Religious Texts: … that text was written by some half literate guy living in a desert who heard tenth hand folk stories from his community from people who had died about a hundred years before his time, mixed in with legends, myths and fairy tales that are thousands of years old … but it’s all true because it came from God, believe it or you will burn in hell forever.
The hypocrisy of any religious book being the words of their all powerful master while they give themselves the option to cherry pick which rules they wish to follow is astounding.
It’s one of the first things that convinced kid me that it’s all made up bullshit to control gullible people.
The funny part that is … which book are you talking about? … Christian bible? Jewish Tanakh? Islamic Koran? … and if its Christian - is it just the Old Testament? New Testament? … which version of the Christian bible? - King James? New Standard? English Standard? Anglican? Baptist? Lutheran? Methodist? Presbyterian? Roman Catholic? Mormon? Protestant?
Mormons use the King James version. Or at least used to. Wouldn’t surprise me if they started rewriting their own version, though… it’s kinda’ 99% of religions’ MO.
That wouldn’t be true for Christianity as 3 of the 4 Gospels were cribbing off the 4th one. Heck the Gospel of John and the Revelation unto John were written by at least two different people and the Revelation likely was included at the Council of Nicea because they both had John in the name. Christianity would be very different without revelations.
The prevailing consensus is that the gospels of Matthew and Luke were cribbing from the gospel of Mark and a text that is lost to us that is referred to as Q. The gospel of John is original as far as we know.
Also, a lot of the Pauline epistles weren’t even written by Paul.
I would just expect someone who doesn’t like religion to not want to have conversations about it, instead of bringing it up at every vaguely related opportunity.
sounds like you haven’t had much experience of having to sit through religious people spout bullshit at you every single day. it’s not the least bit surprising to me that it’s on someone’s mind. or maybe you just don’t understand why religion would matter to someone? even to challenge/deny it is to engage with its importance no?
sounds like you haven’t had much experience of having to sit through religious people spout bullshit at you every single day.
You mean like what’s happening in this thread? Someone had a joke that had nothing to do with religion, and here we are talking about religious bullshit because someone can’t let any opportunity pass without mentioning religion.
Again: if you’re tired of people spouting religious bullshit at you all day I would expect you to not try to steer even more conversations towards religion.
I didn’t steer shit, first of all. I’m not the one who posted the original comment. I’m just telling you to shut the fuck up. Let us enjoy our thing.
Second, do you really believe that if you just ignore things they go away? As if people are not out there bible thumping every single day? and we come in here and try to enjoy a moment of reflecting on the ridiculousness of those beliefs and you have to come in here and bitch about it. hence, I’m here to tell you to shut the fuck up.
I’m sorry if this comes across as rude, maybe cussing will send me to hell or whatever, but i really feel like your input has been the truly rude part of this conversation.
So you do enjoy bringing up religion in every possible conversation?
(and can I just point out the irony of you saying “let us enjoy our thing” when your thing it literally shitting on other people’s thing?)
Second, do you really believe that if you just ignore things they go away?
Sir, this is a Wendys meme about math.
As if people are not out there bible thumping every single day?
and we come in here and try to enjoy a moment of reflecting on the ridiculousness of those beliefs memes away from all that bullshit and someone has to come in here and bring it up to bitch about it anyway. hence, I’m here to tell them to shut the fuck up.
i really feel like your input has been the truly rude part of this conversation.
My input has been the simple fact that people who insist on making every conversation about religion are fucking exhausting to everyone else.
I have not subbed to any religious or anti-religious communities, and yet people seem to think it needs to be a part of every discussion. You’d think out of all people atheists wouldn’t be the ones doing that shit yet here we are. If you want to talk about that shit go those communities and you will find plenty of like minded people.
Religious Texts: … that text was written by some half literate guy living in a desert who heard tenth hand folk stories from his community from people who had died about a hundred years before his time, mixed in with legends, myths and fairy tales that are thousands of years old … but it’s all true because it came from God, believe it or you will burn in hell forever.
You, a loser Christian, reading from a 2000 year old book of morality fables.
Me, a sophisticated Scientologist, reading from a 70 year old Sci-Fi/fad health trilogy.
Maybe L. Ron Hubbard was a time traveller that had already started everything 3,000 years ago and decided to restart it all again 70 years ago.
