• FreddiesLantern@leminal.space
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    If god were to be real I’d like to think that finite and cringe concepts like “do you love me because I killed myself for you? (Tick the according box)” would be so laughably far removed from the conversation that’s it’s not even up for consideration.

    The supposed almighty creator, who resides over everything in existence itself,…. Spends it’s time worrying wether or not you touched yourself and why you didn’t believe in the santa guy from a book mostly used by evil conmen. Don’t make me laugh.

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      It never seems to occur to them that if there was an entity so powerful that it could literally create an entire Universe out of nothing, and then monitor the progress of ever single element of that Universe, then that entity would be far too complex for our puny human minds to even comprehend.

      And yet there are those among us who would dare to claim to know exactly what that all-powerful entity is thanking, and what it wants from us, and oh, yeah, it always costs a lot of money, gimme.

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    If there is a god, what’s the chance that you have the “correct” one of all the religions ever invented? If you go to hell for following the “wrong” religion your chance of going to hell is much higher than of hitting the jackpot.

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    If god turns out to be real then heaven is likely hell.

    Based on what god has shown us so far he is a dictator who enjoys watching his little creatures suffer in too many ways to count. He is most likely an emotionless psychopath. He used his Jesus avatar once publicly to show that he’s “one of us”, showed off his admin rights by turning water to wine and resurrecting himself, and then logged off again with no consequences.

    It’s the equivalent of a billionaire going with public transport for a day to show how grounded and normal he is.

    If god exists and can truly control what comes after death then we are all fucked and need to find out how to kill him.

    Maybe after death we resurrect into a full blown souls against god rebellion that has been going on for a few hundred years

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    I think the matter is simple.

    If there is a God, he should let me in for being a good person. If he is as vain as Christians make him out to be, I wouldn’t worship him anyway.

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    The concept of absolute forgiveness is terrifying to me. Rape, murder, and make people suffer with greed and corruption all you want … then say “Im sowwy about all that, forgive me” before you die and into Christian heaven you go. Fuck that. I want no part of that “heaven” … that is where pure evil will reign, it will be hell.

    If I were evil and wanted to corrupt a bunch of religious idiots I would tell them that they didn’t have to be decent people, that they could just do what they wanted because a zombie god died for their sins. That would lead them to worship the wealthy and not care about their fellow humans, the suffering would be everywhere. Do you think that could work?

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      If I were evil and wanted to corrupt a bunch of religious idiots I would tell them that they didn’t have to be decent people, that they could just do what they wanted because a zombie god died for their sins. That would lead them to worship the wealthy and not care about their fellow humans, the suffering would be everywhere. Do you think that could work?

      That’s pretty much the way it works now, so, yeah, start your own religion.

  • If after I die god turns out to be real, I’d probably still go to heaven because I felt bad about my sins and that’s pretty much all that’s needed to get into heaven according to the New Testament. 🤷‍♂️

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      There’s also that part about accepting Jesus as your Lord & savior, so make sure you say those words, or get someone to say them over you before your brain waves stop.

      You don’t want to be kept out of heaven on a paperwork technicality.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Dear reader,

    What if, after you die, you discover that string theory is correct, the the universe and reality itself are all merely tendrils of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and that it thought you were kind of neat, so it decides to turn you into gelato… but only for a moment, as a joke, and then just does a ground hog day on you, as another joke?

    You lose.

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    "Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”

    ― Marcus Aurelius

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    Even if a creator exists, I reckon that it has long forgotten that it made this shitty planet.

    • “Hey G-man, those creatures you made are getting out of control.”

      “Huh? What crea- Oh. Oh fuck. That was supposed to be thrown out 3 millenia ago. I fucking forgot. It’s probably all rotten and moldy now.”

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    Yeah, well…

    MY religion says if you don’t give me $20,000 you’ll spend forever swimming through a pool of glass shards and lemon juice. Better be on the safe side - what if I’m right?

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    The way I figure it, if God exists he gave me a reasoning mind and provided absolutely no reasonable evidence of his existence. If he has a problem with me drawing the inevitable conclusion from that then fuck 'im.

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      This is why I refer to myself as agnostic instead of atheist. I do not see an evidence of God as stated in the Bible, Torah, Koran or such religions. However I cannot prove that a different type of God does not exist. Something - called God - could be responsible for the beginning of everything. I don’t see that God as being too concerned about humans and what they do or don’t do. God and religion are not the same thing. Religions are entirely man made as a societal control mechanisms and abused by leadership greed.

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      If you look at it from God’s perspective, assuming he exists, you have all of these groups of people who claim to worship him, and the biggest ones all have different holy books, and all of those holy books are flawed. They’re even self-contradictory. I think God would be offended if people thought he was responsible for those piles of trash.

      On the other hand, if God created our cosmos, surely he’d at least approve of people trying to understand it compared to boring people who ignore the world and just chant the same things over and over.

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      If god is real im going to try and kill him for creating a world with such evil happening to innocent people.

      Any god who creates a place where babies are raped and murdered deserves to die.

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    Pascal wager can be so easily thrown back…

    « You better pray for forgiveness to the Christian god before dying… just to be sure! »

    Ok… but what if the Hindus were right all along and I just damned myself?! There’s a whole lot more Hindus… I’m getting better odds by renouncing the Christian god instead

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    It’s win-win:

    • God is real, and loves athiests anyway.

    • God is real, and can’t blame you. They made it real hard to prove.

    • God isn’t real, which you don’t find out, cuz you’re dead.

    • …Or dead-ish?

    • God’s realness is predicated on belief:

    “I refuse to prove that I exist,” says God, “for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.” “But,” says Man, “The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn’t it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don’t. QED.” “Oh dear,” says God, “I hadn’t thought of that…”

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      Or: God is real, he’s as vindictive, petty, and cruel as the Bible portrays him to be and anyone like that you definitely don’t want whatever their idea of heaven would be.

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    “You lose” is such a weird thing to say. It’s implying this is an issue to win or lose on. Instead of you know living a virtuous life. Nope. It’s sides that win or lose.

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      These pricks get off on seeing others suffer, while proclaiming to covet the virtues of a book they’ve never read.

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      Right? My religion tortures you for not being on our side I rather choose nothing than worship that kind of evil.