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“You cannot serve both God and money” (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

used to believe that. and that there was an elusive demographic of "Schroedenger's Christians" who were true believers and didn't want to hurt anyone. but at its core, that's just not the point. the tolerant christians are the outliers and as of ten years ago they may as well not exist

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Can't be a true believer in eternal damnation and suffering and "not want to hurt anyone"

    Our flawed brains simply can't truly comprehend eternity and the creator of said brains also wants to use eternity as punishment. Supporting a system that is so cruel and final is in itself an act of cruelty.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There is no concept of eternal damnation in the bible.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    There's a lot of things in and not in the bible, all that matters is what Christians widely believe. For a long time Christians were opposed to using forks and finance but now I bet 99.9% are perfectly fine with it.

    This is why belief is poison for rational thought. I can't explain that damnation is not in the Bible but how to perform abortion is, for there to be Christian support for abortion. No points can be made against a faith specifically evolved to feed on the desire to be the misunderstood underdog with righteous purpose.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm not Christian but I doubt this, most people like to keep to themselves despite their religion.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    The first commandment being "I am thy God and though shalt have no other gods before me" (which implies the existence of other gods quite directly) before "thou shalt not kill" is pretty indicative or the actual attitude of the religion.

    "The intolerance of narrow monotheism is written in letters of blood across the history of man from the time when first the tribes of Israel burst into the land of Canaan. The worshippers of the one jealous God are egged on to aggressive wars against people of alien [beliefs and cultures]. They invoke divine sanction for the cruelties inflicted on the conquered. The spirit of old Israel is inherited by Christianity and Islam, and it might not be unreasonable to suggest that it would have been better for Western civilization if Greece had moulded it on this question rather than Palestine."

    — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_monotheism

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