Or rather, babel-ing about.
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Santa Claus for grown ups…
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And don’t forget:
Matthew 7:16
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do they gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles
It’s thorns and thistles all the way down.
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oww Owww OWWWW
Quit it.
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Christ, what an asshole.
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Re: faith vs. works:
Why Did God Create Atheists?
There is a famous story told in Chassidic literature that addresses this very question.
The Master teaches the student that God created everything in the world to be appreciated, since everything is here to teach us a lesson.
One clever student asks “What lesson can we learn from atheists? Why did God create them?”
The Master responds “God created atheists to teach us the most important lesson of them all — the lesson of true compassion. You see, when an atheist performs an act of charity, visits someone who is sick, helps someone in need, and cares for the world, he is not doing so because of some religious teaching. He does not believe that God commanded him to perform this act. In fact, he does not believe in God at all, so his acts are based on an inner sense of morality. And look at the kindness he can bestow upon others simply because he feels it to be right.”
“This means,” the Master continued “that when someone reaches out to you for help, you should never say ‘I pray that God will help you.’ Instead for the moment, you should become an atheist, imagine that there is no God who can help, and say ‘I will help you.’”
— Martin Buber, Tales of Hasidim Vol. 2 (1991)
Pseudo-Christians like Boebert generate atheists, and that’s a good thing.
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Also, a big chunk of why so many insist that no atheist can ever do a good deed or have compassion, they can only be self-serving. Because, of course, they cannot imagine being any other way themselves if they were not threatened with eternal damnation. But that’s not being compassionate, that is the ultimate self-serving. “I’m only being nice to you to avoid hellfire” is not the flex they think it is.
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Exactly.
“It is impossible to live a moral life without Jesus” starts to sound worryingly like “The threat of eternal damnation is all that keeps me from being the next Ted Bundy.”
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