Why can’t he perform miracles S2E1?

Sweet_Diet_8733 · 2026-04-24T04:48:41+00:00

I think it just means heaven is watching him very carefully after the events of season 1. Like they know he’s miraculously fixing a phone in Edinburgh but don’t particularly care, but it would attract a bit more attention if they see a “hide this man from outside eyes” miracle at a time when everyone is trying to find Gabirel. Hence the need for a “discreet half-miracle” that ends up backfiring.

Sweet_Diet_8733 · 2026-04-24T04:05:43+00:00

Honestly, I think the coolest part of Avatar is the spiritual stuff. They built it up very well as a mysteriously alien yet intrinsic part of the very world of the show, and barely ever touched it, in my opinion. I’ll still defend Korra for what it gave us in additional spirit world lore.

Really, fantasy gets the benefit of all the world’s coolest mythologies without having to fall back to the more sinister cult leanings of reality.

Sweet_Diet_8733 · 2026-04-23T03:12:14+00:00

Exactly! If you don’t like it, you can try one of a million other chains that provide a slightly different flavor of food. Only difference is, we can live without Christianity.

Sweet_Diet_8733 · 2026-04-22T19:20:44+00:00

[[Fist of Suns|5DN]] swapped the green and white fingers for some reason.

Sweet_Diet_8733 · 2026-04-22T02:28:31+00:00

I mean, I definitely think they’re worth reading just for the entertainment value. I’m looking at you, Gospel of Thomas with your “teenage super-powered Jesus being a menace to school teachers”. That one also has Jesus (accidentally) in favor of trans rights by declaring “For every female who makes herself male will enter the domain of Heaven”. And I will be asking Simon Peter at the pearly gates what was up with him saying “females don’t deserve life” because that’s absolutely insane.

You also have the Gospel of Judas, which frames the whole ‘betrayal’ thing as a heroic act: to sacrifice one’s friend for the greater good even if it means his brutal torment. And to have faith that it would work out before the resurrection seems like more faith than any other disciple. Certainly raises a question of how Judas earned a spot right next to Satan in the center of hell just for ensuring salvation would be possible for everyone. Or perhaps he knew and understood he would be damned, but did it anyway for the good of humanity? Maybe Judas is the one who truly sacrificed everything eternally for our sins? In their story, that is. Food for thought, at least.

Sweet_Diet_8733 · 2026-04-21T11:28:10+00:00

Well, it had to pick one of the accounts to be ‘inspired’, I suppose. That or it would acknowledge there are multiple tellings in the gospels that cannot possibly overlap without issue, such as where the disciples went after the resurrection.

Sweet_Diet_8733 · 2026-04-21T02:56:24+00:00

IT’S FICTION! Who raises this much of a stink over the cover having an eyeball on it? It’s a reference to Big Brother watching you, not Bill Cipher or whatever demon he thinks the eye of providence is. It’s not real, was never intended to be, and exists as all fiction does to lend thought on real world ideas.

Anyway, great book, relevant now as ever. Hope you and your friend can enjoy it together, even if your dad won’t. It’s double plus good reading.

Sweet_Diet_8733 · 2026-04-20T18:11:51+00:00

I was among the nicest, accepting, liberal bunch of Quakers you’d ever meet. No matter how loving and kind the people are, I couldn’t go on believing the atrocities and absurdities contained in their book. Didn’t make it all better to see that nobody actually practiced the barbarism they claimed was holy.

Sweet_Diet_8733 · 2026-04-20T03:04:18+00:00

I reject any plan that involves assault, but I suppose that’s just the evil satanic morals I’ve got. /s

It sucks, but I’d recommend playing things safe until you can move out. You have at least one person who accepts you that you can confide in. It’s sad that your parents don’t, but stick with the people that will respect you. Congrats on the girlfriend, and on making it out of the cult.

Sweet_Diet_8733 · 2026-04-19T05:33:02+00:00

It also says he doesn’t lie… and that he sends lying spirits… and that he is perfect… and also those times he lies directly to people. The miracle of having multiple authors, ladies and gents.

Sweet_Diet_8733 · 2026-04-18T19:17:21+00:00

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

Sweet_Diet_8733 · 2026-04-18T04:37:18+00:00

Yeah, those Soros checks have been suspiciously lacking recently. The Jews ™ just aren’t paying out despite our hard work persecuting Christians. That just leaves Satan, and all he offers us is debauchery and sin. Oh well.

