I think it's more something along the lines of "bad" people having no afterlife at all and "good" people rejoicing in paradise on earth and hanging out with God forever and ever. I may be grossly oversimplifying.
Edit: what Timinator said.
I think it's more something along the lines of "bad" people having no afterlife at all and "good" people rejoicing in paradise on earth and hanging out with God forever and ever. I may be grossly oversimplifying.
Edit: what Timinator said.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! You want to restrict my freedom to fucking oppress people in the name of religious freedom! Your condemnation of bigotry is an assault on my Christian faith!!!!
Recently seen in a comments section about how parents discuss Santa with their kids:
This was much less about being holier-than-thou super-Christians and more about differentiating between The Magical Guy From Up There Who Knows How We Behave And Still Loves Us Anyway to Give Us Good Gifts and well, Jesus. If one's exposed as a lie, the other becomes suspect.
This should really make the poster sit back and reexamine things. If you can't explain the difference between how you "know" God exists and how you know that Santa doesn't, maybe you shouldn't be telling your kid that one of them is unquestionably real and one of them unquestionably isn't.
This is both enlightening and heartbreaking!
Let’s just ignore this one.
Last edited by Erneuert; 04-16-2021 at 09:57 PM.
This is another good one:
Some of my thoughts on religion:
There are spiritual truths in which to believe, but organized religion is a terrible place to try to find them.
They may have begun from something that was true or good, but those things are rapidly appropriated and altered or recast by people who seek to control others, or to use those ideas for their own gain.
The problem is that where there is power to be had, people who desire it will push their way in and take over, doing whatever they can to increase their influence.
And religion is one of the most powerful things there is.
What better way to control people than by controlling what they believe?
It is far better to seek truth for oneself than to blindly accept and follow what other people tell you is true.
I’ve been getting into Buddhism. Not in any kind of serious way, but just reading The Analects of Confucius. The core tenets of Christianity are there, like loving your neighbor, treating others as you would want to be treated, the virtue of charity, selflessness. It doesn’t promise you things it can’t give you, and it doesn’t threaten you with concepts that aren’t literally real. There’s no power struggle or control going on between the master and the pupil.
I recently went through a really rough stretch in my life, and I got to carrying this edition of The Analects around, sorta like my bible.