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[–] 45 points 11 months ago (5 children)

They often operate on the "just-world fallacy" too. I.e. if people are poor, starving, arrested, deported, raped, it's because they deserve it.

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  • [–] 20 points 11 months ago

    Sometimes I wish I could do that, just ignore all logic and believe what you want.

    So those people starving in Africa? Oh no God's plan.

    People getting killed in Gaza? Also God's plan

    That Kirk guy getting shot? Evil left, nothing to do with God.

    Immigrants trying to find a better life in a different country? The worst people, nothing to do with God.

    Aunt Marget died of cancer? Poor Marget, she was just unlucky,

    It did not help she had no health insurance? No thats not it, that's communism

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    Maybe evangelicals who preach the prosperity gospel believe in "just world"? However in the Book of Job it is made pretty clear that doing everything God asks of you doesn't help you at all, and might even be a reason that you get shit on. Jesus repeatedly says that his kingdom is not on earth. Anyway...

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