I have no problems with anyone who doesn’t force or coerce their beliefs on anyone else

Regardless of your personal actions or beliefs, you are being lumped in with extremists. If that confuses you because you personally feel innocent, there is an expression that goes something like

“If there are 9 people at a table and a Nazi sits and eats with them, there are 10 Nazis as the table.”

Tolerating or being indifferent to abhorrent behaviour is the same as rewarding/endorsing abhorrent behaviour.

As for the definition of evangelicals, there’s the literal definition

“Evangelicalism (/ˌiːvænˈdʒɛlɪkəlɪzəm, ˌɛvæn-, -ən-/), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that emphasizes the centrality of sharing the “good news” of Christianity, being “born again” in which an individual experiences personal conversion, as authoritatively guided by the Bible, God’s revelation to humanity.[1][2][3][4][5] The word evangelical comes from the Greek word for “good news” (euangelion).[6]”

And then there is the applied practice of evangelicals who spend considerable wealth influencing politics to turn America (and the world) into a theocratic state with the goal of converting everyone and doing away with anyone who resists their goals.

They are uncompromising because they believe they act on God’s will giving them unquestionable holy authority to act as they see fit as long as it pushes their narrative and goals.

It’s not my job to educate you on your own religion, if you’re lost as to why anyone would despise evangelicals even though “they’re not all like that” that is up to you to reconcile.

There might be a subtle difference between a front lines Nazi and Hitler on the ‘innocence scale’ if you want to split hairs, but to everyone outside that group, a Nazi is a Nazi (who were all essentially evangelicals as well, surprise surprises)

if you don’t believe me, here’s something to read since you like proof/evidence so much, but I doubt you’ll ever challenge your own beliefs.

You can absolutely explain the ending.

It’s just that you will also be wrong

That’s because it is the closest thing to fascism. Especially when religion bleeds into politics.

Don’t be shocked that your faith of complete, uncompromising, control of human behaviour based on a collective, personal conclusion that you have all the answers to everything is perceived for what it is.

Believe whatever you want in your own head, and live your life according to whatever belief system you want. The second you try to extend the control you place on yourself to anyone else is the line between faith and fascism

If you don’t believe in abortions? Fine.

If you believe others should follow your example? Fine.

If you force others to follow your idealogies through control of legal/political systems? not fine

Y’all never seem to understand, nobody cares what you do as long as you keep self imposed control to yourself. But apparently the whole point is to “spread the love” through non-optional participation, which is what makes you so dangerous.

If your faith really was all that goodness you claim, people would actually want to join! But they don’t. So you force them. Jesus would be so proud ❤️

Totally fair point - there’s more than one type of Christian and not everyone in the faith has homogeneous opinions or actions.

Unfortunately (fortunately?) for your faith - the ones steering the ship politically are hyper right wing convert /submit or die types.

Until Christian denominations meaningfully split or works against the goals from evangelicals/Christian nationalists, you’re effectively sitting at the same table and will be judged accordingly.

I’m pretty sure religious groups think every other group is as focused and dedicated to conversation as they are.

If they were left alone in a room with a child (or anyone really), their immediate action would be to determine how Christian the child is, test and ensure their faith is all consuming, or immediately begin the conversion process if they aren’t already their personal brand of Christian.

They assume this is absolutely normal, expected behaviour. so any group that is different from them, must be doing the exact same thing, but with other idealogies.

Like how they hate Islam and Sharia law while endorsing 99% of Sharia law practices under a different name. Or they think every gay person has a gay agenda and needs to make every child gay because religion knows children are the easiest to manipulate.

They are obsessed with someone else being a groomer while being the most organized and dedicated groomers on the planet.

Why is this meme written in Cumfont

If you haven’t tried the Enzyme supplement Fodzyme I can’t recommend it enough.

Ever since I started using it I can (mostly) freely eat foods with garlic and onions as well as a host of other things.

It doesn’t work on everything, but I have been ordering it since April and I am no longer reading every label on everything to avoid being sick.

Everyone is different so there’s no guarantees on what will work for you, but I’ve been telling everyone about it (mostly because people always ask what I’m sprinkling on nearly everything I eat).

I get the brown jar because the individual pouches are a rip off, but it’s less of an investment if you want to try!

