I just don’t understand how any Christians fell for it- the Bible tells us many times that satan is the ruler of this world for now. How can a Christian not say to themselves “if the world is controlled by Satan, and literally the whole world is saying to do something, and all in agreement, maybe I should take a closer look.” Do these Christians not really believe the Bible?
Can only say for the people around me where I live. They practice Christianity. They were the first to go for the vmeds. I suspect because for them it's all just a family friendly ritual: go to church, mingle with the community, say your faith in God, etc. without really thinking about things, or in the case of one guy I know, just to have knowledge. But that's useless without application into their own daily life. To all of them it's trained them to submit to authority
Yes! I think submitting to authority (no matter what the authority is) has been ingrained in our culture through school programming, medical doctors, organized religion/church, etc. People are raised to trust authority without question. And critical thinking is not taught in schools... But here is where it gets complicated - how do we know the people in authority have our best interests in mind? This is where discernment and critical thinking comes in. Also, some of us were just born to question authority figures, and we are typically immune to the propaganda.
Agreed, I think many Christians have forgotten that satan runs this world, and have let their guards down. Also, with Trump supporting the vax, it's made a lot of conservatives and christians ok with taking it (that's a whole other issue!). People tend to believe what's in front of them, and if they're being fed fear and lies, rational thinking tends to go out the window. Not that rational thinking or IQ has anything to do with this...
And then there was a pastor that I really respected, until he told his whole congregation to vote for Biden. Honestly, I think it happened when they went against God’s word not to hate or bear false witness against someone. I think TDS was a real thing, and it was brought to be by the lies of the MSM that too many people worship . . . basically it’s a false god. When you allow yourself to be influenced into that kind of hatred, you become completely deceived. I remember back during Trump’s Presidency, I called out some woman on FB or some board who claimed to be a Christian, yet vilified Trump and called him “evil”. I asked what she was basing her info on - challenged her that it was wrong to judge someone you’ve never even met. But ppl didn’t care. Too many just want to run with the crowd they believe has the most power - but Believers should know better.
I just don’t understand how any Christians fell for it- the Bible tells us many times that satan is the ruler of this world for now. How can a Christian not say to themselves “if the world is controlled by Satan, and literally the whole world is saying to do something, and all in agreement, maybe I should take a closer look.” Do these Christians not really believe the Bible?
Can only say for the people around me where I live. They practice Christianity. They were the first to go for the vmeds. I suspect because for them it's all just a family friendly ritual: go to church, mingle with the community, say your faith in God, etc. without really thinking about things, or in the case of one guy I know, just to have knowledge. But that's useless without application into their own daily life. To all of them it's trained them to submit to authority
Yes! I think submitting to authority (no matter what the authority is) has been ingrained in our culture through school programming, medical doctors, organized religion/church, etc. People are raised to trust authority without question. And critical thinking is not taught in schools... But here is where it gets complicated - how do we know the people in authority have our best interests in mind? This is where discernment and critical thinking comes in. Also, some of us were just born to question authority figures, and we are typically immune to the propaganda.
Agreed, I think many Christians have forgotten that satan runs this world, and have let their guards down. Also, with Trump supporting the vax, it's made a lot of conservatives and christians ok with taking it (that's a whole other issue!). People tend to believe what's in front of them, and if they're being fed fear and lies, rational thinking tends to go out the window. Not that rational thinking or IQ has anything to do with this...
And then there was a pastor that I really respected, until he told his whole congregation to vote for Biden. Honestly, I think it happened when they went against God’s word not to hate or bear false witness against someone. I think TDS was a real thing, and it was brought to be by the lies of the MSM that too many people worship . . . basically it’s a false god. When you allow yourself to be influenced into that kind of hatred, you become completely deceived. I remember back during Trump’s Presidency, I called out some woman on FB or some board who claimed to be a Christian, yet vilified Trump and called him “evil”. I asked what she was basing her info on - challenged her that it was wrong to judge someone you’ve never even met. But ppl didn’t care. Too many just want to run with the crowd they believe has the most power - but Believers should know better.
Living in fear = living under satan’s thumb.