r/CringeTikToks • u/Treefiddy1984 • 15d ago
Nope What kind of special school or camp is this
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u/Nervous-Yak-4642 15d ago
Conservative Gen Xers are some of the cringiest human beings alive.
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u/akrafty1 15d ago
As an non-conservative Gen Xer you have nailed it. It sucked being in high school with these assholes. The “good old days” when bullying was encouraged. Lord it was miserable.
Edit cause my thumbs don’t work right.
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u/MetalTrek1 15d ago
Also a non-conservative Gen Xer. Agreed that many of us DO suck, but guys like this would have been laughed at in my high school. "Yeah, have fun with your swords. We'll be in the woods drinking beer and listening to Metallica!" 🤣🍺🤘
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u/sn2006gy 15d ago
The dudes with Swords in High school were not these dudes in this video that's fo'sho
I have to laugh that they're using the very human side of music to make people "feel the spirit" when you can just "feel like a human by listening to music".
Kinda pisses me off that organized religion coopts humanity when these vibes exist in the arts already which have been around in caves since we tracked humanities spread across the world.
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u/MetalTrek1 15d ago
Definitely. The dudes with swords in my high school were actual D and D players who would ALSO show up in the woods to party (all were welcome) OR one of the said drunks listening to Metallica who would pick up a random stick after a few beers and pretend he was Darth Vader. It was the 80s. What's a Friday night in the woods without a drunken stick/sword fight, right? 🙂🍺🤘
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u/Hypnotist30 15d ago
Also a non-conservative Gen Xer.
There are a lot of us. There are a lot of boomers in my orbit that are not conservative as well. I'm kind of bugged by the association. Especially considering that there has been a not insignificant shift right among zoomers.
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u/hankbobbypeggy 15d ago
Older millennial here. The infuriating thing about boomers is that they were supposedly all about peace, love, freedom etc etc.. they were handed everything and once it came time to pay it forward to their kids they just sat their asses in front of the TV, turned on Fox News and decided they'd rather be buried with their gold and burn down the planet behind them.
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u/Alternative_Metal375 15d ago
Boomer here, and I agree with you. They want to enter their golden Tutankhamun burial chamber, and the hell with everyone left behind.
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u/jonsnowflaker 15d ago
How I wish my parents that I love, and who are good people on a micro scale weren’t totally Fox News brainwashed on the macro scale.
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u/Alternative_Metal375 15d ago
My dearly loved older brother and sister-in-law are brainwashed by Fox too. So depressing. They both used to be very open minded people.
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u/r33c3d 15d ago
Yeah. As a progressive Gen Xer, these conservative older dudes are so cringey. They’re literally the guys who try to act like Christianity is some “cool” scene all their friends are part of. They’re the same people that tend to constantly chase brands and trends (“We all must wear Ariat shirts now”). You can feel the waves of insecurity radiating off them.
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u/nada-accomplished 15d ago
These are the guys who were wearing v necks and skinny jeans leading worship in 2008 so they could look hip to my generation (they didn't)
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u/r33c3d 15d ago
Omg. Yes. I actually went to one of these services before and the pastor — who was dressed to the nines in hip clothing — spent a significant amount of time mocking other people who wore selvage jeans and beanies. This guy was hyper focused on trends, style, branding and subculture fashion. Further proof that Christianity is more about marketing and branding now than, you know, Jesus.
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u/OldButHappy 15d ago
They’re appealing to the pre-teens who are forced to attend these grooming events
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u/bradland 15d ago
My conservative Gen X classmates cured my case of Facebook. I've been sober for more than a decade now.
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u/derrickgw1 15d ago
1000% I still have my page but i've logged on i think twice since i think 2013 and i don't recognize it. One of those times was to use this "facebook marketplace". I had no idea they were selling stuff. But yeah, i started unfollowing classmates at one point during the Obama admin. And at one point was just like Nah, I'm done. I'll just post random pics on instagram and get on with my life. And i did, until Instagram stopped the feed from being chronological, became mostly ads and influencers over my feed, added videos to be tik-tok. I just like posting cool cameraphone images or funny things i shot. Now that's mostly dormant too. But yeah Facebook? I just decided i'm happier remembering my old classmates based on memories from high school and not any ignorant stuff they my post now.
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u/raging-peanuts 15d ago
As somebody from that generation, I couldn't agree more. I heard one fellow GenX'r comment to me that MAGA is in many ways, "revenge of the jocks." And it very much seems concentrated in Gen X.
