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“I’d rather my kids be autistic than dead”
I think this is a completely valid train of thought.
Misguided for sure, but valid.
This was from the Penn and Teller TV show called Bullshit! They said, " Assume the research paper is correct. Going by their statistics, you are far more likely to die than get autism."
And the paper turned out to be fraud.
far more likely to die than get autism."
And the paper turned out to be fraud.
So… you are actually far more likely to get autism than to die:P
The paper that claimed a link between vaccine and autism.
Isn’t that how it’s supposed to work? Parents preferring live children to dead ones in world that constantly throws weird bullshit their way?
Okay but what if my kid turns out gay or trans or a different kind of christian than me? It’s better that they die than any of that, right?
Sadly yes. If they really believe their book, they prefer them dying without sin than living and being damned to hell. Which nicely encompasses in a single sentence most off what is wrong with religions, Christianity in particular.
Except that isn’t in the Bible. The whole “Age of Accountability” thing is a very new idea, coming up only within the last 200-ish years or so. Like a lot of other stuff that fundamentalists bang on about, whether you believe that Christianity on the whole is made up or not, that part definitely is.
The fun part is that the whole resonation thing was about letting people read the actual bible, do they could live more like the actual word of god.
But then come up with stuff that’s not even in there and treat it like gospel.
Yeah, we need another good reformation for sure. I’ll get my nails.
…for a list of theses and a door, to be clear. Not for, like, a crucifixion.
Just because it “isn’t in the bible” doesnt mean it isnt part of Christianity.
It kinda does, in this case. Their particular brand of it is all about fealty to the Bible; so if they aren’t upholding that basic tenet, they aren’t Christians. Ergo what they’re doing isn’t Christianity.
That’s a very ahistorical view of what Christianity is–Christianity existed for decades (centuries?) before there even was a bible.
Before it was collected as a compendium of official parts, sure, but most of the individual books (both the ones that made it into the current version and additional ones that ended up being rejected) were around. The Old Testament ones were already written down, and most of the Gospels were at least oral tradition very early on.
I believe it was over one hundred years before the Gospels were all written down, and early Christian sects had passionate disagreement over which texts were official or hearsay, but it’s not like they were completely without religious texts.
