Religious comments during crisis or natural disasters that make you shake your head

[Rhea]

Sometimes those religious platitudes that we hear day in and day out and mentally eye-roll will rear their heads during disasters or crisis as exceptionally tone deaf. Sometimes ridiculous, so9methines downright hurtful and mean ("but they didn't mean nothin by it!")

(I couldn't decide whether to post this in humor, science v. religion or general religion. Decided on Gen'l Religion because it's so ubiquitous.)

Anyway, the hurricanes have brought up a bunch.

Today:

Long Island, Bahamas ! There is no more ocean ! As far as the eye can see . And they don't know where it went ! Wow .... Irma is more powerful than people think ! Be safe guys . P.S. This is not me filming .....
Update: Long Island has the all clear .. The sea is gradually coming back! Praise God....

 

[Ramaraksha]

Sometimes those religious platitudes that we hear day in and day out and mentally eye-roll will rear their heads during disasters or crisis as exceptionally tone deaf. Sometimes ridiculous, so9methines downright hurtful and mean ("but they didn't mean nothin by it!")

(I couldn't decide whether to post this in humor, science v. religion or general religion. Decided on Gen'l Religion because it's so ubiquitous.)

Anyway, the hurricanes have brought up a bunch.

Today:

Long Island, Bahamas ! There is no more ocean ! As far as the eye can see . And they don't know where it went ! Wow .... Irma is more powerful than people think ! Be safe guys . ???????????????????????????????????? P.S. This is not me filming .....
Update: Long Island has the all clear .. The sea is gradually coming back! Praise God....

Oh what you posted was nothing - did you know that IRMA or Harvey or whatever natural disaster there is is because of Gays? or Atheists - or whatever they want to attack. We may laugh about it now but in times of stress things do change. It is like why mobs do things that no rational single-person would do
In times of stress people will change
If climate change increases and we have more of these and these people turn to their religious heads, more of these kooks will blame Gays and more will listen, then it will be Atheists, the people of minority religions - mass killings will be the result
If we win, religions might finally disappear and the world will be a far safer and saner place
If they win, their religious books of the future will talk about how God cleansed the earth of evil and the good people were left to enjoy earth's bounties. If you read their holy books that is what they already say - so many killed in the past because they refused to believe or convert

 

[James Brown]

Actually, the hurricanes were sent by God to make us more humble. Kirk Cameron said so.

 

[Ramaraksha]

Actually, the hurricanes were sent by God to make us more humble. Kirk Cameron said so.

It's what i have been saying all along - down-to-earth explanations for God - God made in the image of the local king - the king demands obedience and loyalty if one steps out of line, one is punished. Simple primitive ideas that made sense in medieval times - sad that we live in the 21st century and yet even the best of minds become blind sheep

 

[Brian63]

Anything along the lines of "Thank you God, for not massacring and torturing and destroying us more than you did. That is proof of the Goodness of Thine Holy Spirit."

Brian

 

[Ramaraksha]

Anything along the lines of "Thank you God, for not massacring and torturing and destroying us more than you did. That is proof of the Goodness of Thine Holy Spirit."

Brian

"Did you hurt your hand beating us, master?"

 

[RavenSky]

Sometimes those religious platitudes that we hear day in and day out and mentally eye-roll will rear their heads during disasters or crisis as exceptionally tone deaf. Sometimes ridiculous, so9methines downright hurtful and mean ("but they didn't mean nothin by it!")

(I couldn't decide whether to post this in humor, science v. religion or general religion. Decided on Gen'l Religion because it's so ubiquitous.)

Anyway, the hurricanes have brought up a bunch.

Today:

Long Island, Bahamas ! There is no more ocean ! As far as the eye can see . And they don't know where it went ! Wow .... Irma is more powerful than people think ! Be safe guys . ???????????????????????????????????? P.S. This is not me filming .....
Update: Long Island has the all clear .. The sea is gradually coming back! Praise God....

Stupid asshole Rick Scott, too.

"The first thing I ask everybody to do is pray for us," Scott said on ABC News.

"I know a lot of people around the world want to help. The biggest thing you can do now is pray."

yeah, fuck off Voldermort

 

[Brian63]

Actually, the hurricanes were sent by God to make us more humble. Kirk Cameron said so.

Man...The show "Growing Pains" was such a fun show back when it was playing so many years ago, and Kirk Cameron played the role of "Mike Seaver" who was also a very fun character. Now, I do not think I can ever enjoy watching that show ever again, or even thinking about that show, knowing how KC turned out to be in real life. Thanks for the psychological trauma I am experiencing now, Kirk. I'll send you the doctor's bill though.

Brian

 

[Lion IRC]

Yeah...can't stand all those religious platitudes at funerals either.

 

[PyramidHead]

Yeah...can't stand all those religious platitudes at funerals either.

Right? Makes me wanna gag.

 

[ideologyhunter]

My top 'Ugh' list would include:
1) At funerals of young people: "God must have wanted (her, him) for an angel." (Instant vomit.)
2) At funerals in general: "(He, she) is in a much better place with no suffering." (Are we comparing insensate death to this shithole church with its garrulous pastor? Then maybe.)
3) After a disaster, with a survivor tearfully representing to the media or a congregation that survival from the (flood, plane crash, what have you) was miraculous and that the survivor was 'in the arms of Jesus.' (What, your ass was so fat that Jesus couldn't get his arms around anyone else?)
4) After a natural disaster or economic catastrophe: 'What do you expect? This is payback from God for (our faithlessness/our tolerance of gays/our refusal to allow intelligent design in the schools etc. etc.)' (No comment seems commensurate with this level of flapdoodle.)
5) After any shocking tragedy, in the following Sunday sermon: 'We must always remember that nothing can separate us from the love of God.' (Unless you read the papers or have a relative with Alzheimers or know a child with cystic fibrosis or.....etc)
I read a piece a few years ago about a skeptic visiting a friend who did missionary work in a drought-stricken Third World area. They had just had rain and the missionary described the ecstatic prayers of thanks he and 'his people' had offered to
God. The friend inquired, 'Then did you curse him during the drought?'