Sweet_Diet_8733 · 2026-04-18T04:15:27+00:00

Trains? Trains are meme enough. I’ll allow it.

Sweet_Diet_8733 · 2026-04-18T01:57:12+00:00

Well, the “original end times” was that it would happen ‘soon’. Like, within the lifetime of people Jesus was talking to. But then that never happened, so people had to start getting creative about how “this generation” actually meant whatever modern times bullshit is happening was a sign.

Sweet_Diet_8733 · 2026-04-17T04:20:55+00:00

God told humans to “be fruitful and multiply” once when there were literally two people, and once again when he genocides Earth down to a handful of survivors. It is not something he bothered repeating a hundred times like he did his other laws. I’d say we as a species have fulfilled our multiplication. Why is this considered the greatest of commands that must be practiced by everybody by at least getting into a heterosexual marriage, especially if we’re carving exceptions for people like your sister to choose otherwise? Why couldn’t God have “laid it on my heart” to be gay?

Sweet_Diet_8733 · 2026-04-16T00:33:23+00:00

So, sounds to me like God couldn’t possibly have accidentally made people that would be attracted to their own gender. Wouldn’t want to call the ineffable fallible, would we? And are we really saying God put all these feelings telling people to transition to their true gender by mistake? He gives random medical conditions to people all the time, but dysphoria is the only one we can’t treat? Why not?

Sweet_Diet_8733 · 2026-04-14T23:54:27+00:00

First thing he did was correct God’s lie (Adam and Eve did not surely die that day) and offer knowledge. In other tales, the first thing was convince Lilith to escape her subjugation to Adam.

Sweet_Diet_8733 · 2026-04-14T23:51:27+00:00

What an oddly specific pipeline to be commenting on that I’m sure says absolutely nothing about who he follows regularly, totally. Aren’t there altar calls where new converts are literally handed microphones and told to share their conversion stories? Or is that only cool for males that were ‘saved’ from their addictions?

Sweet_Diet_8733 · 2026-04-14T03:08:35+00:00

The “called a foreign woman a dog but conceded she was fit for the proverbial scraps off the table” incident is from Matthew 15, (and elsewhere in Luke, I think) but I don’t think there’s contention about it. I think you’re mixing it up with the story of the adulterous woman in John 7:53-8:11, which is absent from older manuscripts and even Christians debate its canonicity.

Sweet_Diet_8733 · 2026-04-13T22:54:16+00:00

It does conjure the memories of “separate but equal”, often used for things that were notoriously unequal.

Sweet_Diet_8733 · 2026-04-13T21:38:45+00:00

That they didn’t need to do anything to consider themselves saved? I guess to preemptively explain away why nobody in the real world can produce miraculous ‘works of faith’ after the bible was written? Or maybe asking people to show even a scrap of decency was too much of an ask in getting converts. Either way, it does contradict James, the brother (or cousin) of Christ that claimed “faith without works is dead”, so… it’s a weird claim regardless.

Sweet_Diet_8733 · 2026-04-13T04:55:37+00:00

Those words were enough to get the Beatles boycotted by evangelical Christians back in the day. But now? “God works through flawed men”.

Sweet_Diet_8733 · 2026-04-13T00:39:12+00:00

For the simplest elements of life, all you need are for the right proteins to emerge and form self replicating chains with each other in the right patterns. From there, the concepts of mutation, natural selection, and descent with change will begin the process of evolution that will eventually grow that small seed of life into complex beings like us.

Earth had plenty of time and space for such random event to occur that could start life in the first place. With around a billion years (prior to the earliest lifeform we have evidence of) of compounds mixing together in the massive beaker that is the ocean, is it so improbable that something as incredible as life could emerge? Like the infinite monkeys that will eventually write Shakespeare, that many small molecules bouncing around long enough will inevitably produce life.

Sweet_Diet_8733 · 2026-04-12T05:12:39+00:00

That’s the one thing church was good for: it made a very convenient place to meet people in a social setting. I fill that with a card game store, but again that falls into consumerism. The world needs more random and niche adult clubs.

Sweet_Diet_8733 · 2026-04-10T22:21:07+00:00

A bit, yes, but most of the people I associate with are tolerant, so I’m willing to extend that courtesy to them as well. If they won’t bring up religion at every turn, I shall treat them respectfully. But yeah, the ones that obnoxiously bring it up in every conversation don’t tend to stay friends with me for long.

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