Mhmm, the ones that say if you're sick or sad you're not praying enough/devoted enough/god hates you and even though I'm not a Christian that shit would still piss me the fuck off
Just wana say, God doesn't hate us. There's nothing but Love. We live in a physical body so physical experiences will happen, such as sickness and emotions. Just part of being human. Prayer is communication. Every relationship needs good communication. But never forced communication. As for devotion, both people that are and aren't devoted experience the human parts of life.
How is someone who's not a doctor supposed to interact with the sick ? You can pray for your neighbors sister and believe your god/s will help but there's nothing else you can actually do ? What the fuck is your problem that you have an issue with people praying when they or someone they know is going through a hard time ?
If you're going to think people are idiots or whatever your superiority complex makes you believe, you better have a suggestion rather than insults or else your complaining is baseless and rude
Then talk to them. Be there for them. They don't give a fuck's shit about what god is out there when they've lost dear daddy or they're on amputation row or whatever the fuck because cancer turned into gangrene and sepsis. Give them hugs, cry with them, be human for them. Oh mah lawd pleeze saev mah deer pour leetle jaimes he looze his left awm fum gittin it cot in a cottin gin. awh mah lawd. Pleezus jeezus saeve him. Fuck you. Wailing and crying never helped anyone, especially if you're not the one who needs to do the wailing and crying. Religious preachers who preach during times of hardship are just overglorified grief tourists. Do something fucking useful. Cook for them so they don't have to deal with kitchen bullshit. Rock them back and forth on your lap when they just freeze up and start whispering their loved one's name. Do something to bring closure I don't fucking know because I haven't murdered anybody.
You know, I'd actually give more of a fuck about your point if you came into the conversation with a little bit of fucking decency. But no. You're just stuck being an asshole thinking you're better than other people.
You want other people to take your advice ? Maybe don't shit on their religious views and insult them. No one's going to listen if you can't be courteous to others.
My other points still stand, dipshit. And no one's using it as a shield, they're doing what they can to help. Not everyone can just drop their life to help out people they don't even know or people far away.
And just because you hate people who use it as a shield doesn't mean you get a free pass to be an asshole.
Praying isn't helping. It's grief tourism. It's taking someone else's sorrow and piggybacking on it because they're a fucking attention whore. It's saying
OOH LOOK AT ME PRAYING I'M SO FUCKING HOLY I'M HELPING LALALA OH GOD LOOK AT ME BEING GOOD HERE'S MY TICKET TO HEAVEN SUCK MY COCK EVERYBODY GOD LOVES ME BECAUSE I LOVE HELPING HAHA
Remember that thing Jesus said about not letting your left hand know the good deeds your right hand is doing? That's exactly what they're NOT doing.
I'm out of this discussion. You can't stop being an arrogant asshole for even a second so I'm not going to waste any energy on this anymore if you can't be decent.
Dude, I don't know shit Jesus said cause I haven't been to church since I was 5. So I have no idea what most biblical quotes mean.
And unless someone is an asshole, like you're being, they deserve decency. If people really piss you off that much then ignore them. All they're doing is pissing you off but they're not doing any actual harm.
How many of these people just pray at church or make a couple of posts about it on Facebook ? Now how many of those people do shit like " OH IT MUST SUCK TO BE THOSE PEOPLE BUT THINK ABOUT HOW I FEEL THINKING ABOUT IT ?" unless they're intentionally trying to take the attention from the issue and have the attention put on them, they aren't lording over others tears. If anything you're the one lording over how people can handle themselves in a situation.
And right now, YOU are the one being indecent. YOU are the one that decides to be an asshole when no one did anything to you.
Because when my classmate fucking died everybody and their grandchild was all like OOH WE WERE SUCH GOOD FRIENDS WITH HER WE LOVED HER
WELL NO YOU FUCKING DIDN'T. I BET YOU DIDN'T EVEN KNOW HER NAME BEFORE SHE DIED AND SHE WAS THE FUCKING STAR OF THE TRACK, SOCCER, AND QUIZ TEAMS. HALF OF YOU DIDN'T EVEN KNOW SHE EXISTED.
