The thing I love about religion is that there are thousands of them, yet yours is the correct one? Those are pretty low odds.
Yeah... "thousands of them" is overexaggerated. That being said, there have been a lot of faiths, myths, and mysticism throughout human history..
Here's an interesting timeline of belief systems.
I grew up Mormon and had a hard time believing that we were the "true church," "taught the true teachings.," etc., when I learned about how many different current and old religions and beliefs people had throughout human history. Cracks started to form in my faith foundation then. The following thoughts throw me for a loop back then. Exibit A. Exibit B. Exibit C.
Do you happen to know where a higher resolution version of this image is?
I am not very knowledgeable about religion but that chart buckets European Animism as one "Religion" while I think it was not organized and refers to the disparate beliefs of folks in the area at the time, so one could argue that there were lots of version I think.
Regardless really fascinating info.
I think it's funny that the timeline you provided counts time since Jesus. The attempt to erase AD is interesting but it still counts time since Jesus.
Those "Exhibits" are interesting. The first I would counter that God does whatever God wants to do. People get hung up on that one a lot and think God needs to conform to their expectations. The second is a bit odd, people convert religious beliefs all the time. It's speaking to a certain audience that does believe or is questioning what they parents taught them. The last I would counter that of the 3,000 supposed Gods only one God has dominated the Earth resulting in a majority of people on the planet worshiping him.
This is why Pascal's Wager is bullshit. Well one reason why.
Honestly, I think the variant on it, Pascal's mugging, evidences why it's nonsense as well.
Overr 18,000 at last count
The majority of religious people are Christian or Muslim and also represent a majority of the people on Earth. They worship the same God that Jews do.
Edit: I think it's interesting that this is so downvoted when all I did is state a couple facts.
I have no idea
Christianity. ... 31% Islam.............24.9 % Unaffiliated...... 15.6 % Hinduism......... 15.2 % Buddhism...... 6.6 %
.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations
Tbh everyone probably worships the same god, people really stopped following religion or have never followed it, atleast the majority, it’s just used as an excuse to get away with whatever you want to do and stop people from questioning it.
We protect them with a piece of paper that says no guns please. The thoughts and prayers come later.
Yeah come on. You don't get thoughts and/or prayers until after you're dead. You think they're just handing these things out? You gotta earn it!
I object to the piece of paper. Publicly funded schools shouldn't be using tax payer funded paper/printers to discriminate against student's second amendment rights. SCOTUS will fast track my lawsuit as soon as you give me a school name.
It's so ridiculous! I too have thoughts and prayers. Thoughts that one day we'll follow the examples of more civilized and developed countries - ones that truly care about the safety and well-being of their citizens - by supporting social policies like universal healthcare, publicly-funded education and reparations for historically marginalized communities. And I pray that we one day find the courage to meticulously seek out and destroy every gun owned by an American civilian (with exceptions for heavily regulated licenses for hunting and sport, like with tractors or race cars).
A man can dream...
What a great sign!
If only they would use ACTUAL thoughts! Sure and actual prayers too, as in the kind that require you to stand the fuck up and do something, instead of asking to be given all the credit as if they had. e.g., you just paid off my college tuition? THANK YOU! Oh wait, you only offered me your thoughts and prayers about my potentially lifelong crippling debt situation. Nvm, you may fuck all the way off now!:-(
As someone who grew up in an Evangelical church, I've never in my life seen the kind of prayers that "require you to stand the fuck up and do something."
Not once.
The Serenity Prayer I think perfectly encapsulates what prayer should be:
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and Wisdom to know the difference.
More's the pity:-|. Jesus did stuff, reportedly, so those who claim to be "His followers" choose to do the opposite. Jesus Himself would be rejected out of nearly all churches in America today.:-(
Even so, churches on the whole still used to serve a useful societal role - lessening rates of theft & murder, fostering community ties with irl people, helping the disenfranchised (feeding homeless, aiding widows & orphans, job-training services, etc.) - but especially after overturning Roe v. Wade I think the public perception has shifted. Now we see more clearly than ever before how the people in those churches are killing innocents, by converting average people into single-issue voters who will vote for the likes of Donald Trump or George Santos so long as they just do that ONE thing that the religious higher-ups want. Forget how climate change is going to radically transform our world - and in the process kill millions - and similarly automation and globalization are making slaves of us all, desperate to hold onto a job that pays increasingly less and less dividends plus may kick you to the curb no matter what you do.
Fwiw, I even say this as a Christian myself: I do not stand with those who call themselves by that name yet condone genocide, even cause it themselves, and ignore the plight of the innocents who suffer (e.g. Ukraine). I am also a patriot (by the technical, acurate definition) but do not want to call myself that either, especially after January 6. So I guess I am a "godless heathen" now, who "hates my country", or whatever it is that they say about me? Or else NOT THAT, and they can fuck all the way off, as they destroy themselves and yet in the process take us all down with them.:-(
The true power of Facebook can finally be realized!
1 Like = 1 Prayer = 1 less illegal immigrant stealing our jobs/raping our women/dealing drugs/etc
I think the right is pretty consistent on this.
They want more guns in schools AND at the border.
Prob just drunk but this hits home. I have some dumbass people I care about who boast about the gun freedoms of Texas while having children that are the same age as the children in the Uvalde shooting.
Note that while their kids are the same age--they weren't there for the shooting. As always, no fucks shall be given until it's affected them personally. Even then--only as few as necessary are allotted to cover themselves and their inner circle.
