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Ttoften
You wrote America wrong
ziggystardust7
"Don't let God hear you say that" said the evangelical white American.
jappie348
Social media is melting our brains i think
cre8majic
and be sure that "children" includes girls
circlebreaker
On that note, Malawi has just recently eliminated academy-style schooling for fees which many families struggled to afford. Basic literacy and numeracy comes first, then the critical thinking, and even then not always: https://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20251207-malawi-moves-to-make-education-free-as-it-abolishes-school-fees
georgejimmydoodle
Shit, we need that in the US, too.
HYPEdriveMusic
If the pope validated the use of condoms in Africa , AIDS could be eradicated in less than 2 years.
Zoldjah
But the economy
Bizarkly
The ancestors would thank you for tossing these mindless monotheists out...
DubhIainn
For the USA to re-develop.. its the same
Drawstencil
For *the world* to develop…
baadf00d
Yeah, uh.. Idk if that would be enough in places like Sudan.
werrywerry
Thanos was right...
Just shoulda wiped out the stupid half.
WhoReadsPeoplesUsernamesAnyway
Make no mistake. "Developing Africa" just means bringing them to buy western products and consume western services. No one is interested in really making their lifes better. It's a new market that's getting developed. Not the people.
DickTipPapercut
Sane take
comeonjointhejoyride
What? No, this is the clothes of free thinking.
UglyDanTheUglyMan
Partial blinding cloth for a snub-nosed greyhound.
petonious
Hell yea he said in full irony.
netutoring
All things in moderation, even religion, spirituality. We have to accept that whatever deity we believe in (if any) is not interested in helping us survive. Whatever good or bad happens, it is entirely on us to start or stop.
ThoseRulesArentReal
Africa was depleted of all its resources by the God-fearing West I don’t think Africa is the problem
Drawstencil
No one said Africa is the problem. It is the “god-fearing” buffoons who are this world’s problem.
ThoseRulesArentReal
Lol not the continent just the bafoons that live there—okay then
SuperFerret
The irony is that critical thinking also helps religion more than being "God-fearing."
Starfox5
The whole world needs drastically more critically thinkinking people and drastically fewer god-fearing people.
NotADutchman
And start taxing the owner class and corporations. Heavily. The results we see are the outcome the system is designed to produce.
Dannoboyo
God Fearing = Don't Question Authority or the status quo. Don't question nature, man or the probable destiny you could circumvent. Assume you know everything you need to know, and stop learning changing, or improving.
crackajackin
Last 60 years africa received close to 3 trillion in aid. I bet a few more bucks should do the trick eh
Mithi
MidoryMoon
See this is why you need to actually look at the fucking source for your numbers instead of just ignorantly saying things.
Source: https://www.cgdev.org/blog/aid-waste-money
"If you add up all the aid that all OECD countries have given since they started counting it in 1960, and then assume that the only thing that this aid has achieved was the eradication of smallpox, then the whole thing would still be a bargain"
Samja192
Trump added a similar amount to the national debt since he got in, have you seen drastic positive changes with that money?
ElroydIsGone
On behalf of all commenters here, thank you for showing up as the "God-fearing" example.
HawkmanXLII
That's because the world runs on capitalism, which is a shitty, broken system. There's enough wealth in the world to take care of everyone, but greed prevents that. Also your comment is ignorant.
Clockworkdancerobot
Bro, you ever hear about this thing about Imperialism and colonialism? Siphoning of resources and wealth? Pitting people against each other? That figure is dwarfed in comparison of the wealth extracted from the global south.
Ikwilstroopwaffels
How much do you suppose has been taken from the continent in that same time?
medimr
Translation: "Those black people are just inherently savage."
Clockworkdancerobot
Racist gonna do what Racists do. They ignore the exploitation over centuries that continues often today.
LtRooney
Oh look, a low-effort racist troll. How utterly unremarkable. Say a fond "fuck off" to the troll, everyone.
Emjayen
Crawl back into your hole.
FarkasMacTavish
eeewwwwwww
EstoyPoopis
Wow
TomBrokaw
Approximately 1.5 billion people live in Africa. 3,000,000,000,000 / 1,500,000,000 / 60 = about $34 per person per year. Besides - so fuckin what? What else should we do with money besides help people who need it?
mmagabel365
Think of the shareholders! Jeff needs a bigger yacht, he only has 1 helipad... what if he has elon, trump and mark over for a private pedo party and they dont have enough parking?
DocNitro
For humanity to prosper, we have to get rid of tax exempt religions and tax the life out of them.
cousteau
Jesus LITERALLY said to tax religions!
TheMightyMollusk
Jesus said a lot of things that Christians don't listen to anymore.
DocNitro
Especially socalled 'Evangelical' Christians feel like they only use 'Jesus' from the new testament, and then use the 'eye for an eye, kill them all, the men, the women and the children too' bits from the old testament, aka jewish scripture.
MrListerTheFirst
Only Africa?
SirSmurfalot
Evangelicals fuck up every single thing they touch.
