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Why are Christians so full of themselves? (hexbear.net)
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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 ๐Ÿค”

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[โ€“] robotElder2@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago

The purpose of a system is what it does and the purpose of Christianity is to control women, abuse children, and murder queer people. All large, longstanding christian institutions adapt to serve these goals and must do so in order to survive. The larger and more longstanding the institution the greater the degree of its adaptation. This naturally leads to the cultivation of followers who will support and carry out such things in a mutual feedback loop. (Something something dialectics) Their belief in their own inate superiority is a part of that. One which meshes very well with white supremacy, hence its even greater prevalence in settler colonies.