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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Which god we talking here? Not the muslim or christian ones for sure.

[–] hayvan@feddit.nl 40 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I mean for a religious person everything should be god's plan, right?

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No, no, only the good parts.

[–] ours@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Not good, just the convenient parts.

[–] Gremour@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That is logical. Practically, though, this is used for justification of selected events. If a person confronts with something he doesn't like, e. g. bugs in his home, he will actively try to change it.

[–] saimen@feddit.org 6 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Doesn't mean they have to be passive. They could say God did this to provoke me to do something against this.

I mean it's similar to the question why god allows all this suffering and evil in the world. I think the common answer is to test us and to give us the opportunity to do good or something like that.

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[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 56 points 4 days ago (2 children)

America has a Christian Nationalist problem.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

America has an individualism problem and well fuck me running if Christians just happen to be the absolute worst when it comes to the rights of others being of no consequence.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

🌎 🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oh I’m aware it always has. I remember learning in grade school, about the Puritans coming to America and being told it was a good thing….

(Spoiler: it wasn’t)

But it’s getting worse every day.

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[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 35 points 4 days ago (4 children)

TIL one in three Americans suffer severe mental health disorders.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

At least one in three. Theres some in the democratic party and independents as well. Its probably at least half.

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Unfun fact! Carter tried to establish community mental health care centers across America, but Reagan immediately undid it.

Same thing for solar panels. When carter left, he installed the first solar panel on the white house and said 'this will either mark a new beginning or a path untaken'. Reagan took it down.

Now China is kicking everyone's ass in solar panels. And Trump hates renewables so much that he wants to shut down a windfarm in New England that is almost finished, had already cost a lot of money, would employ thousands, and provide a fuckload of cheap electricity to a lot of people.

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[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Pathetic fake fucking Christians

[–] CXORA@aussie.zone 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Pathetic fucking Christians is more like it.

Its a fucking death cult.

[–] Stonewyvvern@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A blood death cult that got its start with child sacrifices...

But god is good...lol

[–] CXORA@aussie.zone 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Its insane to me that people can't see this. Sure, it has over a thousand years of good PR, but the evil shit isn't hidden. Its all in the bible.

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[–] FridaySteve@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

God's plan also includes deadly plagues, global floods, and turning people into pillars of salt.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Capitalists all raise an eyebrow at the idea of all that free salt.

[–] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

That's why we must conquer heaven and kill god before his cancerous existence spreads any further.

Also hell too, but they are not the main enemy. Heaven and God are. They are the real monsters.

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 184 points 5 days ago (5 children)

They wouldn't know "gods plan" if it smacked them in the ass. They're literally worshipping the closest analogue to the Antichrist. These people are violently clueless.

[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 121 points 5 days ago (9 children)

"God's plan" is literally whatever is happening right now. Got in a car crash? God's plan. Narrowly missed a car crash? God's plan. Cat wakes you at 6am for breakfast? God's plan. This whole comment? God's plan.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 34 points 5 days ago (11 children)

His plan sucks because he made Pedos billionaires. Wait, god might he a pedo. It's his plan afterall. Always watching you like a creep. Dude fits pedo logic 100%. Worshiping pedos, sounds on track for religious nutts.

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[–] Australis13@fedia.io 46 points 5 days ago (8 children)

This. Trump literally fits the description of an "antichrist" (lowercase; one of a type) and many of the traits of the definite article (the specific Antichrist) described in the Bible.

But then they're not expecting to be the ones deceived by an antichrist.

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[–] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Have these people read the part in the Bible that talks about the Antichrist??

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[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 71 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Religion is the most destructive human invention.

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[–] blave@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

A third of Americans are delusional

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 29 points 4 days ago (8 children)

Daily reminfer that 33% of the US is crazy, and the majority hate Trump.

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[–] DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Imagine how stupid the average person is and now realize that half of them are dumber than that.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 3 days ago

That's a global percentage. I'm pretty sure that the United States is exclusively populated by the lower 15%

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[–] knekko@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

It's part of a concept of a plan. Great flood, plagues of Egypt, ...

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 86 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Aaaaaaand this sort of shit is why I’ve resigned myself to the fact that we’re not recovering from this, and that I need to get the fuck out.

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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 69 points 5 days ago (4 children)

"It's God's plan" is the phrase people use to comfort themselves when disasters happen, so I guess that tracks regarding Trump’s rule.

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[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So...God wants to punish America?

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[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

well, duh?

if you believe in God and you believe God has a plan, then this is part of that plan

how many Christians don't believe God has a plan?

it was God's plan for Charlie Kirkkk to die publicly. it was God's plan for all those school children to die. it is God's plan to abuse and murder non-whites in the US. it is God's plan to have the wealthy and powerful abuse young women and for the masses to protect them

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[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Religion should be added to the DSM as a dangerous disorder.

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[–] chunes@lemmy.world 35 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

21% of U.S. adults are fully illiterate. Another 33% can't read better than an elementary school student.

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[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 44 points 5 days ago (6 children)

That's because a third of Americans believe everything that happens is part of God's plan because he controls everything good and bad.

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[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Isn’t everything that happens a part of God’s plan? I do not understand the thought process of most Christians.

[–] potoo22@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Everything they agree with is part of God's plan. Everything they don't is the work of the devil. When you can control what is "seen" as God's plan, you can control the population. And anyone who disagrees is under the influence of the devil and an enemy. Basic cult mentality.

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 33 points 5 days ago (6 children)
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[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Unironically, those people shouldn’t get to vote. If it’s all a part of gods plan then they should let Jesus take the wheel with the votes too.

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[–] slingstone@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

What if it's a punishment from God for doing evil crap like supporting genocide?

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