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This made me think. What do Christians even think how different groups of people came to be? They don't believe in evolution and they clearly believe humanity started off with only two people. And after you've cleared that hurdle, why do some groups suffer much more than others? Suffering used to be a punishment by god himself in their own stories.
For some it was punishment. Like “these people were bad so they are all dark skinned now.”
Mormonism even had that as established doctrine for awhile.
According to Genesis Noah had three sons, whose descendents repopulated the earth.
One day Noah got shitfaced drunk and Ham saw him naked and now all his descendents are cursed.
That was one of the justifications for slavery.
They think skin color was the mark Asshole put on Cain for being a jealous
farmermurderer.Edit to add some context- Cain was a farmer and gave a sacrifice of grain. Abel was a shepherd and gave a sacrifice of sheep. Asshole likes the smell of fried mutton, rejects Cains offering (even if it was just as or more work…)
Obviously it’s just a myth; though it’s one used to establish Israelites as being superior to Canaanites and the other semites in the area.
It’s only with the meeting of people who weren’t brown that the mark became assumed as skin color.
My late Catholic grandmother believed this. She read some book by a Catholic "mystic" who had visions. Surprise! Racist visions.
ugh. go to any poor catholic neighborhood and you will see psychic shops that drape their stuff in saints and such.
Depends on who you ask, christians and jews and i think islam saw black people as punishment from god. Whoch is super cool, obviously
"Christians, Jews, and I... saw black people as a punishment from God."
nice lmao (this is a joke i know youre not being racist)
Tower of Babylon seems as far as that thought goes.
Kind of. The Tower of Babel was an explanation as to why other languages existed and a lesson in hubris against your deity.
Most Christians accept the reality of the evolution, you know. Most of them aren't literalists who believe that Adam and Eve actually existed.
And for the ones delusional enough to believe that, they generally believe that God decided everything, so I guess he could have decided that some people kind of evolved, but under the direct control of God, and not by natural selection.
Yeah, that was a fun moment when Pope Francis declared that Adam and Eve were not real. Dude, your firm just spent two thousand years killing and torturing countless thousands of people due to the concept of the "original sin", which had been committed by a fictional character??!?
did he get rid of the doctorine of original sin?
Didn't know that, I haven't actually met a lot of religious people. But like, that begs the question, why wouldn't God write literal instructions if he would wants you to follow them? If Adam and Eve are meant as a parable (why else include it if it's neither true nor teaches something), he basically wrote a fanfiction about himself to get a point across that could have been written directly. There are no bonus points for creative writing if you punish people with eternal damnation for misinterpreting it.
Mate, I have to stop you right there because you seem to be applying logic to religion. It doesn’t work. And yes, being religious requires you to allow so much mental gymnastics that it’s simply incomprehensible, that’s why we are not.
Their whole „system of beliefs” is riddled with inconsistencies and paradoxes that are so easy to think of that Im still surprised these people can sleep at night. Literal 6 year old level santa clause bullshit that they simply allow to be the „reasoning” for their lives. Except they don’t because every christian strays from their gods instructions in one way or another simply cherry-picking things they want to follow and believe and those they do not. It’s fucked up that adults do it but we even let them run our fucking countries.
Religion truly is a disease on intelligence.
oh man you are so spot on. I remember a back and forth I had about me saying jesus espoused pacifism and a religious guy told me the turn the other cheek was meant to not be taken literally but a later thing where jesus is being taken away and he told his disciples he will have to arm themselves should (this part mind you is when he told the one to put away the sword and healed the soldiers ear). Its definitely what do I want the end thing to be and now let me interpret to reach that.
The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it. ~Mark Twain
thank you. Its funny. As a kid having to read the books I did not like the man but as an adult who hears more and more of his quotes I love him. Quotes like this should be the required reading before reading his books.
Mysterious ways
Don't think too critically of the Bible, you'll end up an atheist.
Most believe in micro evolution but not macro evolution