saint dot edumist

1y

just gonna repost

nah it’s not a good use of money, and pretty futile really

well no, because it’s pretty functionally useless

now this, is where i can really get into the swing of what i wanna say, yes, there’s been a very large decrease of religious people and this is primarily due to individualism, materialism and albeit i know people don’t like it when i take a s*** on science—scientism, all of these things coalesce and play with one another to effectively reduce religion’s role and purpose within the world, it’s essentially why a lot of people tell others that you have to make your own meaning in life, that there’s no intrinsic value to our existence and we live within a cold and uncaring universe

it’s a moorish mix of secular hubris and philosophical ignorance (i mean, what use is philosophy if science, or scientists rather proclaim to have the answers for each question?) many of the reasons ive seen people reject religion and/or God are for very poor and unsophisticated understandings of religion(s) and God generally, a lot of the gripes and questions people have with religion could possibly be rectified if they bothered to engage with it beyond a surface level, however why do that, when the idea of man being the only ends or measure completely void of any sort of higher power to pay heed to is immensely more attractive to people who are raised in a “me-me-me” society?

there’s a reason why most of the spirituality that people take interest in America is pop astrology, manifestation, crystals, Westernized (bastardized, really) Buddhism etc. because they either offer a benefit to the person that partakes in the practice exclusively or they’re completely null of anything that would have someone feel accountable spiritually for the things that they do to other people, Buddhism within the West has been essentially leveled to mindfulness and be nice to others, completely absent of the various metaphysical principles, realms and supernatural beliefs that are essential to it as a religion regardless (such as anatta, sunyata, indra’s net etc.) religion was always generally collectivist and was about forming unity with your fellow man, this is pretty much gone

i am not surprised at Christians being oppressed and sort of trampled on nowadays because the pendulum is simply swinging back, this is essentially retribution for all of the crusades and oppression that happened in the name of the Abrahamic God, Christians definitely have an absolutely horrible reputation (borderline irreparable if you ask me) due to the evangelists, making people feel bad for their sexuality (which could possibly be based on a misinterpretation of the Bible lol) and forcing Christianity and all down people's throats, this isn't even getting into the general intolerance of other religions that people of Abrahamic faiths have either, which is an entirely different mess within itself—as an aside, as a pretty spiritually minded person i do genuinely feel marginalized and/or in a world that’s hostile to any sort of spirituality

regardless, this is all in line with the Kali Yuga, the irreligious will continue to spread and the sacred will continue to be lost to a select few/die out until eventually some sort of supernatural cataclysm comes through and resets the world at large-it's certainly going to be awhile so im pretty nihilistically bitter at watching religion fade out, but it is what it is really

Raiden

1y

"promoting Jesus"

8J6

1y

Our Lord and Savior is about to drop album of the year in moments

FREE

1y

That's what they called it themselves

saint dot edumist

1y

yeah… except atheistic regimes throughout history cough cough communism cough cough the holocaust were responsible for more death than just about any religion you could think of

i don’t twist that and say “well atheists are bloodthirsty amoral murderers” albeit i think your average one is pretty dumb as s***

Hippya

1y

My brother in Christ , read a book.

saint dot edumist

1y

you first, ive yet to meet a communist or an atheist with any knowledge on metaphysics or theology, have a nice day

Hippya

1y

Start with the dark ages attack on the scientific community.

saint dot edumist

1y

you mean when the Church was ruling?

Hippya

1y

Then if you wanna talk about slaves , then you can talk about how hitlers campaign was led on him touting to be a German christian , then most homegrown terrorist in this country are one religion or another.

saint dot edumist

1y

yep, famous Christian Hitler

saint dot edumist

1y

wait until big bro finds out that the attack on science was ACTUALLY by the Protestants versus the Catholics

or how the Big Bang was actually initially proposed by a Catholic priest in the first place

The StepFather

1y

I wanna see how bro respond. I see him going thread to thread trying to dunk on people, but I have yet to see him engage and show what that condescending energy is hiding

Respectfully

Hippya

1y

Your point was that atheists caused all the problems. Lol you just further proved my point that religion causes 99% of problems in the worlds history.

Hippya

1y

It’s interesting I think he’s trolling. Also it seems the church forced Stalin out for having illegal literature which in turn could have forced him to come up with his communistic values. So that’s killing another of his theories.