It’s fucking infuriating to think about the fact that these fucknuts affect my life and decide certain things for it. Religion is gonna have an iron grip on society until the day I die, isn’t it?
Unfortunately. We are fucked from both sides.
On the right, the morons that believe in this shit and on the left the morons that protect this shit with “Not all religions are…”
Religion is a cancer. There is no good version of it or a good way to follow it. It’s lies and manipulation and there is no good form of it.
Says the adulteress. Fuck off.
Yeah, I don’t get how this works over and over again. It’s almost always shit people who just blatantly make a mockery of their Christian “beliefs” that these dopes put up on Christian pedestal. By all accounts, Obama was a good Christian. One wife, no real accusations of infidelity, regular church goer, at least outwardly a nice and modest man. . .and these dopes labelled him a secret Muslims trying to take down the government from within.
I just can’t make any sense of it.
Facts are secondary to social belonging and other emotional needs.
In-group dislikes Obama? The flimsiest justification will be held on to.
Facts are not going to be very effective against someone operating in that mode.
Though I did read that while changing group membership or finding another group with different beliefs can be big factors in changing people’s minds, so can horrible trauma.
Like if a Republican fell out of a 3rd story window and was stuck overnight alone in agony on the cold ground, when they recovered they might have had the realization that treating other people like shit is no way to live.
Ah yes, the Saros cycle (known as far back as before the time of Jesus), predictably causing eclipses like clockwork, is a ‘sign.’
Also apparently a sign from God to repent:
- Leaves falling from trees
- Flowers blooming
- Things getting colder
- Things getting warmer
- Days getting longer or shorter
- The sun rising
- Birds chirping
- Stars
- Water
- Needing to poop
- Clocks
TIL Microwaves are confessionals
Needing to poop
To be fair, sometimes this can cause people to pray
You joke but go a few days without pooping and you’ll come to Jesus pretty quickly.
Of course the Lemmyverse would know all about that, wouldn’t it?
And yet if I don’t need to poop, clearly God isn’t sending the sign of needing to poop.
If we suddenly stopped having eclipses, we’d also likely have pretty serious problems on our hands.
But per Marjorie, if cyclical events are signs from God to repent, the absence of those events must either be signs from others or else a “you’re all good with repentance.”
So you might be constipated, but sinless.
So you can shit a stone and then throw it.
Well the world hasn’t ended yet, so that proves all the repenting works!
Oh, really? I thought the eclipse was the natural movement of astral bodies and is well understood. Glad ole’ Margie is there to tell me it’s an invisible man.
The only “strong sign” one can see is that her supporters are incredibly stupid.
I’m getting a live transmission from God right now, he’s say specifically: “Repent on Climate Change”.
Repent for what? Allowing conservatives to hold government positions?
If I was religious id repent for giving this motion the attention she gets whenever dumb shit comes out of her mouth/tweethole
The earthquakes were caused by space lasers, and the coming eclipse is god doing his best to drop them from orbit. His plan is to have them fall on Mar-a-Lago
Eclipse is sign of sun being devoured by Fenris and ushering in the wolf times! - Says Thors Thundercock of Vendel
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said recent earthquakes and a coming eclipse are “strong signs” from God that America needs to “repent,” shortly after tremors shook the New York City region Friday.
The Georgia lawmaker’s remarks came just hours after a 4.8 magnitude earthquake hit near Lebanon, N.J., about 50 miles from Manhattan.
It was recorded at a depth close to 3 miles, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
Greene’s comments also come as a total solar eclipse is expected to shroud parts of North America in darkness Monday.
It will travel from Texas to pass through Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, according to NASA.
Greene has been derided for peddling conspiracy theories in the past, such as suggesting that California wildfires were caused by space lasers controlled by a powerful Jewish family.
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It somehow still surprises me that in 2024 you have people who are still living in the middle ages.
The West coast is pointing at the East coast and giggling
This is expected.
A lot of gullible people believe the first thing they hear that resembles an explanation in events that have nothing that feels substantial even if it’s nonsense.
What would not be expected is if at the next natural disaster Biden comes out within a minute in a national address and claims that God revealed to him that this is just the start and a warning so that America would not reelect Trump.
Then watch the nuts lose their fucking shit at being overshadowed at their grift.
Nah. It’s a sign to vote her wrinkly ass out of Congress.
Because nobody’s ever thought of that before. The god-botherers need to get some new material.
“Flipping the page” wasn’t meant to turn the only page you got over and over again.
