Cool, cool. Definitely sounds like the guy you want in charge of it all.

I suppose if he's a religious nut who thinks his targets are literally agents of Satan, he might be less likely to accept bribes from them?

"Now, now, we're not saying you people have to reveal your reporters' names ... we're saying you're not people."

(Apologies to South Park freak show episode.)

man, I hate being Colombian

How's that working out for ya.

Indoctrination isn’t education my dude.

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Yeah, the NRA is very different from literal drug cartels- so it's understable how one could confuse lessening the psychological grip a cartel holds over an area with •checks notes• United States political theatre..

Like, this is one of the good parts of religion: comforting people in dire situations..

Colombia cartels are globally funded.. the drug trade there is not just local dealers..

Yea, can't blame them for for cultural superstition. Plenty here in the US. Just do your job, and take steps to actually address the problems. Mass shootings lead to hypocrites sending "thoughts and prayers " then voting for NRA ass holes who do everything possible to perpetuate the problem. Just tell us you don't give a f and spare us the invisible companions.

I say the existence of payoffs to the police and government officials is real. But he will not do anything about that.

Absolutely right

Proof please. Good v evil is an excuse to do nothing to actually solve problems. Prayers or whatever are absolutely not going to get it done. Not mocking, believe that actual steps are needed not superstition

Eh, you'd be surprised when it comes to communities with strong cultural values.. latin america tends to value interpersonal familial relationships higher than the average westerners and religion spreads through families. (Source: am Latin American immigrant raised in the U.S. 1st generation, raised catholic too hah!)

Like i said, ik it's popular to hate on christianity, but in this scenario, it's not as crazy as jim jones or scientology b.s. it's more of a cultural thing, you can't really blame them for having their culture mixed with catholicism.

I mean, you can blame them, but that'd just be because you're being willfully ignorant.

Metaphors are ok I guess but I hope they don't seriously believe that humans aren't capable of evil (or good) without supernatural help.

No one makes anyone do anything, people are just f'd up on their own.

Belongs more in r/LeopardsAteMyFace.

What an actual waste of time. Believe whatever you want, but take actual steps don't fool yourself into thinking " thoughts and prayers " are going to do a damn thing.

Actually not as crazy as you'd think. Cartels are very superstitious, as are many people in Columbia (and other places with a cartel presence). Syncretist folk religions like Santeria and Santa Muerte pop up all the time, so even if you don't believe, it makes a certain amount of sense to try and assure people that you have things under control spiritually. As weird as it sounds, encouraging more normal forms of prayer directly discourages the ritual behavior of narco cults, and I wouldn't be surprised it has tangible psychological benefits in reducing people's toleration of the cartel.

I want to tell them to just admit you don't care enough to actually do something. Quit voting for second amendment assholes so maybe we can start taking actual steps to actually address the problem.

Yeah, pretty easy to say “Why don’t you just beat the merciless, armed to the teeth drug cartels? lololol” from a keyboard thousands of miles away.

Really? I'm so sick and tired of"sending thoughts and prayers" responses to tragedy. Just tell me you don't care enough to actually do something and move on.

People seem to have taken what I said the wrong way. I said it’s hard to wrap my head around, not that it’s the devil… I literally prefaced that I DONT believe in all that

Some humans are broken. Don't need supernatural help to do the wrong thing.

Worst weapons ever.

But, you do need God to combat the problem. You can explain it all day, but what can you do?

Yes you do