If you are a Christian, you should be absolutely horrified by the reality of God’s coming judgement, since most major denominations of Christianity do not allow for salvation for any other. There are 40,000 denominations (slightly less). It’s highly unlikely yours is the right one.
There are a few exceptions. The Holy See recognizes the Orthodoxies, but not Protestants.
And Universalists offer salvation to everyone, even if they’re not Christian.
(If God was judging us, They might have given us clear instructions.)
Well given the whole tower of Babel thing I’m inclined to think that God just likes sewing chaos. So I suspect none of the denominations on that “right” denomination
Sowing, but sewing kind of works, too.
most major denominations of Christianity do not allow for salvation for any other. There are 40,000 denominations (slightly less). It’s highly unlikely yours is the right one.
Idk, bro. I’m Catholic by confirmation, Jewish by birth, and I accepted into my soul the blessed light of Islam one time in college. Pretty sure I’ve got the main bases covered.
The Holy See recognizes the Orthodoxies, but not Protestants.
The Holy See recognizes the Bishopry of the Orthodoxies (and the Anglicans). They dispute the ministry of Protestants, not the membership.
That’s better than I hoped. Do you have a source?
Didn’t the Holy See repeatedly excommunicate entire countries for being the wrong faith?
ETA: I know that fundamentalist Protestant churches like the non-denominational Evangelicals are strictly extra ecclesiam nulla salus, and are even harsh on their own parishioners.
It’s kinda weird since Sola fide and Sola Scriptura are fundamental doctrine of Protestantism, you are supposed to decide what scripture means and how to get salvation, but woe if you dare suggest this to your pastor.
Hahahahahaha don’t hurt me sky daddy
Omfg laughing so hard
Is Santa gonna come get me too? And the tooth fairy
Hahahahaha
Honestly, of all three, the Tooth Fairy is probably the scariest if real. God couldn’t care less about you. Santa visits only once a year when sober, but only if you’re sleeping. The Tooth Fairy? How many teeth you got???
Pratchett’s Hogfather has an interesting take on that.
Spoilers...
The original Tooth Fairy (the whole thing is now a franchise started by him) is a bogeyman who realised milk teeth, being parts of the body, could be used to control the people they belonged to through sympathetic magic and, lacking a proper occupation due to people no longer believing in bogeymen, decided to collect them and keep them safe to prevent anyone from controlling their previous owners.
Also tooth fairies tend to carry a pair of pliers, in case they’re short on change and need to take an extra tooth.
I mean, wouldn’t the tooth fairy be like easy to kill.
Why would you kill it? You can’t eat it without your teeth.
I guess it depends on what they look like…
Be nice - pretty much everybody believes something that’s wrong.
That to one side, those are not the same things at all. There’s evidence for Santa and the Tooth Fairy.
That’s like a child telling me Santa’s not coming this year.
Why should I be afraid? Isn’t he like really merciful and stuff?
reads bible
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Yeah, the God of the Bible is a monster.
That’s why there was a whole school of thought back in antiquity called Gnosticism where they thought the god of the bible was an evil demiurge that had stolen their souls and locked them in this hellish earth to torture them lol
Shit, are we actually in hell right now?
Would that really be all that surprising?
Shiver me timbers, the God that doesn’t bother preventing rape and genocide may lift a finger against me. Must mean I’m a good guy.
Religious people like being watched and punished.
lol I mean… same
christofascists making bioweapons or dirty bombs or some shit, wants to murder millions, but it’s not their genocidal fantasies - it’s GOD.
sure bud.
Idk if god isn’t some morally bankrupt joke and actually thought about my life, I think I’d be ok, I volunteer regularly, I give to charity, I like to do random acts of kindness, I’m always ready to lend a hand or a shoulder to cry on. I believe very strongly in the power of community and I’m a lot more culturally christian than most believers I know, I like all the love your neighbor stuff, do unto others, what we do to the least of us… I feed the hungry, I give drink to the thirsty, I welcome the stranger, I clothe the naked, the only one I don’t do is visit those in prison. If god is a good and moral being, I’ll be ok and if it turns out they don’t exist, well I’ll have lived a good life
I saw this thing once where a christian group had done an experiment where they interviewed people and they found that “people who said they didn’t believe in god felt uneasy when saying it” and used that to conclude that they were afraid of gods judgement. No you fucking idiots. They’re uneasy about YOU!!!
The shear lack of cognitive empathy here is mind blowing. They cannot fathom a world in which they might be wrong. I mean there’s faith and then there is this. I have faith the sun will rise tomorrow, but I can imagine a scenario, however contrived, where that doesn’t happen.
Why would I be afraid of the Abrahamic God’s judgement when I know that wily Odin is forever forestalling Ragnarok?
If we’re being real Odin would absolutely body the god of the bible in a Flyting.
I mean, that’s sort of by design.
The God of the New Testament throws fights all the time. All their favorite people are Martyrs. The greatest hits mostly involve dying and then doing benign miracles from beyond the grave.
idk if you know what a flyting is
But if you are a Christian, God might come and randomly tell you to murder your child or randomly rape you wife and you shall be fully accepting of that reality.
That’s unrealistic. You can’t rape your wife. You own her. It’s like saying masturbation is raping yourself. - MAGA
I should have made the grammar explicit:
- God might come and randomly tell you to murder your child
- God might randomly rape you wife
And yeah, if you are masturbating while not wanting to masturbate and don’t like it, then you are raping yourself.
Fully knowing that God is testing you, as part of a six way parlay against Satan God placed on Kalshi.
You’ll sacrifice a pure white lamb in your son’s stead. Or your best friend’s wife will secretly be into rape-play or something. Then you’ll continue to be one of the Chosen and blessings will accrue to you endlessly.
Point is it’ll all work out in the end. Or, if it doesn’t, God hasn’t really selected you to go to Heaven from the moment of your birth, so there’s nothing you could have done anyway.
God hasn’t really selected you to go to Heaven
well… not particularly into heaven anyway, so better of going with not trying in that direction.
No noes! Alduin will end us all! HA
The righteous badass power people try to project into their keystrokes just doesn’t come out of the screen.
The Easter Bunny is coming! The Easter Bunny is coming!
