21% of U.S. adults are fully illiterate. Another 33% can’t read better than an elementary school student.
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And the GOP has been working to steadily increase those percentages.
God’s plan also includes deadly plagues, global floods, and turning people into pillars of salt.
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.
As an atheist, I’m starting to believe this is the work of God too. A deeply vengeful God.
Trump as a form of karmic punishment for the Cold War and its aftermath isn’t an unreasonable reading of historical events.
…are we the baddies?
Bioshock Infinite is a documentary.
Something something false idol
I hold no warmth for organised religion and believe it to be an accelerating net negative to society for at least the past 5 or 6 centuries, probably further.
With that said, these people aren’t Christians, they haven’t even successfully learned the most basic lessons of their book. They’re just a hateful cult appropriating some culture that’s got nothing to do with them.
If there are any actual Christians left out there that actually read the fucking bible, they should be (according to the book itself, as far as I can tell) vehemently denouncing this behaviour as loudly as they can ad nauseum. Reminding all their Christian friends this behaviour is the ticket to eternal damnation, etc.
Why isn’t this happening?
Some do, it’s just that their religion is complicit (Matthew 5:39-40). They would rather our planet become Mars and see the evil they let occur, because they have a faustian myth of a promise of an afterlife.
What if it’s a punishment from God for doing evil crap like supporting genocide?
Hopefully, they start buying land and building a compound in French Guyana.
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.
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.
Obligatory Ben Corey
I remember reading that in Trump’s first term.
It’s even more unsettling now.
Even if he’s the antichrist, it’s still God’s plan by definition of the term “God” literally. The only question is if God exists or not. Or for me the question rather is if God’s existence matters or not.
I’d suggest it depends on whether one assumes we have free will or not.
My understanding of the Bible is that humanity has free will and so there are lots of things that happen that technically aren’t God’s will or plan (e.g. John 3:16 is pretty well known as mentioning God not wanting anyone to perish but for everyone to have eternal life, but then there’s also the Great White Throne Judgement in Revelation where there are definitely some who are cast into the Lake of Fire - the second death). There’s a good argument to be made as well for the prophetic parts of the Bible not being “God’s will” but simply the result of Him being outside time and space and hence knowing what the result of humanity’s free will will be.
So no, I don’t think the Antichrist is part of God’s plan per se; rather, God knows there will be an Antichrist and that’s given as a warning so people 1) aren’t deceived by him and 2) know that God can handle him (in Revelation it ends badly for the Antichrist).
Romans 9 would like a word:
13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Ah yes, the issue of predestination vs. free will in the Bible. There are definitely some that believe in predestination, or a deterministic/pre-determined outcome. Personally I don’t think this is an accurate reading.
Some of the answers to the same question posed here - https://christianity.stackexchange.com/a/77861 - I think cover it well. https://reknew.org/2015/08/paul-teaches-free-will-not-determinism-romans-9-part-3/ also touches on why this passage is not suggesting God predestines some for salvation and some for damnation. Again, I think this comes back to the argument that the God of the Bible knows what people’s choices will be and acts accordingly.
Makes sense somehow but then God isn’t omnipotent and/or all loving so looks like a contradiction to me. Or maybe he just gave up on humanity?
“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.
I’m reminded of the praying hands emoji people always post in response to an announcement of a vehicle crash on Facebook. If that shit worked, why don’t they pray for God to keep the crash from happening at all?
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.
Mary was only around 14, too
Lol, like that billion actually matters when they stand in judgement.
God sucks at making plans for something that is omnipotent.
My thoughts exactly. It’s a clickbait headline targeted at anyone who doesn’t realize that a third of people believe literally everything is “god’s plan.”
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I get it… I believe in God as being chaos and to trust “God” is having faith in the present.
But it’s clear they aren’t actually about that, otherwise 2020 would have rolled along smoothly and they would have had the same “gods plan” mindset during the 2020 social protests.
This is social and psychological manipulation on a large scale. 5th generation warfare. This is war.
Most humans are pawns used by devils and proud that we created this lifestyle of ignorance and arrogance. Regardless of politics and parties.
Stop buying things that aren’t keeping you alive. Most people are funding and paying for this fucked up world to become less human and pretend they don’t have blood on their hands.
people are proud to be half human and made by mass media. They don’t want to know real reality because it’s difficult.
This is war
Class war?
But it’s clear they aren’t actually about that, otherwise 2020 would have rolled along smoothly and they would have had the same “gods plan” mindset during the 2020 social protests.
Obviously that was Joe Biden interfering in gods plan, so they were just doing the right thing in trying to undo it.
In some ways, isn’t the Antichrist God’s plan?
So is punishment, and republicans have been using his name in vain.
Yeah you’re right, there is an actual “god’s plan,” but this isn’t it.
Give me a fucking break. Grow up and stop believing in fairy tales.
Their god wants to destroy the US?
Maybe they’re right. Steve Carell once took action to protect the future from God’s plan. Maybe we do too.
Be assured that THIS Christian who actually read the Bible knows that all of these people will rot in Hell when they die. A lot of repenting will be required to side step that one truth.
TIL: 1/3 of the Americans are genuine morons. The more stupid the citizens, the greater the state. So, it’s MAGA all the way!
One third of Americans apparently qualify as fertilizer and not much else.
Religion should be added to the DSM as a dangerous disorder.
Time for a rev bump to DSM-6.66
Fuck that asshole god
