pop morality

[TheRocketSurgeon]

This vicarious atonement concept makes my eye twitch, a bit...especially when they start talking about "debts we owe".

I saw it from thugs in the prison system, all the time. They'd trap some newbie by offering them a "free gift", and then say the person was in debt, and the only way to pay off that debt is to accept a little lovin'.

Your God is a psychopath. Thus my signature line.

ETA: I'll quote my signature line here, since I just remembered many of y'all don't see the sig line:

A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost

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I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.