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Mar 1, 2026 3:20 PM
OnceBotheredTwiceShy
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Nath1194
#11 AI? Fingers and such look weird as f
Bobbobbobobbananafanafobob
The old testament is an old society's view of a global father figure. The new testament is an old society's view after living with said father figure.
I mean, the Bible from their god's pov reads like 14yo me playing the original Sims.
I failed to pay rent and feed them and they burned their house down? Their fault. Haha this guy loves everyone, I drowned his family.
Eventually I got old enough to realize those were dick moves and didn't do them again and forgave the games failings.
Seethreepeeoh
The most enlightening past of this post is Penn is his Christian name (pun intended)
ILoveThiPlatform
MektaSatakOz
People sure are feeling euphoric today.
ParrotHat
#5 "When God hands you lemons you FIND A NEW GOD." -Powerthirst 2:69
modis
#6 strange how that sounds more like the relationship between the elite and the working class. Yes, very strange indeed.
TheVillageGrouch9000
Is good to see freethinkers here. Pure logic dissolves all that is faith. An atheist for forty years give or take.
NotToBeTHATGuyBut
Meeting icebreaker once asked everyone to name something they wished was never invented. People answered weapons of war, or technology they didn't like. My answer, religion, was met with awkward silence.
Zorklunn
It's kinda simple really. People in power invented the idea of god to subject everyone else. Look at the parallels. People in power create rules that only apply to everyone else, commit atrocities, and excuse themselves from accountability. God uses a set of rules that are only applies to the powerless, and excuses themselves when convient. People in power invented god, and god behaves like people in power.
DaisyfromDownunder
Learn the difference between Baloney and Ham, then choose ham for better mental health.
FiftyShadesOfArugula
#2 To be honest, there were stressful times when the amount of murder I would have liked to commit was not entirely zero. But that's why we have secular laws as a deterrent, plus a great deal of secular social conditioning against violent outbursts. Religion is typically used for the opposite end, meaning to rationalize and justify acts of murder.
KawaiiInari
#2 I feel bad if I accidently kill a bug. I don't understand who has the urges to hurt anyone.
topaz342
When I was quite small one of my earliest memories was fo a women towering over and asking me "Have you been washed in the blood of the Lamb?" Horrified me!! Scared the living JESUS out of me. Literally! And that was the beginning of who I am today.
spiritplumber
Germano Mosconi docet
ExTechOp
#9 Somewhat surprisingly that is (according to one source) an accurate Tecumseh quote of his speech to Governor Harrison (August 1810): https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tecumseh#Account_one
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pullingsixty
What would Jesus be doing now if humanity had just decided not to kill the son of god? Still hanging around?
firlefranz
SrPootStank
Lol, I've always wondered why people got so upset at the people that killed him. Like that's the whole reason he came here. And in addition, a lot of people were killed in a similar manner, so I'm not sure if one crucifixion is enough to soak up all the sinning of hoomanity.
M4UsedRollout
The doctrine of atonement was invented to explain why Jesus got killed, and then the words were retrojected onto his lips when they wrote the gospels decades later.
Except the gospel of Luke. That one characterizes Jesus’s death as a gross miscarriage of justice that proves how evil and screwed up the world is so that the sinners repent and turn away from their sinful ways.
But the church likes the idea of atonement better. Makes it sound like it was the plan from the beginning.
YoureGonnaNeedABodyBag
He'd be looking at the bright side of life
lostlittletimeonthis
Somethings in life are bad...
Lekonua
They really wrote themselves into a corner with the whole omnipotence/omniscience power set. You can’t blame the evil and imperfections of the world on humanity because your all-knowing, all-powerful deity 1: GAVE us the capability to sin in the first place and 2: KNEW we’d do it!
And you can’t refute this argument without acknowledging that this deity must not in fact have one of his established powers. There is either something he can’t do, or something he doesn’t know. Or he’s just a prick.
CoryBoy
You might be interested in a guy named Philip Goeth. He's a philosophy professor that, in attempt to reconcile religion's problem of suffering/evil and materialists' problem of fine tuning by proposing a god of limited powers. He's now heretically christian and an apostate to atheism, haha.
CeterumCenseo
#11
Whoisthisdoctorwho2000
#10 they also stole your children
DunnowForgot
Lots of gold in this dump. It's an incomplete summary of why I stopped going to church, great starter though.
spangolio
religions are actual lifeforms, that either evolve to spread and dominate, or lose out to ones that do. humans are nothing more than soil to them.
jesuisgur
Religion: the original meme.
Bazelbait11
#5 Reminds me of a thing I liked in the Hyperion cantos books was the idea that one of the characters brought up about that it was Abraham testing God, that Abraham was only pretending and if God didn't tell Abraham to stop then he wasn't something worth worshipping, great sci-fi books all around, shame the author died recently
doctorId
My view of religion is that it's obsolete. When survival was harder it made sense to make a bunch of rules necessary for survival under the umbrella of "God said so, now get back to farming or your family will starve." Now we have enough technology and knowledge that survival is way easier, more of us can understand how things actually work, and a hierarchical system based on obedience is really only useful to those who want to be obeyed.
