I dunno why people insist on the active and present model of God,
It’s pretty obvious that at the most he’s diligently observing the way things are shaking out, like even from textual evidence within the Bible, he was active, but he isn’t now
We killed his kid, so he’s giving us the silent treatment.
The Christian God is a narcissistic spoiled brat.
Way I always took it was by specifically abolishing original sin, Jesus abolished being judged for your associations and family, and instead being judged for your own choices in life.
Basically Christianity tells a narrative of divine salvation going from being a gift for a chosen people provided their maintaining their covenant with their God, to said covenant being abolished, and said salvation now being what people experience from the act of choosing to do good things for yourself and for the folks around you.
From justice being tied to a code of blood feuding to a code of retaliatory law, to a choice you make every day to spread good through your actions.
I pointed out to my partner that judging by the Grammys, God (WTF autocorrect why was that capitalized??) is really busy with people getting awards and doesn’t have time for pesky things like violence and privation.
The “global pandemic” one is likely a 90+% shortfall.
When researchers examine “excess deaths”, the spike from 2020 onward represents an additional 30 million deaths in excess to what should have occurred in the absence of COVID.
Also the global deathtoll to COVID directly is closer to 11 million not 2.5
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-02-analysis-reveals-excess-deaths-attributed.html
Most “excess deaths” are directly COVID-related, in that COVID infection was the only reason why they died, a d yet their death was not properly recorded as having been from COVID, mainly for political reasons or lack of pre-death testing (because you cannot test a corpse).
There’s also the people who died of other things while the hospitals were swamped and ambulance were not being sent