๐๏ธ Thethirdtoken ยท 148 points ยท Posted at 15:19:00 on November 12, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
If I stop attending the "One and only true church, God's church, the plan of happiness and joy", the supposed most familiar thing to my eternities with our father in heaven and endless eternal happiness. If I stop attending that church, I am immediately questioned. IT DOESN'T MATTER THE REASON I LEAVE, HOW CAN IT BE THE THINGS YOU THINK IT IS, IF WE DO LEAVE? If you actually have the most delicious pizza in town, and this pizza never loses its flavor, and just eating makes me lose weight and look like Brad Pitt, how could anyone possibly not like that pizza, UNLESS, perhaps, that's all bullshit? Perhaps, it's just like any other pizza, and not everyone likes it. You don't look like Brad Pitt to everyone, you look like a fool who is obsessed with mediocre pizza.
If you have the best, most flavory pizza in town, your diner would be packed...it's not, and it's NOT because we are unable to follow your diner's rules. Your pizza just ain't that good, it's kinda shit.
BarackBill ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 15:33:31 on November 12, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Shitty pizza!
This is the best testimony I've heard today.
ClayChristensen ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:41:09 on November 12, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Their pizza is nasty and it ruins families and lives.
bowyourheadandsayyes ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 18:14:05 on November 12, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
If you stop frequenting a restaurant, it's probably because you're cheating on your wife.
๐๏ธ Thethirdtoken ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:38:58 on November 13, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
I loled.
johndehlinmademedoit ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:50:51 on November 12, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Meat lovers pizza is clearly against Gods plan too. One pepperoni and one vagina. Thatโs the only way.
Metaphors are hard.
-g-u-n-s-l-i-n-g-e-r ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:30:53 on November 12, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
I recently heard the argument that "atheist" shouldn't be a word. We don't have other words for someone who doesn't believe in Santa, or Zeus, or that the world is flat.
Makes sense to me.
notsure500 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:26:05 on November 12, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair though, if you want to cancel TV service, phone service, credit cards, etc you'll usually be questioned and tried to be talked out of the decision because the company wants more money. TBMs are basically TSCCs retention employees. Gotta keep those numbers and revenue up for the shareholders!
fuckeveryone________ ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:48:04 on November 12, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
fuck diners who serve delicious pizza but have overbearing rules
ATmega32 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:08:07 on November 12, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Its not about you. Now eat your pizza! /s
MormoNoMo67 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:36:36 on November 12, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
That's because we're all supposed to stay in the brainwashed tradition, or cult, in which we were raised and not question.
Or just imagine Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof singing Tradition.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:49:25 on November 13, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Excellent analogy. An exmo can never be right in the eyes of a TBM. Never. They always left for a bad reason, because leaving is just inherently bad.
HenryBNosering ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:32:06 on November 12, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
They bought you! They own you!
demillir ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:20:35 on November 13, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
As John Dehlin has defined it, a cult is any organization you can't leave with with your dignity intact. That definition certainly applies to the Church, but not to the pizza joint in our town.
morningsdaughter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:43:25 on November 12, 2017 ยท (Permalink)
Probably something to do with how religious people believe in eternal consequences. When it comes to religion it's generally about what you will be doing for an eternity. Music and food don't have that concept, they only last a very short time.