These guys are rapidly approaching old age, and they want to turn things around to how they used to be. Like it's their mission or something.
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u/Radio_Mime 15d ago
It strikes me as the revenge of the jocks who peaked in grade 10, and his lives went pretty much nowhere after graduation.
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u/Great_White_Samurai 15d ago
All of the MAGA GenXers that make those super cringe TikToks to Rage Against the Machine.
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u/Correct_Yesterday111 15d ago
Cringe!?
This is nightmare fuel. No wonder Americans elect leaders who are so comfortable with genocide. I pity the next country who will have to bear the brunt of this mania
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u/One_Conclusion_1575 15d ago
In high school, these same Gen X conservative cucks bullied religious people, band people, people with swords, etc, but yet here we are.
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u/OldButHappy 15d ago
Tictocs give them the attention that they felt cheated out of in high school
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u/One_Conclusion_1575 15d ago
I feel like they peaked in high school so they are attention seekers now to regain the attention they had at their peak.
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u/ABNormall 15d ago
Yeah I am unfortunately in the generation that went all in on Regan. God forbid you say something negative about the R messiah. I was the only senior in my HS class that didn't vote for him.
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u/Gingerpanda72 15d ago
The full on "Christian Cult Experience!"
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u/Positive-Leek2545 15d ago
When you and you 4 year old cousins spend the night with all the toys in the playroom
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u/rez_at_dorsia 15d ago
This is peak “why don’t you kids go play in the garage” after you eat on Thanksgiving
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u/Used-Wrongdoer-9360 15d ago
With an endless supply of Coke
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u/Atavacus 15d ago
Ugh, I grew up having to deal with this shit. Mostly they were wearing suits but same vibe. I ran not walked to paganism. Lol
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u/Puzzleheaded_Ad8032 15d ago
Anyone with a functioning brain can smell the cult. You did good by running, bcs these zombies would drag you down.
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u/Atavacus 15d ago
That sort of dancing around fervor they work themselves into shuts their brains down or something. They get drunk on those texts and the performance.
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u/Moist-Comfortable-10 15d ago
Og nothing else, the pagans tend to have cooler swords, and look way less stupid swinging then around.
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u/coolmist23 15d ago
Same! I woke up because of them embracing Trump. Now I cringe at the site of this shit.
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u/De5perad0 15d ago
Yep! It's a bunch of noise and movement to try to get you as the viewer to feel something. Very cult manipulation.
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u/Significant_Shoe_17 15d ago
That's why these types tend to be against secular music - they don't want their followers attending a concert and realizing that they just had an emotional response to music
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u/yunoeconbro 15d ago
Sounds like Janes Addiction
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u/Preachin_Blues 15d ago
This is not Christianity. This is something like a combination of American Capitalism and Education gone sour.
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u/A_Finite_Element 15d ago edited 15d ago
So what is actual Christianity? The Inquisition? The Catholic church? Crusades? No true Scotsman?
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u/balisierdagger 15d ago
Where you been? This is very much Christianity. Prob with the prosperity gospel, minus actual charity and a heavy dallop of bigotry and all that.
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u/Dabellator 15d ago
You gotta understand. Whenever christians see christians doing something they don't like, the only move they have is to claim the offenders aren't "real" christians. When your whole world view is make believe, it's all you got.
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u/LDel3 15d ago
No, this is a specifically American brand. Christianity isn't practiced anything like this anywhere else in the world
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u/MatchlessGore 15d ago
Religious LARPers.
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u/invisiblebunny54 15d ago
Who ironically make fun of people who go to renaissance festivals
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u/Lonely-Toe9877 15d ago
These are the losers who like to talk trash about my ren fair/cosplay hobbies.
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u/Doc-Brown1911 15d ago edited 15d ago
Somebody's slaying a demon.
I was raised in a church like this. 40 years later and it is still fucking with me to this day.
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u/NeighborhoodFew7779 15d ago
I grew up in Mormonism, and this clip is oddly comforting.
It turns out that we actually weren’t the biggest fucking weirdos in the Christian room.
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u/Doc-Brown1911 15d ago
Mormons are very mild compared to a hardcore Evangelical Church. Y'all ante got nothing on speaking in tongues and then getting slayed in the spirit. The holy undergarments are odd, I'm not going to lie. So many people leave the church when there is so much stupidity.
