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Treecko posted:Bad Religion is good, naysayers bad religion are way overrated and those fuckers poo poo sound is responsible for pop punk
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Oct 26, 2023 20:38
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marshmallow creep posted:Have you considered that maybe religion deserves it? They know what they did. this uniironically Treecko posted:Bad Religion is good, naysayers My Spirit Otter posted:bad religion are way overrated and those fuckers poo poo sound is responsible for pop punk both can be true
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Oct 26, 2023 20:43
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My Spirit Otter posted:bad religion are way overrated and those fuckers poo poo sound is responsible for pop punk nah and nah I grew up in the church (preacher's kid) so I've been hating religion for like forty three years.
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Oct 26, 2023 20:44
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I'm so lucky to have grown up in a 100% religion free family. Grandparents on my Dad's side had a big religious blowout: He was Protestant, she was Catholic, and both families disowned them when they got married. So they stopped being religious, passed that on to their kids, and then onto my family. Thanks, you long dead idiots!
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Oct 26, 2023 20:51
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i was not so lucky and spent a lot of nights as a child sweating through my sheets hyperventilating about the infinity of heaven and hell. nice thing to do to kids
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Oct 26, 2023 20:59
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at last as an adult i can take comfort in The End
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Oct 26, 2023 20:59
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It didn't even matter?
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Oct 26, 2023 21:07
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cumpantry posted:i was not so lucky and spent a lot of nights as a child sweating through my sheets hyperventilating about the infinity of heaven and hell. nice thing to do to kids How should kids be taught to handle suffering? Tell them to pray for things to get better! Gotcha, real answer is that it was all part of god’s great plan!
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Oct 26, 2023 21:20
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I envy anyone who didn't grow up enmeshed in mormonism. 
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Oct 26, 2023 21:24
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Turrurrurrurrrrrrr posted:Are there any gay gods? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu%27er_Shen
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Oct 27, 2023 06:54
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I don't think spirituality is necessarily bad. Look, you gotta one drat hard-core atheist to look at a universe composed entirely of randomness and go 'there absolutely no way there anything else happening". I think the very facts of life engender spirituality in people. A reverent wonder for existence is not, necessarily I believe, a bad thing. It's when loving evil motherfuckers take advantage of this reverent wonder for existence to gently caress children, murder others with impunity, and force people to dress and act in the most stilted inhuman ways imaginable that my blood boils. Religion is full stop evil. There is no act of cruelty no person empowered by the belief that his imaginary God is cool with it won't do. Rape, murder, robbery, genocide, literally nothing is outside the bounds of Religion as a whole. Spirituality? Fine, acceptable, even normal. Religion? Evil. Pure loving evil.
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Oct 27, 2023 14:08
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A Festivus Miracle posted:I don't think spirituality is necessarily bad. Look, you gotta one drat hard-core atheist to look at a universe composed entirely of randomness Hey, it's me, the universe is just random poo poo happening. I don't think there's some grand plan of it, I'd prefer to imagine we just live in the MiB marbles and those marbles are in a bigger marble, indefinitely. It probably helps I grew up religious, my father was at one point a church leader. So when I snapped out of all the nasty awful poo poo happening and culting I just felt the more opposed to those people I was, the better. Grey Cat fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Oct 27, 2023 |
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Oct 27, 2023 14:25
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I've always viewed religion as an amplifier, particularly for the devout. It can drive people to be extremely kind and productive on many fronts but it can also amplify their cruelty and hatred. I also view religion as a way for people to cope with life from day to day, to believe there's a reason that their child is sick or that there's a reason there's a drought. It's a lot easier on the mind to believe there's a reason for thing rather than some random chance. It's also important to separate religion from the institution. the institutions are usually pretty hosed. Much like capitalism, it's just a system, not good or evil but in the hands of powerful institutions it can be made to make us all suffer.
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Oct 27, 2023 14:30
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A Festivus Miracle posted:It's when loving evil motherfuckers take advantage of this reverent wonder for existence to gently caress children, murder others with impunity, and force people to dress and act in the most stilted inhuman ways imaginable that my blood boils. Religion is full stop evil. There is no act of cruelty no person empowered by the belief that his imaginary God is cool with it won't do. Rape, murder, robbery, genocide, literally nothing is outside the bounds of Religion as a whole. I mean this is the truth of it. Even your friendly, genuine nice person priest - can you genuinely believe they didn't know about the reams of abuse and cruelty that was provably going on, everywhere, all the time for decades? Can you really convince yourself they were clueless and not just protecting their job or making psychotic 'how much good can I do by staying' calculations? That said once you start you also have to apply this thinking to everyone in entertainment and most medics too
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Oct 27, 2023 14:30
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You can hate those too
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A Festivus Miracle posted:I don't think spirituality is necessarily bad. Look, you gotta one drat hard-core atheist to look at a universe composed entirely of randomness and go 'there absolutely no way there anything else happening". I think the very facts of life engender spirituality in people. A reverent wonder for existence is not, necessarily I believe, a bad thing. That's why paganism is the best religion. Worship of nature, the seasons, life itself.
