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  • _‌_反いじめ戦隊@ani.socialEnglish
    10·
    5 hours ago

    To a Christian, who believes in martyrdoom, dying isn’t so much trouble, because Jesus will forgive even the most psychopathic liars so long as they repent the night before. They will cognitively dissonance Brett James’s harms, and admit him to heaven, and the genocidal cause.

    • DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 hours ago

      Yeah but do you really think they would create heavens for some of the most hateful people on the planet? After preaching about the biggest bullshit ever loving each other.

      • _‌_反いじめ戦隊@ani.socialEnglish
        7·
        5 hours ago

        Digressive Victims do not operate on the thought that actual repent means making amends with your neighbor, and ensuring it doesn’t occur again. Because if that was the case, they wouldn’t evangelize, ministry, or preach. Cults thrive in manipulating short-circuits our brains adapted to survive this harmful planet. They don’t bother to think “maybe enforcing my religion is wrong,” they think “God will forgive me for adding another sibling to your family, hallelujah!”

        Their faustian myth of an afterlife is what makes the cult incredibly dangerous, because all evil under our universe is granted, so long as it’s done under God’s grand plan: “He will reward me for my deeds in ‘paradise’.”

  • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    5 hours ago

    Man, that’s the plane that has the parachute, too.

    I think small airplane travel is about as dangerous as motorcycle riding but it’s been a minute since I looked. I love flight and I’m not sure I’d get in one anymore.

    • SarcasticMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      The CAPS system had been pretty successful too. I wonder what happened, they couldn’t deploy it. The lever is almost dead center and a little aft of the pilot and copilot seats.