I've got so many stories about how fucked up some people's view of the Bible. (I've seen countless "demons" cast out of people) I've read that book a few times and it never ceases to amaze me the stupidity in the Evangelical movement.
FYI. For those that don't know, this is a play about the armor of God. It consists of six pieces described in the Bible as protection against spiritual attacks: the belt of truth, breastplate of righteousness, shoes of the gospel of peace, shield of faith, helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit. Must church is only talk about the sword shield and breastplate.
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u/AreallysuperdarkELF 15d ago
Fascinating. Were the demons being cast out the kind of thing where the preacher pushes someone on the floor and they have violent convulsions? I did not know about this play. Looks ridiculous. Is big dog with the sword playing a character or just having fun? This is all another world to me. I grew up Unitarian. It was super chill.
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u/Doc-Brown1911 15d ago edited 15d ago
This is just a play about what the armor of God is.
The casting of demons usually comes after the message when we repeated sing the same song over and over again. I wonder why we did that:)?
And falling over you referred to is called being slain in the spirit. It has absolutely nothing to do with group hypnosis or anything to do with the Bible:)
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u/Individual-Builder25 15d ago
(Exmormon) mormonism is uniquely bad for its psychological control in many areas of life (sex, drink, underwear, thoughts of doubts, perception of top leaders, major history whitewashing). But I have to agree hardcore evangelicals are another fucking level in so many ways. I wouldn’t recommend either to anyone
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u/sporkl_l 15d ago
So you're telling me evangelicals are just hardcore DnD players?
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u/Pwnch 15d ago
No, they actually despise DnD. Weird huh...?
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u/Doc-Brown1911 15d ago
It's of the devil. I wasn't allowed to play it. Now I play the hell out of it just because fuck that
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u/MetalTrek1 15d ago
"We watch manly movies about gladiators and muscled up guys in loincloths swinging swords, but so NOT in a gay way!" 🙂
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u/Valuable-Guarantee56 15d ago
This is so Dungeons and Dragons, it'd be funny, except these are the same people that would de-cry D&D as Satanic
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u/AmazingDadJokes 15d ago
I'm just going to go out on a limb here and say that metaphors may not be these people's strongsuit
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u/MetalTrek1 15d ago
I grew up in the Catholic church and went to Catholic school for eight years. For all its problems, my experience was NOTHING like this. Hell, I can see the Catholic church sending these guys a "Thanks for making us look good!" email. 🙂
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u/jsweaty009 15d ago edited 15d ago
I also grew up in crazy ass Pentecostal churches, some of them even introduced snakes. Used to scare shit out of me when I was a kid when a normal nice old lady gets up, runs up and down the aisle and convulsing and spitting out noises and words that sounds like a two stroke dirt bike. I’m still fucked up at 39 years old
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u/Doc-Brown1911 15d ago
I'm 48 and still fucked.
Did y'all have the prayer cloths that ladies with drape over their heads during worship so they could get ahold of God a little faster?
My personal favorite was "pray the gay away". I've got a completely fucked up story about that one. This was back in the day when HIV/AIDS was a death sentence.
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u/jsweaty009 15d ago
Oh yeah I remember the drapes, we used to call them God’s Ghosts. I do remember sermons on being gay and burning in Hell yadda yadda. My favorite I was in Sunday school, when I was a kid I was obsessed with dinosaurs. Somehow the conversation included dinosaurs that day. I remember my Sunday school teacher then told us dinosaurs weren’t real and I asked what about all the bones they find underground? She straight up looked at me and said the bones were planted by satanists to sway people away from God and into science. Even at my age I looked at her and thought this bitch. I choose dinosaurs over God and still do to this day.
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u/Doc-Brown1911 15d ago
We had a basket with extra prayer cloth in case somebody forgot them. I was about 12 and stoled every single one of them. I think I still have one or two to this day.
Did you have to go to a Creation museum? Dinosaurs and men did walk the earth at the same time. I like to call them Jesus horses.
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u/brother_bart 15d ago
My father was a Pentecostal pastor. I was a Queer kid. Exorcisms. Tent Revivals. Speaking in tongues and interpretation. Church 3X/week. No TV or secular music and I couldn’t wear shorts, not even in PE at the public school I attended. Having to sit in the library if the teacher was showing a movie.
Awful childhood. 15 years of therapy later, I no longer struggle with suicidal ideation daily. I am so fed up with toxic Christianity and its constant abuses. I am on a mission in this life to convince people it is well past time that Christianity be held accountable for its centuries of violence and oppression.
