• FiveMacs@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    See, they even blame their own religions for their hatred. Abolish religion

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      The clearest proof that the God of the New Testament doesn’t exist is that He was unable to formulate the Bible in such a way that it wouldn’t get co-opted by people with an agenda that runs contrary to His central message of tolerance and compassion.

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        Why would God divinely inspire writers to write down the story he wants to tell, but not divinely inspire it to be copied and transmitted reliably. There are hundreds of thousands of differences between various biblical texts.

        Someone says that the Bible is literal truth. The only question then becomes which version of the Bible?

        Bart Ehrman goes into great detail in his YouTube channel.

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      Not so fast. By my calculation, this means the Christian god is still 66% not racist. That’s not the best percentage, but it’s still a majority. /s

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      9 months ago

      Abolish religion

      Who are you taking to?? Religion is cancer, but who exactly do you think is going to be able to abolish religion?

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    You don’t “blame” the holy spirit. That means she’s saying one of the incarnations of God wanted her to do it. That’s like saying God is a Nazi.

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    I always love how Christians regularly freak out about the idea that “blasphemy of the Holy Spirit” is canonically the only unforgivable thing they can do, but then rationalize it as some amorphous thing that’s just not believing enough such that they go on to claim the Holy Spirit does all sorts of shit.

    “The Holy Spirit supervised the creation of the Bible so it’s inerrant (even though the majority of scholars think things like 1 Timothy are unquestionably forgeries).”

    “The Holy Spirit moved me to post Nazi memes - I was an unwilling vessel.”

    If that shit really is unforgivable I’d imagine the vast majority of Christians are in for a surprise down the road…

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      I thought Saskatchewan was the Florida of Canada… Then there’s the Territories, but they’re a class all in their own.

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    Hmm… Christian theologians have spent centuries debating whether the components of the Trinity have the same essence, substance, nature, personality, etc.—but have they considered whether they share the same ideology? What if Jesus is a socialist but the Holy Ghost is a fascist?

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      What if Jesus is a socialist

      Everything in the bible about Jesus makes him sound like a socialist…

      But that doesn’t keep church leaders in funny hats and gold. So the stories changed over the last couple thousand years

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        To be fair, it’s mainly the Catholic church that has the “funny hats and gold” thing going on. Protestants are all about the expensive suits and private jets.

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    “Brainwashing is brainwashing” according to a Catholic school board member. As in those schools whose entire purpose is to indoctrinate children into the Catholic faith from a young age.

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    Only in Americ… wait, what? Canadians are supposed to be better than this. :shocked picachu:

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    There’s no point in arguing with these people. Faith and superstition is much more flexible than logic. They will always believe they’re right. The absolute best we can hope for is empty lip service that does a passable job of imitating rationality.