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I’m sure it comes from people who “discovered” (not learned, because they never experienced it) the bp from tiktok/instagram taking it at surface level, but the blackpill as an ideological framework is antithetical to everything theists believe.
This will ruffle some feathers but it is objectively true (and actual religious scholars would probably call your “BP’ed” beliefs blasphemous if you actually discussed them with them)
The Blackpill
:
- Deterministic, literally everything a person does or experiences is determined by their genetics/environment
- Fatalistic, there is no hidden hope at the end of it, you just accept it and live with the knowledge
- Explicitly rejects any notions of a “just world, accepts the world as being cruel, flawed and brutal,
- Encourages adherents to accept the harsh facts and try to better themselves/maximise their own happiness with it in mind
- Materialistic, backed by extensive evidence and peer-reviewed research, conceptually sound
Theism (in almost all cases)
:
- Inherently (and paradoxically) not deterministic as it claims that salvation is a choice and that humans have free will. If reality was deterministic, then God would be punishing/abandoning people that he doomed from the start and is thus cannot not benevolent/just.
- Idealistic, it provides a cope to every harsh truth:
“The world is unfair” -> every wrong will be righted in the afterlife.
“You get one life and then die forever” -> You get eternity in paradise if you are faithful.
“Evil people run the world and get ahead in life whilst the righteous are stepped on” -> Judgement of sinners and the righteous, eternal heaven/hell
- Claims that the world was made perfect, that God’s creations are perfect and that any evil is down to human free will (but children getting cancer is just part of le plan!!!)
- Encourages passivity and obedience in the face of suffering; God will fix your problems, and if he doesn’t you deserved it/you’ll be compensated in heaven
- Spiritualistic, magical thinking, purports the occurance of impossible phenomena and is entirely baseless
The two frameworks are not compatible, and anyone trying to make them so is just distorting one or the other to justify their own identity, as theists have done for generations to adapt to cultural shifts
inb4 redditor accusations despite theists (particularly christians) being 1000x cornier with their rhetoric
This will ruffle some feathers but it is objectively true (and actual religious scholars would probably call your “BP’ed” beliefs blasphemous if you actually discussed them with them)
The Blackpill
- Deterministic, literally everything a person does or experiences is determined by their genetics/environment
- Fatalistic, there is no hidden hope at the end of it, you just accept it and live with the knowledge
- Explicitly rejects any notions of a “just world, accepts the world as being cruel, flawed and brutal,
- Encourages adherents to accept the harsh facts and try to better themselves/maximise their own happiness with it in mind
- Materialistic, backed by extensive evidence and peer-reviewed research, conceptually sound
Theism (in almost all cases)
- Inherently (and paradoxically) not deterministic as it claims that salvation is a choice and that humans have free will. If reality was deterministic, then God would be punishing/abandoning people that he doomed from the start and is thus cannot not benevolent/just.
- Idealistic, it provides a cope to every harsh truth:
“The world is unfair” -> every wrong will be righted in the afterlife.
“You get one life and then die forever” -> You get eternity in paradise if you are faithful.
“Evil people run the world and get ahead in life whilst the righteous are stepped on” -> Judgement of sinners and the righteous, eternal heaven/hell
- Claims that the world was made perfect, that God’s creations are perfect and that any evil is down to human free will (but children getting cancer is just part of le plan!!!)
- Encourages passivity and obedience in the face of suffering; God will fix your problems, and if he doesn’t you deserved it/you’ll be compensated in heaven
- Spiritualistic, magical thinking, purports the occurance of impossible phenomena and is entirely baseless
The two frameworks are not compatible, and anyone trying to make them so is just distorting one or the other to justify their own identity, as theists have done for generations to adapt to cultural shifts
inb4 redditor accusations despite theists (particularly christians) being 1000x cornier with their rhetoric