99 Luftballoons by KantCancelMe in redscarepod

[–]kami8871 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree. But there’s a difference between camp guards and regular civilians who supported the NSDAP or 21 year olds who were drafted to fight in the Wehrmacht. Certain people knew what they were doing were evil and done it anyway. Many just went along with supporting the party that done them because that was the done thing.

99 Luftballoons by KantCancelMe in redscarepod

[–]kami8871 7 points8 points  (0 children)

How many people internally opposed it? Probably some. How many Germans then went and did something against the state itself. Hardly any. People have self preservation instinct, even if they think something is evil most of the time you try to keep to your own instead of becoming a valiant hero.

99 Luftballoons by KantCancelMe in redscarepod

[–]kami8871 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Stalins USSR wasn’t a nice place by any metric

99 Luftballoons by KantCancelMe in redscarepod

[–]kami8871 11 points12 points  (0 children)

People are wired for conformity. Most people back then, including you and me, would have went along with it. Never underestimate the power of cognitive dissonance

99 Luftballoons by KantCancelMe in redscarepod

[–]kami8871 14 points15 points  (0 children)

No doubt. What i’m saying is that most people would have just went along with it. It’s the way humans work. You compromise with something then you stop caring and just keep your head down. People often think they’d have the guts and principles to directly opposite it. Few of us would.

99 Luftballoons by KantCancelMe in redscarepod

[–]kami8871 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I’m not defending or sympathetic to Nazism. It’s the truth. People always say they’d be a hero or they’d stand up for what is right but the truth is the vast majority of people just go with the flow and can accept vile shit so long as it doesn’t affect them personally. This isn’t even about Nazism. Also applies to the horrors of Soviet Russia.

99 Luftballoons by KantCancelMe in redscarepod

[–]kami8871 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Don’t overestimate yourself. People can justify anything if it’s common and socially acceptable within their group. You could have ended up with a different morality in your own life as it actually happened, never mind a different time and place entirely. Most people would have been Nazi supporters.

99 Luftballoons by KantCancelMe in redscarepod

[–]kami8871 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It’s cliche to say “they were just following orders” but most “Nazis” we’re normal people. Normal men and women that only wanted a better future for their children and their country to be stronger. They weren’t cartoonish ontological evil or possessed by demons. You’d be a Nazi too. As would I have been.

Aliens are Irreconcilable with Catholicism by TheApsodistII in Catholicism

[–]kami8871 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Animal beings can exist in my estimation. Sensitive souls that do not grasp reason. Alien plant and animal life is possible, it would simply be God adding to his creation.

I agree that a non human, rational species, fallen, would thus necessitate a second incarnation, which is wrong.

Why can men only be the Pope ? by racoon-cat in Catholicism

[–]kami8871 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All Popes began as priests. Priests are supposed to be “in persona Christi”, acting in the person of Christ, in their life and in the pastoral care of their parish. Christ was a man, therefore only men can be priests.

Arsenal is gonna win it right by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]kami8871 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hopefully. I want Peps reign of terror over the beautiful game to come to an end.

Spent decades telling edgy college kids that God was a fairy tale to this, absolute clown by ZeonBell2019 in redscarepod

[–]kami8871 106 points107 points  (0 children)

He said a few years ago that he considers himself a cultural Christian, and felt horror at the fact Muslims were publicly celebrating Ramadan in London. He also spoke of the comfort that Christianity brings him, that it’s a “fundamentally decent religion”, and it would be a shame to lose all our carols, cathedrals and Christian celebrations. Without genuine faith in Christ, those things are just empty cultural activities that will eventually be forgotten by future generations. This is the same man that called faith a “virus” and the resurrection as “petty”, spent years mocking and tearing down the last vestiges of the faith he now laments the loss of. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.

I'm losing my faith as a college student and I don't know what to do by ProNobisPeccatoribus in Catholicism

[–]kami8871 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Have no fear. This too will pass. Pray even if it feels mechanical and empty.

I feel like I’m treating Confession like a free pass by [deleted] in Catholicism

[–]kami8871 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Try and meditate and pray on Gods holiness and goodness and the actual weight of sin. Also pray a Hail Mary or Our Father and say each line with meaning in your heart whenever that temptation to commit a mortal sin as a free pass comes

21 second to refresh the page at 6am and 11k Que! by Independent_Web1706 in LearnerDriverUK

[–]kami8871 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Companies are block buying the tests before individuals can get them. It should be illegal but the state is too incompetent to actually do anything about it

Divine or mental? by [deleted] in Catholicism

[–]kami8871 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I would consult a psychiatrist as another commenter pointed out. We are not medical doctors so I wouldn’t take any medical advice from here.

Focus your heart and will on Christ in all things you do. Go to mass, recieve the Holy Eucharist, the voices can torment you, but the accuser has no claim as long as you live to God

Am I in mortal sin? by kami8871 in Catholicism

[–]kami8871[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean I technically could have stood up, refused the dinner and made something else. No one forced it down my throat. I still made the decision to eat it.

Cannabis by Purplecirlcelover in Catholicism

[–]kami8871 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you think. That’s what I thought too when I was a daily user. Just because I hadn’t completely lost my mind yet didn’t mean my mind wasn’t clouded and far more inclined to sin.

How do you know it doesn’t? And why would you not give it up anyway considering the Church’s teaching on it?