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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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The whole point of Christianity is we don't have to do that. Sure, we need to repent and do what we can to avoid sin, but the actual paying for it has been done by Jesus.
Untrue. The point of Christianity is to deify the right parietal lobe as godly communication and answer to no one’s definition of right and wrong besides the one the “Christian” accepts. It’s anarchic social climbing disguised as spiritualism. The rest is a lie you tell yourself multiple times a day, every day, until it destroys your sense of self.
The best I can do to make sense of what you're saying is that you're looking at some of the worst of church leaders (eg. MAGA pastors in America, historical popes, etc), and seeing Christianity as that. If I've got that wrong, please correct me.
If that's what you're saying, that's a massive over generalization, to the point where it's willful. I do agree that there are church leaders out there who see leading a congregation purely as a way to gain some authority, but that is far from all of Christianity.
You’re 100% right: this is the best you can do.
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How does being Christian destroy your sense of self?
It substitutes decisions made from best judgement to decisions made from a myth based on ancient mysticism and a canonization process decided upon by a bunch of people born hundreds of years after materials were written. No one who is a supposed Christian is making moral judgements or bashing their life and lifestyle on anything besides a group consensus and a charismatic, designated thinker.
It erases a person, especially in first world white churches. POC Churches function as a local government in many ways, which shifts the brutality of social climbing based on popularity and conformity to principles that are ultimately based in hate. It subjugates the person until they want their enemies to die in eternal hellfire. It’s sick.