Anonymous
07/30/2021 14:50
Subject: If you are religious, how do you feel about anti-vaxxers and QAnon?
I think they are violating both of Jesus's two commandments: Love God with all your heart and mind and soul and strength and love your neighbor as yourself. And your neighbors are not just the people who think they way you do and believe what you do -- they are the poor, the weak and vulnerable, the refugees and immigrants and outcasts, the prisoners, and all those despised and discriminated against. The Bible is pretty clear on these things.
If a person says they love God, but hates their neighbor, they are a liar; if you don't love your neighbor, who you have seen, how can you love God, who you have not seen? And love drives out fear -- people who are full of fear and hate for others do not love God.
If a person says they love God, but hates their neighbor, they are a liar; if you don't love your neighbor, who you have seen, how can you love God, who you have not seen? And love drives out fear -- people who are full of fear and hate for others do not love God.
Anonymous
07/30/2021 14:41
Subject: If you are religious, how do you feel about anti-vaxxers and QAnon?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:They are proof that God is fallible.
Lol. What does God have to do with this? He didn't force them to do any of this. He gives us free will to make our own choices in life (whether or not he disagrees with those choices).
right, pp, didn't you know that God has no responsibility for anything that people choose to do? He gave us the wonderful gift of free will, which allows us to ignore him, and go to the hell that he created for people who disobey him. /S
he also gave us covid (and every other awful thing in the world if you believe in him)
Anonymous
07/30/2021 14:39
Subject: If you are religious, how do you feel about anti-vaxxers and QAnon?
can't stand them and they're stupid.
Anonymous
07/29/2021 08:46
Subject: If you are religious, how do you feel about anti-vaxxers and QAnon?
OP specifies Christianity in the body but not in the title. Why do people use religious as a synonym for Christianity? I know plenty of religious people of non-Christian faiths.
Anyway, I’m disturbed by a lot of things these days.
Anyway, I’m disturbed by a lot of things these days.
Anonymous
07/29/2021 08:38
Subject: If you are religious, how do you feel about anti-vaxxers and QAnon?
I think they’re loonies. And im actually very resentful of them. I’m Christian and it’s hard enough defending an otherwise impossible to believe story such as Christ, these people make it even harder to believe.
Anonymous
07/29/2021 08:35
Subject: If you are religious, how do you feel about anti-vaxxers and QAnon?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:They are proof that God is fallible.
Lol. What does God have to do with this? He didn't force them to do any of this. He gives us free will to make our own choices in life (whether or not he disagrees with those choices).
right, pp, didn't you know that God has no responsibility for anything that people choose to do? He gave us the wonderful gift of free will, which allows us to ignore him, and go to the hell that he created for people who disobey him. /S
Anonymous
07/28/2021 20:13
Subject: If you are religious, how do you feel about anti-vaxxers and QAnon?
QAnon - I just feel pity for them to have been roped into the nonsense
Anti-vaxxers doesn’t equal QAnon and I would bet 99% of them have had almost every vaccine including yearly flu vaccine. So not getting the Covid vaccine isn’t being anti vaxx it’s just making a one time decision on a vaccine.
Anti-vaxxers doesn’t equal QAnon and I would bet 99% of them have had almost every vaccine including yearly flu vaccine. So not getting the Covid vaccine isn’t being anti vaxx it’s just making a one time decision on a vaccine.
Anonymous
07/24/2021 19:43
Subject: If you are religious, how do you feel about anti-vaxxers and QAnon?
Anonymous wrote:They are proof that God is fallible.
Lol. What does God have to do with this? He didn't force them to do any of this. He gives us free will to make our own choices in life (whether or not he disagrees with those choices).
Anonymous
07/24/2021 19:11
Subject: If you are religious, how do you feel about anti-vaxxers and QAnon?
They are proof that God is fallible.
Anonymous
07/24/2021 17:50
Subject: If you are religious, how do you feel about anti-vaxxers and QAnon?
Anonymous wrote:I am progressive mainline Protestant. My church encourages critical thinking and respecting all life.
