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I dont remember the age, but it was before Kindergarten, thought men came into the house at night to load the next days shows into the TV.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There is a god who created the world and watches our every move and we as humans are fallen creations who can't live up to his super holy expectations with our sinful lives. But don't despair just yet because that holy god has set up a blood sacrifice solution involving his own son and all you have to do to not end up in eternal damnation is to believe in the blood magic of a god for which no evidence exists whatsoever outside of the ancient myths of primitive bronze age men - a god who chooses to remain hidden for some weird reason although he apparently wants to be worshipped and believed in. Easy right? Also, if your life isn't working out quite right for some reason, that's certainly your own fault because the lord's blessings are very dependent on you doing those very fuzzily defined Jesus-ing activities right and you're quite obviously doing something very wrong, have sins in your life, aren't believing hard enough, doing it with an impure heart or whatever...

You couldn't make this shit up if you tried!

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty sure people did make it up tho. So your closing remark isn't entirely accurate...

Also, you forgot that he loves us, but if we don't love him back just the right way he'll throw us into a lake of fire, because threatening eternal torture is just so lovely โค๏ธ

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The intricacies of god's love are another rabbit hole altogether. You could write whole books about it... oh wait, people actually did! ๐Ÿ˜„