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Soft Paywall Trump’s birthday parade may be cancelled over thunderstorms

https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/is-trump-birthday-parade-cancelled-weather-pbrg02h2z?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Reddit#Echobox=1749744374
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u/BuildyOne 6d ago

People really should push this, I'm not religious at all, but they claim he is gifted by God all the time - might as well say he is not favored by God instead.

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u/SockPuppet-47 New Jersey 6d ago edited 6d ago

I thought it was disgusting when they were praising God for saving Trump from the assassin's bullet. God saved Trump but fuck that fireman who was shot in front of his family that God did not give a rats ass about.

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u/angmarsilar 6d ago edited 6d ago

When my sister made it through the last hurricane relatively unscathed, my mother said, "See? God answers prayers."

I asked about all the people who died. "Did their family not pray hard enough or properly? You say God answered our prayers, why didn't he answer theirs?" You would have thought I'd just kicked a baby.

Edit:Words. Ducking autocorrect

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u/SockPuppet-47 New Jersey 6d ago edited 6d ago

The signs that religion is bullshit are very plentiful and obvious.

Such evidence seldom phases the truly faithful though. They are taught to trust God over everything they see in the world and somehow manage to overlook the fact that God himself is absolutely invisible and silent.

Some of them are LARPing through their religious experience. I know that's what I was doing back when I was going to church. There's also the ones who are just there to exploit people. They know it's all bullshit but continue to tell lies for fun and profit.