Garlic and onions do that to me anyhow, my resonance frequency is garlic and onions.

Dairy too, but it’s not a vegetable. Thank God for lactose pills and fodzyme

I’m clearly not understanding this platform as well as I thought, I should probably watch a video or something!

The memes and boobs are great, but I’d love to get more reliable news and local information, seems like every Canadian one dies or is unpopular (fair enough given the limited user base which is still kind of nice)

And the news + politics seems to crash, but that’s because I’m still using .World …I think?

Reddit is fun croaked for me last week, now I’m all Lemmy!

Unless lemmy crashes, then I lurk reddit signed out with browser.

As the crashes and maintenance here become less frequent and the platform is more reliable I’m ready to leave reddit in the dust entirely

This meme is close, but you are only supposed to throw up the danger close warning after they are firmly within range to ensure maximum effectiveness

all our horse is 100% horse fed for the double horse juiced in goodness!

I’m okay with him being mocked with his own meme format, this doesn’t quite hit that note though

“I’m a terrible human funded by other terrible humans : change my mind” is the way this meme should be used going forward.

It’s no longer a useful meme for social commentary, and should really only be applicable when discussing how much of a piece of shit this human turd is.

At this point I’m not sure if it’s undiagnosed adhd that makes me socially isolate, or if it’s genuinely better just chilling with my wife and her family who are pretty rad compared to everyone else I meet.

I love the memes and shitposts. They’re lighthearted and fun, and entertaining. I’m not here looking for reddit news with less comment traffic, I’m here for the atmosphere and the community.

Just talking to/with real people is a huge plus, getting genuine opinions, good faith opinion/discourse, with little divisive content, and the “big” news hits my all feed just fine.

There’s plenty of avenues available to find conflict, controversy, drama, and walls of opinion to engage and enrage with elsewhere.

This place feels like a community where everyone is at least somewhat vested in contributing and making things better/more enjoyable for all, and in my opinion it doesn’t need to change or accomplish anything else

I keep most chocolate cold, the freezer works great for some chocolates, but anything with caramel becomes impossible teeth destroyers in the freezer, sometime even in the fridge.

I’m gonna go ahead and guess this isn’t the octopus girl from the meme?

My back has been sore for a while, and I was always ‘rounding’ it to try and stretch it out (child’s pose, touch my toes, bath with Epsom salt, rolling on my back with my knees tucked into my chest etc)

What really helped relieve tension was doing the opposite, and forcing my butt/hips backwards. Basically, enhancing the dip in my lower back by either using my hips or my shoulders.

Like, standing captain Morgan style (one leg up on stable coffee table, or bathtub) and lifting your arms up and leaning back while also pushing your hips back and stomache out. This should be a gentle stretch! Obviously don’t do anything painful and listen to your body, but bending (flexing?) backwards has helped my back where bending forwards just made everything worse.

Try and maintain this shape when bending down, not just stretching, maintaining a straight back when bending over has helped a lot with both keeping tension away and being aware of my back form.

Basically, try to keep the shape in the second image (DON’T LIFT IF YOUR BACK IS SORE). When I stretch like this I’m generally standing straight and not bent over. this pic is just the general shape you want to maintain and ‘exaggerate’ while stretching.

Also, use ice packs and not heat to relax tight muscles.

It’s Kind of hard to explain, but the tension in my back went waaaaay down the next day, and has been significantly better since.

If it helps, I don’t go to the gym or anything, by back pain is born of mild sloth lifestyle, bad stretching, and poor form bending over.

It’s nice having a place where people can (fake) argue about beans and insignificant things, post fire memes, and do some classic old Internet banter.

It feels like I’m at an early 2000’s Lan party, and the worst person you’d come across is helpful, but kind of a dick about it.

Hopefully it stays that way, the relative lack of structure is pretty magical since almost everyone seems to be genuine about using this place to be hilarious.

Every time there is a dig>reddit>lemmy progression, the beginning phase is generally the same tone and atmosphere, because it’s the same people who are continually forced to move when the old place gets overrun by special interest nonsense.

It’s barely been a week and the spirit of message boards that everyone loved about reddit has already rooted in Lemmy. I’d happily pay for a subscription to keep this place rooted in its current culture.

Reddit has been past it’s prime for several years now for a lot of people who were missing exactly what is happening here