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RE: Conversions from Covid-19
March 22, 2020 at 3:24 pm
Just this morning my flatmates and I were talking about how obnoxious the church bells have been during the past 12 days of quarantine. Lmao I only see people turning away from the catholic church these days... Except, y'know, the hardcore rosary-thumping boomers
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"Every luxury has a deep price. Every indulgence, a cosmic cost. Each fiber of pleasure you experience causes equivalent pain somewhere else. This is the first law of emodynamics [sic]. Joy can be neither created nor destroyed. The balance of happiness is constant.
Fact: Every time you eat a bite of cake, someone gets horsewhipped.
Facter: Every time two people kiss, an orphanage collapses.
Factest: Every time a baby is born, an innocent animal is severely mocked for its physical appearance. Don't be a pleasure hog. Your every smile is a dagger. Happiness is murder.
Vote "yes" on Proposition 1321. Think of some kids. Some kids."
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RE: Conversions from Covid-19
March 22, 2020 at 4:21 pm
(March 21, 2020 at 11:00 pm)Jehanne Wrote: (March 21, 2020 at 9:57 pm)tackattack Wrote: Our church stopped meeting and moved services online, but the strip club down the street is still open and busy.
Your point?
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RE: Conversions from Covid-19
March 22, 2020 at 5:00 pm
The only conversions I'm concerned with from this pandemic are the conversion from living person to dead person.
Dying to live, living to die.
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RE: Conversions from Covid-19
March 22, 2020 at 5:01 pm
(March 22, 2020 at 5:00 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: The only conversions I'm concerned with from this pandemic are the conversion from living person to dead person.
How lucky that your job is also your hobby!
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RE: Conversions from Covid-19
March 22, 2020 at 6:25 pm
(March 21, 2020 at 12:24 am)Posting4Jesus24 Wrote: This whole Coronavirus is really making people sad and scared.
I wonder if during this time of fear, worry and anxiety, people might turn to Christianity in droves.
As in, they might dust off their bible and search for answers in it. Maybe they will cry out to God their father and beg Jesus to save them from the plague...
I hope that is the case..
What do you think? will people flock to Christ in this time of doubt?
Like with the trenches of the Western Front, I wouldn't be surprised if this latest scare causes more de-conversions than conversions (and likely the conversions will be intra-faith ones anyway, along the lines of going from one brand of Southern baptist to another).
Nothing shows the futility of religious belief like an ongoing disaster. Because if god were so powerful, why didn't he stop the death and suffering?
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RE: Conversions from Covid-19
March 22, 2020 at 6:33 pm
(March 22, 2020 at 6:25 pm)Nomad Wrote: Nothing shows the futility of religious belief like an ongoing disaster. Because if god were so powerful, why didn't he stop the death and suffering? The idiots that survive will be preaching "God's Love!" Must have been something wrong with the deaders.
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RE: Conversions from Covid-19
March 23, 2020 at 4:52 am
God works in listerious ways!
No God, No fear.
Know God, Know fear.
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RE: Conversions from Covid-19
March 23, 2020 at 5:20 am
(March 22, 2020 at 6:25 pm)Nomad Wrote: (March 21, 2020 at 12:24 am)Posting4Jesus24 Wrote: This whole Coronavirus is really making people sad and scared.
I wonder if during this time of fear, worry and anxiety, people might turn to Christianity in droves.
As in, they might dust off their bible and search for answers in it. Maybe they will cry out to God their father and beg Jesus to save them from the plague...
I hope that is the case..
What do you think? will people flock to Christ in this time of doubt?
Like with the trenches of the Western Front, I wouldn't be surprised if this latest scare causes more de-conversions than conversions (and likely the conversions will be intra-faith ones anyway, along the lines of going from one brand of Southern baptist to another).
Nothing shows the futility of religious belief like an ongoing disaster. Because if god were so powerful, why didn't he stop the death and suffering?
God's aim is lousy, that's why. He doesn't seem to be able to punish sinners without massive collateral damage. Sort of like burning down the house to fix a squeaky hinge.
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RE: Conversions from Covid-19
March 23, 2020 at 6:12 am
(March 23, 2020 at 5:20 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: God's aim is lousy, that's why.
God should duel me on Quake
"Every luxury has a deep price. Every indulgence, a cosmic cost. Each fiber of pleasure you experience causes equivalent pain somewhere else. This is the first law of emodynamics [sic]. Joy can be neither created nor destroyed. The balance of happiness is constant.
Fact: Every time you eat a bite of cake, someone gets horsewhipped.
Facter: Every time two people kiss, an orphanage collapses.
Factest: Every time a baby is born, an innocent animal is severely mocked for its physical appearance. Don't be a pleasure hog. Your every smile is a dagger. Happiness is murder.
Vote "yes" on Proposition 1321. Think of some kids. Some kids."
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RE: Conversions from Covid-19
March 23, 2020 at 6:33 am
(March 23, 2020 at 5:20 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: God's aim is lousy, that's why.
Wait! God was a stormtrooper?
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