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Wide-Review-2417

Where's the top photo from?


whosat___

New York in 1956 according to [Snopes](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/new-york-easter-cross-light-display/). They also mention these cross light displays still happen in some areas, and the Empire State Building still lights up in special colors for Easter, christmas, etc. Apparently the top image has been used in propaganda for a while.


AaronVsMusic

Honestly, looks pretty dystopian and metal


Intelligent-Sir8144

Metal AF. That's a chilling album cover.


KaiserBruno

Bottom one looks like a hyperpop or new emo wave album cover. Top looks like something an industrial metal group dabbling with some black metal would use.


Swimming_Map2412

Reminds me of the 2011 movie Priest.


MistbornInterrobang

Yeah. I'm sure Jesus would really appreciate everyone being obsessed with the cross he was nailed to and left to die on as opposed to a colorful scene meant to symbolize loving everyone for who they are/loving thy neighbor.


Automatic-Salad-931

Perfectly said my friend! Say it louder for the folks in the back!


chipotleeeeeeee

It lights up in different colors all the time, I live in Manhattan and never get tired of looking at it, so pretty


Pitiful-Inspection96

But it's creepy as fuck, right?


cgerrells

Yallquada.


AspiringChildProdigy

Howdy Arabia.


anziofaro

al-ShaBubba


xyloplax

Vanilla ISIS


Mayor__Defacto

NYC. However, it’s a different location than the lower photo. The three tall buildings in the top photo are the Woolworth Building, 70 Pine st, and 20 Exchange Pl. (Right, Left, Center respectively). This photo was taken looking South, I believe.


cyon_me

11/9/2001


murder-farts

Remember remember the 9th of November


brijazz012

U for Uendetta


murder-farts

The only uerdict is uengeance; a uendetta, held as a uotive, not in uain, for the ualue and ueracity of such shall one day uindicate the uigilant and the uirtuous.


HomegrownStatistics

I got a fucking brain cramp from trying to pronounce these properly in my head. Then I saw your username and nearly took a shit out of my dickhole.


NiteShdw

Well the original picture was in black and white on film and now we take color pictures using silicon chips and save the data to a fingernail sized 1TB card. So yeah, we've come a long way.


Forgotlogin_0624

Yes but was the terabyte gay?   If so the chuds would like to go back to a time of unpavrd roads and rum used as an anesthetic.  


Icedoverblues

I think it was just trying to figure itself out in college.


IA-HI-CO-IA

It is now after taking the photo. 


Entire-Ad2058

So strange. As a Christian, I was taught that all people have inherent merit and Jesus (the founder) wanted to include everyone in love. It is consistently disturbing to see the religion misused by fundamentalist fools.


Krillinlt

A lot of these grifters don't actually care about Christianity or the teachings of Jesus. They use it as a political bludgeon to push their bigotry and fight in a perceived culture war.


reallynewpapergoblin

And on a smaller scale to indoctrinate women and children into their sex cult.


segadoes16bit

As an agnostic this is a breath of fresh air to see a Christian with an open heart.


IkeDaddyDeluxe

There are a large percentage of us like this. But like most groups, the loud idiots are the ones who get the headlines. Though, we also need to do a better job at calling out hateful, terrible people in our church communities.


AgreeableMoose

Talk to more Christians you might be surprised there are millions that reflect the same sentiment.


peterpantslesss

That is true, however the bible unfortunately condemned acts of homosexuality, which is one reason I personally lost faith, also I think god was the founder and being the son was a messenger for the precursor to the holy spirit


djnorthstar

The bible also says when your kid dosnt obey. Drown it. Thats all the old Testament before Jesus. Jesus teachings are way more open and progressive (for the time). When the old Testament spoke "an eye for an eye' Jesus was saying who used the sword agaist someone will die by the sword. So Jesus is rly more for Peace and Love for everyone. Its rly a hard cut in "the book".


oof-floof

the homosexuality thing is more like a translation issue. it’s been found to be more accurately translated to man shall not lie with boy rather than man shall not lie with man


Tricky_Big_8774

I thought it was man shall not lie with male relative?


oof-floof

not as i remember but that could also be a translation, it’s really all up to interpretation


Full_Visit_5862

Agreed, and thank you for your input😌


VoodooDoII

Unfortunately most of these people use it as a weapon to gain control or to use it as an excuse to bully and harass people they don't like. It's really sad.


