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  • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.worldtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•If Christians were real, they’d be lining up to pay for their sins (not trying to avoid judgement).
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    2 days ago

    After they created confessions (meaning somehow the priest can ‘cleanse’ you of your sins, God won’t take you touching your niece into consideration for your judgment because you told some old dude about it and you recited 5 prayers to virgin Mary, lol) and purgatory (it used to be a binary destination, either Heaven and Hell, but the Church needed money lenders and usury to get coin for wars and whatnot and made it up to legitimise what had been seen as inmoral for ages) Christian dogma was fully cooked.

    The problem starts with Paul (well, actually, with Rome and the creation of a new religion, and then the Council of Nicea. People in the West would’ve been some kind of Jewish if not, like Jesus was) and his idea of “faith without works” and “belief that God exists and Jesus submitted to Him is enough to be saved!”, which was vehemently opposed by Jesus’ actual followers that understood that faith without works is dead at best, hypocritical if not, and that even “demons believe in God, and they shudder” (sure, God exists and is always watching, but do you act like it?!). But Rome preferred/established this as canon and you can see the repercussions everywhere today, particularly in the Godless, amoral West. How could they act right, when their ideological base is so flimsy and tolerant of sin?

  • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.worldtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*
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    2 days ago

    Who’s holding anyone back, especially in something so morally neutral as this? Why do you think the unreasonable take is the common one? And if it were, who would you ask for it to be ‘normalized’? Shouldn’t we do what we think is right and avoid what we think is wrong regardless of whether it’s popular or not? Are people just afraid of calling out idiocy? You can do it kindly. Or are they afraid of confrontation with the stupids? And it’s always something shockingly silly like ‘normalize kissing your kids goodnight’ or ‘normalize talking about trauma with your parents who traumatized you’ like who the f told you not to and why would you ever take that person seriously?!

    This is not something I particularly care about but this is where I come to e-shout my old man rants, thanks for reading! 🙏

  • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Global perceptions of US fall below China, survey saysEnglish
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    3 days ago

    If the US and China went BAND FOR BAND, as the kids say, in war crimes, terrorism, coups and overall destabilisation, who do you think would win? Do you even live in this world? America, a European colonial project that developed into its own monstrosity, has the blood of the world on its hands just like its forefathers.

    The difference is that, with the evolution of the internet and with the waning power of the US (specially after their Middle Eastern neo crusades that showed America to be a bit of a paper tiger, and now with the incapability of NATO to defeat Russia), and as the majority of non-Western countries seek independence from neo colonial control (check Ibrahim Traoré out!), the narratives can be openly challenged. The only remaining bastions of consumption of American propaganda are America itself (it will only grow stronger there, I assume) and tiny spots of confused folks around the world (a coworker who’s a bit of a schizo told me the other day “Trump will save us” and we’re French! 🤷😅).