Religion is the most destructive human invention.
But also the most successful. That is why it exists. I am pretty sure without religion we wouldn’t have been able to live together in sedentary groups larger than a few hundred people.
…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.
…but it was the slavery that was the worst outcome, right?
I think you could just say control of the masses as the worst thing that has happened. Slavery is part of that control.
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.
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.
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?
Lol, like that billion actually matters when they stand in judgement.
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.”
This god guy sucks at making plans for something that is omnipotent
In some ways, isn’t the Antichrist God’s plan?
So is punishment, and republicans have been using his name in vain.
Yeah you’re right, there is an actual “god’s plan,” but this isn’t it.
Give me a fucking break. Grow up and stop believing in fairy tales.
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.
Daily reminfer that 33% of the US is crazy, and the majority hate Trump.
Aparently they didnt hate him enough to vote against him.
They did.
The US is not a democracy
The winning candidate in the 2024 election was “none”
America has a Christian Nationalist problem.
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.
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“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.
It’s also gods plan that the Middle East nukes themselves so Jesus will return and the rest of us will go to heaven. Except for Hindus and the Chinese and a ton of other people.
Isn’t everything that happens a part of God’s plan? I do not understand the thought process of most Christians.
Everything they agree with is part of God’s plan. Everything they don’t is the work of the devil. When you can control what is “seen” as God’s plan, you can control the population. And anyone who disagrees is under the influence of the devil and an enemy. Basic cult mentality.
I love how they overlook that anything the Devil does is, by definition, part of God’s plan. Evil to exist is what God wants. lol
21% of U.S. adults are fully illiterate. Another 33% can’t read better than an elementary school student.
And the GOP has been working to steadily increase those percentages.
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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?
The next life.
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.
I’m going to live on a beach in Brasil. Life may be harder, but at least I’ll have the beach
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.
So is cancer, pedophilia, child starvation and the actual literal devil. What’s their point?
The devil doesn’t exist, literally
Right. But I was responding to a headline about people who believe that the devil does literally (as written) exist, and is part of their God’s plan.
Religion should be added to the DSM as a dangerous disorder.
Time for a rev bump to DSM-6.66
I mean for a religious person everything should be god’s plan, right?
As an atheist, I’m starting to believe this is the work of God too. A deeply vengeful God.
I want out of here. Trump has never been to church, and when asked, couldn’t name his favorite Bible verse. He is and has always been a narcissistic fraud. I wish I could leave this country.
See everyone one at the protest on the 18th.
Which god?
Tony. He’s the shitty stepdad god who gives you a $20 and tells you to go to the store pick him up a pack of Lucky Strikes.
Iv never met someone I liked that smoked lucky strikes.
Checkmate, theists
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.
The point is that America has managed to make a lot of guys richer than God by allowing them to exploit millions of people