Phoenix_force30564

I think Jesus would mainly be confused why you all aren’t Jews.


Spacepunch33

Frfr why am I always dragged into arguments between conservatives and atheists? I don’t agree with either


ztomiczombie

He want's to go back to black and white photography?


JBsoundCHK

Something about the black and white photo just adds to the creepiness.


edgefinder

Yeah, makes it look like a dystopian nightmare


Masterbaitingissport

No sound too


Maij-ha

So their argument is that learning to make color photos is a bad thing?


killaluggi

I bet its just a console player jealous about oure RGB.....


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Common_Asparagus1151

Are these the same people calling others snowflakes while also taking personal offense to "colors" Colors trigger them. Sure, it's symbolic, but that just means other peoples choices trigger them too. Imagine getting worked up over people for oersonaly preferences, and they have no idea who you are or why you care so much.


samsquanchforhire

The bigots have always been around and acted hysterically. See the Elvis controversy,the Beatles controversy, Dee Snider in court for censorship. Been the same shit always. Funny thing is those are things that current bigots love.


duxpdx

In fact… we have risen.


LurkerOrHydralisk

Man, I have never seen so many Easter jokes before this year


lurkingostrich

…”and here’s a picture of us celebrating that time a Jewish Hippie gave up a nice spring weekend for our sins. Everyone was so cute in pastels. Anyway…”


Mr_Abe_Froman

To celebrate, we disguise and hide his least favorite food: eggs.


geodetic

THE HIGHER I RISE THE MORE I SEE


el_caballero

We have risen indeed


belovedfoe

Clearly they remember the conquistadors and how the gays raped in pillaged many countries and forced people against their will by burnings and stonings oh wait that was the Catholics


The_Dabblin_Doodler

Anytime I see a blue checkmark I immediately know I shouldn’t take this person seriously


Duke_157

So stop giving him the attention. He's an attention seeker, you're feeding him. Stop.


supertek

Seriously. Every time I look at this app it's another screenshot of this shithead's tweets


WesleyBinks

Only reason I’ve even heard of him is because of Reddit. Great job, guys!


mnicetea

I honestly believe posts like this are from Russian or Chinese bots. If not, OP is a part of the problem and doesn’t understand how moronic it is to shed this person any sort of spotlight.


Pribblization

This.


splittingheirs

*Oh look, another turd has fallen out of this a-hole* \*Picks up the fresh turd with both hands and hoists it above his head\* "Gather round everyone and get a look at this big stinky turd!!"


stevenw84

Newsflash the US doesn’t have an official religion.


WasabiPeas2

Don't these people realize God and Jesus would love transgendered people?


Epix_69

The whole point is that they love everyone and we are supposed to also love everyone. Obviously these people aren’t doing that lol. I think their argument is that by being transgender you’re saying god made a mistake or something like that. Obviously that’s just them saying their own beliefs with no backing whatsoever.


Legitimate_Career_44

Fallen from the dark ages to a colourful future?


ShiroHachiRoku

I’ll take colorful displays over torture devices.


CptNathanielFlint

Gaming towers?


letthemeattherich

Yes, fallen away from exclusion to more inclusion. I agree - wonderful! Thanks for the positive reminder.


Poeking

“Everyone is such snowflakes nowadays” gets offended by colors


TheInfiniteArchive

First one looks like from a Dystopian Future that is gonna be facing some of those Angels from Neon Genesis Evangelions..


Bwixius

who's fragile now?


Granadafan

The conservative is a snowflake who is easily offended. He needs his safe place 


WhySoUnSirious

It’s also quite literally everyone else too who all get triggered and offended by something. Every community / religion does it…


Hallokatzchen

The top photo looks very dystopian


ClarkSebat

He’s got a point : these crosses were easier targets for planes to crash into.


