I mean if you believe in God knowing everything and everything is happening because of his will, then that gives you the ability to rationalize everything, doesn’t it?
Oh you have cancer? God gave it to you, if you didn’t deserve it he’d have cured it. Done, use that everywhere: poor, homeless, immigrant, race, sick, traffic, lightening, flood, airplane crash, school shooting, …
That’s why blind faith is dangerous. And the idea of afterlife because they just do whatever now.
I’m sorry but in which one of the “canonical” Gospels does Jesus say fuck the poor and love yourself more than anyone else?
I mean if you believe in God knowing everything and everything is happening because of his will, then that gives you the ability to rationalize everything, doesn’t it?
Oh you have cancer? God gave it to you, if you didn’t deserve it he’d have cured it. Done, use that everywhere: poor, homeless, immigrant, race, sick, traffic, lightening, flood, airplane crash, school shooting, …
That’s why blind faith is dangerous. And the idea of afterlife because they just do whatever now.
All to true.