Calgary pastor’s vehicle damaged overnight with hateful words and imagery
On the side doors of the vehicle in red spray paint it read, 'Jesus is a c***,' and on the front windshield there was an upside down cross. The upside down cross is known to be an anti-Christian and Satanic symbol.
Couldn't remember quite the right word I was trying to think of, but the closest I can say is "redirection". Their lives suck and they've built up a mental profile of blaming religion and other things like that as the cause of all their woes.
I recognize this because I had to work on getting over this myself. That's not to say that I didn't have some legitimate complaints that did indeed impact me in negative ways, but it became increasingly safe and easy to jump to blaming local religion rather than identifying and recognizing how often it was my own laziness or incompetence that led to certain things playing out the way they did.
It's especially a hard pill to swallow when you get older. There's no undo or rewind button, no "earlier save" you can load up. You have to accept the results of your own fuck ups and decide how you're going to deal with it.
Then again, with the kinds of activists we're talking about here, ideological social circles can be an entirely different kind of animal. Where instead of confronting politicians and government officials, medical professionals, and/or mega corporations for messing up their livelihoods, they've been brainwashed into directing that anger onto trendy targets.
They used the present tense when insulting Jesus.
Their faith is covered by gilded bullcrap
Oh man, the symbol of St. Peter? You got him! Not to mention the impetus for these things falls into one of two motivations, which is being upset that you had to get up early on sunday mornings as a kid or being angry that you weren't allowed to stick things up your dirtyhole.
Which is it?
It is what you make of it, if you use it as the cross of St. Peter, that stands for one that stood for Jesus, then it is, if you use it as an insult to God, then it is. Always goes to heart stuff and God knows. Also, best to keep in mind what the popular interpretation is most likely to be and then take that into account, stumbling block stuff. Edit: I wasn't answering the question you asked, just the question and answer that was in my brain, hope you don't mind.
It's difficult to generate satanic panic when you've seen this in middle school. As for God, it's beyond the perception of our fancy meat computer how he judges the living patterns of our actions (inasfar as they extend beyond us in our knowable forms, our closest simulacrum being "code" among other things) and while it isn't good to in such ways appropriate the cross of St. Peter or the 5 wounds of Christ, there are meaner ways of insulting the Lord.
The meanest, most aggressively satanic symbol I think they could ever use at this point would be the walmart logo.
It's perceivable: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Motives
He weighs motives and hearts, but the trainwreck extends very, very far. This is an incredibly idiosyncratic thought so you might have to forgive the strangeness of that observation. I don't believe in coincidence however, and your input is a well received reminder that motive is where it starts no matter how many layers of abstraction there are to reality and meta, like a needle leading the thread.
The kind of self-worship that leads to such an arrested development that they can't even assess where their symbols come from is at its heart a veneration of satan.
-Matthew 10:22 KJV
I had another point I wanted to make, but being sick has doing a number on my concentration, so here you go.
Edit:
-John 15:18 KJV
Probably a better applied scripture in this situation. I'm leaving both up.
Just following orders.. breaks my heart, really does, all of it.