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by Kbelicius 1233 days ago
> The old religions you were at least judged by an omnipotent being who could see the whole picture.

That is no different than the dumb mob considering that "gods judgment" always needs to be interpreted. Some mobs do that differently than other mobs but they are all mobs in the end.

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>> The old religions you were at least judged by an omnipotent being who could see the whole picture.

> That is no different than the dumb mob considering that "gods judgment" always needs to be interpreted.

I don't think you got the point. The idea is that a truly wronged party (and their allies) can still feel like justice will be done if the system doesn't work, without doing anything, because in the end God will do it.

If that's not understood, then the allies will feel justified going after the (potentially falsely) accused extra-judicially or otherwise tilting the playing field in a way that results in more innocents get punished so it's felt to guilty people get away.