Or maybe he just copied the successful indoctrination practices of existing religions…
Maybe the real religion was the profit we made along the way.
Always was
The hypocrisy of any religious book being the words of their all powerful master while they give themselves the option to cherry pick which rules they wish to follow is astounding.
It’s one of the first things that convinced kid me that it’s all made up bullshit to control gullible people.
The funny part that is … which book are you talking about? … Christian bible? Jewish Tanakh? Islamic Koran? … and if its Christian - is it just the Old Testament? New Testament? … which version of the Christian bible? - King James? New Standard? English Standard? Anglican? Baptist? Lutheran? Methodist? Presbyterian? Roman Catholic? Mormon? Protestant?
Mormons use the King James version. Or at least used to. Wouldn’t surprise me if they started rewriting their own version, though… it’s kinda’ 99% of religions’ MO.
Whichever one best justifies the lifestyle and decisions.
Yes
I don’t see any difference between cults. It’s all a way to control uneducated people with fake magical thinking and the threat of eternal damnation.
Same here … and they’re all cults as far as I’m concerned
The only difference between a cult and a religion is time
Time and mass acceptance
well the joke is that each book claims to be written by God
Don’t forget about all the apocrypha.
I reminded your mom of the apocrypha last night, if you know what I mean…
And don’t worry, it definitely wasn’t completely written a thousand years later to push the preferred political agendas of the time.
That wouldn’t be true for Christianity as 3 of the 4 Gospels were cribbing off the 4th one. Heck the Gospel of John and the Revelation unto John were written by at least two different people and the Revelation likely was included at the Council of Nicea because they both had John in the name. Christianity would be very different without revelations.
The prevailing consensus is that the gospels of Matthew and Luke were cribbing from the gospel of Mark and a text that is lost to us that is referred to as Q. The gospel of John is original as far as we know.
Also, a lot of the Pauline epistles weren’t even written by Paul.
Q: How can you tell if a Lemming is an atheist?
A: Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.
You saw a meme about science and math and your first thought was “how can I make this about religion”?
excuse me, but this is a meme about history and religious mythology is definitely a big part of history
I would just expect someone who doesn’t like religion to not want to have conversations about it, instead of bringing it up at every vaguely related opportunity.
sounds like you haven’t had much experience of having to sit through religious people spout bullshit at you every single day. it’s not the least bit surprising to me that it’s on someone’s mind. or maybe you just don’t understand why religion would matter to someone? even to challenge/deny it is to engage with its importance no?
You mean like what’s happening in this thread? Someone had a joke that had nothing to do with religion, and here we are talking about religious bullshit because someone can’t let any opportunity pass without mentioning religion.
Again: if you’re tired of people spouting religious bullshit at you all day I would expect you to not try to steer even more conversations towards religion.
I didn’t steer shit, first of all. I’m not the one who posted the original comment. I’m just telling you to shut the fuck up. Let us enjoy our thing.
Second, do you really believe that if you just ignore things they go away? As if people are not out there bible thumping every single day? and we come in here and try to enjoy a moment of reflecting on the ridiculousness of those beliefs and you have to come in here and bitch about it. hence, I’m here to tell you to shut the fuck up.
I’m sorry if this comes across as rude, maybe cussing will send me to hell or whatever, but i really feel like your input has been the truly rude part of this conversation.
First of all, never said or implied you did.
So you do enjoy bringing up religion in every possible conversation?
(and can I just point out the irony of you saying “let us enjoy our thing” when your thing it literally shitting on other people’s thing?)
Sir, this is a
Wendysmeme about math.and we come in here and try to enjoy
a moment of reflecting on the ridiculousness of those beliefsmemes away from all that bullshit and someone has to come in here and bring it up to bitch about it anyway. hence, I’m here to tell them to shut the fuck up.My input has been the simple fact that people who insist on making every conversation about religion are fucking exhausting to everyone else.
I have not subbed to any religious or anti-religious communities, and yet people seem to think it needs to be a part of every discussion. You’d think out of all people atheists wouldn’t be the ones doing that shit yet here we are. If you want to talk about that shit go those communities and you will find plenty of like minded people.
I didn’t like covid either but I sure ranted at people online about it!
Do you reply to memes about video games with your thoughts on covid?
Only while the pandemic was killing millions. So I’m optimistic about this subject as well.