Florencia (she/her)Heartbroken to learn the Pope sympathizes with the poor đź’”
WoodScientistRich people go to Hell. You don’t get to go to Heaven if you’re a billionaire. Sorry. But if you hoard enough wealth to live a thousand lifetimes, then you have received your reward.
So many Christians just can’t accept that Jesus was a poor person that believed rich people all go to Hell.
If only Hell existed and if only it all wasn’t a ruse to placate people in to accepting their poor lot in life so the rich can continue to not be eaten by the poor.
Thank you r/atheism.
If not believing in contradictory lies, corrupted parable, and a confused version of history people mistake for philosophy is edgy, you must live a very boring life.
Just because there exists people who don’t think like you doesn’t mean they live a boring life. That’s a bit mean to assume, isn’t it?
I believe there is a wisdom in many of the books people find holy. I’m also an atheist. I believe in the void of nothingness as the ultimate reality. I’m also a theist. I believe in higher powers spanning dimensions.
Nothing needs to be so small or simple as binary coded, but maybe everything can be? We all enjoy the game of this or that, in or out, true or false, but that sounds incredibly boring to me. So I don’t play it. It’s more fun to be anything we want.
I am both a believer in nothing and a believer in everything. It may appear as a contradiction, because it is. It also isn’t. It is completely internally consistent and orderly but it’s also pure beautiful chaos.
Just because people misunderstand things and take bad actions doesn’t mean the thing itself isn’t still useful. We don’t completely understand our own bodies yet they continue to function in spite of our understanding.
Navigating a wilderness without a compass is a difficult thing. We all have a compass inside of us. I hope that everyone everywhere will find it.
I was wondering why people were being so harsh about Pope Leo in the comments! I came from the front page too and didn’t notice. Not that their criticisms are unfair by any means.
Even so, let’s not forget that the Pope wields an untold amount of influence over the first world at any given time, so it’s not necessary to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Could he be doing more? Undoubtedly. But speaking out is the first time, and he’s been rather vocal with his core values and condemning this sort of tyranny and hatred.
I think that makes a lasting impact too. Especially when it’s causing this many MAGA sociopaths to “mask off” the fact that they were never in support of certain policies because of god or their religion or whathaveyou. It was an excuse, to hurt queer people, to oppress minorities. And others, especially younger folk raised in those bible belt regions, will begin to see the hypocrisy more clearly.
So let’s not be so quick to demonize him just yet. MAGA’s already got that covered.
FuglyDuckTheir perception of god is different, doesn’t mean they don’t believe in the rightness of what they’re doing. keep in mind that the vast majority of christian thought and scriptures support shit like slavery and women being little better off than the foreign slaves.
The only reason Jesus wasn’t a white supremacist was that he wasn’t white.
The Christians who happen to be good people are good people in spite of, not because of, their religion.
I don’t think youre seeing the whole picture.
“Ancient control society does one none evil thing with that cintrol” is not a reason to forget or forgive the actions of the catholic Church against women, indigenous people and queer people over the centuries. Until the religion is overhauled to remove the bad parts, we can, must and should criticise it.
I also thing you overstate the influence the pope has over American Christians.
Evangelicals and other protestants are trained to view the pope as at best mistaken, at worst a literal agent of the devil.
Perhaps he might reach some, or some Catholics, but any Christian who comes to dislike hypocrisy or love truth will cease to be a Christian.
Well rich people demonstrably have better mental health as far as happiness than those struggling to pay bills or in even worse situations… So… Kinda’ a distinction without a point.
Do POTUS, Musk, Thiel, Yarvin SEEM happy or healthy to you?
Epstein or Max? How about the girls on the island? Go look at photos.
Now consider social media influencers. The little boy that is in the iconic photo hugging the cop.
Now consider what we know beyond the way it looks.
There's persona and personality. They are not the same things.
Can wealthy people be happy and healthy? Maybe, if they're actually good people and never look too deeply at the family wealth, or if they're not too developed, in certain ways.
Congratulations, you’ve utterly and completely missed the point about how money creates ample room for happiness. Whereas not having money creates stress and awful situations.
Again, congratulations on completely and utterly missing the point.
Yeah because I'm living a completely lux life. 🙄 I'm angry but not bitter or depressed anymore.
Eta: in fact, despite my personal challenges, I'm pretty mentally healthy and decently happy, most of the time. I have my moments but they're not consuming me. I quit playing the victim card and started playing the victim hand.
AFAIK you’re kinda wrong about that. Research suggests that money improves happiness only to a certain point. Once you got the basic meets met it doesn’t really matter anymore.
People in poorer countries often live happier lives compared to those in rich ones.
The only thing Yarvin’s bloviating horseshit has convince me of is that high school wasn’t a good time for him and he’s still mad about.
whotookkarlIt’s weird that state of mind includes burning hellfire
Mark 9:43
If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life maimed than to have two hands and to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire
Metaphor, allegory, analogy. Matthew 13:10 otherwise you could end up in prison, dead, or exiled. Oh look, we've come full circle.
Bible Gateway passage: Matthew 13:11-16 - Jubilee Bible 2000
He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to them it is not given. For whosoever has, to him shall be given, and he shall have in abundance; but whosoever has not, from him shall be taken away even that which he has. Therefore, I speak to them in parables because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which says, By hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see and shall not perceive; for this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and should understand with their heart and should be converted, and I should heal them.
the thing that gets me is that you can literally be hitler, and if you repent on your deathbed, you go to heaven. Cunt killed millions, and he can get to heaven simply by repenting? Fuck off.
NeilBrĂĽSometimes I have a bad premonition that all of the cosmos is a giant hell for the old ones to relentlessly and perpetually torture, kill, and reincarnate the souls whose emotional and physical suffering are what sustain said elder extra-dimensional deities.
No lives matter, and that’s a fact.
- Cthulhu