Hey! I am not from america but my father lives in Georgia and we call once a week and chat a bit.
We talked about the horrible fires in california and his wife (they are together since like 7 years) was in the backround removed*** around: “They mocked god, that is what they deserved I guess!”
Yo really?
Come on… I am atheist I left the church but I never had a problem with people who believe in god. It’s not what I believe in and everyone is free to believe in whatever they want to as long as they are happy.
It’s not only her comment. It’s under a lot of youtube comments to LA Fires, for example this:
“This is a lesson for every atheist, every arrogant person, and every polytheist: God is great and God is mighty”
WOW.
Pathetic. I can throw up. If god exists which is very unlikely I am very happy to go to hell with my beliefs because hell might be a less toxic place to be than in heaven with those mega worshipers.
It’s really like only 10% of christians that are that extreme. It’s not the majority I know but if I look at america it’s those deep red state god worshipers and they are everywhere in Georgia, Alabama etc.
Churches gotta ban them from the religion and make those people be religionless. They don’t deserve to be in heaven if they keep saying “gods revenge” to california people.
Those are the karens that get hurt if you tell them we are all going to non existence once we vanish from this planet. Why can’t they just be quiet and go to church?!
So many weird people on this planet. Im not rich either and people run around saying they deserved it. What is wrong with most humans?!
My answer is responding basic on sociology of religion methods. Your response doesn’t work in the real world. How you define who is following it or not immediately cuts your data is half. Who are you to define who is a true follower or not? That’s not objective. By those standards there are no religious followers in China or Japan. Pew had to consider this when trying to abstract data on this very question there.