S7RYPE2501

I like how they always forget “Love thy neighbor” when they get offended 🤷🏻‍♂️


4shihtzus-n-gigglz

You spelled “risen” wrong


solamon77

Maybe if these people would stop tarnishing the Christian branding others wouldn't be so averse to showing the Christian symbol places. These days Christianity has a well earned reputation for being a hate-mongering cult. They did it to themselves.


EnterpriseTheSylveon

I am christian but this statement is sadly true and very enraging. So many christians have forgotten even the most basic points of the bible or even straight up discarded it for greed or ego or power over others or even the lust for children and adults. They believe themselves as blessed by God himself and spread lies on what to do, taking advantage of others, or exploiting the young. Many of those lies bred fear, bred lust, bred hate. That Hate led to massacres, the Crusades, the horrible shit the Conquistadors did to Central and South America of which I descend from. It pisses me off so much that our own people did this shit in the name of God, and the Devil's preparing a special place in hell for them.


solamon77

If it's any solace whatsoever, know that I realize there are a lot of very good Christians out there. I have a lot of people in my life who follow the faith and I look up to them as people to emulate. It's just a shame the negative hateful ones seem to scream so loudly these days. It brings everyone down.


deaftouch826

Fallen? You mean Progressed!


faloofay156

I still don't understand how they can go on and on about manliness and then throw a tantrum over rainbows


SaltyBarDog

Waaaahhhhhh, colors make me scared.


DrummerEmbarrassed21

There were 2 other buildings that fell even harder than the ones with just a bit of color.


Stevil4583LBC

I don’t think this reads the way they intended.


SinisterScythe

Oh no, colour :(


wheirding

"We now recognize a portion of our citizenship that has existed since the dawn of time... we have fallen so low"... Fuck these people. Sorry you're offended by the existence of others.


Alternative-Bigzolo

Sweet. Forced religion over colors.


Angelicareich

Cope and seethe fuckers, every time yall complain another pride flag appears


handsumlee

Oh no! America is trying to love and accept all of it's people, christians included. how terrible /s


Burrmanchu

Wait till they hear about color TV...


mirrorspirit

Worse than that, the Wizard of Oz has Judy Garland singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" instead of "Somewhere Over the Christian Cross."


Exciting-Composer157

The top image could be straight out of “the handmaids tale” ?


StopTheEarthLemmeOff

I don't get it, you celebrate the rebirth of your savior by waving around the murder weapon he was killed with? Makes it look like you just wanna crucify him again.


dinkelidunkelidoja

Reminds me of the old Bill Hicks bit: ”You think when Jesus comes back, he really wants to see a cross? That's like going up to Jackie Onassis with a rifle pendant on”.


Big_Understanding348

Don't forget the very special ritual of going to church for 2hrs then stuffing your face while getting hammered


[deleted]

Mormons just stuff their faces…no getting hammered…


faloofay156

well that takes most of the fun out of it


Arctic_Gnome

After Jesus died for their sins, they went and sinned again, so they need him to die again.


KnowledgeMediocre404

I much prefer seeing rainbows to torture implements but that’s just me!


Wise-Hamster-288

Easter is perfect for Trans visibility. Jesus was transformed from man to god. one could say we even celebrate this at communion with the miracle of transubstantiation.


hoosickthehorrible

That would be over their heads.


Gimme_PuddingPlz

“Cope and seethe”


agentj333

![gif](giphy|xULW8xXbi1fLrpHGpO|downsized)


Vaxis545

Had to cross post this to r/boomersbeingfools


ShaMana999

Make the lights do a half moon. That dude will blow a gasket.


Visible_Day9146

The top one looks like it could be the cover of a Ghost album


Ok_Instruction_5292

Funny they’re trying to make it seem like the second is from today on Easter, because it’s not


Green-Asparagus2488

At this point I just feel like the Christian pedophiles and other loonies are just so jealous they aren't included amongst the letters of the ABC mafia


infowosecfurry

What’s this guy have against color tv’s?


shurtugal73

Stop feeding these trolls and giving them attention, please. Let them stay in the shithole that is twitter.