Guess who Uvalde voted in during the gubnatorial race in 2022? Fucking Greg "It Could Have Been Worse" Abbott
It doesn't even matter if you WERE there for the shooting. I was honestly baffled that he took that county. The majority of adults in that community really came together and went "Yup. Abbott is clearly working!" Ugh.
The Uvalde shooting was 22/28 school shooting deaths in all of 2022 and was primarily a story of police incompetence. School shootings are incredibly rare events.
◦•●◉✿ Pray for the border ✿◉●•◦
Don’t give them ideas. They will arm the students next.
They tried to arm teachers. And they put cops in the hallways. I love the idea of this, but it's wildly tone deaf. In any case, "thoughts and prayers" is closer to what's needed - smaller class sizes and better mental health support - than whatever this guy thinks is the solution.
Like I said: I agree with what he's trying to say, but it's extremely poorly thought through and said.
Great RT
To protect your schools, huh? How's that going for you?
I think you might have missed that the sign is sarcasm.
Woooosh
The right suggests guns to protect schools (guards, teachers, parents) from shooters. Is it the left that wants thoughts and prayers?
The guns are always there, the guns were plentiful in Uvalde, pissing their little baby clips like cowards because "capital protecting" violence is the long arm of the limp dick.
Leftists are not anti gun. They just prefer the guns not pointed at a family of four trying to cross the border, not pointed at gay or trans loved ones, not pointed at someone stealing food while intimately oil massaging the back of wage theft
More people die from lightning strikes than die in school shootings popularized by the media. Maybe the media should stop obsessing about and promoting them like the psychologists keep telling them to do and then they wouldn't happen nearly at all. Even though they already don't happen nearly at all.
Lol bro only country where school shootings happens as frequently as weekly is the U.S.A.
School shootings don't happen anywhere near weekly in the US. They are a freak event as I showed already. Other countries also have freak violent events that don't happen in the US. For example, acid attacks, car bombings, sword attacks, and so on.
In 2023 there were 14 deaths from mass school shootings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2023
In 2022 there were 28 deaths from mass school shootings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2022
Where do you get your numbers?
CDC states about 28 deaths per year by lightning strike. https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/lightning/victimdata/infographic.html
22 deaths can be attributed to the shooting in Uvalde alone. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2022
"There’s been an on-campus shooting ‘pretty much every single school day’ this fall, the founder of the K-12 School Shooting Database said." https://www.k12dive.com/news/2022-worst-year-for-school-shootings/639313/
In 2023 there were 14 deaths from mass school shootings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2023
In 2022 there were 28 deaths from mass school shootings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2022
That is counting any death that occurred on any kind of school property including universities. The school shooting concept is heavily promoted by the media and that is why people think it is an out of control problem when in reality, like I said, more people die of lightning strikes. The comments here show the hysteria. A vanishingly small number of people are killed in school shootings. People commonly refer to winning to lottery as being less likely than being struck by lightning. It is a common phrase to demonstrate an extremely unlikely event.
The question people should be asking is why the media is hyper focused on promoting these. There would likely be even less school shootings if the media wasn't essentially promoting them to mentally ill people as a way to act out and get attention. Many psychologists have stated this, that the attention, the "breaking news event", the round the clock coverage, the attention reaching the levels of the President if someone shoots people on a school campus is actually what causes people to commit those acts. They want a platform and the media gives it to them because ultimately they want to promote gun control and as you see it works quite well to that end.
I’ve seen this BS statement popping up on gun sites. Just another bullshit comparison made up to minimize a problem. Funny how they limit it just to schools as an arbitrary limit while ignoring things like workplace shootings or terrorist attacks like the shooters at concerts or clubs.
All shootings of uninvolved, random people.
And the principle of the comparison is stupid. You go out to play golf knowing there is bad weather and elect not to take suitable shelter vs a teacher in a location that should never see violence. E: more apt comparison: how many people are killed in school classrooms by lightning? That’s how absurd it is.
Look at their username. They are just a sad pathetic little right wing troll.
Hey, there were thunderstorms in my classrooms when I was a kid. Stop picking on this piece of shit apologist. I was struck by lightning twelve times and have yet to be shot. Asshole's logic checks out.
The original post was about schools, was it not? The media is hyper focused on schools because of the emotional aspect they can exploit to promote gun control. If they had to look outside of schools you could easily demonstrate that most shooting deaths are due to gang violence. The media doesn't want to talk about gang violence which is an actually solvable problem and involves already illegal activity. They only want to talk about taking away people's right to bear arms.
Wow, thanks, I feel so reassured now that I know that one of the most common, terrifying, and harmful acts of nature recorded in human history only causes slightly more damage than school shootings, without accounting for the age demographic of the victims of either.
Lightning striking people is not one of the "most common" acts of nature. It is a freak event and that is the point of comparing the statistics. To try to get people like you to accept that you're obsessing over a vanishingly small issue by letting the media convince you it is a regular occurrence impacting everyone. Again there are 330 million people in the US and less than a couple dozen die per year in school shootings. The media could sensationalize pool drownings, people choking on pens, or any other number of things but they choose to promote school shootings in order to promote gun control.
How many people choke to death on pens every year? "On average, 100 to 4000 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year"
You're letting the media trick you and there is a reason powerful interests like the corporate media want you focused on getting rid of people's right to bear arms.
