In the few interactions we have had, you have actively defended a death cult. This behavior harms you, me, and everyone else. I consider it a sign of dangerous unintelligence when someone pretends that magic is real, a staggering lack of reading comprehension to fail to recognize the bible as fiction.
This just comes off as bigotry. Plain and simple. There’s nothing unintelligent with being religious or the lack thereof it. Yes, I, like the majority of humanity, believe in the supernatural. There’s nothing wrong with that.
If you’re referring to your specific upbringing within a family in the Southern United States within a Baptist denomination as the “death cult”, then no, I am not defending that. It sounds like they didn’t even teach you anything about “believe or you’ll perish” but didn’t give you anything to believe in.
Specifically, I believed in a loving god, but my parents embodied the cruel and violent tyrant of the old testament.
This is a misconception. Jesus in the New Testament talks about hell and warns of impending doom, in addition to Revelation (more than the old testament). While the Old Testament also demonstrates God’s patience and love, teaches you to love your neighbour, etc.
Only 16% of global population is religiously unaffiliated according to this study. There’s also a possible percentage of them who aren’t complete Atheists.
Yes there is, you selfish moron. There is only one truth. “Supernatural” means not real.
Citation needed.
You support the same death cult that ruined my life and is killing more people every day.
No, your parents and these Stowe people ruined your life. They just so happened to use Christianity as an excuse for abuse. In the same way, many religious positions, including atheism, have been used as an excuse for abuse. Many people don’t do that. I am sure many people who suffered under communist anti religious campaigns may view atheism as a death cult.
Yahweh is a death god. He solves problems of his own making with needless violence.
Punishing evil isn’t “needless violence”.
Christians worship a zombie savior, drink his blood, eat his flesh. Belief in an afterlife devalues our real lives. My parents think they are going to heaven when they die. They don’t care when human life is lost, they pretend the dead are better off that way.
If the afterlife is real, then yes, this “real” life is of less value. With the rest, I don’t see how this is a problem. I, too, can uncharitably frame atheists as “people who don’t believe there is a solid difference between right and wrong, and believe you can do whatever you like in this life to anybody because nothing matters and we’re all going to be blown up by the sun”. You can frame any ideology in such a manner. It’s not constructive, and such a framing doesn’t prove or disprove that ideology, my framing doesn’t disprove atheism or their arguments.
The least you can do is stop spreading this cancer.
I am going to spread it further. I have helped bring a few of God’s children to Him and hopefully will help bring a good few more, if God wills it.
Don’t make assumptions. Ask questions. Kids are dying for this.
You said you only believed because you didn’t want to go to hell, but didn’t really believe before then.
There is no standard, no way to verify.
It’s literally in the Bible. Examples of God’s love and patience are visible in the Old Testament and examples of God’s wrath and justice are visible in the New Testament.
Dumb fuck: “do what I say or suffer” IS NOT LOVE. God is not patient in the bible, he’s impulsive, cruel, and really fucking stupid. “I made man bad. I flood world. Oops, man still bad. Oh well.” What an idiot.
If God had the same amount of patience as the most patient man on earth, He’d have destroyed man to begin with and tried again. You and I wouldn’t be here.
This just comes off as bigotry. Plain and simple. There’s nothing unintelligent with being religious or the lack thereof it. Yes, I, like the majority of humanity, believe in the supernatural. There’s nothing wrong with that.
If you’re referring to your specific upbringing within a family in the Southern United States within a Baptist denomination as the “death cult”, then no, I am not defending that. It sounds like they didn’t even teach you anything about “believe or you’ll perish” but didn’t give you anything to believe in.
This is a misconception. Jesus in the New Testament talks about hell and warns of impending doom, in addition to Revelation (more than the old testament). While the Old Testament also demonstrates God’s patience and love, teaches you to love your neighbour, etc.
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So I am a bigot simply for being a Christian? Way to make a word lose it’s meaning…
No, I don’t. There is substantial historical documentarg evidence which gives reason to believe that the Apostles believed what they saw.
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2012/12/18/global-religious-landscape-exec/
Only 16% of global population is religiously unaffiliated according to this study. There’s also a possible percentage of them who aren’t complete Atheists.
Citation needed.
No, your parents and these Stowe people ruined your life. They just so happened to use Christianity as an excuse for abuse. In the same way, many religious positions, including atheism, have been used as an excuse for abuse. Many people don’t do that. I am sure many people who suffered under communist anti religious campaigns may view atheism as a death cult.
Punishing evil isn’t “needless violence”.
If the afterlife is real, then yes, this “real” life is of less value. With the rest, I don’t see how this is a problem. I, too, can uncharitably frame atheists as “people who don’t believe there is a solid difference between right and wrong, and believe you can do whatever you like in this life to anybody because nothing matters and we’re all going to be blown up by the sun”. You can frame any ideology in such a manner. It’s not constructive, and such a framing doesn’t prove or disprove that ideology, my framing doesn’t disprove atheism or their arguments.
I am going to spread it further. I have helped bring a few of God’s children to Him and hopefully will help bring a good few more, if God wills it.
You said you only believed because you didn’t want to go to hell, but didn’t really believe before then.
It’s literally in the Bible. Examples of God’s love and patience are visible in the Old Testament and examples of God’s wrath and justice are visible in the New Testament.
If God had the same amount of patience as the most patient man on earth, He’d have destroyed man to begin with and tried again. You and I wouldn’t be here.
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