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Oct 27, 2023 14:59
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GolfHole posted:both can be true It's all just drunk sincerity either way redshirt posted:I'm so lucky to have grown up in a 100% religion free family.  It wasn't until I was well into adulthood that my grandmother started leaning toward Christianity, and she's just the "love & forgive everyone no matter what" kind of Christian, not the "you'll go to hell if you think about sex" kind or whatever
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Oct 27, 2023 15:10
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LET JESUS gently caress YOU
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Oct 27, 2023 15:37
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I'm an ordained minister of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster 
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Oct 27, 2023 15:48
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Spinz posted:Good I never stopped hey time to put that cross down and take it easy
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Oct 27, 2023 15:49
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My Spirit Otter posted:bad religion are way overrated and those fuckers poo poo sound is responsible for pop punk whining about pop punk is pathetic boomer
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Oct 27, 2023 15:54
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Gwen Stefani > Beatles.
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Oct 27, 2023 16:13
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My Spirit Otter posted:bad religion are way overrated and those fuckers poo poo sound is responsible for pop punk It's alright to have faith in God but when you bend to their rules and their loving lies, that's when I start to have pity on you! My mom took us to church on the big holidays only and for some reason she was surprised when she asked me as a late teen whether I believed in god and I said no. My dad was raised in catholic school but is more of a "spiritual" type of person. Anyway the church my mom took us to was methodist and actually not bad for being in the South (western NC). I'm pretty sure I remember a sermon from when I was pretty young where they talked about gay people and how they should be loved like anyone else. I remember my grandma making me memorize the lord's prayer so she would buy me a bike. That's pretty much my exposure to religion. I don't hate on it necessarily I think some people get benefits from going to church, I was always jealous of the kids that had church friends. They also tend to do a lot of charity work for the poor and stuff like that. But anyone that preaches hate or judges others can gently caress right off.
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Oct 27, 2023 18:30
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Strategic Tea posted:and most medics too Wat
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Oct 27, 2023 18:34
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Lol at invoking Dorkins Old grumpy man said dumb things so everything he believes is wrong such as that water is wet
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Oct 27, 2023 18:42
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Bad Purchase posted:actually op it's not "This really hurts, please cut me down with your ninja knife."
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Oct 27, 2023 18:50
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Bluemillion posted:"This really hurts, please cut me down with your ninja knife." "it's a kunai, Jesus"
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William Bear posted:I don't think any critic of religion will ever be as consistently entertaining as Thomas Paine. All quotes from The Age of Reason (written from 1794-1807). That’s just any rational person’s inner monologue as they read the Bible. So lol sky wizard to the rest.
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Oct 27, 2023 21:04
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It's all a big nothing
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tony quidtana posted:It's all a big nothing I'm sure all the people killed in crusades and jihad would disagree, if they could. But they're dead
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Oct 27, 2023 21:38
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British NHS is full of people who covered up for notorious celebrity pedophiles. From an acquaintance who worked there, they all knew and they're all cowards
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Oct 27, 2023 21:55
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without religion we would never have invented goth girls, sad but true
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Oct 27, 2023 22:03
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I can't speak for all religions but evangelical christianity is a plague, op
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Oct 27, 2023 22:14
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im glad jerry falwell and pat robertson are dead and not happy that jim bakker is still alive those people tricked my grandparents out of a lot of money and totally hosed up their relationships with their family going forward in the 80s and they all deserve what is happening to them in hell right now, if it exists
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Oct 27, 2023 22:17
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if i see religion walking out on tha street im "finna" slap the poo poo out that bitch!
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I think if you want to be religious you should have to come up with your own religion. You know, do drugs until you become convinced that what you're experiencing is real, and then go from there. edit: adopting someone else's religion is like cheating off somebody's test in school, you should have to do the work yourself. Nigmaetcetera fucked around with this message at 03:38 on Oct 28, 2023 |
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Oct 28, 2023 03:36
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Hating religion is not cool again, what is cool again is deadpan ironic religion. Being like, "yeah sure padre, that is the literal dead body and blood of god, i guess i am just gonna guzzle that poo poo here in public. sounds like a totally metal thing all the old ladies are doing at 8 am on sunday. sign me up."
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Oct 28, 2023 03:49
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Caesar Saladin posted:like all the greek ones i think Most are bi. But Artemis is very clearly a lesbian and is only considered a "virgin goddess" because they thought it didn't count if there is no penis. Athena's the one who had no interest in any of that at all (and, idk, just played weird Greek board games all day instead).
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Nigmaetcetera posted:I think if you want to be religious you should have to come up with your own religion. You know, do drugs until you become convinced that what you're experiencing is real, and then go from there. I came up with my own religion. Still follow it. Seek no converts.
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Gods peaked when they were golden idols
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