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andythenerd:

“Do not send money to Christian charities for Japan earthquake. We need blankets and food, not bibles and Fundamentalist propaganda.” ~Japan Photos on Twitter

Don’t worry, Japan Photos, I donated to your Red Cross.

I fail to see the point of swooping in on people just shaken by tragedy and taking that opportunity to get in their face about their beliefs. Are Christians taking this route preaching that they must accept Jesus into their hearts asap, or else encounter even more suffering than they’ve just gone through? Sounds like a far cry from true charity. People need some breathing room, not an onslaught of religious pressure during one of their most vulnerable moments. All they’re going to want right now is a comforting blanket wrapped around them and a full belly.

azspot:

The Must See Chart (This Is What Class War Looks Like)

I’m sure this is simplified and I can’t attest as to how completely accurate it is, but it gets the idea across. America is controlled by the wealthy.

sept 11th (NY) Jan 11th (Haiti) and March 11th (Japan)… Weird. Luke 21:10-11 Then Jesus said to his disciples: “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be great earthquakes’, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven. ‘Jesus says for behold I come quickly,’ [so ask yourself are you ready?] *Sad to say Many won’t REBLOG this.

Disasters have happened on other days than something with an 11 tagged onto it (from an arbitrary, poorly designed calender). The fires in Russia, which were quite devastating, began in late July 2010. As did the floods of Pakistan. Certainly not on any 11th day. Granted, the death tolls from this collection of events have been high, but that’s due more to the increase in urbanization. More people in one place means more people die when something hits that place. There have been many terrible things happening in the world and to humanity for a very long time. Nations have certainly battled against one another since they began. None of this is new. Even this overreacting and deciding that the end times approach is nothing new.

Christianity itself gained speed after the damaging disruption of a volcano that blotted out the sun and darkened the sky, which led to an extreme famine, and all this led to something we all ought to be at least familiar with; the Black Death plague. Christianity was intensely geared towards the belief that the world was about to end, because life was absolutely terrible and it certainly looked like the end of the world. Christianity supported the idea that there was an afterlife, that this dark, disgusting life wasn’t all there was. It was about preparing people for the end.

And again, this is nothing new. Christianity isn’t alone here. People have always been afraid of the end and religion has always been there to pop up as an explanation, to predict end times coming, to prepare people for it, to provide empty comfort that it won’t actually be the end. But it also serves to rile people up, scare them into acting ‘good’ so they’ll constantly be on their toes and ready to be taken into heaven.

It’s been some centuries now, with several disasters and circumstances that fit what the Bible claims, what many religions doctrines have claimed. Yet, the end of the world has not come.

Do you want to be gullible to such scare tactics? Don’t you want to trust yourself to be a good person without someone telling you to be? Do you want to waste your time obsessing over signs and predictions, worrying about an afterlife, when you could be concentrating on living this life? The end of the world may not be around the corner, but the end of the individual always is. Just live.

unconsciouskoine:

Juqueri Psychiatric Hospital (1989), ©Claudio Edinger.

shanelope:

fuck yes, DC.