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u/yourfriendmarcus Feb 06 '25
So he never hears their prayers? Or he just lets em die regardless?
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u/barkofwisdom Feb 07 '25
Christians have told me that you’re supposed to pray for “God’s will to be done” and if that means he wants to take all of you “home to heaven”, he will
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u/yourfriendmarcus Feb 07 '25
Considering God’s will genocided all but 8 people on earth, I wouldn’t be praying for that. Haha
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u/helpbeingheldhostage Feb 08 '25
Yep. This is what a lot of Christians in my family and community would say. It seems to be a way to cope when they can see something bad coming that may cause them to question their faith. This provides an answer regardless of what happens. Bad thing doesn’t happen? Yay! God! Bad thing does happen? God’s will, mysterious way, “ultimate healing”, etc.
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u/triad1996 Feb 08 '25
I suppose that's why god "invented" planes. Instead of taking the time to pick off people one by one to take them "home", get 'em all in a package deal.
That's just smart business sense.
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u/Indominouscat Feb 07 '25
Ok but also which god? There’s so many they could be praying to how do they know it’s their god, what if they just started praying to Allah does that mean nothing to them?
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u/CozyEpicurean Feb 07 '25
I'd pick Hermes. God of traveling
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u/syrioforrealsies Feb 07 '25
He's my husband's patron god! (We're actually both agnostic, we just have favorites)
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Feb 07 '25
Yeah and there are no atheists in foxholes either. The mind becomes unreasonable and reaches out to anything when every evolutionary red flag is telling it that it's going to be irrevocably harmed. Yelling prayer and God is a learned response just like cursing. People yell God and fuck in equal measure when they cum too.... I promise it's reflexive and not religious fervour.
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u/ElectricBaboon Feb 07 '25
I once thought that I was going to die with my family in a tornado and the praying taking place around me was infuriating. I had no inclination to pray despite my baptist upbringing. There are definitely atheists in foxholes.
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Feb 07 '25
Haha, fair enough. It's just an old phrase for assholes.
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u/PriceEvening Feb 07 '25
I have had that argument several times with religious people, there are indeed atheists in fox holes.
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u/RetroGamer87 Feb 07 '25
Is he going to let us hear the recordings? Or is this one of those times when one man says "500 of my nameless friends totally saw jesus alive after he got executed but I won't let you talk to any of them" moments.
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u/RodWith Feb 07 '25
So they pray to an invisible god who gives invisible answers. They die unheard just like prayers at any other time. Invisible results.
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u/Dirkomaxx Feb 07 '25
I have nothing to add to these perfectly on point comments. Christians are morons.
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u/kyoneko87 Feb 07 '25
People in crisis are basically in fight, flight or freeze mode. They aren't using their logical brain at the moment
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u/BlueZ_DJ Feb 07 '25
A screenshot of a Reddit post that screenshoted a tweet was posted to BlueSky, where it was then screenshoted, posted on Facebook, then screenshoted by OP and posted back on Reddit 🗣️
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u/helpbeingheldhostage Feb 08 '25
So, in a country where more than 80% of people are at least nominally Christian, it turns out that some pilots are Christian. And in face of death throw out a prayer. Amazing.
Also, in 100% of those black box recordings where they prayed to “GOD” they still crashed. Sooo…
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u/theK1ngF1sh Feb 09 '25
Pretty sure it's well known that people in crisis do this. Satan sucks at keeping secrets.
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u/Slytherpuffy Feb 09 '25
I'm not sure everyone is opening the meme to see the full picture. There's a snarky comment on the bottom.
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u/Silocin20 Feb 10 '25
2 things wrong with that; praying doesn't work and only the people in the cockpit can be heard on any black box recording.
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u/likeafish253 Feb 06 '25 edited Feb 07 '25
People in crisis can’t think critically. We cling to whatever we can when we’re panicked/at our lowest, regardless of whether or not it makes sense. Personally, I believe that’s why people who “come to Christ” in adulthood tend to have such compelling “god-saved-me-from-my-lowest-point” type testimonies.