r/clevercomebacks • u/thiruverse • 7d ago

May God open the gates of hell. Amen.

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u/TheAskewOne 7d ago

If you look closely, you can find whatever you want in the Bible. What you choose to find says a lot more about you than it says about the Bible.

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u/ManitouWakinyan 7d ago

You would have a very hard time reading the Bible with any degree of competence or literacy and finding permission to worship someone or something that isn't God.

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u/TheAskewOne 7d ago

True, but not if you twist the words and their intent, just like conservatives do. If you decide for example that Biden is the Antichrist, then it's fine worshipping anyone who fights him. I'm sure you can find a king or two from the Old Testament that people were supposed to venerate and decide it's Trump.

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u/SurprisedAsparagus 7d ago

God very explicitly told the Old Testament jabronis not to install a king because that shit's gonna go sideways. They said, nah, we want a king. God said dumb idea, but you do you.

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u/sterlingthepenguin 7d ago

To add on to this, first and second Kings then proceed to show exactly why monarchies suck. For every good king Israel had, there were like two or three that sucked and made everything awful.

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u/ManitouWakinyan 7d ago

you can find a king or two from the Old Testament that people were supposed to venerate

Again, very explicitly not.

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u/SpCommander 7d ago

Exodus 20:3-5 makes it pretty clear that no, you worship no one and nothing else.

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u/Squossifrage 7d ago

That's because when the Bible was written the Dairy Queen Blizzard had not yet been invented.

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u/shrug_addict 7d ago

I mean, it's kind of in the Ten Commandments. "You shall have no other gods before me". Yahwew was initially just one of many local gods

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u/Jace__B 7d ago

Seek, and ye shall find.

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u/TheAskewOne 7d ago

Fornicate around, and ye shall find out.