I asked one “so when do I actually die?” and they couldn’t comprehend that I didn’t want to exist forever
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If there is heaven and there are people there, it's already a problem for me. No need to add other things.
When I was fairly young my mom described Christian heaven. I remember struggling with the idea of not struggling and being happy all the time. Then she hit me with if someone you love doesn't make it to heaven you forget them. That's when the fracture began for me.
Severance
Basically heaven is a mindfuck.
It really is. It's not even a pleasant thought experiment.
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It's only "communism" if the equality goes to individuals outside of your group. If your group gets the benefits, well, that's because you're awesome and you deserve it; but fuck those other guys.
I was going to upvote but you were right at 666 so I couldn't bring myself to
who gives a fuck what a stupid book written by idiot camel herders from 3000 years ago says? who even fucking cares one single fucking iota? seriously. WHO? slap the fucking piss out of the person that does.
destroy all abrahamic religions for the sake of humanity. no fucking mercy.
Holy Reddit atheists, Batman
Yeah. They’re the worst. They make it difficult to have actual atheistic views.
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Do we have to censor the word communism now?
Can’t have designer outrage without it.
Self censor so hot right now!
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To be fair, the heaven of the Bible is neither stateless nor classless. "The nations" are still present in Revelation 21 and 22, and inequality in heaven is a common theme in Jesus's parables.
"The nations" is just fancy for "non Jews". Remember that the bible predates modern nation states by more than a millennium.
inequality in heaven is a common theme in Jesus's parables.
Is that so? I can think of the story with the lamps where it's about getting into the kingdom of god or the treasure in the field where it's about finding the kingdom of god. Or that the poor will inherit the kingdom of god while rich people cannot get into it. Nothing about inequality inside the kingdom of god.
You have to keep in mind that the kingdom of god isn't really heaven as we think of it even tho Matthew uses the wording kingdom of heaven (to avoid the word god as a good jew). We think of heaven as life after death but the kingdom of god is on earth when Jesus returns and the dead arise and he builds his kingdom here.
"Least"/"Greatest" in "the kingdom of heaven" is a construction that appears at least once off the top of my head, Matthew 5:19. I'm sure there are more. But also, Jesus is depicted as a literal monarch and heaven a kingdom like you said, so there's at least one extra class right there.
There’s also 11 classes of angels in a ladder system under Jesus. My boys Metatron and Enoch up top if I’m not mistaken.
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This is really fascinating. I never heard of this.
Is there a non-religious, ELI5 resource I can read more about this?
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Communism in theory: A stateless, classless, moneyless utopia where everyone shares resources based on need. Communism in practice: Authoritarian regimes, economic inefficiency, suppression of dissent, and a state that never ‘withers away’ like Marx imagined.
Every major attempt, USSR, Maoist China, Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, has resulted in centralized power, mass repression, and economic collapse. The problem isn’t just ‘bad leaders’; it’s that a system requiring absolute cooperation and selflessness on a societal scale is fundamentally unworkable. Human nature, resource scarcity, and the need for incentives all get in the way.
So yeah, communism sounds nice on paper, but history proves it turns into a dystopia instead of a utopia every time.
We need to stop idealizing communism because it doesn't work.
Unchecked capitalism also leads to bad outcomes, including ecological collapse.
We need something that isn't "a handful of people have all the power"
Social democratic republic with heavy consumer backed regulation and woodchippers
It would be important that the regulation is constantly protected. The forces of greed will constantly be trying to dismantle it, and people are kind of stupid.
Maybe the woodchippers do some of the heavy lifting there, but you then need to make sure they don't get used for evil
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Like decentralized socialism?
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Based and food pilled
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I’ve come to the conclusion that Christians that vote republic just dissociate their “church” brain vs their non “church” brain. Their religious beliefs ONLY apply to religious things. Everything else just goes to whatever their true value system is.
I don't think most religious people have any beliefs, they just roll with whatever stances are currently popular amongst their peers. If a large enough number of their peers say their god says slavery is valid, then they will say slavery is valid, or a million other horrible things
True, I definitely think most religious people don’t think too much about what they’re believing in.
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Nah, they're the ones complaining jesus is too woke
I think this dude is incapable of dissociating, so he just forces his true value system onto his church beliefs. He will ignore the text that contradicts his own values. There’s definitely lots of people like that.
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Heaven is an autocratic police state though
Yup. The common answer to "why does evil exist" is that humans have free will.
Therefore it follows that if there is no sin in heaven, there is also no free will.
Ssshhh, you're not supposed to actually think it through!
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If i could take a moment to cite the opening to the lords prayer:
Our Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
The ability to make one being a christian not by default be a socialist as well is a continuous theological labor for the capitalist