American Evangelicals are like
"The environment SHOULD get worse because CHRIST is coming back soon, so the less I care about this world, the more CHRISTLIKE I am"
And the exploitative class is like
"I can use this"
@researchfairy whole thread feels like maybe you've heard these things first-hand.
@researchfairy plenty of Australian fundies with a similar attitude. I had the misfortune to know one who I engaged with and forced to follow through the logical consequences of her beliefs, backing herself further and further into a corner until she snapped and yelled, “Who cares about the world, God’s going to blow it up anyway!”. And THAT, I responded, is ultimately the basis of all your belief.
@researchfairy zero lies detected. Still, incredibly depressing.
Was picking up litter off the beach. Lots of small polystyrene bits floated down by floods. Caught at the high tide line.
A couple came over and started asking questions.
Then used similar reasoning to change the topic to try to convert me to their religion.
American Evangelicals are like
"CHRIST will forgive any man, regardless of what he did to his victims, and the more that this protects powerful men and ignores their victims, the more CHRIST-centred it is"
And the exploitative class is like
"I can use this"
American Evangelicals are like
"CHRIST said that the world would hate us, and that WE'RE the victims and everyone is either a part of our in-group or not"
And the exploitative class is like
"I can use this"
American Evangelicals are like
"CHRIST said I'm blessed if I believe without having seen, and the more I'm able to hold beliefs that fly in the face of mounting evidence and experience, the more CHRIST will love me"
And the exploitative class is like
"I can use this"
American Evangelicals are like
"GOD literally created some people so that they could go to hell for his glory and CHRIST said that we would always have the poor with us, so we shouldn't try to make things better because it's GOD'S will that some humans are expendable"
And the exploitative class is like
"I can use this"
@researchfairy p sure you're getting the casualty/chronology backwards here
@researchfairy I just read a Wikipedia article about early Christian martyrs (like... 200-300 CE, I think) and how authors of the time potentially heavily exaggerated the persecution, and I thought to myself: wow, these people have been whiny since the beginning.
@researchfairy "I prayed to God to give me a bike, but was told that's not how it works. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness."
