amen
@jonson There are SO many better ways for God to get my attention that don't involve giving my husband a chronic illness. Do people who say these things think God is a dick??
I wish, I wish, I WISH I had the balls to post this to facebook. Alas, I have little desire to anger my "devout" friends more than I already have. Now if one of you guys wanted to post it on my timeline, I could pretend like I had nothing to do with it.
@TheStorm im your huckleberry. My FB (and real!) name is Jonathan Rouse, I'm the one with comic book drawing of a man with his head on a pillow as my profile pic. Shoot me a friend request and this pic gets posted to your timeline first thing.
@TheStorm @jonson is your huckleberry. His FB (and real!) name is Jonathan Rouse, he's the one with comic book drawing of a man with his head on a pillow as his profile pic. Shoot him a friend request and this pic gets posted to your timeline first thing.
@BennyTheIcepick He did & I did! Yay, new friend, and yay for pushing the buttons of some pro gun pricks on FB.
@BennyTheIcePick: Yes, Jonathan (@jonson)was nice enough to friend me on facebook and posted the image immediately. I "disappeared" off fb for a couple of hours (so I wouldn't "know" the image was there, and when I came back a couple of people I really liked asked me to remove it; told me that they had blocked it. While normally I'm all for pointing out the irony of the hateful Christians who use their religion as a weapon, I don't want to offend those that are faithful who do good in the world, so I removed it. Lesson learned.
"Do people who say these things think God is a dick??"
@theadriator It's bizarre, isn't it? I mean, my reading of the Bible is that, yeah, he's a pretty big asshole, but the thoughts n prayers ("TP") crowd doesn't usually acknowledge that up front.
@theadriator It's bizarre, isn't it? I mean, my reading of the Bible is that, yeah, he's a pretty big asshole, but the thoughts n prayers ("TP") crowd doesn't usually acknowledge that up front.
So long as your point is not to cause offense, but communicate, you do no wrong. So long as you speak your mind, but don't drown people in your opinion, you're just being a good human.
Taking offense at others for pointing out that something you do regularly has the opposite effect of your 'good' intentions should result in questions, comments, and if anything, thanks. Not damnation because you dared to acknowledge that other people might have other beliefs. That's selfish, and asinine.
Taking offense at others for pointing out that something you do regularly has the opposite effect of your 'good' intentions should result in questions, comments, and if anything, thanks. Not damnation because you dared to acknowledge that other people might have other beliefs. That's selfish, and asinine.
@TheStorm
I feel for you, though at the same time I envy you for not having cultivate a facebook echo chamber like I have.
I feel for you, though at the same time I envy you for not having cultivate a facebook echo chamber like I have.
@caitlinburke Exactly. It's weird. People will often say, in the same breath, some "God is love" shit combined with a "God killed innocent people with this hurricane because gays"-type explanation of the relationship between sin and something that couldn't possibly ever be evidence for climate change or explained by capital-S Science. I'm related to a lot of people who think like this, and the energy they have to spend on being in denial and avoiding cognitive dissonance is immense.
And yeah, from my reading of the Bible combined with listening to how my family and my husband's family explain everything that happens in life, I've come to view God as some emotionally immature, passive-aggressive asshole who has the power to make everything perfect all the time but gives kids terminal cancer because I like to watch nature shows on Netflix that acknowledge evolution as true.
I've met and am friends with religious people who are fantastic and not at all like that, but they're few and far between.
And yeah, from my reading of the Bible combined with listening to how my family and my husband's family explain everything that happens in life, I've come to view God as some emotionally immature, passive-aggressive asshole who has the power to make everything perfect all the time but gives kids terminal cancer because I like to watch nature shows on Netflix that acknowledge evolution as true.
I've met and am friends with religious people who are fantastic and not at all like that, but they're few and far between.
(Especially since my husband has MS and we get some of these phrases too often, mostly from our Christian family members...)