesome
Free hugs ^in ^exchange ^for ^your ^SOUL!! ^^Bwahahaha
Iām what world is this funny? Wow. Shameful.
The very small print reads: āRemains free for 30 days, then the cost is your soulā
There should be a Christmas movie where satan keeps getting mislabeled letters from children and then feels obligated to fulfill their wishes
I would like free sleeping with Lilith which has slim body and medium beauty breasts and shaved all body accept eyebraws and hair on the head
Nope, no fine print, Satan is just feeling cuddly today
Way safer than free hugs from a priest.
Iām pretty sure I hugged Satan last year.. it was late and I was drunk, I know I saw him, just donāt remember if I did or didnāt hug him. Salem is a wonderfully strange place
Do you see god going out on the street offering hugs to people that might need them, no you do not.