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Number of times trans people knocked on my door to convincing me or my children into questioning my gender and changing it and my views on the topic, vs the number of religious people knock on my door to try to convince me that I’m living a life of sin, that my values are shit and that I’ll burn in hell unless I convert to their religion.
Too many people gloss over the fact how insane it is that some people genuinely believe non-believers burn forever in a magic post death torture world. Like how can someone think that while talking with someone, and be like, aw sucks for them, glad I submit to this ancient chain email creepypasta.
It still baffles me when I realize someone thinks like that.
You’re only considering the diseases that God didn’t prevent from existing in the first place. You can’t expect him to stop all the potential diseases, can you?? He’s not Superman!
Yes, but…what about bringing back eradicated diseases with anti-vaxxing? Ain’t that a miracle.
What about the woke mind virus?
Prayer has a hundred percent cure rate for that.
I prayed for god to eradicate or decimate those diseases, and he in his infinite wisdom created scientists to do so.
Checkmate atheists.
That’s what I don’t understand about creationists. If you believe god made everything, what’s wrong with believing God used evolution to do it? If the answer is “take the Bible literally”, well that doesn’t work because of all the shit in the Bible that they choose to ignore.
The premise of religion is designed to be bullet proof: god requires faith, don’t test god. It’s required that you have to believe it without proof. Why add things that are so far out there like “the devil/god made fossils as a trick to test your faith”?
Idiots need prayer because they can’t comprehend science, simple as that.
I grew up in the church, they will tell you that since a human(s) eradicated a disease, it was clearly god that worked through them. They always have a workaround bullshit answer
If that means those idiots at least get vaccinated then I will take that.
Given that that were true; their god also created the disease and is responsible for all the suffering. Their god is still at a net negative.
Fucking-eh, he made every calamity that has befallen man, yet the shits still think it’s a “good” plan.
This is also true when Epsteiner auctions off a 13 year old
They can’t see a bad guy without trying to be them.
I mean if we accept the hypothesis that God exists, and that he created humans, he created them with a reason.
If God exists, I reckon we are a high school simulation project that he forgot and accidentally left running.
Sure, but the logic reveals literally nothing. I can create an entire Sims world for the sole reason to see if the “turn pink clothing in to green clothing” mod works. Does the fact that their existence had a reason actually mean a damn thing?
That reason? Kill off every living thing god created.
But didn’t he create it all for us though? Which then becomes a good excuse for us to consume it all.
I mean, we’re supposed to be stewards according to the teachings, but all those dumbass children hear is, “hey this is yours …” and just kinda space off the rest of everything said…
exactly, that’s why arguments like the one in this meme doesn’t work
No rationale argument works on the irrational. The goal is to plant the seeds of rational thought. To appeal to people who aren’t completely gone, yet. The meme works perfectly fine.
see, the thing is, they are not irrational. their logic (god works through humans) is completely self-consistent, they are just basing their logic on a different set of fundamentals than us. you can say that they are not scientific, you then would be completely correct. but they are not irrational, and that’s the difficult part of changing people’s mind.
That’s why I light this and pray to St. Carl of Ithaca every night.
Had a buddy mention that his friend has cancer and was talking about “I don’t think this doctor is good for me I’m thinking about switching to this other one” and he stopped her and said
“Well when are you going to give it to the real doctor. Jesus?” And went on to say basically don’t even worry about it or explore other doctors just put it all in gods hands!
I fucking hate religion.
first thought that came to mind.- Thought
- Empathy
- Compassion
- Humanity
- Caring
- Not abusing other people
- Not raping children
- Loving thy neighbor
- Not murdering people who believe something else
- Letting people be who they are unmolested
Ethics exist independently of any deities even if they did exist.
If ethics didn’t exist separately, and God is actually the source of good, then we would have a lot of logical paradoxes to solve.
For instance, let’s assume God is who defines goodness and educates us on it, and goodness does not exist without God.
Thus, we recognize we don’t have inherent ability to define what’s good or bad. But that also means we can’t prove God is good, because we already recognized only God can define what’s good.
I might have butchered the logical fallacy a bit, logic is hard, but I remember it roughly being stated this way.
You mean to say that the only thing keeping you from r*ping children is fear of God?
It’s the only thing stopping them, and it’s not even working.
Is this supposed to be in the prayer category?
No this is the list of things religion has eradicated
Agreed, but sadly the religious people don’t see it that way (as I’m sure you know, I just hate how disillusioned they are).
Social diseases.
Well #10 is kind of a gimme; molestation is sort of their whole thing.
couldn’t have said it better myself
I’m too tired to be mad about this or the changes that will happen to remind people of how important science is…
But I can always see in my minds eye, some future leader saying. “There’s no way we could have known.”
And that keeps me at a simmer.
To be fair, you wouldn’t know the diseases that are eradicated by prayer since they’re stripped from our timeline when looking backwards.
There could be dozens of them!
Well, I don’t see too many demon-possessed people or witches around today, do you?
Nope but seeing a lot of actual demons walking around, so… not sure the religious folks are winning.
I see some witches around sometimes
I do have a witch friend, their population is tiny though
Or dragons.
And that’s supposed to be a good thing?
Which ones were eradicated & which ones were decimated? Getting rid of 10% of a disease doesn’t sound super effective.
