RE: Question for Theists
July 15, 2023 at 10:55 am
(This post was last modified: July 15, 2023 at 10:59 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 14, 2023 at 6:13 pm)emjay Wrote: Sadly I think that's the selling point for many; schadenfreude. But seems to me that's completely logically inconsistent with a religion (Christianity) centering around forgiveness.
You misunderstand christianity. Forgiveness, but only for some. A very small some, if you ask any given sub-cult of christians...who wouldn't even admit all the other christians to their heavens. If you reframe your understanding of christianity as a late roman appropriation of an ethnocentric myth concocted by conquered people, you'll see both that and how consistent it is to wish ill upon your profligate enemies, real and perceived. The whole "centered on forgiveness" shit has only ever been ad copy - cover for all of the terrible shit they actually do, wholly and certainly informed of by their faiths.
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