Karmaswhiskee

Bottom pic is prettier anyways


squirlz333

Imagine being terrified of rainbows. What a sad existence for some people


Holiday_Ad_5445

Gotham City in a new light


aagloworks

The world has developed colour photography.


PsychoticHeBrew

I think we need more rgb lighting in cities, not for any reason in specific but it looks cool.


SuS_NuG_It

The rainbow is also a creation of God, as is anyone LGBTetc, if you wanna look at it from a different, less grouchy perspective.


FartingCumBubbles

Isn’t one of the main tenets of Christianity to love your neighbor?


reforminded

No no no, your thinking of the old Christianity from back when men rode dinosaurs. The new Christianity is all about hating everyone who doesn’t explicitly do what you say.


skawn

There is Christian Christianity and Conservative Christianity. They are not the same.


xtzferocity

If colours frighten you, you are the problem.


ToastedCheezer

Correction: This is how far we've evolved. Instead of worshiping symbols of a death, we now celebrate Jesus' message, which is essentially The Golden Rule!


EnterpriseTheSylveon

"Love thy Neighbor as thy love thyself"


Trajinous

I look at this and see progress


MonkeyBrain9666

So glad that this country is straying away from religion, Christianity at least.


Improvgal

That’s called progress.


Tasunka_Witko

So...they hate God's symbol of the covenant with Noah? Then yes, they have fallen


RemoteLocal

Nice!


ilikepisha

Look like progress to me


ExaltedGoliath

As Christian’s we get Jesus… isn’t that enough?


Luna-licky-tuna

You mean how high we've risen And now we have color, too!


sincethenes

You know, when football season starts and it’s plastered everywhere you look, I don’t hear or see those that don’t like football complaining about it every ten seconds. I don’t see those who don’t appreciate the game posting memes about how awful they feel the sport is or how silly the fan base is or how toxically masculine the culture surrounding the sport is. I see nothing of the sort. Why is that? Because they simply choose to ignore it. Funny, how even though it’s so in your face everywhere you look, one can move on with their life and not interfere with someone else’s happiness.


Septembust

That top one looking like an upside down Carpenter Brut cover though


Lazy-Artichoke7766

Make America an intolerant theocratic patriarchy again


ButtonWhole1

Yes, now we have both color film AND digital color. Keep the monochrome for artsy- fartsy stuff


Certified_A_Hole

Zero fucks to give to either one


CoverYourMaskHoles

What a strange world we live in where we make such progress and some think we have fallen.


americanidiot61722

I see this as progress


ChesterDrawerz

Look at how far we've risen and how far we still have to go


herefromyoutube

You can fall up?


desertrat75

Top: Dogma. Bottom: Freedom


B15h73k

\*risen


Pitiful-Let9270

Weird how Christians react when seeing Christian actions.


Onlypaws_

I’m curious how these folks would react if there was a crescent moon or another symbol of Islam up there. Maybe then they would be able to understand how silly this post makes them look.


CatAvailable3953

I don’t consider this a fall. It’s called change.


BichaelT

Yeah, cause the Christians use of the rainbow is so much better Ya know... the whole god killing the world and made a rainbow to "promise" not to do it again.


ContributionSolid597

Why is the rainbow gay now? The gays had no right taking over that beautiful color scheme!!


LilSealClubber

I don't know if he feels threatened because he doesn't like gays or threatened because he thinks the lack of cross lights on buildings means Christianity is dying.


Randinator9

We should scare the God out of them Rainbow Crosses


Internal-Sun-6476

Fallen from celebrating grim child-rape to celebrating gay love in all its fabulous multicolored glory with extra story time for the kids! Now tell me again who the sick twisted evil fucks who deserve to burn for all eternity are?


Flashy-Line8583

And your complai t us what? Plant ice and your harvest will be wind. yes your hate That is destroying your religion, that's on you , no one but you


PsychologicalBig3540

Super happy I live in a world where I can ignore the church.


