Religion, what's the point?
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This is the answer to the question "what is the point?".
It is a con. It has always been a con. All religions. The priests get power, respect, prestige, women, and money. From ancient shamans to modern tax-exempt LLC companies, it has always been the same story.
Agreed. We even have a modern version (Scientology) that was created as a con to avoid taxes. Amazing what people will believe and what governments allow them to get away with. I just hope one day, there will be either less money in it because enough people see through the BS that they can't buy our politicians.
Preceded by the ultimate cult, Mormonism.
https://people.com/human-interest/p...rch-member-takes-the-mic-alleging-she-was-16/
Pastor Admits to 'Adultery' During Service — But Then Female Church Member Takes the Mic: 'I Was Just 16'
At first glance, I thought it was the playmaker in the video.
Yes, it means we can just put it on sky daddy instead of actually taking action to do anything to fix anything.
That is just...exasperatingly arrogant morally corrupt and intellectually redundant bollocks. Rage inducing.
It means you can't turn to God without doing what the Christian Right tells you to do, using Guns for Jesus if necessary.
And yet another reason why people are turning away from religion in their droves.
Where do you even start with this?
I swear, the way the Europeans (and I) feel about the gun nuts, I now feel like that about all religious people. The religious conservatives are actively trying to destroy this country and I have no patience for them or even the moderate religious that allow these assholes to thrive.
But no such thing as Christian terrorism right?
its right after the part that says it’s cool to abuse kids and right before the part where we are commanded to buy our pastors a new Learjet.
It's in one of the biblical canons about Jesus and his gat toting days when he, like many teens, nearly went the OG route.
Correction.
That is what he pretends God teaches and the Bible says in his miniscule brain.
But in reality, God and the Bible say nothing of the sort.
So they tested the wrong sort of prayers? If so is there a list of the types of prayers that do and don't work?
You have to pray to Joe Pesci
If that's the conclusion. I'm just bringing transparency to the study because there are opposite ones that suggest prayers do work (be it placebo)
50% of the time?
Meta analysis on studies have found that beneficial results aren't that common, often minor when found and even the often not able to be replicated. This study looks at a group that should get great benefit from being prayed for due but don't.
https://academic.oup.com/abm/article/32/1/21/4743198
It dawned on me years ago that intercessory prayer really doesn’t make sense if you believe in an omnipotent and omniscient deity that has “a plan” for everything. If there’s a divine plan, then what exactly are you praying for? The all powerful, all knowing god isn’t gonna change his mind.
Unless the plan is that something bad happens, you pray and the bad thing goes away. Seems like a great deal of effort TBH.