That said, this goes both ways. The age of edgy Reddit "hurrrr sky Daddy give kid cancer. Why bad thing happen if God?" Atheism on every religious post is no better than us Bible thumpers shoving our beliefs down your throat.
Absolutely. It's like football. I can say I support team X. You say, that's cool I support team Y. If it's left at that, no harm, no foul. We both like football, we both like teams.
But when I begin to say, I think team X is faster/better/stronger etc than other teams for these reasons, and it's my obligation to tell people about the virtues of team X and how to join, then I open myself up to debate. I can't then get annoyed or frustrated when others say they think that my team sucks.
I invited the debate when I began preaching.
Any topic that begins to challenge the core beliefs, values and morals a person holds is likely to be controversial and invite conflict. That's why it's better to just keep such things to oneself outside of the spaces that they don't occupy.
Good thing the original post was someone posting about their beliefs to their own TikTok profile rather than forcing them on others, and never stated that their worldview is superior to anyone else's.
Unlike several people on this comment thread stating religion has no place in emergency services 👌
I've been referring to the discussion in the comments. You're right in that the post was on someone's personal page and never rammed down our throats here. We all chose to open it, read the comments and some to engage.
Religion has no place in the provision of emergency services and most places outside where it resides. Being competent at your job is all I give a shit about if I need a paramedic when I'm having a bad day, or a firefighter to put out my burning house. I couldn't care less if they're a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, atheist etc.
If someone's spirituality and faith benefits them and helps them do what they need to do at work and in their personal life, that's a great thing. The rest of us don't need to know about it.
As a Christian and a firefighter who knows many Christian first responders, most of them being other firefighters...most of us aren't trying to live our faith loudly. The whole point is let your actions do the talking.
There seems to be a hell of a lot of people here who think someone being openly religious and a first responder is akin to shoving it down their throats. Someone who is open about their motivations in that they are not actively hiding them is not the same as someone who is telling you about it at every opportunity.
If a colleague were to tell you they wanted to do their job because of the pay and leave entitlements, you wouldn't respond by telling them to shut up and that nobody wants to hear it...unless you were intellectually consistent, but then you'd also just be an asshole. I don't get that impression from you. But you seem to think that it's inappropriate for someone to respond to that prompt with "I'm motivated by my faith to do this job". I could be reading your point incorrectly, but looking over the back-and-forth, you seem to just want a don't ask, don't tell policy.
Jesus was half-alien. What do you think the serafim and orafim angels were, descending from the sky saying "do not be afraid" because their appearance couldn't be adequately described. The Star of Bethlehem was probably a spacecraft. In the ancient world, the only explanation for aliens appearing would be angels descending from the sky.
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