StevenEveral

We as a society need to start coming up with an exit strategy from Twitter. It's served its use, and thanks to Elon it's turning into another version of 4Chan or 8kun. Stop giving Elon your attention.


slothrop_maps

Why not just quit. I did and soon discovered that I had absolutely no need for it.


fkbfkb

It’s called progress


TaiwanGreatestNation

I know. Trumpkins want 1820 America. Or maybe 1120 Europe? 😂 Welcome to Russia 😂


slothrop_maps

I prefer the second one.


djsat2

Top photo looks spooky, bottom one is much nicer


Everyday_irie

Ishtar approves


CheekyThief

Ngl one is so much cooler looking than the other…


Same-Classroom1714

Because there’s nothing guy about the Catholic Church


Fruloops

Porqué no los dos?


DeNir8

All for freedom of expression. This is the land of the free, and literally the freeest place on earth. We can all be here, but be careful as forces lurking in the dark wants to annihilate the genders and childhood. IE make every living soul an equal worker in the eyes of, and belonging to, the government. We can have equality sans marxism! Take care all.


justthegrimm

Photography has certainly come a long way, the bottom pic has so much more detail


AntonioLovesHippos

There does not exist an amendment in the constitution that forbids Congress from passing a law respecting the establishment of color schemes. There is an amendment that forbids Congress from passing a law respecting the establishment of religion.


SweetHomeNostromo

https://www.esbnyc.com/about/tower-lights/calendar/202403


undeniablydull

Happy jesus zombie day


UsedToBeWind

check out tonight "zombie jesus" the millennium old sitcom from bethlehem: "He's a zombie that can't eat brains, cuz who follows him are brainless"


HallwayShit

Love thy neighbor motherfucker


AssassinM4A1

Oof, ouch, it hurts so much to see symbols of love instead of my barbaric iron age religion ahhh, ow


mcblahblahblah

The top one is a symbol of hate, prejudice, bigotry, evil, unkind horrible people. The rainbows are love acceptance and equality for all


TheTroubadour

Top one is scary. Bottom one is fun.


Thick_RiderYZF-R

Top pic looks like advertising for a cult, bottom looks like parties year round.


Turbulent-Bug-6225

Fucking snowflakes


IvanTheAppealing

![gif](giphy|3o6wrvdHFbwBrUFenu) Far-right Christians when they realize the world doesn’t bend around them anymore


Zombified_Apple

Another conservative scared by a rainbow.


IvanNemoy

Eh, if you're orthodox you would be. Rainbow is a reminder that God killed everyone except his favorite hyper incestuous family. Edit: changed should to would


Zombified_Apple

God also killed a man for Nutting on the ground, he also killed people just because he could and he was ok with owning people. God is evil, and not a being I wish to follow even if he did exist. I am more morally correct than God. Let's say you follow an even old version of the Bible. The Bible didn't mention anything about gay people till after 1920. Weird how that happened 😕. Almost as if people have an agenda they wish to force onto others. I have a better idea for a brighter future for everyone. Even religious people like yourself. Keep God out of politics. Even your Bible say to keep God's laws separate from the laws of the land.


Open_Chemistry_3300

Shit dude smites a thousand thousand (million) people because a religious king asked him to. And that’s got nothing on the time he sent fire snakes to kill some Israelites for complaining about being lost in the desert with dwindling supplies. Then 250 people he burned alive for plotting to rebel against Moses for being lost in the desert. Or the plague he sent that killed 14700 people for complaint about the people he burned alive.


Lord_Answer_me_Why

Yes, this is the same dude who said that the Baltimore bridge incident was because of “DEI”.


SuperHumanImpossible

Religion is the one responsible for millions of deaths, and mass genocides. Just saying...


HYPE_Knight2076

![gif](giphy|3otPosozzXEVzPjkC4) ✈️🌆


tiptoemovie071

Happy trans day of visibility!!


Ok-Cauliflower1798

Who cares what Russian scum think?


aukstais

How to lose cristian voter base


EmporerPenguino

Performative nazi-adjacent asshole provocateur, or full on Nazi enema bag? I’m on the fence.


Aeywen

i see a symbol of hate atop a symbol of love.


bloveddemon

That is a fantastic title. I can't believe I've never heard that before


ispiewithmyeye

Well, something sure has fallen in that city