• uberfreeza@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    I know it’s technically a usable defense, but how often is the Act of God defense actually ruled? From what I understand, it rarely works, and you’d have a better chance with any other defense. Has it been successfully used recently?

  • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    When I grew up evangelical, I was told that it didn’t matter because god was going to renew the earth when he shows up any second now.

    That’s what they believe, that climate change is a distraction and we shouldn’t worry cause god will just medically deal with it

  • RandomVideos@programming.dev
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    8 hours ago

    Some people believe that God writes destiny, meaning that industrialization is an act of God

    Its the right of corporations, as people, to be able to believe what they choose without being discriminated against

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      4 hours ago

      If God made people in his image and people are also corporations, then that means God is a corporation?

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    17 hours ago

    Would be nice if they could at least blame god. They’d rather blame drag queens for upsetting god.

    • Lemminary@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      Good lord. Imagine a perfect being this perpetually angry over their own creation against the grand backdrop of the universe.

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        2 hours ago

        I agree with you, but I just want to point out that I’m gradually trying to cut out phrases like " good Lord " from my vocabulary and it’s been a struggle. Please consider good Lucifer, good golly Ms Molly, or good Cthulhu instead. Have a nice day.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      I’m pretty sure if God is upset at anyone, it’s the people claiming he’s upset at drag queens. But that’s just my own limited understanding, and I do not claim to know the mind of God.

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        16 hours ago

        I mean obviously depends on the god… but if we are going with the judeo christian god. He does a lot of insane things for very little.

        Floods the earth for being evil

        Kids mock a bald man… God sends a pack of bears to kill them.

        Woman turns around and glances at her home town being destroyed, turned to salt.

        Quite simply god of the old testament bible is pretty all over the place on what he’ll punish large swaths of people for. Though while I’d note he didn’t worry much on collateral damage. He didn’t miss his targets (IE… sure I could see the god of the bible letting a hurricane kill millions in the bible belt on it’s way to hit LA or New York… but doesn’t seem those storms have a great track record of reaching the people they think god wants to punish.

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    24 hours ago

    Oh don’t worry. They believe it’s man made, just not in the way you want.

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    18 hours ago

    This is true if we ignore monotheism and go with one of the -isms where humanity is god.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      David J. Darling, renown astrophysicist, proposed that we are actually God, capital G. That we evolve into a universal collective God consciousness and reach back through time to create ourselves.