The fetus cannot survive on its own and provides no benefit to the mother. It just takes and takes from her. That is a parasite.

I mean, look at eugenics, even the Holocaust had a weird atheist bent to it. Even without God, people want to believe that their suffering matters or they can fix things.

I guess I am not ready to not believe. Plus, I have found that even without God, atheists ask the same questions. They try and find patterns and reasons too.

Dude, I accidentally read the worst story I possibly could today. My God isn't benevolent and good and doesn't grant me wishes. I think I'm probably right on this one.

No, you're right. You're right.

I think that's why I'm mad at God. It can happen to me. It can happen to all of us. God works in mysterious ways and all that. There is a greater plan but that doesn't mean we're going to like our place in it.

And when I bring this up in church or with religious people, dear God do they hate me for it.

That poor little boy. All I can think of is how he spent his last moments on Earth wondering why his father wasn't helping him, wasn't picking him up and getting him ready for their day or feeding him. It's all I can think of. No one was being cruel there, the dad just died. His family called within a reasonable amount of time, really. No one was being cruel here.

I can't stop crying. I have been crying about it all day.

I don't know, I think it's more than that. People want to know that life has meaning and purpose. And these big churches provide that.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/toddler-starved-home-father-59-died-new-york-apartment-officials-say-rcna57579

Take this story. I can't stop crying let it, I don't understand it. I'm mad at God and the universe. But when you add organized religion to it, it turns it into something else. You can blame the Devil or say there was some greater purpose here. Or you can loon smugly and say that this senseless tragedy could never happen to you.

I get that but still. And not believing in God just makes me feel worse. It's not like there was even anything malicious about this. The dad just had a heart attack and the baby starved.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2022/11/17/toddler-starves-death-after-father-dies-new-york-apartment/10718140002/

I read this today and now I just...why? God why? There is not even any point.

You know, you can believe in God and not organized religion

I don't want this imagine in my head!

I have more worth than an parasite does.

Seriously, no one knows what pregnancy even is and yet the show just glosses over how absolutely dangerous this would be.

Maybe they should try releasing another season of Darling in the Franxx. That worked real well.

Exactly. And as the article points out, the rise in exorcisms is partially fueled by other churches rolling out their own exorcism services, ones which are more extreme and less monitored than the Catholic ones.

The Catholic church has a lot of problems, but I generally think out of all Christian sects, they do exorcism the best. Mostly because, as this article points out, the Catholic church actually doesn't see every single case as demonic. And their method of exorcism is usually a lot more gentle and less disturbing than what we see from non-Catholic churches. It really is just a prayer, and as it is pointed out, the priest performing the exorcism is supposed to do all of this in collaboration with the person's medical team.

So many non-Catholic churches have a problem with that last part, where the afflicted are encouraged to go off their meds and disengage from their medical care team.

Even if it was their third party vendor, that is still pretty scary that they can mess up this bad.

I mean, she could well be a prostitute who was having a mental episode.

Sounds like the girlfriend was so immersed in the game that she probably wasn't thinking clearly.

Oh, that's explains it. The LoL player was the girlfriend. And she had already gotten up to get the door, so, like, you know, time wasted already.

This makes me think of all those videos online of people who keep "pet" bees. I thought most of them were silly, but what if the bee really did just decide that it wanted to stay with this person from now on?

It's one thing to use animals, but products needs to be marked as being vegetarian and vegan. Or, alternatively, that they contain animal products.

I sort of thought it might be Pakistan for some reason

If a guy needs to use the toilet and that's the only thing available to him, he can use it. Nothing wrong with that.

This might explain why they're doing this, actually. Like, it's so crazy that it has to be a distraction for something.