And for any Muslims living in that area? Well, I guess they just didn't pray hard enough. Skill issue, really.
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Ohh that's just god's will. Those heavily injured survivor? That's god's given challenge. Those survived unharmed? That's god's protection. I live in muslim majority country, and that's basically every time there's a disaster, comment will varied depend on the area.
Allah’s will ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Maybe their sin was living in a Kafir country and not moving to an Islamic one. (if asked by hardcore Muslims)
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I've already heard some Nationalist Christians (Nat-Cs) going on about the same thing, just because they "weren't a Christian nation"
It's never limited to one religion, and it's usually the abrahamic ones that are the worst.
This has been a growing thing for awhile. I've been an audio engineer for 16 years. It's common for audio engineers to work in churches for our first 10+ years because it's stable work in an inherently difficult industry to get started in. I amplify things for a living, but I draw the line at hate speech, so I've always left church gigs after they do hate speech, so I've worked at a lot of churches... They used to put on a big show of forced compassion for victims of extreme weather events. The last three churches I worked at shifted to the "well if they would've worshiped the TRUE god, they probably would've lived" shit during demented don's first term. I haven't taken another church gig since the industry bounced back from covid and never will. Church people are horrible.
I worked the sound board for my parents church for the better part of a decade as a teenager into early 20s.
When I left after a guest pastor was allowed to do a sermon on how we should all hate lgbt groups and minorities because "God put us in a position of power over them for a reason" I swapped a bunch of cables around, turned every dial to max, and left important cables unplugged and mixed with similar looking cables.
I denied doing anything when my parents brought it up, but since I didn't do anything illegal like breaking equipment I wasn't worried about it.
I guess they tried to fix it themselves, which caused issues with the board and ended up replacing most of the sound system anyway before the end of the year while spending millions of dollars on church expansion instead of helping the community (which they claimed for years that they were doing despite straight up telling homeless people attending services they needed to leave)
Hero
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I was raised to be Christian, but someone screwed up and taught me to care about others instead of teaching me that God wants me to profit from their suffering. I think because of that I could never look at it the way they do.
During one of the times that Haiti was the "focus of God's wrath", I said that it seemed more like a consequence of our godlessness rather than theirs.
If God can let innocent people die when we care about them, why do we assume God is punishing the people who die that we don't care about. Maybe God is taking the people we abuse away from us. Maybe the lesson we should be taking is that we should do more to stop poverty and illness and suffering rather than patting ourselves on the back for being lucky in our birth.
Of course, I don't actually believe in God, so I don't make those arguments. However, those would be the arguments I'd make if I did believe.
Yeah. Abrahamic religions, followed really nearly by Hinduism.
Never heard of Zoroastrians or Shintoists saying shit like that
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These are the same people that tell me that me getting repeatedly raped by my female, alcoholic, bipolar caregiver when I was a child, is actually a blessing from God.
Don’t be silly, women can’t rape people.
/s because people actually believe this shit.
Damn, I get hate for this even from many atheists. They think I am being misogynist but I do believe any gender can rape anyone.
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Tbf, allah wasn't doing shit here either.
Why did they translate every word from Arabic to English except for "Allah", which they transliterated?
Probably to differentiate which specific god they mean?
Presumably they don't realize that Christians, Jews and Muslims all pray to the same God that Moses prayed to, just in different ways.
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Allah must not be confused by other names
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Hey this is kind of testable. We could run data analytics to see which higher powers people are praying to, cross-reference that with natural disaster occurrences and narrow down to find out which is the one and true!
My hypothesis is that no member of any major religion would like the results that come out. 😎
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Those are the kindest, most wonderful people. That anyone would disparage them in death like this is just horrifying.
Who was it? Was this part of the disaster in Nepal? I can't really tell much from the pixels
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Plenty of disasters that impacted mostly Christian’s can be easily pointed out
Ah but they were not true Scotsmen.
Very easy to find someone to get mad at on the Internet. And, in the modern state of social media, 9 times out of 10 it's just a bot account fishing for human reactions.
Found the bot
I thought Nepal was Hindu
Nepal is a secular country. It was a hindu nation, and still is hindu majority. But most new generation are secular-hindu, as in hindu culture but not religious. Similar to how someone might celebrate Christmas but not do religious things associated with it
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People and their obsession with finding pattern and meaning.
Muslims, Christians, Jews, all believe in the same rotten core, and revel in the murder and torture of non-believers.
If the Abrahamic religions all come from the same source, which they do as far as my understanding goes; same dish, different recipes, then that would be Yahweh, a god of war and weather.
In the oldest biblical texts, Yahweh possesses attributes that were typically ascribed to deities of weather and war, fructifying the Land of Israel and leading a heavenly army against the enemies of the Israelites.[13] Many scholars think that the Israelites probably engaged in polytheistic practices that were common across ancient Semitic religion,[14] because the Israelite religion was a derivative of the Canaanite religion and included a variety of deities from it, including El, Asherah, and Baal.[15] Yahweh likely became conflated with El in later centuries, taking his place as the head of the pantheon in the Israelite religion. El's consort Asherah became associated with Yahweh, and El-linked epithets, such as ʾĒl Šadday (אֵל שַׁדַּי), came to be applied to him alone.[16][17] Characteristics of other deities, such as Asherah and Baal, were also selectively absorbed in conceptions of Yahweh.[18][19][20]
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