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Sibelius Fan

(24,630 posts)
Sat Nov 9, 2024, 03:43 PM Nov 9

Most Americans believe in imaginary gods, an imaginary heaven and an imaginary hell.

So why are we surprised when they cast their votes to battle imaginary problems, or to support imaginary policies? Their religious beliefs predispose them to being suckered, to believe in make believe. The more fantastic the story, the better.

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Most Americans believe in imaginary gods, an imaginary heaven and an imaginary hell. (Original Post) Sibelius Fan Nov 9 OP
Yup. IrishAfricanAmerican Nov 9 #1
They love their make-believe garbage man and make-believe McD's fry cook Blue Owl Nov 9 #2
Also they can shift their devotion duncang Nov 9 #3
And their Old Testament deity is a sociopathic, narcissistic, whiny, liddle bitch, just like you know who. (nt) LeftyLucie Nov 9 #4
Yahweh is bad, but Jesus is worse. Sibelius Fan Nov 9 #5
And, he needs MONEY! (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Nov 10 #11
Double cultists. SamKnause Nov 9 #6
And their tax exempt status BOSSHOG Nov 9 #7
I don't know if I made it up or heard it somewhere , but johnp3907 Nov 9 #8
He's Mammon Blue Full Moon Nov 9 #9
Well said. What a succinct analogy. When I was a young child, too young for church, I was in the kid's Exp Nov 10 #10

Blue Owl

(54,726 posts)
2. They love their make-believe garbage man and make-believe McD's fry cook
Sat Nov 9, 2024, 03:50 PM
Nov 9

I had the misfortune and horror of seeing a MAGAts personal FB page a year or so ago and every image of tRump was a photoshopped, manufactured image of him as Superman, Rambo, the Jon McNaughton portraits of him with the founding fathers, etc. etc. etc. Not one of them was real. They live in an imaginary fairy land where he is good, and the Democrats are evil. Talk about brainwashing……

duncang

(3,591 posts)
3. Also they can shift their devotion
Sat Nov 9, 2024, 03:57 PM
Nov 9

To an orange Jesus just because he can pepper spray protesters to walk across a park instead of water to hold a bible upside down in front of a church. Proving he’s a good Christian.

Sibelius Fan

(24,630 posts)
5. Yahweh is bad, but Jesus is worse.
Sat Nov 9, 2024, 04:35 PM
Nov 9

In the OT, once you died you slept with your forebears. It was gentle Jesus, meek and mild who invented and preached an eternity in hellfire for those who did not confess him as savior. But he loves you!

johnp3907

(3,888 posts)
8. I don't know if I made it up or heard it somewhere , but
Sat Nov 9, 2024, 06:41 PM
Nov 9

I always say the biggest problems in the world are solutions to problems that don’t exist.

Exp

(10 posts)
10. Well said. What a succinct analogy. When I was a young child, too young for church, I was in the kid's
Sun Nov 10, 2024, 11:57 AM
Nov 10

bible classes / nursery school while my parents and older siblings were in the church. Even then I internally questioned why those in charge thought we were ALL so gullible. I knew it then.

My family stopped going to church soon after, my father did feel that all humans were 'connected', but that church and organized religion a lot of baloney.

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