• JayK117@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    The problem is that he’s in the position to make it happen, one way or another. There is no future consequences that can be imposed on those bringing about the end of the future itself.

  • Turgid Sturgeon@lemmy.world
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    The “end times” have been coming for 2,000 years now. You’d think after the first 500 or so they would have started reevaluating their prophecies… But religion is a helluva drug.

  • KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org
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    2 months ago

    Knowing there are no gods, no heavens or hells or angels or demons or devils or purgatories… knowing that, and knowing that anything written about gods (dogma) is made up nonense dreamed up in the minds of human monkeys, and knowing the people who profess gods the loudest are raking in money from the people who believe in things that don’t exist…

    I’m pretty sure all that about “the end of days” is just more religious claptrap.

    {sigh} I wish those people, “the believers”, didn’t have 2nd or 3rd rate brains. It would be so much better for all of us if they could think.

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      2 months ago

      I mean…many great thinkers in history (Locke, Newton, Rosseau, Voltaire, Smith) did believe in god (maybe it was just a cultural thing, since they could not disprove it), but that did not cloud their judgement of what is true and what is moral…so even they advocated for freedom of religion.

      This could also have been because the memory of the european wars of religion (30 years war) was fresh in public memory, like the world wars are in ours.

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        Of course god has been big throughout history. Half the population (or more) of any country at any time in history are ignorant - incapable of reading (and comprehension), writing or simple math (JUST like America right now). “God” loves him some ignorant human monkeys because they do what they’re told - usually to give god money or godlike places to live.

        Religion and gods are crutches used by people who do not take responsibility for what they do… it’s much easier to say “god told me to do this” than it is to intelligently justify murdering people for god, or stealing land for god, or even just being a general asshole “as long as god is okay with it”.

        The people running the world right now ALL know there is no god - and yet… notice how they profess and use “their god” to shape the minds of the idiots.

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    May 21, 2011 was supposed to be the rapture or end of the world or whatever. I remember this because it was also my wedding day. Lived outside DC at the time and there were all these people holding signs and wearing shirts about it. We joked about getting a few for my bachelor party (“ha ha the world is ending on that day … FOR HIM!”). Never did it. But I had a great wedding.

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    This guy literally can’t do anything wrong

    Makes everything great -> obviously amazing leader

    Fucks everything up -> this guy will save us from the fucked up world

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    2 months ago

    Now I understand why my Xian Fundy neighbor had a TRUMP kitchen magnet on their car which they removed on election day.

    They also like to blast the Gospel of John in their car to avoid to speaking to anyone but their spouse.

    Now I get it why they are both self-righteous and voted for Trump: because they are a fucking idiot.