QAnon acts like a cult, not a religion. There is a mysterious figure at the center, who is a person, giving orders and no one knows who it is. They do not respect and love people different from themselves. It's a political cult, without morality.
If our minister or national church leader asked all of us to get together and drink poisoned Kool Aid, or vote for one particular person, the vast majority of us would not do either of those things. If you ask a Qanon person to vote for one particular politician or drink Kool Aid to kill themselves for the greater good, would they do it? I'd say yes.
If you are religious, then you know what what Q is doing is extremely dangerous and that only the very weak minded and uneducated would "follow" a cult like it was a religion.
But - we do know who Q is. It’s the 4chan guy. How is it different than Mormonism or Scientology or Christianity?
Anonymous
07/24/2021 15:56
Subject: If you are religious, how do you feel about anti-vaxxers and QAnon?
Hate them.
Anonymous
07/24/2021 15:54
Subject: If you are religious, how do you feel about anti-vaxxers and QAnon?
I am progressive mainline Protestant. My church encourages critical thinking and respecting all life.
QAnon acts like a cult, not a religion. There is a mysterious figure at the center, who is a person, giving orders and no one knows who it is. They do not respect and love people different from themselves. It's a political cult, without morality.
If our minister or national church leader asked all of us to get together and drink poisoned Kool Aid, or vote for one particular person, the vast majority of us would not do either of those things. If you ask a Qanon person to vote for one particular politician or drink Kool Aid to kill themselves for the greater good, would they do it? I'd say yes.
If you are religious, then you know what what Q is doing is extremely dangerous and that only the very weak minded and uneducated would "follow" a cult like it was a religion.
QAnon acts like a cult, not a religion. There is a mysterious figure at the center, who is a person, giving orders and no one knows who it is. They do not respect and love people different from themselves. It's a political cult, without morality.
If our minister or national church leader asked all of us to get together and drink poisoned Kool Aid, or vote for one particular person, the vast majority of us would not do either of those things. If you ask a Qanon person to vote for one particular politician or drink Kool Aid to kill themselves for the greater good, would they do it? I'd say yes.
If you are religious, then you know what what Q is doing is extremely dangerous and that only the very weak minded and uneducated would "follow" a cult like it was a religion.
Anonymous
07/24/2021 14:29
Subject: Re:If you are religious, how do you feel about anti-vaxxers and QAnon?
I'm religious. I have two sets of feelings.
One is the same feeling I assume I'd have if I wasn't religious, which is that it scary and horrifying what these people are doing.
The other is a profound sadness that something that is beautiful and meaningful to me, and has been a source of good in my personal life, has been twisted in this way. It's obscene or sacrilegious that someone would twist religion to an end that is completely opposite from what I believe.
One is the same feeling I assume I'd have if I wasn't religious, which is that it scary and horrifying what these people are doing.
The other is a profound sadness that something that is beautiful and meaningful to me, and has been a source of good in my personal life, has been twisted in this way. It's obscene or sacrilegious that someone would twist religion to an end that is completely opposite from what I believe.
Anonymous
07/24/2021 14:21
Subject: Re:If you are religious, how do you feel about anti-vaxxers and QAnon?
I think religious people as those who follow based on traditions and rituals. So I don't consider myself along those lines. But as a Christ follower, I honestly don't understand QAnon. I tried to read up on what it was about, but it still didn't make any sense to me.
Anonymous
07/24/2021 13:55
Subject: If you are religious, how do you feel about anti-vaxxers and QAnon?
To me (non-religious) it all seems the same. Christian theology seems as baseless as Scientology seems as baseless as Q-Anon. They're all just churches to me with varying levels of associated bad human behavior depending on the time and place. Some have longer histories or more established culture, including systems of ethics that I respect as community-building, but the supernatural theology is all the same to me and so I don't see how anyone who believes the Bible can turn around and look down on someone who says JFK Jr is alive and Don Jr is snorting his blood, or whatever it is. We privilege and support churches so much in this country, how can we be surprised or upset when new ones form? What's the difference?