• hydrashok@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    But they believe it, man! Why won’t you respect their beliefs? You need evidence, you godless heathen? Can’t you just have faith that the ones with the money and power are genuinely looking out for their constituents with no conflicts of interest whatsoever?

    /s to the extreme

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      4 months ago

      These motherfuckers reality is built upon the idea that belief is something more than an opinion, belief is a powerful force that can bend god’s power to their will, there’s a verse in the Bible somewhere I don’t give enough of a shit to look up the exact location of that says something akin to “if you have faith as small as a mustard seed you can move mountains”. The cornerstone of most of these people’s lives is that belief in the divinity of an entity that might have existed 2000 years ago in the Middle East has the power to bend the will of their omnipotent and self described jealous deity who demanded blood sacrifice into an all forgiving, compassionate, and wise creator of all things. They live in a dangerous fantasy