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Mar 8, 2026 11:48 AM
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clemdarkstarzero
ThatGuyFromJustSouthOfTheMiddleOfNowhere
soup71
The Goatherders Guide to the Galaxy.
ThatGuyFromJustSouthOfTheMiddleOfNowhere
ThatGuyFromJustSouthOfTheMiddleOfNowhere
https://imgur.com/vR09K6a
Shiznit007
The blind leading the blind
sacurishadow888
the only blasphemy there is is turning a jungle from wood to concrete
meowingintensifies
blasphemy sunday gives me life. good dump! <3
levelor
@OP I wish there had been more about other religions, but solid dump. 🥂
congrationyoudoneit
These fit most monotheistic, all abrahamic, religions
ElbowDeepInAGoblin
#1 Meanwhile, Buddhism: 'Question every single thing including reality itself and if you ever meet the Important Religion Guy in the street, literally murder him.'
Rogerwilco1974
Can I get an "Amen!"?
MajorNikon
jtxyz
#2 pff. They knew where the sun went: to fuck the moon.
Heretic.
ParrotHat
The moon is just the back side of the sun, everyone knows that
WillCorrectInaccuraciesForFood
But we can often still see the moon.. kinky.
KrampusCopia
Honestly this meme is a bit wrong. Its right when it comes to the old testament, but the new testament was written by educated Greek scribes. There's really complex literature in it for its time. Like the chiasmus in the lord's prayer in Mathew and also in John (different scribe from Mathew) when the Prophets wait for Jesus to pray in the garden.
Here's the obligatory, im not a Christian I just study the bible because its interesting and very impactful to western civilization.
chiefrunswithscissors
#4 if God is omnipresent how come he didn't know that Eve ate the apple until he came across them being ashamed of their nakedness?
Voxius
10/10, all of these are amazing.
Hatlled
If something doesn't happen PDFQ, religion is going to kill us ALL.
starfishlord123
#6 this
SMarkt
imagine the universe in its incredible wonderful greatness can be explained by a book written by a group of people who have just left the Stone Age behind them. my ass!
astrangehop
Why is the universe incredible, wonderful, and great?
mormacil
You mean the Christian bible? It's writers are generally closer to our time than the stone age.
hairyinire
…and they always need money.
FoxPesdassi
And a starship.
guyanesebro420
I pretty much just broke up with a woman i love over religion. They're super into it(they're parts they like) and i have publicly told my own family to duck off with it. If you're at a table with 1 nazi and say nothing, you're a nazi, same thing with every one of those fucking books. Its a cancer on humanity.
RunningInSpaces
god is the name given to explain ignorance and blanket fear, loss, and discomfort
W0lfsbl00d
Yes, it's cope. And religion is the control and the church is the racket.
Misteree8
The best comparison for religion(all of it) is cancer. It's one word that covers a plethora of cancers. Many start and stay benign, but all of it can become harmful. There is no cure, but when you remove cancer you dont replace it with another cancer.
UncleRat
"God is the name of the blanket we drape over the mystery to give it shape."
choppedliveraldente
*pitches tent* Jesus come into me
SoThatsWhere
Like puffs of hot air from the lips of a ghost in the shadow of a unicorn's dream.
2112eric5772
I too enjoyed learning this phrase via Jimmy Carr via an ac/dc roadie a couple weeks ago on imgur. Nice catch.
UncleRat
Wow! Yes, that is where I got it. I really like it.
OobieDoobBenubi
It's also just a poetic way to refer to the concept of "the god of the gaps" which has been around a lot longer than AC/DC.
509tigerfish
shalafi71
And more foolishness! We have the Ark's dimensions. As a child, having NO clue how many species are on Earth, I still found it absurd.
1stDrunkJoe
#4 This. Feeling good when you do something good for someone, feeling badly when you're doing something wrong; if there's a loving creator it seems logical that that's how they would communicate their will. Why would God need an interpreter?
hellothisispeggy
I keep going back to that it's the most trivial it has ever been to get a message to the majority of the population of the planet and yet he doesn't even text. A mere mortal today can call or text about 6 billion of the 8 billion people on the planet and yet we still have complete silence from the being that's supposed to be omnipresent.
ThatGuyFromJustSouthOfTheMiddleOfNowhere
1stDrunkJoe
Prayer: Dear God I know you made everything perfectly to fit in with your divine plan but I think you might have fucked up on this part here.
ThatGuyFromJustSouthOfTheMiddleOfNowhere
How dare you question the infallibility of your God!
daguq
The Seneca quote is made up. Stop posting fake quotes.
MajorNikon
It's not made up, just misattributed. "The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful." - Edward Gibbon (1776)(Chapter II: The Internal Prosperity In The Age Of The Antonines.—Part I. Second Paragraph)
daguq
All quotes are made up. But why take a great quote from Gibbon, rewrite it, and pass it off as Seneca?
