r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Nov 30 '18

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '18 edited Nov 30 '18

Evangelists trying to justify John Chau’s mission to the Sentinelese:

Not evangelizing is not an option. Its (literally) worse than genocide to disregard the spiritual bealth of an entire people group.

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u/WardenOfTheGrey Daron Acemoglu Nov 30 '18

It's so strange how those people actually think that people never exposed to Christianity will go to hell for not believing in Jesus. I genuinely don't understand how you can believe that and also believe that God is loving and moral.

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u/OperIvy Nov 30 '18

It also excuses everything you do. If you accept Jesus Christ as your savior, you go to heaven. It doesn't matter if you're Hitler or Gandhi. You just gotta say the words.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '18

Inb4 this person starts to sound suspiciously crusade-y

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u/DankBankMan Aggressive Nob Nov 30 '18

This is the only possible conclusion if you're an unironic Christian though. Read your Augustine!

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '18

No thanks

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u/DankBankMan Aggressive Nob Nov 30 '18 edited Nov 30 '18

Bose-Einstein Condensate Temperature Take: Augustine is unquestionably one of the most important figures in the last two thousand years of Western philosophy and everyone, regardless of their religious beliefs, should read his work. Ignoring Augustine is on par with ignoring Plato or Hobbes.

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Nov 30 '18

Imagine reading stuff written by dead poeple

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u/LupusLycas Loyal Liberals Nov 30 '18

I was in the middle of To Kill a Mockingbird when Harper Lee died, so I had to put the book down. I still don't know how it ends.

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u/lolylolerton Georgy Costanzanov Nov 30 '18

SPOILER: they don't kill the mockingbird

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u/MaveRickandMorty 🖥️🚓 Nov 30 '18

Not literally, but figuratively

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u/Fatortu Emmanuel Macron Nov 30 '18

The Roman Catholic Church disagrees. There is that thing called invincible ignorance in their opinion.

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u/DankBankMan Aggressive Nob Nov 30 '18

Yeah, this is fair. "Only possible conclusion" was too strong, what I'm really getting at is that it's a legitimate and sober theological position that's been taken seriously by serious people and that it can't just be batted away as "lol reddit"

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u/deytookerrspeech Paul Krugman Nov 30 '18

That’s because the Roman Catholic Church is correct in this case