you are irreversibly saved; your sin is forgiven as you commit it; your enemies are robots piloted by Satan - ThreadSky

theophite.bsky.social • 23 days ago

you are irreversibly saved; your sin is forgiven as you commit it; your enemies are robots piloted by Satan

Reposted from Reconstructionist

a kind of degenerate calvinism or vice calvinism does seem like a thing that underpins modern evaneglicalism

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marisudris.bsky.social•23 days ago

"Pokemon are bad"
Something this years *bad thing* being the new Mark of the Beast.

johnqpublic.bsky.social•23 days ago

Sounds like Calvinball.

lhommedauphin.bsky.social•22 days ago

very simple message core to MAGA: You are pure and they are corrupt

conjurial.bsky.social•23 days ago

now you just gotta hear "saved" in the sense of a video game and the convergence between these people and the Silicon Valley Nietzscheans with their NPC bullshit makes a lot of sense

theophite.bsky.social•23 days ago

i feel like even my atheism is a tougher creed than that. there's no one to forgive me of even negligence.

jordantcarlson.bsky.social•23 days ago

there's a reason most of the respected atheist philosophers have been deeply humanist

amunicipalfox.bsky.social•23 days ago

Any ideology that asks less of you for having converted is a bad ideology.

hurricanexyz.bsky.social•23 days ago

Kinda clear at that point we're not in the moral philosophy game at all, huh?

egall.bsky.social•23 days ago

I remember reading a Calvinist biography of John Wesley, and one of the author's beefs with Wesley was along the lines of, "He was too worried about antinomianism! That's not actually something that Calvinists are susceptible to!" and, well,

yonderdavid.bsky.social•23 days ago

"Nemo bonus" has been swapped out in favor of "pobody's nerfect."

paranoia2k.bsky.social•22 days ago

Go to church on Sunday: get free reign to act like an unrepentant asshole for the week, especially to retail workers.

Yes, I work in retail, why do you ask?

nied.bsky.social•23 days ago

Also Dude "robots piloted by Satan" is not the preferred nomenclature. NPC, please.

hamantaschendog.bsky.social•23 days ago

This is the understanding of fascism in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brody,” and it is also why it is the greatest novel to be written since World War II

vituperativeerb.bsky.social•23 days ago

To sin is virtuous because it results in divine absolution

parkerwelch.bsky.social•23 days ago

Don't think we can attribute too much to a belief in predestination, after all Lincoln believed in it (at times the "doctrine of necessity" and at other times a more full-bodied Christian version)

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