Submitted 2 months ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Even when I was in that kind of group, I would feel embarrassed about pushing in a group. I didn’t realize I didn’t believe it yet, but that always felt odd and embarrassing in a group, and so pointless when alone.
I was still too brainwashed to think anything of it, but part of me always knew.
Same. Also, alter calls, laying on hands, speaking in tongues…
People who behave this way are dangerous to society. It’s a signal that they think they know better than everyone else and are confidently correct in doing whatever the hell they consider the right thing without considering the effects on others. These are sociopaths.
They are exactly the same as Bin Laden. Trump isn’t. Trump is just a crazy old hateful narcissist. This is why it is these people who need to be protested about. The attention needs to be ripped away from Trump and placed on them. He will turn on them.
There’s nothing mildly infuriating about this. Just full on infuriating
I can read their minds through the magic of the internet, and a lot of unfortunate personal experience.
They open with long-winded, empty, masturbatory platitudes like this.
“Oh Lord our God, who rules from heaven, glorious is your name, we come to you today in prayer and supplication that you will show your glory and power to this sinful country, Lord.”
Only then do they get to the meat of their evil demands to their coin-operated god.
“We pray that you would help us to rob the poor, hurt them, kill them, and deprive them of care and basic necessities. We pray that you would help us line our own pockets, and the pockets of our friends and donors, with the wealth stolen en masse from the weakest and least of your children. We pray that you help us capture, torture, and expel the foreigner and the stranger, who we do not want among us. We pray that you would help us separate children from their parents and parents from their children, especially those in need of medical care, and that you would help us deprive them of that care. We pray that you would help us subjugate the masses and make them slaves to our whims and enterprises, and deprive them of their freedom and agency, and to help us force all women, but only those born with pussies, to be the chattel that you have proclaimed them to be in your infinite wisdom. In your holy name, ah-men.”
Straight out of Handmaids tale. Commander Waterford
If prayer worked, there would be no hospitals.
Prayer better work because soon there won’t be any
Prayer doesn’t work. At best it’s stress relief: beats smoking. At worst it fosters a mindless life outlook.
Our present civilizational arrangement that depends on cheap energy and a world-wide endless supply chain is on its last legs. Hospitals depend on both reliable energy and supplies.
If civilization collapses, we can hope the basic knowledge we’ve accumulated over the last 150-200 years or so will endure. Things like blood circulation, blood pressure, germ theory, blood types, basic first aid, etc. But I doubt it. Most of us are functional morons. We use things that we don’t have a clue how any of it got here or how it works.
And if we think about them at all, we assume humans have always had them. See the 1970s series Connections, just episode 1 for what I mean.
If we simply degrade and lose the entitlements we gained during the cheap energy fossil fuel orgy, we’ll revert to historical patterns of top 1% getting all the best services and care, such as human doctors and organ transplants, and the rest of us will get AI “doctors” that prescribe symptomatic relief from the company that owns them. See the novel Bladerunner by Nourse for a general sketch. Also from the '70s, another period of political turmoil and a manufactured energy crisis. The difference is that now, the energy crisis isn’t manufactured. It’s foundational.
I could also be wrong, the LSD is hitting pretty hard this morning.
You don’t think hospital ceos pray?
How would I know? Are they trying to quit smoking?
Circle jerking it.
Looney tunes factory music playing all the way
Weak-minded fools.
It looks like they are playing craps.
Nah, they are playing that game where they all jerk off onto a cookie and the last one to cum has to eat it.
Prayer Circlejerk
Trump doesn’t listen to your prayers, fuckheads.
Uh. This is absolutely a constitutional freedom. Would y’all be incensed if it was a Muslim congressperson (say, Rashida Tlaib) that was praying? Yeah, they’re hypocrites, but get angry about the hypocrisy and the Christian nationalism, not the expressions of religion.
Would y’all be incensed if it was a Muslim congressperson (say, Rashida Tlaib) that was praying?
