lime comments on Ignorance is bliss

[–] lime@feddit.nu 54 points 1 year ago (23 children)

"you know how when a corner shop closes in town, you're still able to go to a different store, but if safeway has driven all the other stores out of business and then shuts down you'll fucking starve to death?"

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[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 6 points 1 year ago

A little pain in exchange for longtime gain?

Oh no, TIL that the Fediverse is "exercise" - no wonder most Westerners avoid us! 🤪

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago (21 children)

This is exactly what happens with Churches. Someone starts a "hip" new church plant. Everyone leaves the local long-established churches. Long established churches shut down. Church plant falls apart because the guy starting it doesn't know what he's doing. No Church.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I could've sworn it was because young folk were disenamored with preachers and churches who are nothing more than whited sepulchres but what could I know

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 3 points 1 year ago (18 children)

what a weird take. if anything, the church is the safeway and this happened hundreds of years ago. churches are basically macdonaldses already; all franchisees of the same central entity.

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (17 children)

What's that central entity?

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 1 year ago (16 children)

in the uk? the anglican church. generally in the west? whatever lutheran, protestant, or catholic denomination is approved by the state. generally? the main church of that country, which for most of them is in a 90/10 sort of situation, with some notable exceptions, like the us, which shouldn't be counted because a) it's such a small part of the world's population and b) their view of religion is so screwed up that it doesnt compare to anything.

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 point 1 year ago (15 children)

Anglicanism only makes up a portion of British Churches. There are also Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, Methodist and various independent congregational churches.

Only Roman Catholicism is truly centralised at a pope. Anglicanism tends to stop at the Archbishop or the Primate. Which the UK has four. The Episcopal Church of Scotland, the Church in Wales, the Church of England and the Church of Ireland which also operates in the Republic of Ireland, but the majority of adherents are in Northern Ireland.

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 1 year ago (14 children)

you do understand where i'm coming from though?

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 point 1 year ago (13 children)

There is a misconception that the Church has a central earthly authority surrounding it. It doesn't. Christ is the head of the Church.

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 3 points 1 year ago (12 children)

yeah but he's not really around much

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 point 1 year ago (11 children)

I think He's doing a lot of work in Asia now. Probably done with the westerners. They had their chance LOL

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 point 1 year ago* (10 children)

i think we'd heard about a second coming by now

also that's some typical absentee landlord behavior

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 point 1 year ago (9 children)

They were waiting longer for Him to come the first time, soooo

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 point 1 year ago (8 children)

most religions are still waiting for the first time.

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 point 1 year ago (7 children)

Good thing we're right

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

that's very low effort.

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

What do you want me to say?

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

i'd expect at least a bit of self-reflection.

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

What do you want me to reflect on? The fact that God could love a wretch like me that He - the literal creator of the universe would die for me?

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

no, belief is a good thing if it helps you. but i'd expect at least some thought given to the fact that a majority of the world's religions disagree with you and that they most likely have a good reason for believing it, other than "we're right, they're wrong". always remember the human.

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

Doesn't change the fact that they're wrong. The only other belief systems I can find justification for believing in are agnosticism and atheism. Nothing else really makes sense. But even then, Christianity just seems like the most likely answer given the history surrounding it.

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 point 1 year ago

it does though.

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