CoryBoy
Religion was man's first attempt at understanding the world. It wasn't very good at determining reality, but it did give us meaning. The second attempt was philosophy. Philosophy was pretty good at telling us what not to believe, but actively bad at providing meaning. The third attempt was science. Science is amazing at telling us what we should believe, but cares very little for happiness. I think the optimal system lies in marrying the positive aspects of each while discarding the negatives.
Pilgrymm
Growing up in the church is why I'm an atheist now. All these pretty much describe my beliefs. I can even remember being a little kid and hating it all and questioning why I needed religion. Nothing quite like being 10 and singing hymns through gritted teeth.
MeowWoof
My big revelation was the whole "The Lord is my Shepard" trope, when I got old enough to go "Wait a minute, that makes us the sheep that he's fleecing" but was still young enough to think that when I explained that to people I'd get a different response then "that's the one part you're not supposed to take literally"
MurderousCoat
For me the breaking straw was the doctrine of equal sin, the moment's burned into my mind because of how it was taught to us and my role in the lesson which was: "Show us how bad of a sin you think stealing is. Now show us how bad murder is. You're wrong, they're all equal." And that felt like a deeply fucking flawed code to follow to me.
IHaveGreatKittenRecipes
Bruh I rank different levels of *stealing* more than they rank sins. Steal from Walmart? Shit, that's a *sport*, not a sin. Steal from a little old lady who has nothing left? Alright bud now you're an asshole. Same with killing. Kill the chomo molesting your kid? Nice, thanks for taking out the trash. Kill some homeless guy cause it's funny? Someone needs to take you out.
But somehow I'm supposed to have blind faith in some kind of supreme deity that's never heard of nuance? Yeah nah.
SamAndJanetEvening
Same for me. When I was 8 years old in Catholic Catechism class my teacher told me my mom was going straight to hell because she was Lutheran. I said "But she's a nice lady!". Bitch teacher said being nice didn't matter. That was all I needed to know.
miniaturegiraffeplease
Same. My breaking point came at the age of 8 or 9 when we had an extended Sunday school class to watch the thief in the night movie series. All afternoon we watched them, kids crying and trying to hide their faces. The balloon scene? Wtf, making kids watch that, all while our teacher sat there with pride, thinking scaring small children into believing a sadistic god wanted them all to suffer was a shining moment for him. Super f'd up.
LifeWouldBeEasyIfIWereEasyButLifeIsHardAndSoAmI
My grandmother took me to church, never once did my parents do so. As a six year old, even then, I thought, "Why would a god want to bore a child to death?" Then later in life I studied religion out of curiosity and when you *study* religion INDEPENDENTLY you come to a conclusion. My conclusion was that it's a way to get a society/culture under control and unify, but it creates the opposite when that society meets the neighbors that are minding their own business
Daealis
Growing up atheist, converting at my own volition because I was convinced, and deconverting decades later after truly thinking about it. You become quite a militant atheist after wasting your time with religion, and truly seeing "the best" it has to offer, the kind of people who flock to it.
giraffytaffy
Yup
androgenoide
#5
Beefkins
God stopping him later: "It's just a prank bro!"
FiftyShadesOfArugula
So when Yahweh later told Moses "I can only show you my arse because my Cthulu-esque face would drive you insane", he was fishing for compliments? Or at least a "it's not fat at all"
NotSoFastener
It's too bad Happle Tea stopped publishing. It has a lot of commentary like this.
androgenoide
Lots of comments on mythology and religion. I love it but then I think blasphemy is hilarious so you can't trust my judgement.
NotMuchMoneyInItThough365
I have trouble believing blasphemy exists. How can one actually blaspheme to any practical affect? Like, if I'm an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-loving being, what actual cause and effect relationship or circumstance actually happens if I'm blaspemed? It's just gaslighting with extra steps. The only purpose the existence of blasphemy serves is to punish those gaslit and to distract from accountability of the abuse. So, for me, blasphemy doesn't exist. Spiritual abuse, however--that shit's real.
TehBox0rz
I think blasphemy is when you assign things to God that are not of him - for example, saying God wants America to win. Or God wants us to forgive pedos and let them rule over us…
tanebot
#8 I think he said, "blessed are the cheesemakers."
faradaywage
Oh, it's the meek! Blessed are the meek! Oh i'm so glad they're getting something because they have a hell of a time.
Goldensands
What they're getting is they're getting told that they're getting something. What that "something" is, of course, is nothing. It helps keep them in check. Keep them alive, rdy to be abused and used, until they conveniently drop dead into nothingness.
Meandme2
big nose
tanebot
WOT'd u call me? :D
MurderousCoat
Ahh, what's so special about cheesemakers?
choppedliveraldente
Mozzarella. Havarti. Cheeeez whiz.
HypnagogicHallucinations
They make the cheese.
Mophandleman
I think it means anyone in the dairy industry really.
Gestalt7
Well, obviously it’s not meant to be taken literally; it refers to any manufacturers of dairy products.