FeedTheNachoMan
Iirc Africa is the source of many of the world's luxury goods but also is just about the poorest continent, so yeah, I'm all for Africa developing so they stop being exploited by the rest of the world.
Frederf
You seeing words that aren't written again?
rmellis1112
I hear the people with the "not everything is about America" and they're 100% right, but can we have more critical thinkers too. I think the whole world would benefit if we made a shitload more of them and sprinkled them all over the world.
interesseret
Yes. Not everything is about America.
MrListerTheFirst
I meant the whole world, not just America. I'm not even an American.
NicronusPrime
American evangelicals have caused a lot of damage specifically to african countries, so yes.
jojoyojimbi
you could have replaced "african countries" with "the world"
MadHatter69
European Christians, too
LonelyLittleDrummerBoy
They've caused a lot of damage to their own, too
Thekindofkindlyman
“Every time China visits, we get a hospital. Every time Britain visits, we get a lecture.”
TalkingSnake
And lose some historical pieces…
satanslittleposter
The British Museum doesn't know what you're talking about... and also they want to know your location.
LoftheDesert
I never understood the term "god-fearing". I mean, for jewish people it makes sense because old testament Jehova doesn't so much reward good behavior as he does severely punish bad.
But christians say god is love, then why would they fear him?
Well, looking for logic in religion is quite pointless.
smurphy1993
Because we mean different things by fear and love. God-fearing means respect and deference in a Biblical sense.
Love in Christianity means wanting what is best for people, however culture just seems to present love as letting people do whatever they want. If I let my kid touch a hot stove because they want to is that love?
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
The christian god "loves" you only as long as you do as you're told. E.g., when his supposed representatives on Earth tell you to stop being gay, you gotta give it a try or else you spend eternity in a fiery concentration camp with daily torture instead of a luxurious sky spa where you get to kiss god's ass & sing his praises all day long. Feel the love. What an awesome afterlife btw, knowing that tons of ppl are being tortured while you made the right choice of kissing up to a fascist dictator.
elbootio
It's because it's made up. But the way around it is that God is a vengeful God, while Jesus is love. And they're the same person. Make sense now? No, no it does not.
Alesdair
Growing up, I was told that I should only fear god, for he is mightier than all. In a twisted way, it was intended to inspire courage, because nothing could possibly be greater than him.
The more I think about it, the more it resembles Azula’s desperate and furious, “you should have feared me more,” from the end of ATLA.
cousteau
"God is love" but "do as God says, or else". There's a lot of fearmongering around this God guy in Christian religions as well.
kInADress
Absolutely just the abuser playbook
AlexSomething
I like the religions that tell you everything is already written by god, but then berate you for doing something they deem bad. Brother, it's not me, it's god, he has written this for me remember, now fuck off and let me sin or whatever.
LordAndSaviourBirdJesus
Because they say "god-fearing" when they want to say this person is pious, lives according to God's will. What they subconsciously mean though, is that fear of eternal damnation keeps this person moral.
WhyleKat
Its about controlling the populace. Nothing more
Scobragon
It's because after the deuteronimist schism that turned judaism into monotheism, the god, whose followers took control was the god of war. You love deities like the goddess of fertility and god of harvest, but you fear the god of war. When christianity came along, they decided they needed to change the message to control more population, so they retconned old testament god, but left potholes for themselves to cherrypick the violence when necessary.
Lutki
Isn't the whole Abrahamic creation myth lifted wholesale from polytheistic Mesopotamian stories? Like the Babylonian creation, myth and the epic of Gilgamesh. It is also why the Genesis story says let *US* create mankind in *OUR* image. The whole Trinity was a retcon to explain why the origins of a monotheistic religions origins use plurals.
Scobragon
Incidentally the golden calf was the god of harvest, they didn't just make up random shit to worship, it was a vestige of polytheism and they wanted a better harvest. But that was rewritten to be a warning.
Eleshar24
Also I hear there is a certain lady called Asherah, apparently Yahweh's old lady.
PwnageHobo
When I was a kid, I was told that the definition of "fear" really means "respect" when used in a "God-fearing" context. Nowadays, I recognise that as apologetic nonsense used in an attempt to dye a red flag green
PowerThruster
Christianity is fascist at face value.
You either listen to Jesus, or you suffer. Its no surprise generations took the lesson as "the strong make the rules".
cousteau
I mean, maybe all you get for not respecting God is a little slap on the wrist. But you get slapped by an all-powerful entity of cosmic proportions, and… let's say there's reason to fear that.
PwnageHobo
Adults are more powerful than children. Any adult who abuses this power over a child is dispicable, and doesn't deserve respect. So why should humans respect an all-powerful being who abuses their power over the relatively powerless humans? The strong should protect the weak. Anything else is a sign of moral bankruptcy.
cousteau
If there's one thing I could figure out from the Bible is that God is just a powerful kid with tantrums to match.
LoftheDesert
So god slaps you for not doing as he says? What a cosmic dick!
cousteau
I mean, yeah he is. But nobody dares call him out on that because… *gestures vaguely at cosmic slap*