Uh, yes?
Constitutional freedoms–including religion–are a foundation for our country. If that’s not what you want, feel free to repeal the constitution, or move to a country that has a state religion instead.
I’m pretty sure the hypocrisy is exactly what is incensing about this photo.
Frankly, is this really the expression of religion? I don’t think so. At best, it’s the expression of hypocrisy, like anyone praying in public for the show and his personal expression of self-righteousness.
It’s still amazing that many Americans are falling for this and are so religion centered. My own brother-in-law is an American pastor and a huge selfish hypocrite.
I’m an atheist and a Satanist. I agree that these people are, by the measure of what the Jesus Christ of the Christian Bible is claimed to have said, hypocrites. At best. And yes, Jesus said that you should pray in private, and that people who pray in public so that they can be seen to pray have already received their reward. (Matthew 6:5 - “And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.”)
But it’s still a foundational civil right.
It appears to have worked. I guess that’s why they think it will work for mass shootings of school children to.
They shouldn’t cluster so closely together, it’s a risk. Not that I’m suggesting anything.
Or they’re playing Soggy Biscuit. Either way, it’s about as effective as a form of government.
To Satan, I presume.
Satan has a stronger sense of morals than these things that pretend to be people. They’ve really motivated me to join the satanic church.
No, Satan dared to defy his father and was thrown out of the house.
None of these fucks would dare defy their daddy Trump.
Satan would never
Praying is just talking to your imaginary friend, and having it tell back to you what you want to hear.
These elected representatives are no more mentally developed than elementary school children. Must be from a state full of lead pipes.
Only part of the bible that they deserve is the nailed to the cross part tbqh
To all the “not true Christian” chanters: Religion is unfortunately way too broad to interpret in many ways, especially christianity, which is filled with many contradictory views. One can just selectively refer to different translations and/or different chapters on the same issue. Jesus was famous for not forgiving child abusers, but the Old Testament has a chapter about “Menstrual Marriage” (allowing adolescent child marriage).
Not to mention all of the slavery stuff…
Wish they’d pray for forgiveness because then that would mean admitting mistakes.
Praying to the dark lord Erebus no doubt
I controversially agree, freedom of religion is a fundamental part of the United States’s identity. However, these people could always be praying for terrible things, so there’s a definite duality to this image. That being said, I think that religion can be seen as a mixture of freedom of speech and expression; I believe that this is a human right. Secondly, since I’m assuming that most of you are atheists here, why should you worry about what they are even praying for? If atheism states that there is no all-powerful deity, then this bickering is meaningless. If Christianity and its teachings happen to be true, then it is certain that the Christian God would never be in favor of what’s currently happening. For example, Mark 12:31 states “The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” Which is the complete antithesis towards current events. As you can see, both possibilities show that God or not, the current administration is not supported by either.
The Constitution doesn’t give us freedom OF religion, it guarantees freedom FROM religion. People can have any religion they want, the government just can’t allow it to influence government in any way.
This is only partially true, as the First Amendment states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” As you can see, practice of religion is not prohibited. My main point is that prayer will probably not have any meaningful impact on the success of immoral decisions.
Quick reminder: libs spent decades telling us to respect others’ religious beliefs or else saud stupid shit like “not ALL christians!!”
This is what you get for removing the guardrails.
They got to be KKK wherever they come from?
Dear god, please help us know how best to please the antichrist. Thx.
I think the guy all the way on the right was just caught squeezing the ass of one of his Republican colleagues as they passed a law that will kick millions off of Medicaid and close down hospitals so that they can fund brown shirts to the tune of what other countries pay for whole militaries.
Ive seen circles like that and it aint praying. I wonder who the lucky guy in the middle is?
GOP bukkake.
Please don’t let them release the Epstein files. Amen.
KingCake_Baby@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Keep religion out of politics, it never EVER ends well.
JargonWagon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Bring back Separation of Church and State.
KingCake_Baby@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Should’ve never left