I wasn't her friend and I didn't pretend to be because that would be an incredible dishonor and insult to who she was and her friends. I'm sorry she died, I really am, but I refuse to pretend I cared or knew about her enough in the living to try and act like I loved her now that she's dead.
Okay and my school had a memorial day and everyone wore chucks in honor of this kid that died. Girls were bawling in class for a week and everyone was talking about it for longer. He didn't even go to our school he went to a school 20 minutes away. None of these people knew him, yet we still did all that. Do you see me throwing a fucking hissy fit about it ? No. Cause I'm not an asshole.
Well you have every right to be because those fuckers were just using the opportunity of someone else's death to ingratiate themselves into the popular circle of grief so they could maybe finally try and fit in because ooh we have something in common like what's his name's death at that school twenty minutes away. Yeah we both loved him didn't we. Yeah let's all be friends because we all knew him. How could you ever defend turning someone's sorrows into an opportunity for personal gain? Or gain at all?
Because it's none of my business. If they wanna be that way, let them. Annoying me because of how they are isn't reason enough for me to be an asshole. It's not my family member or friend who died and they're taking attention for it. These are people I hardly talk to and a kid who was never mentioned before or awhile after. So no, I had no right to be angry. I wasn't effected by it besides being annoyed. And don't Christians believe that god is who is supposed to judge them ? If that's the case then they'll be judged accordingly later on.
Because those "christians" taint the rest of our name. Now we're the people known as those bible thumping assfucks who can't see beyond earning meaningless praise. Being a Christian isn't just "believe in Jesus". It's doing as he would, loving as he would, and just try to be a good person. Those fuckers do none of this and disgrace the name of Jesus, God, and all other religions and sacred beliefs. Who would ever want to know God if their first major experience with Christianity is a grief tourist?
Who would ever want to know God if their first experience with a "christian" is you? You can't possibly believe you're currently being a good representative/ambassador of heaven and if you do, you need to reevaluate
And neither is being an asshole when people annoy you. People are gonna be annoying and no one's going to want to even entertain the idea of looking into converting to yours if the first person they meet is you. I'd much sooner join a church full of " grief tourists " because at least they act nice rather than being rude right off the bat like you've been
If you're going to think people are idiots or whatever your superiority complex makes you believe, you better have a suggestion rather than insults or else your complaining is baseless and rude
You want other people to take your advice ? Maybe don't shit on their religious views and insult them. No one's going to listen if you can't be courteous to others.
And just because you hate people who use it as a shield doesn't mean you get a free pass to be an asshole.
OOH LOOK AT ME PRAYING I'M SO FUCKING HOLY I'M HELPING LALALA OH GOD LOOK AT ME BEING GOOD HERE'S MY TICKET TO HEAVEN SUCK MY COCK EVERYBODY GOD LOVES ME BECAUSE I LOVE HELPING HAHA
Remember that thing Jesus said about not letting your left hand know the good deeds your right hand is doing? That's exactly what they're NOT doing.
And unless someone is an asshole, like you're being, they deserve decency. If people really piss you off that much then ignore them. All they're doing is pissing you off but they're not doing any actual harm.
And right now, YOU are the one being indecent. YOU are the one that decides to be an asshole when no one did anything to you.
WELL NO YOU FUCKING DIDN'T. I BET YOU DIDN'T EVEN KNOW HER NAME BEFORE SHE DIED AND SHE WAS THE FUCKING STAR OF THE TRACK, SOCCER, AND QUIZ TEAMS. HALF OF YOU DIDN'T EVEN KNOW SHE EXISTED.
I wasn't her friend and I didn't pretend to be because that would be an incredible dishonor and insult to who she was and her friends. I'm sorry she died, I really am, but I refuse to pretend I cared or knew about her enough in the living to try and act like I loved her now that she's dead.
This addresses the "grief tourism" aspect of my argument.