I once saw some American Christians argue that anthropogenic climate change/pollution/environmental degradation can't be a threat because God wouldn't allow humans to harm the world he specifically made for them to live on (actually I think they believe God specifically made Earth as a playground for capitalists to exploit)
In fact believing humans can affect the planet is blasphemous because only God can have that kind of power
He remained distance and sometimes brutal to his chosen people, it is insane how Christians think God is their buddy who will lend them a few thousand dollars and never ask for it back.
lol they would take that story the exact opposite way you intend. "so, if i keep believing, my faith will eventually be rewarded!" god seems to only fuck with people who believe in him :thinking-about-it:
There were various points in the middle ages where lepers and the blind were regarded as extra pious, like full of God's blessings. It meant God took special interest in you and was granting you grand spiritual enlightenment. And he did that through leprosy. Some cultures saw tuberculosis that way too.
My assumption was that if you're going to heaven you'll gain essentially everything that ever matters anyways, or basically something to that effect as the rationale.
i thought of mentioning the whole thing with job but that'll probably just redouble their faith in Q
I once saw some American Christians argue that anthropogenic climate change/pollution/environmental degradation can't be a threat because God wouldn't allow humans to harm the world he specifically made for them to live on (actually I think they believe God specifically made Earth as a playground for capitalists to exploit)
In fact believing humans can affect the planet is blasphemous because only God can have that kind of power
by that logic abel wouldn't have died when cain hit him with a rock
There's another version of this argument where people say God promised there wouldn't be another deluge so Florida must be eternal.
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He remained distance and sometimes brutal to his chosen people, it is insane how Christians think God is their buddy who will lend them a few thousand dollars and never ask for it back.
Didn't Eve fuck this all up when she bit in the apple
God said he'd never flood the earth again, which means if sea levels rise, it wasn't him.
lol they would take that story the exact opposite way you intend. "so, if i keep believing, my faith will eventually be rewarded!" god seems to only fuck with people who believe in him :thinking-about-it:
There were various points in the middle ages where lepers and the blind were regarded as extra pious, like full of God's blessings. It meant God took special interest in you and was granting you grand spiritual enlightenment. And he did that through leprosy. Some cultures saw tuberculosis that way too.
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My assumption was that if you're going to heaven you'll gain essentially everything that ever matters anyways, or basically something to that effect as the rationale.