• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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    11 hours ago

    Religion is a mental illness. Not adjacent, similar to, nearby, but full-on delusion.

    And also by far the greatest threat humanity is facing.

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      8 hours ago

      …leads to dangerous behaviours, feelings of invincibility, superiority, delusions…and worst of all: it’s contagious and spreads through speech and culture.

  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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    6 hours ago

    Now I understand why my Xian Fundy neighbor had a TRUMP kitchen magnet on their car which they removed on election day.

    They also like to blast the Gospel of John in their car to avoid to speaking to anyone but their spouse.

    Now I get it why they are both self-righteous and voted for Trump: because they are a fucking idiot.

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    15 hours ago

    I wouldn’t mind them having their Apocalypse, provided it is only shared amongst themselves. The rest of us have our own things to do.

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    15 hours ago

    They have been saying that long before I was born, and will say that long after I’m dead.

    Of course they are delighted, they’re deluded

  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    I love running into these people. Hell isn’t scriptural and it’s easy to bring the receipts. They are cultists, so you won’t change their mind, but they will never forget you or how you knew their fake religion better than they did. I always hope that a seed planted in their diseased minds eventually sprouts, but it’s still fun to give them a solid intellectual wallop.

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      Hell is scriptural, according to the scriptures…

      Unless you’re referring to the name “Hell” of course, which is not in the Bible.

      A place of burning and suffering for all time? Definitely scriptural. There will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth, where the worm dyeth not.

      I’m not a Christian, but I do have years upon years upon years upon years of Bible studies.

      Bring those receipts! The garbage dump explanation will not suffice (Gehenna)

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        There is no god. Also, no devil. No heaven, no hell, no angels, no demons.

        You can also have years of flat Earth studies, and every other religion that will claim anything as well.

        It’s you who have to provide the receipts.

        Can your god regrow a single fingertip? Deflect a single .22LR round? Just by 0.5mm?

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      17 hours ago

      I grew up in it, and I love when someone realizes that I know more about their bullshit religion than they do.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Goddamn. Can’t this cult just Jonestown themselves already? Seems like the best case scenario for all parties involved.

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        17 hours ago

        Why are you assuming that? Nothing in the caption or article says that, and they are mixed in with the Christians. Usually counter protestors and protestors are kinda separated.

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          Absolutely 100% certain. Evangelicals and support for trans rights have never mixed. There’s also significant physical distance in the picture, look at the ground.

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            Yeah but Evangelicals are also hypocritical, they can pretend you are all right if you believe in what they actually care about which is Zionism and the Apocalypse.

            IDK the two people in the front look about 6 feet apart, and the person with the trans flag looks about 10ft behind both of them. Doesn’t seem to be a well attended protest.

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    People who believe in prophesied apocalyptic events should not be in positions of power, because they have a tendency to try to make those prophesies self-fulfilling.

    We need separation of church and state, but we also need ways to establish an expectation that religious institutions will at least not promote beliefs that directly go against established science and reason.

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      Agreed. Now how do we go about achieving that when a good chunk of the country thinks not Christian=evil Christian killer?

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        I think that things like this can really only be approached with a long view in mind. Progressions and regressions are always happening. We’re going through a rather massive regression currently, but any belief system that refuses to change according to actual facts is basically at war with reality itself, and doomed to failure by their own inability to adapt.

        As far as an actual approach, it should be social allelopathy. There’s a good reason this christofascist regime is so bent on attacking education - it’s because their crazy beliefs have a tendency to dissolve under any scrutiny. The more we can provide robust, truthful education to all, the more it buffers people, if not necessarily to atheism, at least to religion that can coexist with common sense.

        And that goes for religious institutions to. Support what you believe. If you’re atheist, there are groups who organize around that.

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    Number of “prophecy” end of the world claims that have been: countless
    Number of “prophecy” end of the world claims that have been correct: zero

    Quack idiots gonna do quack idiot things, and there’s usually a few quack idiots who stand to gain a LOT by convincing the other quack idiots to do things

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      I lived in the Deep South for a number of years and these idiots are everywhere and think literally everything is a sign of the end times. Hurricane coming? End times. War breaks out anywhere in the world? End times. House fire? End times. Bad cell phone service? End times. Red light taking too long? End times.

      These dipshits are brainwashed and there’s no getting through to them.

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        No argument there. I’m in the north and they’re the same here, just less willing to openly share their “views”. I think the only real difference between the south and the north is that up here they still (somehow) maintain the slightest amount of shame- at least enough to mostly keep their mouths shut about it.

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    Well, I would not object to those assholes getting raptured any minute now. Less mess and more housing available.