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I’m a Christian and I see it and I call it out all the time. Rarely does it get through. Why? Mostly because people are dug in on issues like abortion.
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I’m a Christian and I see it and I call it out all the time. Rarely does it get through. Why? Mostly because people are dug in on issues like abortion.
evilspock
The first and foremost thing religion requires is the ability to ignore truth right in front of you. After a while they get very good at it.
sciguygobyebye
There is kind of a big difference. Christians are generally travelling to places where Christianity is weak or possibly non-existent. Those coming over the boarder are mostly from countries that are primarily Christian in faith, therefore they don't need converting. It's completely racism.
proxy5000
it is more then obvious why
CaptSchmidtGaming
they dont know who they are. at this point Christianity is just something you do. not a real movement or anything with structure of any kind.
imnotinthewitnessprotectionprogram
It’s less about the people they deem to help and more to scare the living daylights out of the missionaries about how fucking scary the world is
WolvesAreTheBestPeople
Christians and not Christians anymore. Hell awaits them all.
CapttainKillJoy
Not all of us. Matthew 25 is clear on that.
swedeonamoose
Tbh i would take it as a badge of honor if twats like that felt they had to convert you.
CapttainKillJoy
I get into “discussions” with these types all the time. They always accuse me of “having no Spirit in me” or “Not being of the Spirit”. I like to point out that most of them, by far, rarely bring scripture to any of their discussions. It’s always based on secular reasoning. And trump based reasoning at that. Pitiful.
GenshiV
The Earth Nation? I thought only the Fire Nation had survived?
ThatRaccoonGuy
There is no war in Ba Sing Se.
CedricDur
As always when shit like this comes up: maybe it's not the same persons doing it, ne?
ThatRaccoonGuy
I used to go to church and I can tell you those "mission trips" are almost all just photo op vacations. What holy work could a family possibly accomplish in 5 weeks abroad? You barely have enough time to settle in, meet some locals, and learn what the hell is going on before you get shipped back home. All you've managed to do is hand out some rations, force some native kids to hold up a Bible for a photo in return for said rations, and then came home to brag to your church about your piety.
RealRaceRiotsAreAboutGettingBlueshelledInMarioKart
I get the sentiment and it's very often the case. I have left the church for this and a myriad of other reasons. Having said that. My church straight up built a school in rural Senegal in two weeks when I went. Some people really do just want to help people. Obligatory grain of salt, the youth group went to Universal Studios that year on the church's dime as a 'thank you'
proxy5000
its about us/them rhetoric by design, applies to any abrahamic ***
CapttainKillJoy
My mother and niece went to Honduras in 2020. The goal is salvation. Pulling people out of extreme poverty, not on the agenda. It’s too tall a task. Or at least, that’s how it appears. Compared to that anything seems easier, even building a church. They came back with excited hearts, stories and COVID. Something like two people from that mission trip died from COVID, if I remember correctly.
EleganceIsDead
Thnx to things like Encyclopædia Britannica & growing up to be a Surgeon, I concluded that "Religion," & its 6400+ iterations, in the last 10-12 thousand or so years, is nothing, but a huge, multi-author, Fantasy Fiction Anthology. It's literally the exact same thing as how the Dianetics Sci-Fi novel became... Taa-Daa the "Religion," Scientology. Seriously, Religion is no different from praying to the Cheshire Cat or Sauron. Science & Law made Religion practically, obsolete, centuries ago. -_-
IBroughtASpareDrainpipe
Hear, hear! You don't need to be a surgeon to have the realization that all religion is (1) wholly man-made, and (2) intended to control those under its sway. That's it. That's the whole deal.
EleganceIsDead
No, I agree, I think it has more to do with the fact that my Shrinks have been telling me for years that I take comfort, solace, & sanctuary, in both objectivity & pragmatism. I'll believe primitive people ate some excellent magic shrooms (which have like always been everywhere except the arctics), tripped some interesting balls & told/wrote some cool Stories, BUT NONE OF IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED. You show me some peer reviewed dataset supporting any "Faith," with REAL evidence, I'll not be Atheist.
Tattooedpariah
PineappleLoopsBrOether
Not acting like adults, or even humans sometimes.
CapttainKillJoy
I’m not persecuted by anybody but Christians when I tell them how selfish and wrong being MAGA is.
Tattooedpariah
I've been casually looking into buddhism the last few years.. i read this thebother day and if it isn't the most hakuna matata shit... lol
CapttainKillJoy
Yeah, the Bible has a lot of stuff similar to this. And probably similarly to the Bible you can read it all day long but the trick is accepting it and loving it. Crazy that the hard part is having peace, isn’t it?
rchcopper
Hypocrisy is a requirement, not a sin.
CapttainKillJoy
Nope, Jesus called out hypocrisy. It’s not a part of the formula. It’s been added in by selfishness. Peer pressure has kept it active.
rchcopper
Since when has Christianity been about Jesus, rather than population control and self-enrichment?
CapttainKillJoy
From the beginning. It’s a movement that’s been named after him from the beginning. Evil people can manipulate anything, no matter how pure or authentic.
rchcopper
It is far from pure or authentic.
rchcopper
And the omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent God seems to tolerate it just fine, thank you very much...
thisisnotfineffs
Never lol. Jesus was a false messiah anyways, he didn't fulfill any of the messianic prophecies. Christians don't ever know what's in their own book, smh
rchcopper
Brian, on the other hand...
thisisnotfineffs
Also not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy