• YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    It matters because it’s less critical of the creed and more of people being (selectively?) illiterate and intellectually lazy misogynistic dumbasses!

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      11 days ago

      Tbf, followers being illiterate, intellectually-lazy, misogynistic dumbasses is one of the biggest problems with modern Christianity, I think the ridicule is deserved.

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        11 days ago

        All christianity, since always. It is founded on vague, contradictory bullshit that necessitates individual interpretation if one wants to pretend any of it is true.

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          11 days ago

          Fair point! I guess I just wasn’t around to witness the other versions, so I can’t speak to them as confidently.

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            11 days ago

            I wasn’t there, either. But have you read the bible? It was absolutely written by:

            illiterate, intellectually-lazy, misogynistic dumbasses

            First example I can think of: Snake told Eve to eat fruit. Eve relayed the info to Adam. Adam and Eve ate the fruit. Eve gets all the blame.

            If an all-powerful god allowed this to happen, it’s because he wanted it to. But he punished his creations for being the way he created them.

            The bible exists to normalize abuse.

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              11 days ago

              There’s no way to force people to act right without also deleting free will, man. Of course God wanted to create at least one sandbox with free-willed intelligent beings in it. Only God knows why, but evidently we’re all grateful for it whether we say it or not or else at least a majority of people would commit suicide. 😅

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                11 days ago

                There’s no way to force people to act right without also deleting free will, man

                So god is not all-powerful?

                Education is the way forward. People will act right when they realize it benefits everybody, when they realize we’re all going to die if we don’t improve our behavior.

                I have been suicidal all my life. I was abused by my christian parents. Please stop defending death cults.

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                  11 days ago

                  I’m not Christian, as you can see by criticism of Roman Catholicism and offshoots here. And no, if God Himself wanted to make people he couldn’t control, because He decided so, how would He? He can just remake a universe of actual sims if he wanted to.

                  And hey, you’re not the only one who has had it hard because of Christians/so called religious people, I get it and I’m sorry. I’m not defending them here.

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                    11 days ago

                    I’m not Christian, as you can see by criticism of Roman Catholicism and offshoots here.

                    But you do believe in god? I am antitheist. Christianity is what I was personally abused by, but it could happen if we treat any god, any baseless claim as fact. People just make shit up and it causes problems.

                    if God Himself wanted to make people he couldn’t control, because He decided so, how would He? He can just remake a universe of actual sims if he wanted to.

                    I don’t believe in free will. Our brains are physical things. But if a god was all-powerful, they could do anything. Like, he could make people very similar to how we are (to make this example easier to imagine), but actually interact with them directly instead of being vague and absent. He could show us why he is worth worshipping, or confirm his existence to anyone with functioning senses, which he could guarantee we all have if he’s all-powerful.

                    That is one of infinite examples, because all-powerful suggests he could do anything. Christians show a startling lack of imagination when they pretend that the world must be the way it is.

                    And hey, you’re not the only one who has had it hard because of Christians/so called religious people, I get it and I’m sorry. I’m not defending them here.

                    Thank you. Others have it worse than I do. Many are dead and the number continues to rise. I think too many people have internalized the idea that everyone is entitled to their beliefs. We should all try to align our beliefs as closely with reality as we can.

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                  11 days ago

                  “If the gift of life was a horrible experience most people would end their lives” has nothing to do with my or anyone’s ideology???

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                    11 days ago

                    It’s a stupid statement

                    Life isn’t a gift, bestowed upon us

                    Your superstition may lead you to believe that, but that doesn’t make it true

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              11 days ago

              I don’t really disagree with anything except the claim that a book was written by illiterates lol