Dang they truly believe US is the center of the world. Is absolutely baffling.
Fundies think they can force God to do something.
If God existed, he’d be smacking them down hard for this level of arrogance.
Many fundies, especially Prosperity Gospel folks, see God as a vending machine - prayer goes in, whatever you ask for comes out.
I mean Jesus could release the files himself hes all powerful no?
Yeah but he doesn’t know how to use windows 11, so he’s just going to print out an email and send it in the post.
But is he powerful enough to create a rock so heavy that even he can’t lift it?
He’s about to release the… Look squirrel!
Jesus works for those in power so therefore he’s protecting them, that’s the only answer to this.
That’s Supply Side Jesus, the one Evangelicals worship. He’s a dick
Death cult makes up another excuse for their god not existing.
“We know it’s fiction, but we hate you for not believing our bullshit!”
Fuck religion, and the religious. Even you ‘good’ religious assholes. Fuck you specifically for supporting evil religions.
Without religion, we’d be talking about Epstein right now. REligions come along with the complete lies and just fuck everything up. Every fucking time.
Without religion we’d be raping children and bashing babies against rocks, and possibly genocided each other several times over.
If the only reason you’re not doing those things is out of fear of eternal punishment then you’re not a good person.
Define “good”
Oh shit, Jordan Peterson is on Lemmy.
No. Not him. Anyone but him.
Define “anyone”.
My statement was clear, and instead of addressing it you are trying to change the subject to arguing about definitions. I’m not biting.
72% of Americans have some form of religious belief.
If religious people fuck everything up you are literally surrounded by them.
Ok…then we’re surrounded by people who fuck up the planet.
Hey, you DO see that humans, and only humans, have fucked this planet up pretty badly, right?
Like we’re already past the point of no return for climate change. We can’t unfuck the planet.
So why is it hard to believe that the majority of people are huge fuck-ups in life? Including you.
“Some form” is pretty broad. They may not actually mean all religions, either.
But I don’t think that raging against the majority is uncalled for.
There’s a difference between raging against the majority, and saying things like “all 72% of the population do is fuck everything up”. It’s a wonder anything is standing if that was the case.
Without religion, we’d be talking about Epstein right now. REligions come along with the complete lies and just fuck everything up. Every fucking time.
saying things like “all 72% of the population do is fuck everything up”
That’s not really what they said, though. Most of that 72% does non-religious stuff most of the time. Imagine how much better things could be if we were less fucked up!
I mean
It kind of is a wonder anything is standing.
Pretty sure bad people don’t need religion to still do bad things and lie. I’m pretty certain murder and other such horrors existed before religion did.
Which is to say, y’all would be still talking about Charlie Kirk, tariffs, etc still instead of Epstein.
A large portion of American Christians I’ve talked to reject Trump being a Christian. They just preferred him over Kamala. They’d rather someone pretending to be Christian than flat out reject Jesus openly.
“I’d rather the anti-chtist lying that they are the Christian than an honest person saying they aren’t a Christian.”
List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events
If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results, then the people who anticipated this latest failed prediction are absolutely, frothing at the mouth, street corner screaming certifiable.
But then I think we all already knew that.
In 2011 one of the skeptic magazines published a form saying something like, “I hereby bequeath all my worldly goods to the bearer of this note on [day after the world was supposed to end].” Obviously a joke, but I wonder how many doomsday-ers were confident enough to sign on the dotted line?
I doubt many because you never, ever, hear of any of these rapture folks giving away all their money and stuff. never. Oh it’s going to happen…but just in case…
Not quite the same, but when my wife was a kid, some of her hardcore fundie neighbors ran up MASSIVE loan and credit card debts on the lead-up to one of these rapture dates in the '90s. They thought that since they would soon be chilling with Jesus in Heaven they wouldn’t have to face financial consequences. It financially ruined them and they lost everything.
Huh. Isn’t that the Sin of Greed then? Seems even if there had been a rapture they self-selected out.
I stopped trying to rationalize these people’s ‘reasoning’ a long time ago.
I mean, I understand it. I think it’s stupid, but I understand it.
They believe Good is something you are, not something you do. So anything they do is Good, because they’re Good. If a Bad Person does the same thing, say, running up debt; they did something Bad, because Bad People only do Bad things.
Christians are almost always been selective about what parts of the bible they believe (or even bother to read) and this is an easy example. The bible makes very clear that the date the world ends will be known to none but god. There won’t be a warning from angels and humans won’t be able to figure out in advance. There could be signs it’s coming that people pick up on but someone saying “it’ll be this day on this month” will always be a lie. That aside, why would a Christian who thinks the world is gonna end sell anything? What will you do with that money in Heaven?
Even Jesus, who is God, sorta, didn’t know when it would happen. He told his disciples he would return in their lifetime.
From what I understand this is a common misconception
Its literally what it says in the bible.
There’s a lot of mental gymnastics Christians do to pretend this isn’t true, but that is transparent and pathetic.
Apparently it’s a case of misinterpretation and he was talking about the destruction of Herod’s temple which happened in 70 AD
So, what got misinterpreted to turn “Herod’s temple will be destroyed” into
“Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.” ?
You need the context of what he said before that. He wasn’t talking about his return he was talking about specific signs.
The problem with a lot of the Bible is that it is too easy to misinterpret. Its why biblical scholars exist.
Hell so much of it even requires historical context.
But for this specifically you jumped to the end of a long speech Jesus gave and ignored the body of it. And I don’t blame you. It’s easy to get lost in such a dull and antiquated collection of books.
It’s why Young Earth Creationists think there are references to dinosaurs in the Old Testament. Lack of paying attention to a hard to follow text
But yes he was talking about the rise of Christianity and specific things that would come with it. Not his second coming.
Somewhere, one single person was raptured and wondering where everyone else is. No one else noticed their absence. But the rapture did happen.
“Just me? Really?”
The rapture happened ages ago, but none of us went to heaven. We’re staying along for the ride.
Because it’s impossible to be good, in the words of Eleanor Shellstrop: “There’s this chicken sandwich that if you eat it, it means you hate gay people. And it’s delicious!”
It’s too bad there’s only one fried chicken restaurant in existence
Simply do this for every product you buy, or go to the Bad Place.
Weird…
According to the Bible no man, no angel, not even Jesus Christ himself knows when the rapture will be…
Huge fan of whoever convinced them to blame it on trump not releasing the Epstein files tho.
“Clearly, when he wrote with his own hand that no man would know the day or the hour, the Lord wasn’t counting on a genius like me coming along.”
- a whole shitload of different preachers
Joking aside, how do whole congregations avoid seeing the narcissism on some of these motherfuckers?
The ones that could self selected out. (Or were kicked out.)
