MATTHEW 6:5
And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
He's a sinner.
Dude that guy's face just looks like pure evil. If I saw him in a movie, I'd immediately know he was the villain.
I don’t know if this really happens, but his face looks like it got that way from scowling and laughing at the same time for the last 50 years.
So like, resting villain face?
Totally. I see him in leather in some vague future dystopia hoarding some resource or having three lines before the hero kills his henchmen
Prayer In Tongues On Floor Before Abortion Ruling.
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The science on speaking in tongues:
• People don’t tend to use sounds that aren’t in their native language. (citation) So if you’re an English speaker, you’re not going to bust out some Norwegian vowels. This rather lets the air out of the theory that individuals engaged in glossolalia are actually speaking another language. It is more like playing alphabet soup with the sounds you already know. (Although not always all the sounds you know. My instinct is that glossolalia is made up predominately of the sounds that are the most common in the person’s language.)
• It lacks the structure of language. (citation) So one of the core ideas of linguistics, which has been supported again and again by hundreds of years of inquiry, is that there are systems and patterns underlying language use: sentences are usually constructed of some sort of verb-like thing and some sort of noun-like thing or things, and it’s usually something on the verb that tells you when and it’s usually something on the noun that tells you things like who possessed what. But these patterns don’t appear in glossolalia. Plus, of course, there’s not really any meaningful content being transmitted. (In fact, the “language” being unintelligible to others present is one of the markers that’s often used to identify glossolalia.) It may sort of smell like a duck, but it doesn’t have any feathers, won’t quack and when we tried to put it in water it just sort of dissolved, so we’ve come to conclusion that it is no, in fact, a duck.
• It’s associated with a dissociative psychological state. (citation) Basically, this means that speakers are aware of what they’re doing, but don’t really feel like they’re the ones doing it. In glossolalia, the state seems to come and then pass on, leaving speakers relatively psychologically unaffected. Disassociation can be problematic, though; if it’s particularly extreme and long-term it can be characterized as multiple personality disorder.
• It’s a learned behaviour. (citation) Basically, you only see glossolalia in cultures where it’s culturally expected and only in situations where it’s culturally appropriate. In fact, during her fieldwork, Dr. Goodman (see the citation) actually observed new initiates into a religious group being explicitly instructed in how to enter a dissociative state and engage in glossolalia.
https://makingnoiseandhearingthings.com/2013/11/07/the-science-of-speaking-in-tongues/
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Professor of Linguistics William J Samarin concluded:
• While speaking in tongues does appear at first to resemble human language, that was only on the surface.[3]:73, 104, 120-1, 121-127
• The actual stream of speech was not organized and there was no existing relationship between units of speech and concepts.[3]:73, 120, 127, 128
• The speakers might believe it to be a real language, but it was totally meaningless.[3]:121, 127
Anthropologist Felicitas Goodman compared it with rituals from Japan and Indonesia as well as Africa and Borneo and concluded that there was no distinction. It truly is universal and quite easily crosses religious divides.[8]
Very good summary. I've never seen anyone do it outside of YouTube but someone added me to a snake handling church Facebook group for the laughs and they have some videos of them doing it.
Those insane snake handling churches that routinely have people bitten?
Yeah the group is a riot. Lots of them have died of snakebite and yet they persist.
There's a great book about it called Salvation on Sand Mountain that I highly recommend.
I'd say that's to their credit.
Don't get me wrong, they're completely nuts, but at least they're consistent. Anyone who gets bitten doesn't have enough faith. Period.
I have this great photo of some chubby kid with a tie that says JESUS holding a box of snakes someplace.
I grew up in a branch of the Pentecostal Church (not the snake handlers). Even as a kid I thought it was fucking wild that people did that.
My favorite times were when people were "overcome by the spirit" or whatever and they'd stand up to get attention and speak in tongues (same people every fucking week) and this crazy old woman would stand up and "interpret" what those folks were saying. Listen, Birdie, I'm pretty sure that if there is a god he doesn't speak solely in King James English.
I tried to speak in tongues when I was young. Somebody told me to just babble, so I did. Then I stopped because I knew I was just faking it. Some lady gushed, "what a beautiful prayer language!"