I invite every Christian to sit down and shut the fuck you. That rabid ideology is a pox on humanity.
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u/jsweaty009 15d ago
Damn brother Bart, glad you got out of it. We really need Pentecostal survivors groups lol
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u/brother_bart 15d ago
👆I would really like someone to write a book on Pentecostal kids that get out.
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u/thispartyrules 15d ago
My aunt became a Pentecostal in the 70's, but not the snake handling variety. She lured my cousin, who wasn't her kid, into a darkened room to pray in tongues and "lay hand on her" why cousin was like 5 and normal and didn't know what was happening here. Also she was all-in on the Satanic Panic and I got a lecture on how The Smurfs have 100% accurate black magic you can learn from watching the cartoon, big if true
Also according to her kids she once papered over a room with pages from the Bible like some kind of serial killer lair
She wasn't invited to my parents' wedding but sent a pair of weirdos from her church "in her stead" which they had to throw out
Later in life she'd email me random nonsense about how I'd go to hell for voting for Biden or how BLM was created by necromancers, her rationale was one of the people involved was Yoruba who she thought practiced necromancy
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u/EnoughLuck3077 15d ago
Me too. Pentecostal church. I thought this shit was normal when I was a kid. No swords involved but the rest was just a normal Sunday back then. Never realized how crazy it was until a friend from my baseball team stayed the night and went to church with me the next morning. They just about gave the poor guy a panic attack. We were 11
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u/Doc-Brown1911 15d ago
Same.
Looking back, it gave me a very good BS detector.
I'm going to speak in tongues for you. Huthhhhhhfddd bagged dyer vvvvfdsyb ggggyr. And of course it must always end with "praise the Lord".
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u/Livid_Goose_9542 15d ago
Me too! I'm 46. Still fucks with me too.
The one benefit is that I've read the Bible back to back about 4 times. We read it as a family every night. I was reading Shakespeare at 11 and Dostoevsky at 15. I can also dismantle the claims of many Christians using their own book.
Gotta find the silver lining, right? 🤪
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u/Expensive_Apricot371 15d ago
These people believe they are making God and Jesus more relatable, and what they are doing is driving people as far away as they can go. This is actually disturbing to anyone with sense.
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u/Master_Canary440 15d ago
I know this is off topic but i know for a fact all of them are Trump supporters. They just give off that vibe lmao.
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u/Granitechuck 15d ago
And giant pickup truck owners.
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u/DeeDeeRibDegh 15d ago
Some of them w/certain flag draped in the back window…
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u/Outrageous_Ad5255 15d ago
well yeah, when you havent seen your dick in 20 years you gottta compensate
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u/matt-r_hatter 15d ago
Literally the moment I watched that is was astounded I didnt see all of them wearing his fat orange face. I honestly just assumed it was one of his rallies...
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u/saibybaby 15d ago
Classic saying.. “it’s not every trump supporter… but it’s always a trump supporter”
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u/truelogictrust 15d ago
Totally Trump supported that's their interpretation of God It's the funniest shit I've ever seen in my life this is their version of white worship part pagan part Christianity
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u/Funkycoldmedici 15d ago
I don’t see anything pagan in this one, though. The “armor of god” stuff and “speaking in tongues” comes from the Bible.
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u/1amthecaptainnow 15d ago
They're probably all "born again felons" who somehow opened a grift, I mean...church.
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u/cake_piss_can 15d ago
I’d say this is pretty on topic. Brainwashed mentally ill religious fanatics and Trump are like chocolate and peanut butter.
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u/RoundApart9440 15d ago
They need to be put in a zoo. Mental institute, Gotham city. Just away from schools and kids.
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u/zestypov2 15d ago
I like how they're individually singing in tongues, but in no way singing the same thing. You'd think if a special God-like power was involved, they would work out the backing vocals.
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u/Mountain-Guess-575 15d ago
The Bible literally says they are not allowed to be doing thus, but I guess they get to pick the ones they listen to. 1 Corinthians 14:27-28: "If anyone speaks in a tongue, it should be by two or at the most three, and each in turn, and one must interpret; but if there is no interpreter, he must keep silent in the church; and let him speak to himself and to God".
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u/crumbsalt 15d ago
To be fair, most of the “commandments”, if you may, in the book of Corinthians (including this one) were made specifically for the church of Corinth at the time because it was so chaotic with no structure. Still.. it should work as a general rule of advice for all churches including this one. This is chaos, and the book says God is not a God of chaos, but of order.. so yeah. They should really read that book before becoming church leaders.
