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Colorado pastor accused of pocketing $1.3M in crypto scheme says 'Lord told us to'
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If I told you that I believe that humanity was created as an experiment by an alien race of clouds who communicate with us through the rain, and they tell me who to vote for and who to hate, you’d think it I was batshit to blame it on the rain.
Depends. If I also suffer such delusions, like MANY people do with religion because we're all human and have similar profound experiences... then yes, I might actually be inclined to believe you if I didn't have a critical mind able to parse through all your claims.
I’d say that because we are human, we have the capacity to distinguish fiction from reality… well, most of us who have critical minds can.
It's nice to pretend emotion isn't a significant, if not majority factor in peoples' decisions, but you're just deluded if you think even rational people don't fall for less obvious tripe all the time.
Like what?
Religion. Cults of personality. Political parties. Advertisement campaigns.
Just look up what's happening with the Stanley cups right now... Look how the Jews in New York reacted to their illegal excavation getting shut down (oh, what a surprise!) Look back on how crazy the US was after 9/11. Straight up cheering as our government spends trillions to spy on us.
People are over emotional in large enough numbers about really stupid things. It matters.
So, crazy people? People who need therapy? Brainwashed people? Okay.
If you cannot understand how most people believe in at LEAST one of those things I mentioned with virtually zero knowledge on the topic, you are simply choosing to be ignorant to stay an edgy boi making quips. Pathetic.
Pathetic is making excuses to believe in things that aren’t real because it makes you feel good.
Unless you lack the mental capacity, for whatever reason, to understand fiction from reality. And then it’s just sad.
Yes, and many, many people engage in self-congratulatory or self-consoling behavior and thought patterns instead of logical ones. Dismissing that tacitly does not change reality.
None of those things are related to believing in false truths. Keep grasping.
Are you literally braindead? This is about people believing things without evidence. If you're going to claim religion or political campaigns don't involve believing false truths, then you're just proving how much you do not comprehend what I'm even saying...
God is not a thing that is real. Have a good night.
Yes, exactly why I put religion on the list of, "things people believe without evidence." Are you forgetting what this conversation is even about? Pathetic.