 

[Keith&Co.]

2) At funerals in general: "(He, she) is in a much better place with no suffering."

At my grandfather's funeral, the pastor told us that 'his faith got him through the big loads.'

The only time my grandfather mentioned God was when he struck his thumb with a hammer. Or driving in Massachusetts traffic. It was his rather lethal sense of humor that got us all through the big loads....

 

[Elixir]

My top 'Ugh' list would include:
1) At funerals of young people: "God must have wanted (her, him) for an angel." (Instant vomit.)
2) At funerals in general: "(He, she) is in a much better place with no suffering." (Are we comparing insensate death to this shithole church with its garrulous pastor? Then maybe.)
3) After a disaster, with a survivor tearfully representing to the media or a congregation that survival from the (flood, plane crash, what have you) was miraculous and that the survivor was 'in the arms of Jesus.' (What, your ass was so fat that Jesus couldn't get his arms around anyone else?)
4) After a natural disaster or economic catastrophe: 'What do you expect? This is payback from God for (our faithlessness/our tolerance of gays/our refusal to allow intelligent design in the schools etc. etc.)' (No comment seems commensurate with this level of flapdoodle.)
5) After any shocking tragedy, in the following Sunday sermon: 'We must always remember that nothing can separate us from the love of God.' (Unless you read the papers or have a relative with Alzheimers or know a child with cystic fibrosis or.....etc)
I read a piece a few years ago about a skeptic visiting a friend who did missionary work in a drought-stricken Third World area. They had just had rain and the missionary described the ecstatic prayers of thanks he and 'his people' had offered to
God. The friend inquired, 'Then did you curse him during the drought?'

#1-5: Instant vomit.

 

[RavenSky]

Yeah...can't stand all those religious platitudes at funerals either.

Me either. Especially when done by Christians when they know full well the deceased was not religious.

** and yes, I realize that Lion thought he was being sarcastic.

 

[Brian63]

Has anyone in history ever had a funeral for themselves that was publicly devoted to the Flying Spaghetti Monster religion, or Kissing Hank's Ass, or the Invisible Pink Unicorn?

I worry that whenever I die there will be a lot of religious verbiage and other garbage added into my funeral. Maybe I can prepare for it by making requests that it be explicitly FSM, KHA, or IPU though. That would be fun (or would be for me, if I was conscious during it).

Brian

 

[Learner]

Well you do get non religious people use phrases like for example: OMG or Oh God etc in situations be it though an expression. Perhaps we're just making an issue out of such a small thing - if not just another excuse argument against the saints.

 

[bilby]

Has anyone in history ever had a funeral for themselves that was publicly devoted to the Flying Spaghetti Monster religion, or Kissing Hank's Ass, or the Invisible Pink Unicorn?

I worry that whenever I die there will be a lot of religious verbiage and other garbage added into my funeral. Maybe I can prepare for it by making requests that it be explicitly FSM, KHA, or IPU though. That would be fun (or would be for me, if I was conscious during it).

Brian

My mum used to be a registered celebrant with the BHA (now retired), and officiated at a large number of funerals; She was constantly at loggerheads with the local council, who were disinclined to remove the crucifix from the crematorium chapel for humanist and atheist funerals, despite the law requiring them to do so on request.

There is no requirement for any god or gods to be mentioned at a funeral, at least, not in England, and the BHA are happy to provide a registered celebrant to conduct a completely secular ceremony. If such a ceremony is specified in the will, then this should occur regardless of the contrary opinion of any surviving relatives, although it usually requires an executor who is strong enough to withstand the unreasonable demands of any religious relations, who can't seem to grasp that the written will of the deceased takes precedence over their superstitions.

 

[Brian63]

Well you do get non religious people use phrases like for example: OMG or Oh God etc in situations be it though an expression. Perhaps we're just making an issue out of such a small thing - if not just another excuse argument against the saints.

I still say "Oh my God" and "Oh God" on occasion, but it is more of a reflex expression. Those phrases are so heavily indoctrinated into us as children especially that it makes complete sense that even we secularists would still use them ourselves at times. It is not "making an issue out of such a small thing." It is a reflection of how dominant and pervasive religion is in our culture, our world, our language.

[insert smiley face]

Brian

 

[Tigers!]

I worry that whenever I die there will be a lot of religious verbiage and other garbage added into my funeral.


Brian

To whom will you complain if there is?

 

[Keith&Co.]

I still say "Oh my God" and "Oh God" on occasion, but it is more of a reflex expression. Those phrases are so heavily indoctrinated into us as children especially that it makes complete sense that even we secularists would still use them ourselves at times. It is not "making an issue out of such a small thing." It is a reflection of how dominant and pervasive religion is in our culture, our world, our language.

Exactly.
We swear the way people around us swear.
I noticed a change in my vocabulary several times. I didn't use 'fuck' except rarely until I joined the Navy. There, it's pretty much used as punctuation and I followed suit.
I didn't say 'sockfucker' until I started serving on submarines.
No thought or ideology involved, just the habits of our habitat.

So, if Learner is suggesting that people washed in the blood of the zombie say
"God wanted him for an angel." and "in a much better place" without thought, just habitually, because that's what's expected, I can see that. It's just an expression.