People aren’t laughing at you because you’re Christian in Texas you morons, they’re laughing at you because you think you’re being persecuted for your religion when you live somewhere where 80 percent of the population is Christian.
The most unrealistic part of this is a conservative christian actually reading the bible. Unless he is just using it as a prop which is on form with these types.
It's easy to make fun of this, but the sentiment it's expressing explains so much about how Christians and conservatives in general are motivated.
The first premise is that conservatives in general are fixated on what's "normal". It's very important to them that they're in the mainstream and the majority. But they see faces that aren't like theirs in the media, on the streets, and worst of all in power. Their favorite show expresses values they don't hold. All the institutions celebrate black history and LGBT pride.
This is a problem because if what's normal changes, they'll have to change to be normal. Or even worse, they'll be excluded from the normal. This is a threat to their identities.
This is how I understand irrational Conservative issues like the 'war on woke' or the 'border crisis'. Trump speaks to this fear and anxiety in everything he does. When they say that "he's come to save us" that's what they're talking about.
Thing is, they are. Not because they're Christians (most people don't care), not because they're reading the bible (Most of them don't anyway), but because they post shitty memes like this to feed their victimization fetish.
Yeah. We are laughing at them. It’s their own fault for being laughable.
They’ve been doing far, far worse to everyone else for thousands of years, so a bit of online snickering shouldn’t hurt them. Like witch trials, the inquisition, the crusades, the holocaust, lynchings – that’s all fine, but their god forbid we make a few jokes online… that’s too far.
From someone who lives in this shithole: this has never happened except for maybe a few times on a super edgy atheist subreddit for teenagers.
No white Christian dude in Texas has ever experienced this. We get it, bro. You’re the victim. You and every other Jesus-loving white guy in office right now, passing laws to take away the rights of anyone not like you. Even if this did happen, you’re all victims because a few guys laughed at you while you read your sacred book.
If “true texans” understand the experience of being mocked publicly for their religion who’s doing it? Sure we can mock them online, but nobody here in the Midwest is mocking me for being proud of how cheap I get stuff or how friendly I am. Sure some people may but I don’t interact with them on a regular basis because I’m following my regional cultural values in that area.
So my real question here is: isn’t this admitting that many Texans aren’t christians
People on the hard right have no sense of humor at all lol they think it's hilarious to make fun of literally anyone who isn't exactly like themselves but no one is EVER allowed to laugh at them about anything
This is total victim-Christianity. I went to an anti-protest against some militant christians protesting a bookstore that held drag queens reading stories to children. Those christians didn't know shit about the bible. I offered to come to their church and teach them since they were embarrassing themselves.
From who this is coming from, it's actually trying to portray how other Christians take their holier than thou attitude when compared to their actions and personality.
Edit: Or maybe, to be even more specific based on the seating arrangements, their holier than thou attitude in Narcotics Anonymous.
Hey AI granny: we don't look down at you because of your Bible, we look down at you because you act AGAINST the core teachings of the Gospels, such as "love thy neighbor", yet you insist on cherry-picking 'n' thumping over our heads a book whose teachings you don't understand and if you did, you would REFUSE to follow them... like you already don't now, and haven't for your entire goddamned life.
not to be the hater but this is basically the vibe of c/atheism and other types. the book may vary but there is no shortage of this category of behavior lol.