• Jerb322@lemmy.world
    97·
    12 days ago

    “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church”

    The fuck does that even mean? They get off on the blood of martyrs?

      • Canaconda@lemmy.ca
        28·
        12 days ago

        Jesus said there is no greater act of love than to lay down your life for someone else. Protestants use martyrdom to subvert that to mean that dying for your faith is the greatest act of love towards god.

        Something something gun to your head and you’re dead if you don’t renounce Christ. IYKYK.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      171·
      12 days ago

      Absolutely. The modern evangelical church is full of people who are incredibly excited about Kirk’s grisly death.

      He’s shaping up to be the First Protestant Saint (outside, maybe, Joseph Smith).

    • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      12 days ago

      Charlie Kirk = Jesus (minus the racism and homophobia and disregard for the poor of course, but basically the same thing).

    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
      5·
      11 days ago

      Any church advocating violence in a positive light, even martyrdom, always makes me suspicious about how much of the Bible they actively ignore/follow. Also, this draws a direct line from violence to benefiting the church, not god, his kingdom, the world, or even your fellow man. Just go die to support a building and its non-profit corp.

  • expatriado@lemmy.world
    31·
    12 days ago

    if you want an example of liberal city surrounded by very conservative rural area, the divide doesn’t get much clear than Asheville, as we see the clash gets interesting

  • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
    28·
    12 days ago

    So instead of paying to advertise their products on the billboard, they pay for this.
    Holy CEO brainworms…

    • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 days ago

      I’ve never understood why a company would put itself in this position. What’s the upside? Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, you know Charlie Kirk is a deeply divisive figure who could easily be described as a Christian nationalist who regularly made racist and inflammatory remarks. So what exactly do you hope to achieve by paying for a billboard like this and attaching your company’s name to it? At best, you alienate half your customer base for the approval of a small, loud minority. It’s like the “pillow guy” all over again, a perfect example of self-inflicted damage.

      At least they make it easy to avoid them I guess.

    • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      11 days ago

      These idiots buy the lies they’re fed. They think anyone who is left of themselves are people who don’t work and that all the “hardworking good people” are “good Christian” good old boys like them. So to him, he is advertising.

      “That one metal company honored real American hero Kirk, so I’ll buy from him.”

      They also think they can just say no to any business that would be offended because they’d be so few of them.

  • tamal3@lemmy.world
    221·
    12 days ago

    Proud of my city! Post this in the AVL sub? We need content 😂

    Edit: Where is this billboard? I haven’t seen it. Need a selfie. Also, “see” you at No Kings this Saturday!

    • Five@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      10·
      12 days ago

      It’s on the hill on the left side of Patton Ave, before the bridge to Hillcrest. There’s three other billboards next to it.

      If you don’t get your selfie before they take it down, there’s one on Sweeten Creek Road and another on Leicester Hwy across from the car wash. You may have to bring your own spray paint.

      • U7826391786239@lemmy.zip
        6·
        11 days ago

        in case you really didn’t know AVL is the airport code for asheville, so some people just say “AVL” similar to how people say “ATL” for atlanta

        • ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world
          3·
          11 days ago

          I missed it at first, but figured it out before I responded. I was just being silly. Gainesville is the same with GNV.

        • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          11 days ago

          Wait you guys have an Asheville and a nAsheville? Are they on opposite sides of the state at least?

      • tamal3@lemmy.world
        2·
        10 days ago

        Oops, sorry. I didn’t even think about it. It’s how Asheville is most commonly written out in text messages, etc. We’ve also got WVL for Weaverville, not to be confused with WAVL which is West Asheville 😂

  • P1k1e@lemmy.world
    3·
    11 days ago

    I want to like this post but I can’t so instead I’ll simply say

    “HELL” YEA!

  • gmtom@lemmy.world
    523·
    12 days ago

    Now if only left wing Americans would actually fight back instead of just complaining on the internet.

    • massacre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      11 days ago

      We are. We’re organizing. We are protesting. We are vocal locally. We are vocal with families. We are fighting a trillion dollar propaganda machine and 30% of the country who hate anyone not white christian cis male. You just aren’t hearing those stories in mainstream media. Quit complaining on the internet yourself and pitch in if you can. Stop with the negativity based on your ignorant preconceived notions at the very least.

      • U7826391786239@lemmy.zip
        5·
        11 days ago

        be aware that if you are in attendance then your face is showing up in multiple security camera feeds, news photos, not to mention who tf knows how many people’s insta posts. all of this recorded info is de facto property of trump’s FBI/NSA/DHS/etc. so the nazis are actively attaching names to every face at every protest.

        cover your face. leave the phone at home–or at least get a faraday bag. don’t assume it’s not still communicating with cell towers (thus giving your location) even if it’s “turned off”