I just can't do it anymore. I go to bible study and we talk about the little evils that people struggle with every day. You would think, I would benefit from a women's bible study about "The Armor of God". But it very hard to care about the study and about all the little struggles we normies deal with when so much true evil is in the world. I also LOATH zoom. I want to do things in person and I just can't seem to get into a distance bible study.
I want to talk about satanists murdering babies. I want to talk about how Covid is a lie instead of pretending to be concerned about people catching a cold. And yes God forgive me I have lost my empathy for them. She asked me why I didn't continue and what I focusing my time on. And I told her about murdering babies and drinking their blood. I told her about Satanist in powerful positions.
She insisted that she had looked into that decades ago and knew all about it and that she could not deal with it so decided to do focus on the people around her and her life and to not deal with the stresses of these things. I get that. I understand that. And I can't do that right now. I just hung up on her. All she did was convince me I should not go and she was trying to do just the opposite.
The fact is that she is RIGHT! There is nothing we can do. It is all in Gods hands so I really should be going to that study and serving my neighbors. I just can't right now.
I'm still down with the 'God helps those who help themselves' thing, I dont think I'll ever change that point of view since passive resistance to tyrants basically never works out well. Its why tyrants always try to break the will of the people to resist.. demoralization, forcing them to live in fear, distractions like bread and circuses..
The zooms, skypes and equivalent are ok when it comes to basic communications, but the empathy and body language and proximity parts being absent means that it will never really hold up to in-person groups.
Lastly, if the leader of the discussion does not have the moral courage to face down some of the very immediate and relevant evils that plague society now, I'd question their suitability for the position. If that means you look elsewhere for other groups, or step up, heed the calling and start your own, more power to you and yours! I bet you have lots of people in your immediate circle who feel the same way and who are all waiting for someone else to make the first move.