Religion is the most destructive human invention.
…more than slavery? how tonedeaf can you be
Religion can be used to rationalize slavery. So there.
Religion was used to justify it, and it was used to make the slaves more docile as well. Double edged sword. But then it turned to a source of strength as they emancipated.
It’s complex. Humans are not going to give up religion, they’re just not. We should work to make the religions better if we want things to get better, and that means supporting the good religious people so they can affect change.
Slavery was justified in large part for religious reasons.
They wouldn’t know “gods plan” if it smacked them in the ass. They’re literally worshipping the closest analogue to the Antichrist. These people are violently clueless.
“God’s plan” is literally whatever is happening right now. Got in a car crash? God’s plan. Narrowly missed a car crash? God’s plan. Cat wakes you at 6am for breakfast? God’s plan. This whole comment? God’s plan.
My thoughts exactly. It’s a clickbait headline targeted at anyone who doesn’t realize that a third of people believe literally everything is “god’s plan.”
His plan sucks because he made Pedos billionaires. Wait, god might he a pedo. It’s his plan afterall. Always watching you like a creep. Dude fits pedo logic 100%. Worshiping pedos, sounds on track for religious nutts.
Lol, like that billion actually matters when they stand in judgement.
Mary was only around 14, too
Source?
Wikipedia lists her birth year as 18 BCE, whereas Jesus’ is between 6-4 BCE
Wikipedia is using the pseudepigraphal gospel attributed to James as a source. This had been identified by Origen as a forgery and it doesn’t constitute Christian doctrine. Although it does influence Christian tradition a lot. It also cites Jewish custom, where girls are eligible to marry at age 13 (which actually contradicts the infancy gospel of James, which states she was 12)
It’s not really reliable and definitely not Christian doctrine.
Do you think there’s a more accurate determination of a teenager’s exact age two thousand years ago?
In some ways, isn’t the Antichrist God’s plan?
So is punishment, and republicans have been using his name in vain.
This. Trump literally fits the description of an “antichrist” (lowercase; one of a type) and many of the traits of the definite article (the specific Antichrist) described in the Bible.
But then they’re not expecting to be the ones deceived by an antichrist.
Obligatory Ben Corey
I remember reading that in Trump’s first term.
It’s even more unsettling now.
Even if he’s the antichrist, it’s still God’s plan by definition of the term “God” literally. The only question is if God exists or not. Or for me the question rather is if God’s existence matters or not.
I’d suggest it depends on whether one assumes we have free will or not.
My understanding of the Bible is that humanity has free will and so there are lots of things that happen that technically aren’t God’s will or plan (e.g. John 3:16 is pretty well known as mentioning God not wanting anyone to perish but for everyone to have eternal life, but then there’s also the Great White Throne Judgement in Revelation where there are definitely some who are cast into the Lake of Fire - the second death). There’s a good argument to be made as well for the prophetic parts of the Bible not being “God’s will” but simply the result of Him being outside time and space and hence knowing what the result of humanity’s free will will be.
So no, I don’t think the Antichrist is part of God’s plan per se; rather, God knows there will be an Antichrist and that’s given as a warning so people 1) aren’t deceived by him and 2) know that God can handle him (in Revelation it ends badly for the Antichrist).
Makes sense somehow but then God isn’t omnipotent and/or all loving so looks like a contradiction to me. Or maybe he just gave up on humanity?
I guess that depends on how you define those terms - being omnipotent wouldn’t necessarily require the exercise of that power, whilst “all-loving” would depend on whether you consider allowing people free will and hence the ability to reject God to be loving or not.
I mean for a religious person everything should be god’s plan, right?
That is logical. Practically, though, this is used for justification of selected events. If a person confronts with something he doesn’t like, e. g. bugs in his home, he will actively try to change it.
“It’s God’s plan” is the phrase people use to comfort themselves when disasters happen, so I guess that tracks regarding Trump’s rule.
Yeah. Everyone assuming this is some sort of praise or support of the current presidency really don’t know how that phrase is normally used. Half the time I heard that phrase it was in a “wtf is going on right now”/“this shit sucks” sort of way.
Shitty clickbait title is shitty.
But confirmation bias is real, judging from this comment section populated by the incurious.
In my experience growing up evangelical, it’s as much a plea as it is an assertion.
21% of U.S. adults are fully illiterate. Another 33% can’t read better than an elementary school student.
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A third of Americans are delusional
TIL one in three Americans suffer severe mental health disorders.
Unfun fact! Carter tried to establish community mental health care centers across America, but Reagan immediately undid it.
Sounds about right.
America has a Christian Nationalist problem.
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Oh I’m aware it always has. I remember learning in grade school, about the Puritans coming to America and being told it was a good thing….
(Spoiler: it wasn’t)
But it’s getting worse every day.
America has an individualism problem and well fuck me running if Christians just happen to be the absolute worst when it comes to the rights of others being of no consequence.
Aaaaaaand this sort of shit is why I’ve resigned myself to the fact that we’re not recovering from this, and that I need to get the fuck out.
To where, please share?
Don’t have a specific place nailed down yet, but somewhere in the EU most likely, or Japan (I speak the language a bit)
It’s easier said than done. But you have an advantage speaking a foreign language.
Probably too late now. It takes years to get out legitimately. The cult is going to turn America into whitemanistan rapidly now that the foundations are laid.
Imagine how stupid the average person is and now realize that half of them are dumber than that.
That’s a global percentage. I’m pretty sure that the United States is exclusively populated by the lower 15%
I’m a simple man. I see a Carlin quote, I upvote.
The more I see shit like this, the more I ask myself, why are we trying to save this?
- Our legal system has been broken since it’s creation.
- Our representation has never represented us.
- Peace is an imaginary thing, at best.
- Calling any country our allies, is a joke.
So what is the point of all this shit?
The point is that America has managed to make a lot of guys richer than God by allowing them to exploit millions of people
Seems like the only point. However, America does not stand alone in this. Humans as a whole seem to be a cancer infecting the universe. I hope we never achieve interstellar travel.
No no.
One of my only hopes in life is that Elon Musk gets to achieve his dream of living on Mars.
I’ll still live on Earth, but at least I won’t be on the same planet as him anymore.
Then we can take all the rich assholes, and send em to Mars.
What if it’s a punishment from God for doing evil crap like supporting genocide?
Fuck that asshole god
A third of Americans are incredibly fucking dumb.
More than that actually. There’s more than one way to be dumb. Religion isn’t the ONLY way.
Religion should be added to the DSM as a dangerous disorder.
Time for a rev bump to DSM-6.66
