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yourfaveisilluminati:celestialfairyrings:celtyradfem:yourfaveisilluminati:skramzsexual:flowerlygirls:atheismwethinkmore:Your brain on religionreligion is evil and so are all religios menWell this just ruined my weekbtw this is the PARTY LINE in christianity… not just the one dude. this is considered morality to these people.Could you elaborate @yourfaveisilluminati?a pastor with Saddleback church said at a conference that rape is part of God’s plan, because everything happens according to God’s will and he uses everything to work his will. i heard no sounds of surprise or disagreement yes, @celestialfairyrings is right. ive been thinking about this quite a bit lately, and ill try to elaborate on why im not shocked at all that this is what a church leader would tell a rape victim. my thoughts are really fully complete yet though, so maybe it wont make sense. christianity mandates straight from the beginning that men and women are cursed in completely different ways, and every generation is cursed for the first generations apparent sinning. adam is cursed with work, eve is cursed with pregnancy. the way this is read in many churches is *painful* pregnancy, but i believe that particular little white lie makes no sense. the bible says that the wages of sin is death. so, before sin, there was no death and no need for reproduction until after. christianity mandates that everyone, even babies, are sinners just for existing. therefore, humankins needs saving by god, who is perfect and without sin. if humans werent sinning, then they would be god too. but anyway the goal of this is to totally strip the life of a human totally worthless without god to purify them. we were born sinners, boys cursed with work and girls cursed with female bodies.so why do people believe this about themselves? what makes people believe they are dirty, worthless sinners? they are given the choice between believing in that and going to heaven, or not believing it and going to hell for eternal suffering. its control via spiritual abuse and destruction. the only requirement for reaching heaven is belief in god and his love for “saving” us from our own human nature, which is full of sin. however, the bible gets away with connecting the curse placed onto eve with female-specific sins. female specific sins revolve around sex, dishonesty, and temptation. that is why the female role in the bible is to remain sexually modest and pure, because if she doesnt she is automatically an untrustworthy temptress who ate the forbidden fruit first and therefore she is worse than her male counter-part.but there is a contradiction here for christians between mandated sexual purity for females and rape. what if a girl has steadfastly remained a virgin and not even held hands with a boy and she is raped? she cannot be said to be innocent, because she is a sinner. she is already guilty of being female before the rape happened, and rape is her purpose as a female anyway. this baseline belief about women makes this mindset very easily adopted, but that really only has to do with the psychology of christians who think thats okay to say. the real message here is that “everything is according to gods plan”. if you were raped, it was gods plan, not the choice of the rapist. if you get pregnant, that is gods plan too. since the only thing you have to do to go to heaven is believe god exists and loves you, you have to trust that he had righteous reasons for planning your rape, you just cant see that far down your path yet. if you question why something bad happens to you, you are questioning the validity of gods authority to run your life. you are trying to take control out of gods hands, which is a huuuugeee sin. basically, god is in control of your life, and if you arent thankfull for the suffering he planned for you than you believe in your own innocence and therefore believe you dont need the blood of jesus to save you from yourself. no matter that if youre a female, your whole life is supposed to be consumed by staying pure, and the worst thing you can do is *lose* your purity, even though youre already bad just for being born? thats where shes coming from when she hits him with the “if god exists then” and he goes on the attack. disbelief is powerfully contageous.sorry, i know its long, @celtyradfem but its kind of a complicated theology to work through. -- source link