• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    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.

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      The bible also says to take care of the poor and a bunch of other stuff they actively work against.

    • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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      Exactly. But performative acts like this play to their base. And their base is almost exclusively people who haven’t read the very book they profess to follow.

      Most athielsts (myself included) have read more of the bible than any of these people ever have.