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[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 15 points 6 hours ago

Tbf, allah wasn't doing shit here either.

[–] E_coli42@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Why did they translate every word from Arabic to English except for "Allah", which they transliterated?

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Probably to differentiate which specific god they mean?

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 hours ago

Presumably they don't realize that Christians, Jews and Muslims all pray to the same God that Moses prayed to, just in different ways.

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 hours ago

Allah must not be confused by other names

[–] Malica@lemmy.zip 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Those are the kindest, most wonderful people. That anyone would disparage them in death like this is just horrifying.

Who was it? Was this part of the disaster in Nepal? I can't really tell much from the pixels

[–] EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

I've already heard some Nationalist Christians (Nat-Cs) going on about the same thing, just because they "weren't a Christian nation"

It's never limited to one religion, and it's usually the abrahamic ones that are the worst.

[–] Doom@discuss.online 7 points 6 hours ago

Never heard of Zoroastrians or Shintoists saying shit like that

[–] timmy_dean_sausage@lemmy.world 17 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

This has been a growing thing for awhile. I've been an audio engineer for 16 years. It's common for audio engineers to work in churches for our first 10+ years because it's stable work in an inherently difficult industry to get started in. I amplify things for a living, but I draw the line at hate speech, so I've always left church gigs after they do hate speech, so I've worked at a lot of churches... They used to put on a big show of forced compassion for victims of extreme weather events. The last three churches I worked at shifted to the "well if they would've worshiped the TRUE god, they probably would've lived" shit during demented don's first term. I haven't taken another church gig since the industry bounced back from covid and never will. Church people are horrible.

[–] EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I worked the sound board for my parents church for the better part of a decade as a teenager into early 20s.

When I left after a guest pastor was allowed to do a sermon on how we should all hate lgbt groups and minorities because "God put us in a position of power over them for a reason" I swapped a bunch of cables around, turned every dial to max, and left important cables unplugged and mixed with similar looking cables.

I denied doing anything when my parents brought it up, but since I didn't do anything illegal like breaking equipment I wasn't worried about it.

I guess they tried to fix it themselves, which caused issues with the board and ended up replacing most of the sound system anyway before the end of the year while spending millions of dollars on church expansion instead of helping the community (which they claimed for years that they were doing despite straight up telling homeless people attending services they needed to leave)

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 38 minutes ago

despite straight up telling homeless people attending services they needed to leave

Holy hell, if christ were real he would have such stern words for them on judgement day. It would go something along the lines of "Depart from me, for I never knew you."

What you did was pretty based though.

[–] Ixoid@aussie.zone 3 points 2 hours ago
[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 20 points 12 hours ago

I was raised to be Christian, but someone screwed up and taught me to care about others instead of teaching me that God wants me to profit from their suffering. I think because of that I could never look at it the way they do.

During one of the times that Haiti was the "focus of God's wrath", I said that it seemed more like a consequence of our godlessness rather than theirs.

If God can let innocent people die when we care about them, why do we assume God is punishing the people who die that we don't care about. Maybe God is taking the people we abuse away from us. Maybe the lesson we should be taking is that we should do more to stop poverty and illness and suffering rather than patting ourselves on the back for being lucky in our birth.

Of course, I don't actually believe in God, so I don't make those arguments. However, those would be the arguments I'd make if I did believe.

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago

BBC News - Big Church Festival 'devastated' as man dies after sign falls - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c158939pz4do

Did they not pray hard enough or what?

Yeah. Abrahamic religions, followed really nearly by Hinduism.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 2 points 6 hours ago

Yeah, so, turns out the world is full of irredeemable pieces of shit. What are we going to do about it?

[–] Bluedragon012@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Humanity is a failure. They see evil and think words will eliminate them.

[–] Naive@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

People and their obsession with finding pattern and meaning.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 70 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

And for any Muslims living in that area? Well, I guess they just didn't pray hard enough. Skill issue, really.

[–] Naive@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago

Maybe their sin was living in a Kafir country and not moving to an Islamic one. (if asked by hardcore Muslims)

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 26 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Ohh that's just god's will. Those heavily injured survivor? That's god's given challenge. Those survived unharmed? That's god's protection. I live in muslim majority country, and that's basically every time there's a disaster, comment will varied depend on the area.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 15 hours ago

Allah’s will ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 22 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

These are the same people that tell me that me getting repeatedly raped by my female, alcoholic, bipolar caregiver when I was a child, is actually a blessing from God.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Don’t be silly, women can’t rape people.

/s because people actually believe this shit.

[–] Naive@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago

Damn, I get hate for this even from many atheists. They think I am being misogynist but I do believe any gender can rape anyone.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago

Islam 👏 Is 👏 Progressive 👏 Guys 👏

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I like how they posted a Surah that boils down to "stop building statues," followed by the most badass photo of a statue you can find.

[–] dudeface@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Plenty of disasters that impacted mostly Christian’s can be easily pointed out

[–] cranakis@reddthat.com 8 points 12 hours ago

Ah but they were not true Scotsmen.

[–] reader@lemmy.zip 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

Nepal is a secular country. It was a hindu nation, and still is hindu majority. But most new generation are secular-hindu, as in hindu culture but not religious. Similar to how someone might celebrate Christmas but not do religious things associated with it

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[–] Swemg@lemmy.world 11 points 17 hours ago

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