While discussing the imminent climate disaster with my elderly parents, they said they don’t care because they won’t live long enough to see it.
I asked, “What about your kids and grandkids?”
They asked, “Do you believe in God?”
I said, “No.”
They said, “If you Believe in God, then you’ll get to go to Heaven when you die.”
I don’t believe in God, so I won’t be going to Heaven (which I also don’t believe in), but if I did believe in God and Heaven, and expected to go there, why the hell should I and my children have to live through a post-apocalyptic shitshow before we die?
For the record, from what the church they made me go to taught me about God and Heaven, they should probably not expect to make the cut either. The God I was taught about was pretty anti-fascist. Kind of a socialist really.
Your elderly parents should really check their God Positioning System to see if attitudes like “fuck my neighbours, fuck all future generations, I got mine” will set them on a course to Heaven…
Christianity is about as transactionary as it get since the Romans adopted the religion. You believe in Christ = heaven. That’s all there is and had always been.
I dunno the Bible passages I have read made me think god was a bit of a bipolar asshole and any entity higher than a human that went against god for the sake of humans would be punished too.
that said I also didnt get the impression any of these types of people would make the cut either.
You see. I know the atheist movement ran high on Reddit and flamed out.
I’m typically the guy that’s very live and let live and if you asked me if there’s any danger to believing in a God I’d just say, “you do you”.
However, we get people that are in control or are being controlled that are making decisions that affect everyone based on this stuff. Stem cell research, abortions, sex work, gay rights, porn ID, climate change, evolution … like I just don’t know what to think.
People should be allowed to believe what they will, but never allowed to use their religion as an argument for why a certain policy must or must not be enacted. Separation of church and state is key
Religion is fine when you’re sticking to your own beliefs. The second it is forced on others, or making other people follow your religion’s rules, then we have a problem.
Sorry about having to deal with that. I was raised in a similar environment and can very much empathize. At even an early age I started pointing out that what they were trying to teach me and what the book they told me to read were in complete opposition to one another. That didn’t go over well, and it continues to not go over well.
Thing is, according to their own scripture, God doesn’t need you to believe in him/them… just that you live righteously (a word that has different requirements depending whether you are ethnically Jewish or a gentile). Basically, be kind and generous to everyone, because God takes your treatment of others - especially the disadvantaged - very personally. Whether you believe in God (any flavor) or not, that’s just good universal philosophy… and one that Christians don’t just refuse to follow, but spit on.
So spitting on the futures of your own children and grandchildren… wow, according to their own “holy scripture” that’s a big problem.
What does believing in God have to do with the climate disaster? Are they saying to just accept ir, believe in God and you’ll go to heaven? That’s their answer?
God also did a lot of fucked up shit, like flooding the world because people didn’t pray to him enough. Yeah, nothing better than a vengeful God committing genocide.
The great flood “myths” exist in literally every culture. Not really surprising considering what we have discovered about the Younger Dryas Period. I wouldn’t blame that solely on EL/ Yahweh.
While discussing the imminent climate disaster with my elderly parents, they said they don’t care because they won’t live long enough to see it.
I asked, “What about your kids and grandkids?”
They asked, “Do you believe in God?”
I said, “No.”
They said, “If you Believe in God, then you’ll get to go to Heaven when you die.”
I don’t believe in God, so I won’t be going to Heaven (which I also don’t believe in), but if I did believe in God and Heaven, and expected to go there, why the hell should I and my children have to live through a post-apocalyptic shitshow before we die?
For the record, from what the church they made me go to taught me about God and Heaven, they should probably not expect to make the cut either. The God I was taught about was pretty anti-fascist. Kind of a socialist really.
Your elderly parents should really check their God Positioning System to see if attitudes like “fuck my neighbours, fuck all future generations, I got mine” will set them on a course to Heaven…
Christianity is about as transactionary as it get since the Romans adopted the religion. You believe in Christ = heaven. That’s all there is and had always been.
Shows that the didn’t pay attention to The Sermon on the Mount and the beatitudes.
Or, like the vast majority of self-professed “Christians”, literally any part of “The Bible” whatsoever.
There is the one part about dashing babies on rocks. I guess they got the “kill children” part.
And don’t forget the incest, rape, genocide, mass murder, adultery, slavery, etc…
Hey, in the authors’ defense, it was hot! And they were hungry! It’s hard to write in those conditions.
Hungry? With free fish, bread, and wine?
Oh yeah. Uh, about that . . .
Maybe they hate the meek and want them to inherit a shitty earth.
“Do you believe in god?”
No. That’s for old fools with nothing to lose, and a full belly.
Somehow I doubt God is going to let in the people who destroyed the planet that he created.
I dunno the Bible passages I have read made me think god was a bit of a bipolar asshole and any entity higher than a human that went against god for the sake of humans would be punished too.
that said I also didnt get the impression any of these types of people would make the cut either.
Joel osteen is pretty socialist when he’s asking for money too.
It’s probably safe to assume all the anti-rich and “give to the poor” stuffs were said with a hand out and a cheesey smile.
How are they so certain they’ll go to heaven?
Because they said the magic words, duh!
You see. I know the atheist movement ran high on Reddit and flamed out.
I’m typically the guy that’s very live and let live and if you asked me if there’s any danger to believing in a God I’d just say, “you do you”.
However, we get people that are in control or are being controlled that are making decisions that affect everyone based on this stuff. Stem cell research, abortions, sex work, gay rights, porn ID, climate change, evolution … like I just don’t know what to think.
People should be allowed to believe what they will, but never allowed to use their religion as an argument for why a certain policy must or must not be enacted. Separation of church and state is key
Religion is fine when you’re sticking to your own beliefs. The second it is forced on others, or making other people follow your religion’s rules, then we have a problem.
Sorry about having to deal with that. I was raised in a similar environment and can very much empathize. At even an early age I started pointing out that what they were trying to teach me and what the book they told me to read were in complete opposition to one another. That didn’t go over well, and it continues to not go over well.
Thing is, according to their own scripture, God doesn’t need you to believe in him/them… just that you live righteously (a word that has different requirements depending whether you are ethnically Jewish or a gentile). Basically, be kind and generous to everyone, because God takes your treatment of others - especially the disadvantaged - very personally. Whether you believe in God (any flavor) or not, that’s just good universal philosophy… and one that Christians don’t just refuse to follow, but spit on.
So spitting on the futures of your own children and grandchildren… wow, according to their own “holy scripture” that’s a big problem.
What does believing in God have to do with the climate disaster? Are they saying to just accept ir, believe in God and you’ll go to heaven? That’s their answer?
God also did a lot of fucked up shit, like flooding the world because people didn’t pray to him enough. Yeah, nothing better than a vengeful God committing genocide.
The great flood “myths” exist in literally every culture. Not really surprising considering what we have discovered about the Younger Dryas Period. I wouldn’t blame that solely on EL/ Yahweh.
Christ straight up told them to form communes. He was a sandal wearing, tree
huggingcursing, homeless, bearded, hippie, communist.That’s frickin sad.