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Went to a Christian retreat: felt more like a combination of cult worship with blatant corporate adverts

submitted by niggaswaywhat to Rants 2 weeksApr 13, 2024 14:09:36 ago (+7/-3)     (Rants)

Went to a retreat over the weekend, and holy crap, I never realized just how commercialized these events are. They had a guy come from a really big Christian company, explaining the perils of running a business. Did he answer any questions about Christianity within a business environment? Fuck no! It was just a massive advertisement for his company. That's all it was, just an hour long seminar on buying his shit mixed with some Bible verses. Did I want to hear it? Not really. But as is tradition, I get dragged to these events by family, so why not at least have some fun with their content.

My friend even made fun of me about this, he said that organized religion and me simply dont mix. You can not mix a free thinking individual, with whatever the fuck it is I witnessed. What makes these events so funny to me, is they constantly clamor about not labelling Christianity ... and yet within 5 minutes i can predict the ENTIRE sermon of what someone will say, because I properly labelled the core theological principal used. And its true, most modern day pastors all went to the same schools, learned the same concepts, applied the same approaches. There is very little to ZERO difference between two modern day pastors.

And of course odinism made its way into the conversation because god forbid these neo marxist pastors ever look into WHY people are rejecting the modern day church. I can't imagine odinism is THAT popular, but the rejection of the modern church has nothing to do with odinism. Dont matter, most pastors will just mix the two together. God forbid the people Christian pastors have been shitting on for 50+ years grow a backbone and actually try to fix a problem. Best to do jack fuck and sit there whilst your enemy kills you.


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[ - ] Sector2 2 points 2 weeksApr 13, 2024 15:18:45 ago (+2/-0)

Modern society is effectively like a ubiquitous Disney World. Everything you see and hear, that's promoted in any way, is curated and designed to control you.

[ - ] Cantaloupe 2 points 2 weeksApr 13, 2024 15:03:57 ago (+2/-0)

On the one hand large scale organization is powerful and can be used for good; on the other, it is often corrupted.

[ - ] niggaswaywhat [op] 0 points 2 weeksApr 13, 2024 15:07:53 ago (+0/-0)

Lagre powerful organizations never last, even the largest ones. They become too big and collapse under their own hubris, fraud, and the original intent rapidly becomes lost.

[ - ] boekanier 1 point 2 weeksApr 13, 2024 14:15:42 ago (+1/-0)

next time retreat in yourself for spiritual awareness, don't look for it in places where it can't be found

[ - ] niggaswaywhat [op] 1 point 2 weeksApr 13, 2024 15:11:44 ago (+1/-0)

The thing is I lean very heavily towards a subset of calvinism. However, I've learned my quest for answers will never work in a place forcing conformity amongst the masses. One of the principle complaints during the retreat by one of the speakers was their concern that individualism was a problem to the church. They don't want free thinkers, just confirming slaves. They would love to have people as stupid and blind as liberals, as long as those same people are blind enough to follow only church doctrine.

And this is when you start to see the church for being the tyrants they pretend not to be. Be enslaved by this option, as long as you follow these arbitrary subsets and rules. A lot of these churches completely miss the point of being a follower of Christ, instead opting for overly simplified sound bites.

[ - ] Salacious_Salicylic -1 points 2 weeksApr 13, 2024 17:34:53 ago (+0/-1)

Its exhausting trying to find a meaningful connection. I might have a decent church again, but I've only been there two weeks.

If you aren't familiar with him, you might enjoy the works of Soren Kierkegaard. I understand he felt the same way towards the institution of the church.

[ - ] yesiknow 0 points 2 weeksApr 13, 2024 19:00:19 ago (+0/-0)*

Americans weren't church goers until the 1800's. They were rural and had a Bible in their home.

All those sects that sprang up under the Protestant label were Old Testament which contains no Christianity.

In 1910, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church identified what became known as the five fundamentals;

Biblical inspiration and the infallibility of scripture as a result of this.

Virgin birth of Jesus

Belief that Christ's death was the atonement for sin

Bodily resurrection of Jesus

Historical reality of the miracles of Jesus.


"They rejected the existence of commonalities with theologically related religious traditions, such as the grouping of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism into one Abrahamic family of religions."

That's all a fundamentalist is defined as. The 501C non profit bribery open preachers are as you say, universally trained and universally money oriented, a sin. "The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil"

Sin simply means in error of the philosophy.

To be a Protestant all one has to do is read one of the four evangels; Matthew Mark, Luke or John. They ether accept or reject it.

In all religions, the words of the prophet are all there really is, every thing else is personal opinion. The Prophets have to be dead for their words to remain unchangeable, and the control remain with the believer, and not the church leader or the people writing commentary about them.

People go to church for the community and if the community isn't restricted to your neighbourhood it's not effective in building a cohesive community. It's another reason Odin isn't going to be adopted, besides what words Odin left that wouldn't just be some schmuck's owned by jews, like so many pastors and communist priests.

The new age religion came through media and marketing and new agers have to check with the media every day to know what their prophet says.

THe Darwin fish bumper sticker is an example. The Christian fish symbol with feet and th word evolution. Millions bought t as a sign of their intellectual superiority and their fatuous and spurious assumption that Christians don't believe in evolution. They invented Western empirical science the jews and their communist cult in China are at war against.

TH Darwin fish bumper sticker was invented by Al Seckel, Jeffry Epstein's good buddy and Ghislain Maxwell's brother in law. THe marketing of it was by the jew globlists organized behind the curtain.

Sekel was another criminal jew who disappeared and was said to have committed suicide or fallen off a cliff, and suspected of being in israel by anyone familiar with the apttern..

[ - ] ImplicationOverReason 0 points 2 weeksApr 13, 2024 15:27:03 ago (+0/-0)

free thinking

RELIGION (Latin religio; to bind anew)...bound contradicts free.

mix a free

Mixing implies putting together; free implies set apart from one another.

commercialized...within a business environment

Ones consent (faith; belief; submission) buying into the suggestions another sells implies commercialism, hence the contract of religion binding buyer to seller aka creditor to debtor aka trustee to bank etc.

Underneath all of this...nature doesn't sell suggested information for the price of ones consent, it offers perceivable inspiration towards ones perception, wielding the free will of choice to react. Ignoring perceivable (need) for suggested (want) implies ones free will of choice.

zero difference

Being one (partial) within oneness (whole) implies different (perception) within same (perceivable)...suggested zero implies nihil-ism (Latin nihilo; nothing) tempting ones de-nial of perceivable for suggested.

odinism

Ones consent to suggested -ism tempts one to ignore ODIN (wod-ono) - "inspired" aka perceivable inspiration towards ones perception.

to fix a problem

Consenting to anything suggested "affixes" it within ones mind/memory as a definition; meaning; information; truth etc. Doing so tempts one to ignore being problem (life) within solution (inception towards death), hence not being able to affix anything without ignoring that everything moves.

[ - ] Master_Foo -1 points 2 weeksApr 13, 2024 16:18:50 ago (+1/-2)

ProTip: Christ-Cucks think a Jew is their Messiah.

[ - ] we_kill_creativity 0 points 2 weeksApr 13, 2024 17:18:26 ago (+1/-1)

Hey look, it's the account that clearly hates Christianity like a jew and refused to spell jew with a lower case "j". Gee, I wonder what race/religion they clearly are...?

[ - ] Master_Foo 1 point 2 weeksApr 13, 2024 17:32:34 ago (+1/-0)

I'm in favor of curb stomping baby Jews, what about you, Rabbi?
I bet you can't answer.
I bet you try to change the subject.
Just like you did when I noticed Christ-Cucks worshipping a Jew.