MajorNikon
Probably because someone paraphrased it for the lazy and wanted to divert attention from the actual quote by attributing it to a famous philosopher. Meanwhile I seriously doubt if the OP was the original person who misattributed the passage.
daguq
No, but OP posted it without verifying its authenticity. That's almost as bad.
rockiesmagicnumber
why are folks downvoting calling out misinformation, even if it is an accurate quote? It undermines arguments to have inaccurate information and citations.
MajorNikon
Might as well yell at the clouds.
sbro11
daguq
This is a favourite of imgur, and it's not a genuine quote. Please stop posting it.
pilomotor
Why? Somebody said it. Can't we just attribute it to "anonymous" and keep posting it?
Eleshar24
Not an actual quote but there is something fairly close to it in one of Diderot's poems: "La nature n'a fait ni serviteur ni maître; Je ne veux ni donner ni recevoir de lois. Et ses mains ourdiraient les entrailles du prêtre, Au défaut d'un cordon pour étrangler les rois."
daguq
Yes.
SavageDrums
It's a simplified paraphrase of a real quote. The real quote was in French so any translation isn't a genuine quote.
PirateArrrgument
The billionaire class are working hard to make it so the sentence ends after five words.
SavageDrums
Sounds like a group of people who need a good entrails strangling.
HandoB4Javert
Contex: Petter Anker Stordalen Bjorvand is a Norwegian businessman. With an estimated net worth of US$1.6 billion as of 2025.
Rutger Bregman argues that philanthropy by billionaires often masks deeper structural problems — and that real change has historically come from people willing to challenge the systems that made them rich, not just give some of the money away.
shalafi71
The robber barons of old built lasting and useful institutions like museums, libraries, schools and endowments. Heroic vs. today's crop.
HandoB4Javert
Initially as a tax offset, then as a competition between themselves...
Butterupmybuttcheeks
If we do not acknowledge the mechanism, as it is one, and exists in all of us, we will continue to fail to properly deal with it.
Beardedgeek72
This reminds me of how a lot of players don't understand how the NPCs in AC Odyssey reason the way they do regarding the gods. You have to remember that back then there literally was no distinction between "religion" and "fact". As in "Religion" as a separate concept wasn't a thing.
mormacil
Same with magic and miracles. Priests tended to be sorcerers because in most religions the gods give you the power to cast spells. It's only really the Abrahamic who suddenly go, all no Yahweh based magic is bad and totally different from the spells powered by other gods.
Beardedgeek72
Yep. They were also the first religions (outside of Akenaten, which kind of was the blueprint for them) that also only accepted their own god. (Which is so fun when you know that the oldest parts of the Torah was written when "God with a capital G" was just part of a pantheon. The "No Gods except me" part was not towards other religions, but towards other gods in the same pantheon).
mormacil
Are we just skipping over Zoroastrianism? Pretty sure they adopted henotheism before Judaism/Yahwism stopped being polytheistic.
Beardedgeek72
No, we are just forgetful. Sorry.
BeaverOnFire
I think it is possible that a 'god' exists, but a loving all knowing God seems improbable. More likely we have had encounters with more advanced beings and called it God. Be it a fourth dimension being, or a race with much more advanced tech. Of course I'm being generous here. The desires of one person to use the fears of another to gain control over them is also a theme just as old as time.
michiyl
So Stargate was right!
hellothisispeggy
I'd find it way more believable that was the case if they had given even the most basic of advanced knowledge like "wash your hands" or "there is no reliable way to tell if a woman is a virgin" or maybe even "slavery is wrong" but there's not any of that in there.
BeaverOnFire
They may have given such kinds of basic knowledge. But due to the fact that most transfer of knowledge in the early years was through verbal storytelling, the core message remains but the delivery was muggled up. For example not eating pork makes sense as a religious belief, if you assume that the underlying purpose was to in fact prevent people from obtaining parasites frequently found in pork.
hellothisispeggy
Yeah but we eat pork today because we understand how to process it safely, why would an advanced race be like "lol don't eat it is got demons" instead of "don't eat this part and cook it first" instead we've got weird stuff about not cooking animals in their mothers milk. I'm still going back to not *any* advanced knowledge, there's not one thing in there that they shouldn't have known at the time, if anything like the mustard seed claim there's a lot they should've known and didn't.
BeaverOnFire
The advanced race wouldn't say it's got demons. An advanced race would tell us what's going on, and we would lack the ability to understand. So best case scenario we redefine it in terms that we had available. Due the lack of science, demons would be blamed.
hellothisispeggy
Which imo just makes it fit less since they'd have been able to explain better. We're not as advanced as the speculated beings and yet **we** could explain it better, pretty critical would be making sure to teach them a written language so it'd have some fraction of a chance of being retained correctly but no such thing happened. For example the Cherokee written language was made by one guy.