I’m at a new job and working on a Saturday. This place is very “Christian-values blah blah blah” and at the end of our work day one of the supervisors is holding a prayer about “please God let this _ go smoothly and thank you for helping us etc.”
This isn’t the first time I’ve sat at a prayer that’s this selfish and asinine. Pretty sure I’ve been in a prayer thanking Jesus for some hot wings.
This kind of prayer was given today. Y’know, the day where some pretty awful things happened in a South American country but who cares about that /s
I don’t get Christians. They say all this nice stuff about their religion but the worship songs are very individualistic, talking about “Jesus saved me”, “my relationship with god”, “thank you God for x”. Never about other people. And of course none of the prayers today were for IDK the people who fucking bombed and murdered today in our bloody quest for oil?!?
Do these people really think their God gives a fuck if their hot wings taste good or if the printer works in the office today? If you really believed in this Devine being wouldn’t you want it to focus on the important things like IDK making sure everyone has food and shelter and maybe making life less miserable for the homeless people? WTF is wrong with Christians? Is this banal kind of “worship” also common in other religions or is this yet another reason to escape the U.S South 🤔
You know how people get ai psychosis from being told they are right too much? Imagine if it was decades of church
Yes. Decades of thinking every other thought you had was actually from divine inspiration. People come to see their lives as a story of redemption, salvation, and power as a child of the living God. It has consequences.
A friend of mine got depressed and ended his life when he fell out of the church and no longer has that guiding sense of purpose to keep him moving forward.
It is an efficient technology
I’m really glad that I had an understanding of my inner voice pretty early and they couldn’t get me with the “word of God” shit. They just kept trying to tell 8 year old me that the voices in my head were God speaking to me and I was like “no, that’s just my thoughts, I’m in control of those”
If you can convince someone of that, and bifrucate their internal monologue in a way that they have a version of thought that’s controlled by you, then you’ve won. It’s really hard for people to recover from that.