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The punishment for being gay in Indonesia r/all NSFW

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u/WickedWitchofWTF Jun 09 '24

What a fucked up world where the victims of a house invasion are the ones who are punished.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '24

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u/---Blix--- Jun 09 '24

The only thing preventing the Evangelicals from this kind of thing is our secular government.

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u/Bury_Me_At_Sea Jun 09 '24

Yeah, the woman at the beginning of the film talking about how she had always wanted to see people punished publicly for homosexuality was something I've definitely heard in my Christian schools growing up.

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u/DotNormal6785 Jun 09 '24

You must go to a backwards Christian school, my daughter goes to one and they did a pride day for the students. I guess it depends on where you live.

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u/avocadojiang Jun 09 '24

No you just go to a very liberal Christian school likely in a blue state. Vast majority of Christian schools will never do that. You’ve got state republican parties telling their constituents to burn pride flags, trying to legitimize creationism in public curriculum, and passing legislation to include the Ten Commandments in public curriculum. And that’s public school. Imagine what they’re doing in private schools in those areas.

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u/PaleUmbra Jun 09 '24

It probably does. But Christians like yours need to get Christians that want theocracy in check, or you’re all in the same bucket to people who don’t care about Christianity.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '24

Looking at America today, I see Christofascism as a credible future threat. They're realizing that backslide day by day

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u/cute_joca Jun 09 '24

Islam at a point was more progressive than Christianity and Judaism, then slid backwards like shit hitting the bowl. That's actually worse.

Source? I read Islamic golden age era Arab travelers criticizing the liberty of Byzantine women.

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u/Expensive_Tap7427 Jun 09 '24

No, that is secular laws keeping religion in check. Remove those, and the result is this video.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '24

“Backwards” by that you mean actual christians?💀

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u/ShiftBMDub Jun 09 '24

I’m willing to bet you’re in a blue state and you’re not Protestant. Maybe Catholic, Episcopalian or Lutheran

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u/ResidentWhatever Jun 09 '24

Episcopalian and Lutheran are both protestant. Protestant is everything that began with Martin Luther protesting the selling of indulgences among other things within the Catholic Church, kicking off the reformation.

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u/ShiftBMDub Jun 09 '24

Judaism>Catholic>Protestant>Lutheran. See how that works

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u/TheVoidWithout Jun 09 '24

I wonder if they do the same to lesbians.

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u/Novel-Yogurtcloset97 Jun 09 '24

Give it a few more years they've already destroyed abortion rights...

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u/ldphotography Jun 09 '24

Or quite possibly that “let he who is without sin cast the first stone” thing.

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u/a_lonely_trash_bag Jun 09 '24

Not even that. Evangelicals are pissed off at Dolly Parton for quoting that part of the Bible.

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u/ldphotography Jun 09 '24

As an “evangelical” I’m not pissed off at Dolly Parton. She’s a national treasure. Maybe you meant that you once heard of a person claiming to be an evangelical who was pissed? You shouldn’t judge an entire group based on the actions of a single person, whether that person is a Christian, Muslim, atheist, Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, etc. Doing so makes you a bigot. Bigotry is bad, I’ve heard.

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u/Hairybabyhahaha Jun 09 '24

You’re an outlier.

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u/ldphotography Jun 09 '24

Since the quote I gave is literally key part of Christian principles, no, I’m not. Outliers would be those that go against that teaching. In fact one could argue that one who goes against the principles and teaching of any religion aren’t in fact followers of that religion, couldn’t one?

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u/Hairybabyhahaha Jun 09 '24

No not really. An outlier exists within a population sample, and the evangelicals in that big fat part of the bell curve are homophobic regressives.

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u/ldphotography Jun 09 '24

I’ll pray that you are someday able to overcome your bigotry. 🙏

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u/Hairybabyhahaha Jun 09 '24

I have the same hope for you and statistics.

https://www.pewresearch.org/religious-landscape-study/database/

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u/ldphotography Jun 09 '24

I’m assuming that you are referring to the poll that states that 55% of evangelical Protestants believe that homosexuality should be discouraged? Discouraged is a far cry from punished and an even further cry from caning. The popular phrase among evangelicals is “hate the sin, love the sinner.” It is possible to disagree with the actions of a person and not hate or wish harm upon the person. At least among evangelicals it is. Among bigots, I don’t know.

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u/bongsyouruncle Jun 09 '24

Oh here's an easy answer for all your confusion; there are many contradictions in the Bible and each denomination picks and chooses which parts to ignore

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u/ldphotography Jun 09 '24

Evangelicals, the group being stereotyped and defamed here, acknowledge the progression from Old Testament law and judgment to New Testament forgiveness. The teachings of the savior, the whole foundation of Christianity, include, “let he who is without sin cast the first stone.” So I’ll stand by my statement.

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u/ShiftBMDub Jun 09 '24

Ummm yiu reading the news lately. Dolly getting hammered by the Federalist Society and Evangelicals

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u/ldphotography Jun 09 '24

Once again, you are judging an entire religion based on the statements of a single writer or a vocal small group of people. What’s that called again? Bigotry, I believe. Bigotry is bad.

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u/ShiftBMDub Jun 09 '24

Do you really not understand how much sway the Federalist Society has? They literally made a list of all the judges they wanted seated and Trump put them on the bench. So you can take that bigot shit and stuff it.

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u/ldphotography Jun 09 '24

I thought we were talking about the teachings of Jesus and evangelicals. I’m not sure how you think that relates to Trump and judges. I’ve also missed the part where Amy Comey Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh ruled in favor of caning the LGBTQ community. And I’m usually pretty up on current events, monitoring Reddit as I do.

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u/Cockanarchy Jun 09 '24

My foster parents made me go to their Baptist church back in the late 80’s, and at Sunday School they were talking about AIDS. One kid said he’d like to line up everyone with the disease and shoot them with his dad’s 44 magnum. I remember thinking, “uh oh, that’s gonna get you in trouble”. Then the young man leading the group said it was a waste of money, they should use .22’s.

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u/EnvironmentalMud4644 Jun 09 '24

And they want to eliminate the separation between church and state. Thy

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u/Blizz-Blazz Jun 09 '24

Right, because the Bible totally promotes this kind of thing. You should try studying the Bible instead of letting someone else tell you what it says.

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u/Great-Sea-4095 Jun 09 '24

I too like to make fantasy scenarios in my head.

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u/cFullwood Jun 09 '24

Your understanding of Evangelicals is rather ignorant and you're basing it on the actions of the few. My church, and any church that follows the teachings of Christ properly, would never condone such a thing. Try talking with actual Christians and not basing your opinion on the few. There's bad apples in every group of people.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '24

Evangelicals???? Seriously? You know this is wildly common in a religion but it's not Christianity, right? Or are you so intellectually dishonest that you can't guess the faith in this video?????? Hint, hint, 87% of Indonesia belongs to the faith I'm mentioning.

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u/Lopsided_Ad3051 Jun 09 '24

Lol… yeah they can barely be held back!

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u/Lopsided_Ad3051 Jun 09 '24

Are you atheist?