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Jurgan
May 8, 2007

Just pour it directly into your gaping mouth-hole you decadent slut

AsInHowe posted:

It's essentially a bad and stupid reading of the story of Job, bringing things back to the Christian base.

By "bad and stupid," you mean completely backwards, correct? The whole point of Job (which most people forget/never knew) is that it's wrong to claim suffering people deserve what happened to them.

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Jurgan
May 8, 2007

Just pour it directly into your gaping mouth-hole you decadent slut

TROIKA CURES GREEK posted:

This all sounds like bible 101 , like are goons just discovering the basic tenets now? :shrug:

i mean if you actually believe in an afterlife it's pretty rational to not care much about any temporary pain in life because you will be rewarded with eternal bliss.

That's maybe an argument for ignoring your own pain, but it's straight up blasphemy to say you should ignore others' pain because it's only temporary. In both New and Old Testaments, it's abundantly clear that God commands His people to take care of the poor and see to their immediate needs. Way too many people ignore poverty and injustice because they're focused entirely on the afterlife.

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