• pyre@lemmy.world
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    while there are people like this, I’m pretty sure this is just trolling. Karen Smith? come on

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    It’s funny how just exposing the religious to alternative afterlife’s is enough to completely lose a lifetime of teaching and servitude, and strips away any inclination for a pleasant afterlife. No convincing or reapplying every seven days - nope, just being near a thing removes all of Jesus’ teachings.

    • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.world
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      I’ve made this argument to religious friends and family members resistant to trying psychedelics.

      “If a little piece of paper or a little mushroom risks getting rid of God, what does that say about God?”

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        I think it says more about their actual beliefs in God. As a Christ follower, I believe everyone has their own path to take. If drugs in moderation is one of them, go for it. Hell, it’s theorized Moses was tripping on shrooms when talking to God.

        Those who fear being exposed to “other” things will take them away from God (beyond addiction, that’s a whole other thing), then they never believed in the first. They just use it as a shield to justify their horrible actions.

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    From Middle English wicked, wikked, an alteration of Middle English wicke, wikke (“morally perverse, evil, wicked”). Of uncertain origin. Possibly from an adjectival use of Old English wiċċa (“wizard, sorcerer”), from Proto-West Germanic *wikkō (“necromancer, sorcerer”), though the phonology makes this theory difficult to explain. Alternatively, perhaps related to English wicker, Old Norse víkja (“to bend to, yield, turn, move”), Swedish vika (“to bend, fold, give way to”), English weak.

    Evil or mischievous by nature. Synonyms: evil, immoral, malevolent, malicious, nefarious, twisted, villainous; see also Thesaurus:evil

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wicked

    Maybe Karen should read the Satanistic book called the dictionary.

  • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.world
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    Aren’t the “good” Christians required to “believe in the darkness of hell” so they are afraid of it and don’t do things which make them end up there?

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      Wicked. It’s a prequel / slight overlap to the Wizard of Oz.

      Apparently it’s a two part movie and the next half is next year. So maybe it does deserve 1 star.

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          Nope, because that wasn’t really a secret. You would have had to be very out of the loop to not know that in advance. But I saw Dune with a buddy and he was very “What?! It just ends there?”. Wrt Wicked, I saw the musical in London ages ago and was very surprised to hear that this is a two part movie (also known as a miniseries).

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        The book they are both based on is also a fairly good read. Just don’t think too much about the societal implications of Ozian society.