Most Christians will talk about “Gods Plan”. Which makes sense to me, the Christian God is omniscient and omnipresent so he could have a super well laid out plan for every micro second of human history.

But like, doesn’t this kind of defeat the purpose of prayer? Like if a family member gets sick, what’s the point to praying to God about it. Whatever happens is part of his “plan”, so there really isn’t any chance you’re going to change his mind on whether Grannie is going to pass.

Same with things “going against Gods Plan”. Gods plan should have every contingency accounted for, so it really shouldn’t matter what anyone does. Is there a chance that if too many people are gay that will derail Gods plan and everything will be fucked? Or did Gods Plan account for me being a big gay commie? Is the idea that you can’t fuck up Gods master plan, but if you do a bunch of weird crap God doesn’t like it will throw things off slightly and God will have to compensate which he finds really annoying?

  • nabana [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    And to whatever portion is actually asking: The dissonance is an important part of American evangelicalism or whatever you like to call it. End result is that God’s plan gets to be whatever an authority in your life decides it is

    I would expand this to say not just an important part of American Evangelicalism but the entire core necessary and defining component in my mind of the power structure part of “The American Civic Religion™” and the principle piece from which control structures that allow American Protestantism (at least since Jerry Falwell) to operate with the same purpose that Catholicism did in Rome, that is, to functionally reign in all dissent from “Conservative Christian Doctrine” and ensure that this vital conservative political power structure can never again be divorced from the specific beliefs of their target “audience’s” faith.