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Ultimately this comes down to my philosophy that people in general will be who they are and do what they are going to do and religion is factored post hoc. The church folks helping the homeless? Odds are they'd still do that, church or no church.
obviously there are folks out there who want to do evil and use religion as a justification, but the religious or other community groups you're part of affect you just as much as any other cultural factor
like I'm not entirely convinced the church folks helping the homeless would necessarily think to do that, or wouldn't necessarily do it on the organized scale they do, if they didn't consider it a core tenet of their religious community. just like there are plenty of "religious" folks who hate the LGBTQ+ community because they have deep-seated homophobia, misogyny, etc. and they use their religion to justify it, but there are also plenty of folks who learned those beliefs from their (distorted) religious teachings
The thing is, Evangelicalism explicitly teaches that you are to be a Christian first and basically everything else second. Even human. Especially human.
The "old, sinful nature" - sometimes, poetically, the "old Adam" - i.e., the inborn human nature with its messy drives and selfish* desires - is, according to Luther, to be daily drowned** and replaced by the "new nature" that desires only to serve Jesus. But you have to kill it again every day because the damn thing won't stay dead.
Why, yes, Evangelicals are traditionally mistrustful of (secular) therapy and such dangerous concepts as "loving yourself" and "listening to your body" and "processing your emotions," why do you ask?
*I don't see "selfish" as a bad thing necessarily, but Evangelicalism definitely does
**in the waters of baptism, you see
I've never lost my wallet either, that's a powerful medal you've got there
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Dear Satan.....
I think what god wants most of all is crabs, and he’s just coasting now.
they'd probably still be trying to disprove the heliocentrism of our solar system but that one's pretty much a lost cause for them at this point. evolution and especially the Big Bang have enough plausible doubt (in their minds) that they can still try to worm their way out of accepting them
checkmate atheists
About that ...
Do they not know Michael?
~ Buckaroo Banzai
Religion gives answers or coping mechanisms for those things and people take comfort in that. The worst and (in America at least) most prevalent versions of that also gives people targets for their pain and anger. It’s just kind of a win/win for them.
I don't think anyone is being a weird freak? but ty for the condescension
I just assumed there was enough information and messaging out there that kids would just...not start smoking anymore but kids are still stupid I guess
sometimes you just want to microdose suicide
people do shit knowing how bad it is all the time. people drink and alcohol is literally poison
edit: I smoked because ♪ I'm hoping for an early death, and I need to cling to something. ♪
From my experience this stems from the interpretation that the Bible is the literal word of God. No metaphor or anything. What is written down is exactly what was said and what was done. I'm not super sure where this belief came to be because, historically, I don't think that's always been the case.
But the young warth creationists stem from that core idea. Somebody somewhere did the "math" on the Begats part of the Bible (a list of generations in the Bible's Old Testament that appear in Genesis 5 and the books of 1 and 2 Chronicles) and somehow worked it out to be around 6 or so thousand years between Adam and Christ, plus the 2000 or so since Jesus. Wham bam the earth is 6 to 10 thousand years old and man kind walked amongst dinosaurs based off one vague mention of a leviathan in Job or something.
Couple that with any mention of time scales that might allow for the plausibility of that dirty old evolution to occur and that's how you get that particular brand of faith. Luckily, I think it may have fallen back out of fashion. I don't see as much of it as I did maybe 10 or so years ago.
God yeah smoking rules and it makes you look cool, too.
We gotta get our scientists working on making cigarettes not full of cancer. I want to smoke an airplane or in a restaurant next to children again. If people want to bring their screaming asshole child into a brewery I want to blow a hot ball of nicotine smoke right into their dumb little faces.
Unfortunately our lungs are intended for breathing earth air and basically anything else you put in them they aren't going to be super happy
Yeah, these yahoos' brains would break reading the original Hebrew, considering that it's full of puns, wordplay, and metaphor out the ass.
Just in the account of God making man in Genesis 1, you have Adam being made from adama, the Hebrew word for loam or fertile soil, there's also the vestiges of Juadism's henotheistic lineage to be found in the full text of the 1st Commandment, Ruth exposing feet (biblical allusion number 389 to sex), etc...
~ Buckaroo Banzai