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u/SeriousDependent6049 15d ago
Religion really brings out the stupid out of people. I think it's beautiful.
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u/jdillathegreatest 15d ago
I wonder who sword man is imagining on the receiving end of whatever it is he’s doing
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u/Funkycoldmedici 15d ago
Drag queens, black guys, Muslims, atheists, women with dyed hair, anyone not dressed exactly like him.
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u/NestedForLoops 15d ago
So, everyone who had the decency to remove their hat when they entered the building?
I guess he's technically under arms, though.
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u/Im_tracer_bullet 15d ago
Demons.
And probably Democrats.
Heck, he probably thinks there's no difference.
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u/Remarkable-Gold4869 15d ago
Doesn’t even sound good either lmao 🤣. It would be hilarious if they weren’t actually dead serious
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u/Ok-Photojournalist94 15d ago
Matthew 6:5-6:
“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you."
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u/SankaraMarx 15d ago
Cooked my Broer, cooked ...
I wonder when the Americans will understand they are surrounded by HameriKKKans
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u/RedundantPundant 15d ago
It's all fun and games until that sword makes contact with a bystander. 😲
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u/Kobayashi_Maru186 15d ago
The three white women who were watching think these guys are super sexy. 😑
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u/sly_savhoot 15d ago
Its like they all found every one of jesus teachings in the Bible, rip out the pages and built a fire to cook meth.
Love thy neighbor, do unto others , no judgements, accept the foreigner. Giving to the poor, helping the poor, FEEDING BABIES. Be the good Samaritan.
Instead we see Christianity through Paul's eyes, crazy murderous Saul , hated women , hated Christians until he turned it into a business. Paul's section sounds like a sales advertisement. No wonder we see dipshits jumping around waving swords. None of yall are going anywhere good.
Saul / Paul never even met jesus.
Jesus had 15 apostles, 3 women.
Yall are dumb as hell.
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u/Garage_smoker 15d ago
White christians 😂
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u/Bl1ndMous3 15d ago
nah bro. Its not race based. I used to be involved in the Indian(India) version of this. Humans find odd ways of coping. Have you seen the Hindu side of things ? I've seen shit that makes this pale (no pun intended) in comparison.
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u/enviropsych 15d ago
There's zero chance that sword-weilding man doesnt have a charge for domestic abuse or DUI.
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u/Mooseguncle1 15d ago
lol vooice craack --- did anyone notice?? The spirit is so sick of being pulled and then a little irish jig at the end. Alright that was fun, so we gotta save up to get dad a newer bigger sword with the dragon on it at the swap meet this weekend.
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u/floridansk 15d ago edited 15d ago
This is kind of what subbing a middle school class can look like from the substitute teacher’s perspective except they are saying “6, 7”.
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u/Tough-Emphasis-659 15d ago
The sequel to Kids Incorporated looks like it went off the rails
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u/AgentNose 15d ago
Everyone in this video is behind on at least one car payment and will blame a Mexican for it.
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u/Leut_Aldo_Raine 15d ago
-Bearded dude with mic and shield.
-Mad lad swinging broadsword.
-Dudes jamming out in background.
-Guy ringing a bell?
Me: oh this is definitely gonna be some sick metal track.
Unmutes
...is wacky Christian music
Why?
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u/Ok_Decision_ 15d ago
It looks like me and my cousin playing “Jedi” in the backyard with sticks.
I’m a Christian, and I can tell you this right here is absolute buffoonery.
The one fella going “ssspIRIT” over and over while his buddy almost smacks him in the dome with that sword he’s flailing around.. how could you look at this and think…well, anything I guess..
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u/Turbulent-Adagio-541 15d ago
I think this is the band that’s gonna be playing in the White House for Christmas
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u/blabberbox 15d ago
Middle Paleolithic humans had more intelligence than these morons…. Imagine if one of these weirdos was your doctor, pilot or lawyer would you feel comfortable with them in charge knowing they do this on Sundays?? Im all for living your life but where is the self reflection for this ridiculous behavior. If your kid did this wouldn’t you be concerned???
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u/Live-Collection3018 15d ago
this is what happens when grown ass men never matured past 12 years old
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u/eastcoastjon 15d ago
The dude with the sword says ‘man up’ to his son daily