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swallowyourmind@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Houses of worship with security make me chuckle.

“Look, we don’t really believe.”

The premise of their organizations is assurity in God’s plan for their lives and an afterlife.

If someone comes in and kills them the worst that happens is a beeline to heaven, according to their supposed beliefs.

Security (or emergency medical care, in this instance) only delays when they get to reach the place they claim they want to go, and insinuates they aren’t true believers.

Funny stuff.

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LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Okay but if this article was about churches NOT teaching first aid after having been through several mass shootings, you would criticize them for that too.

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Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I argue this point a lot when I was younger and a “believer”. They always seem to take more precautions against death then the average person.

I once told a Christian that was so goddammit precaution that they shouldn’t look both ways when crossing a street. After all you go straight to heaven want you?

Most Christian I met fear death more than anyone you met. Even ones that swear they are true believers. I’m talking speaking tongues etc fear dying. I think deep down they all had doubts.

I think it human nature to want proof of things and with god there is none. Hence deep down they fear death. Or they fear hell because they all know they are not good Christians and deserve hell.

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zloubida@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
We believe God wants us free, alive and happy.

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- RGB3x3@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Except when the all-powerful, all-knowing God sends in, or allows, someone to walk into a church to murder you and everyone else there?
  
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  - zloubida@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    What’s worse: a world where an all-powerful, all-knowing God lets us decide what we do, even if it’s crimes, or a world where every action one makes is decided by this all-powerful, all-knowing God?
    
    I choose freedom.
    
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    pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    If your god is all knowing and all powerful, he could have set the starting conditions of the world up so that no one would ever feel the need to commit murder without imposing on free will
    
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