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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.:-(
Just a heads up, once I saw that you're post is basically an attempt to proselytize I chose not to read it.
You have to believe me that there's literally nothing you could ever say that would convince me to return to your hateful religion (or any religion for that matter, I'm just an expert on the shittiness of the Abrahamic ones).
You're wasting your time. Have a nice day.
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
Donald Trump even shared this fun statistic: 80% of the women crossing the border to come to America report being raped. Let that sink in... (by who?)
The patriarchy?
I was going to guess by himself but... okay!:-P