More evidence that religious threads make you dum

[ousdahl]

Challenge #6 is just all too common among religious circles, and so ironically contradictory to the teachings of the religions themselves.

[ousdahl]

so a French schoolteacher was behead after showing a cartoon depicting the prophet Mohammed

[Sparko]

It really is about subjugation. Coney Barrett said the county wasn't liable for its people raping and beating prisoners.

[japhy]

https://apnews.com/article/jerry-falwel ... bf9c03daaf

[jhawks99]

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/woman-speaks- ... 53620.html

[ousdahl]

LIKE



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -like.html

[Deleted User 89]

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2 ... patriarchy

[Deleted User 89]

https://christianpost.com/news/pentecos ... ctors.html

[ousdahl]

A few questions:

- Does this go here or the onlyfans thread?
- how do you think the administrator found the mom’s account?
- would Jesus be so condemning?
- what if the Catholic Church was as harsh toward pedo priests are they are toward this woman and her kids?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/on ... r-n1258755

[jhawks99]

Leawood should introduce himself.

[Leawood]

This troubles me. “He who hath not sinned. . .” It is like Priests wanting to deny the President the Host.

I think the mom is married and the dad took the photos.

[Deleted User 89]

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/2 ... 55?cid=apn

[Deleted User 89]

sorry if too politiky

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-co ... lical-mind

[ousdahl]

But yeah, there’s def a link between religion and...um, alternate facts or whatever.

Why seek an empirical understanding of the world when you could rely on Bronze Age superstition instead?

[Deleted User 89]

But yeah, there’s def a link between religion and...um, alternate facts or whatever.

Why seek an empirical understanding of the world when you could rely on Bronze Age superstition instead?

maintains the [narrow] view that “we’re“ special

[ousdahl]

Yeah. I’ve found many religious identities to feature what I call “existential elitism.”

They’re soo convinced they’re getting into heaven. Not sure about you non-believers, you guys are on your own, but them religious folks are soo convinced they are.

[Deleted User 89]

and it extends to a broader world-view that humans are divinely special, rather than just evolutionarily lucky

[MICHHAWK]

I would say there is some evidence that posting on internet sports chat boards makes you dum. Just look up.

[jhawks99]

Self awareness really isn't your thing, huh?

[ousdahl]

This is tangential, but perhaps the biggest existential change in my spirituality is loosing the belief in hell.

The Christian god of Abraham or whatever is supposed to be all-loving and all-knowing and all-powerful, right?

So how’s hell exist, then? How’s an all-loving deity also spiteful enough to foster eternal damnation? That sounds like a god who’s not all-loving, but instead is holding a grudge. Get over it, bro.

So why not think of an all-loving god as one who doesn’t threaten you with hell?

Once I did, it was a big existential weight off my shoulders. Spirituality is so much better when it’s rooted in love, rather than fear (of hell).

But my Christian friends have no answer when I ask how the two can co-exist. They get nervous for me when I say believing in hell is not necessary, and even unhealthy, in the context of spirituality.

They act concerned for me, like I’m being blasphemous. They suggest things like I shouldn’t doubt the mysteries of faith, or that I shouldn’t be so bold as to wanna scrap the church’s teachings.

Just imagine the look on their faces when I reply by saying, “I come not to destroy, but to fulfill.”