And then I knew they couldn't tell the difference. Thats how I began questioning what I was taught. Wish it still didn't take me so long after that.
if anyone thinks this is acceptable behavior in any house of legislation, substitute what is happening here with an islamic call to prayer and prayer session.
did your opinion change? why is it okay that christians can do this and no one else?
You won't really get to them that way. They'll retort with something like, "Well, the Pledge of Allegiance says 'One nation under God', not under Allah" and they'll high five and shoot some kids.
why is it okay that christians can do this and no one else?
Because they're the correct ones. Duh. It wouldn't be acceptable for Muslims to do it because it would be bringing demonic forces into our houses of government...
Or something, I dunno, I haven't been a Christian for 20+ years.
Wow. I just had to click on a link on an article to find the video (because why embed... that's crazy talk) to be taken to a tweet that contained a tiktok video.
This experience could only be improved if the tiktok video was a person summarizing a reddit post.
What a world.
And that Reddit post was talking about a Facebook post.
His face looks like he drinks the blood of newborn for breakfast.
I went to a Pentacostal church many years ago and one time they had a group session to practice speaking in tongues. It’s absolute horseshit.
You can tell it's horseshit because if they were actually performing the miracle of Speaking in Tongues that they claim to be you would be able to understand whatever they're babbling about regardless of what language you speak. If they were genuinely doing it you probably shouldn't even be able to tell unless someone who speaks a completely different language comes along and says something like, "Wow, it's crazy that this congregation prays in Swahili," or whatever.
I go to a progressive church. We laugh at this kind of shit. It's such a joke.
And the rest of us laugh at you guys who think a progressive church is any less batshit crazy than speaking in tongues.
I certainly thought it had to be just some normal prayer or maybe a Latin chant, but no. Its all of them independently and incoherently muttering to their god while kneeling over the state seal. Separation of church and state is long dead it seems.
Hey! I don't hate God. I hate that people take the fiction as literal.
Idk, if their God created people like that then I do kinda hate that God too.
:P
If God is responsible for even a percent of what they all claim he has done, then God is a giant dick. And that's the understatement of eternity.
How people can think the story of the great flood - very nearly the greatest possible act of genocide followed by an explicit instruction to commit multiple generations of obligate incest- is some kind of uplifting story that's somehow appropriate for children is beyond me.
Ain't no "kinda" about it here. They and their non-existent god can eat my entire ass.
We should do all republican laws in tongues!
....yeah my wife needs an abortion...oh they are illegal? Can you show me on the law where it says that? No?
Man walks into a psychiatrist office. He tells the doctor he speaks in an unknown dialect to a “god”. Is this person committed to an ~~insane asylum?~~ psychiatric institution? Why or why not??
72 hour psych hold at minimum and definitely not allowed any government job
Still speedrunning their way to Gilead, I see...
Claims to be a tape of this moment: https://imgur.com/gallery/5Jq7xiE
Religion has no place in politics. Not one whit. Practice whatever you want in your personal life, but nobody should be praying in a Senate.
that looks fucking crazy, like as in they are fucking crazy.
That’s because they are indeed insane. Unfortunately they are also in power
Aren’t Christian’s awesome
I'm Christian but I could not give the slightest shit about abortion. I worked for a gyne that performed them and saw the pathology reports all the time. It's literally a little spongy hemorrhagic tissue they are removing. It's such a nothing, and when you see the waiting room full of women you realize that EVERYONE across cultures and religions get abortions. I saw Mennonite women and women in full burqas out there, and Christian women praying on their knees.
Have the procedure and get on with your life. Don't let a few cells get in the way of your plans. It's a decision between you and your doctor and nobody else.
Incidentally I offered on Facebook to mail any American women the abortion pill, and Facebook immediately banned me for 30 days for selling illicit substances. I ended up being interviewed by Vice about it funnily enough.
facebook is pro-fascism. you can tell by how they moderate. don't use fascist-supporting websites. get your friends and family off of them best you can
I wish all my old online friends would migrate elsewhere. Facebook is the devil.
I'm convinced that everyone who is against abortion believes that all pregnancies never have complications. or are from loving supportive relationships. or are completely wrapped up in their own world they believe they have a right to have a say in everyone's business.
Did they Photoshop his eyes like that or did he come factory new looking like a demon?
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