The thing I love about religion is that there are thousands of them, yet yours is the correct one? Those are pretty low odds.
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2024
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The odds dip much further due to all of them being made up horse shit.
Hey! Don't insult horsies! They have much better religions.
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Yeah... "thousands of them" is overexaggerated. That being said, there have been a lot of faiths, myths, and mysticism throughout human history..
Here's an interesting timeline of belief systems.
I grew up Mormon and had a hard time believing that we were the "true church," "taught the true teachings.," etc., when I learned about how many different current and old religions and beliefs people had throughout human history. Cracks started to form in my faith foundation then. The following thoughts throw me for a loop back then. Exibit A. Exibit B. Exibit C.
There are over 40,000 sects of christianity last I knew. I'm going to say thousands isn't an overexageration. I won't consider religions the same if they have different beliefs.
Part of it is probably what determines what counts as “a religion.” My mind went to indigenous groups in the Americas, Australia, and Africa - thousands seems appropriate there!
Historically, religions as practiced on the ground were very syncretistic - like in the late medieval Muslim world, a Christian might carry a verse from the Koran as a charm or Muslim might visit a rabbi. Not to say that there wasn’t religious persecution and attempts by religious authorities to make sure that everyone was following the rules, but the species of religious fundamentalism we see today is a product of the 19th century and widespread literacy.
Even within a modern Protestant church of a specific denomination, there’s probably a mix of people who are universalists, into spiritualism, etc.
I don’t really think religions can be considered discrete in a way that one could report “there are X religions in the world.”
That timeline leaves off The Babis, The Baha'is, The Mormons, and tons of fracturing among Christians and Muslims, that I am aware of.
It also ignores Shintoism, Daoism, and the other far eastern belief systems.
Also I am intentionally not counting Scientology, because that was a bet.
Do you happen to know where a higher resolution version of this image is?
I am not very knowledgeable about religion but that chart buckets European Animism as one "Religion" while I think it was not organized and refers to the disparate beliefs of folks in the area at the time, so one could argue that there were lots of version I think.
Regardless really fascinating info.
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This is why Pascal's Wager is bullshit. Well one reason why.
Overr 18,000 at last count
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We protect them with a piece of paper that says no guns please. The thoughts and prayers come later.
Yeah come on. You don't get thoughts and/or prayers until after you're dead. You think they're just handing these things out? You gotta earn it!
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What a great sign!
If only they would use ACTUAL thoughts! Sure and actual prayers too, as in the kind that require you to stand the fuck up and do something, instead of asking to be given all the credit as if they had. e.g., you just paid off my college tuition? THANK YOU! Oh wait, you only offered me your thoughts and prayers about my potentially lifelong crippling debt situation. Nvm, you may fuck all the way off now!:-(
The true power of Facebook can finally be realized!
1 Like = 1 Prayer = 1 less illegal immigrant stealing our jobs/raping our women/dealing drugs/etc
Donald Trump even shared this fun statistic: 80% of the women crossing the border to come to America report being raped. Let that sink in... (by who?)
As someone who grew up in an Evangelical church, I've never in my life seen the kind of prayers that "require you to stand the fuck up and do something."
Not once.
The Serenity Prayer I think perfectly encapsulates what prayer should be:
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and Wisdom to know the difference.
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I think the right is pretty consistent on this.
They want more guns in schools AND at the border.
Prob just drunk but this hits home. I have some dumbass people I care about who boast about the gun freedoms of Texas while having children that are the same age as the children in the Uvalde shooting.
Note that while their kids are the same age--they weren't there for the shooting. As always, no fucks shall be given until it's affected them personally. Even then--only as few as necessary are allotted to cover themselves and their inner circle.
Guess who Uvalde voted in during the gubnatorial race in 2022? Fucking Greg "It Could Have Been Worse" Abbott
It doesn't even matter if you WERE there for the shooting. I was honestly baffled that he took that county. The majority of adults in that community really came together and went "Yup. Abbott is clearly working!" Ugh.
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God isn't powerful enough to stop immigrants.
Or he/she/it doesn't care.
Or he's on their side :D
Jesus certainly is.
Those "Jesus was an immigrant" ads are suddenly nowhere to be found.
◦•●◉✿ Pray for the border ✿◉●•◦
Don’t give them ideas. They will arm the students next.
They tried to arm teachers. And they put cops in the hallways. I love the idea of this, but it's wildly tone deaf. In any case, "thoughts and prayers" is closer to what's needed - smaller class sizes and better mental health support - than whatever this guy thinks is the solution.
Like I said: I agree with what he's trying to say, but it's extremely poorly thought through and said.
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Great RT
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