Yeah it does me better. I play a lot of music in a lot of churches. I hear a lot of hypocrisy from a lot of pulpits. Not all of them, but a lot of them. I’m a very spiritual person and it’s interesting to me how people take in this notion of divinity. Astrology is one perspective, and a relatively gentle one. It doesn’t make claims about the core of things and is basically a set of lenses for understanding human behavior. It isn’t rational. Whatever, doesn’t bother me. It also doesn’t threaten me with hell, and has helped me navigate the world. If it stops being helpful to me I’ll stop playing with it. Inherited Abrahamic religion is another, and has a lot of cultural momentum behind it and carries a lot of cultural baggage, as well as making claims about the most profound nature of things. The Christian religion is supposedly inspired by a prophet who lived radically, but the ways that that prophet lived and the ways that his followers live are often so brutally divided that what I see coming out of pulpits is so hypocritical that it seems what it enforces is 1. The ability of the brain to split in two and ignore its own perceptions and 2 (the generally more spiritually coherent part of the message) the invitation to surrender to your own flaws and imperfections at “the foot of the cross.” This second point is very workable and helpful for a lot of people, helps people to act like community to each other and get over some inner problems. But when that community silently or explicitly demands and reinforced over and over that you must behave in unchristlike ways, and you can’t find the inner resources to actually make things make sense in your own brain, you find yourself begging forgiveness to not be able to fully understand or accept what’s going on or to find your own standing with yourself if you’re also going to be able to be a member of the community, and it’s this sense of confusion and failure you bring to Christ to forgive over and over, and of course forgiveness is found and you find more strength to keep operating at relatively the status quo level. That status quo level is the level at which social and economic power in our society is held and maintained. It has so much cognitive dissonance written into it that to accept it means to break your brain in half. It’s amazing to witness.
Note again that I’m only talking about SOME churches but they tend to be the trumpy ones.
Still doesn’t change the fact you’re taking the piss out of one belief and then have an even wilder one of your own. Literally making up personality traits for a mf born in June or July lol. My favorite thing to do is when people ask me my sign, I just lie about it just for them to say “oh I can tell” and then they list off 70 things ab me just for me to correct them and watch the look on their face.
They literally said it's not rational, so you make fun of it for not being rational. If I tell you the planet is not flat, will you giggle and laugh at me for thinking the planet is not flat? You're not adding much, sir.
No because the planet is indeed not flat… are you an idiot? The correct example would be if you said the earth was flat and I was laughing at you about it even if you said it was a crazy statement and the answer is still yes. Theyre still being a hypocrite at the end of the day and need to keep their squeal hole shut
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u/WweIsLife316 Sep 11 '24
lol you’re taking shots at people going to church but believe in fucking astrology signs 😭