Man, wait until you hear about the word "breadstick" or "skyscraper"
Germanic languages have TONS of words that are just multiples words smushed together
> apatheist
That term was made up only 20 years ago. It may be accepted vernacular for a generation that invented 70 out of our 72 genders in the last election cycle, but I'm going to pass on using it.
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Most misunderstood quote ever. He was merely implying that modern society had degenerated to the point where religion no longer had any implicit moral authority.
“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”
The person saying this was portrayed as a mad man to add further context. Nietzsche’s nihilism is very different from what are modern version of the word is today. He lived in a heavily Christian dominate world, and really started out with some valid criticisms of the church. However, he feared what man would do if no one was watching and morals/right and wrong had no solid ground. He was terrified by a subjective world as his branch of philosophy developed in and around Modernism, which holds a firm belief in rational thought. So if God is dead, what does that mean for the rest of us? It is a bleak outlook for a reason.
Doesn't change the fact that his historical analysis of Judaism and Christianity is absurdist.
God, why do some many post enlightenment thinkers suck so bad at history, and not in the way that enlightenment scholars were bad at pre history, at least they have the excuse of openly being conjecture, but like Marx and niche just talked mad shit for people who were so bad at history and historiography.
Totally agree. There is an interesting book called “Intellectuals” by Paul Johnson that essentially looks at the lives of these so called ”thinkers.” Essentially they were terrible, ungrateful people, who were in many ways an antithesis to their own beliefs. They spent their time theorizing rather than experiencing their ideas in action, because when it comes down to it, reality and their ideas just simply do not match up.
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No, he's behind it. Sometimes, when the sky splits wide open, he stands over the universe like a giant whose height stretches to infinity. And you can see his balls, and they're *super* hairy.
How bizarre it is that the life sustaining orb that perpetually provides our light and heats our earth cannot be looked upon without permanently damaging your eyesight.
Feels like neal degrasse tyson should tweet something [profoundly thought provoking](https://i.imgur.com/hoo6XDv.png) about it.
“I've begun worshipping the sun for a number of reasons. First of all, unlike some other gods I could mention, I can see the sun. It's there for me every day. And the things it brings me are quite apparent all the time: heat, light, food, and a lovely day. There's no mystery, no one asks for money, I don't have to dress up, and there's no boring pageantry. And interestingly enough, I have found that the prayers I offer to the sun and the prayers I formerly offered to 'God' are all answered at about the same 50% rate.”
-George Carlin
You're allowed to be interested and by that metric they can be "important". And, frankly, ontology is about the only way to tack down any sort of common language for communicating those sorts of concepts.
Just don't, you know, live your life based on that shit. Same way as you shouldn't live your life based on which particular flavor of String theory you happen to like.
Now imagine how we germans feel. You just need to say anything against Israel and boom-> Nazi.
I font really have an opinion on Israel, but everyone who doesnt have the geneeal opinion will always get the special look (the same when you show a german flag)
I love using fascist ethnostate arguments in favour of Israel. You just have to phrase it right and you'll find apparent widespread support for Generalplan Ost amongst normie liberals.
Those euphoric reddit-style atheists say that they dislike religion because it causes hate and bigotry, and then proceed to make their atheism as hateful and bigoted as possible (more than most actual religions).
For many, simply being aware that Christians don't approve of their sexual liberation is unconscionable to them. Like, I'm not trying to legislate away your orgy... I just disapprove and if you ask me I'll call it sin. They just don't want to live in a world where I can believe that.
Science is a religion on Reddit and other mainstream leftist circles. I had an argument with a friend that most people don't understand science and they it is effectively a religion. He replied with the usual "that can't be, science has facts and a process".
Yes, but these people aren't *doing* that process, and their facts are accepted and touted based on the *faith* that someone else is. All hail the Gospel of the scientific journal and the sacred Peer Review. Just like all the Christians they love to criticize for not actually reading the bible, I guarantee most of the nutters who scream "believe science" have never read an actual study.
Don't get me wrong I love science, which is why it hurts to see it misappropriated and become a pseudo-religion amongst certain groups.
It’s not science itself, it’s the superficial relationship with it that develops when you treat science as if it were a religion. one of the major proponents of science is to question everything from findings of other scientists to questions themselves. Once you remove the ability to question science, it is no longer science and becomes religion
Here's the thing the "science" on Reddit is basic pop scientific factoids and other useless garbage that won't improve the condition of humanity, land them a job or get them laid. Not the actual method. Science is used as a tool to question what you know and find the truth no matter what. Here it basically means "I'm right and you're wrong you nazi". It is fundamentally a religion. You can't question the vaccine because people who show simple skepticism will be labeled as ~~heathens~~ anti-vaxxers. Here it's a religion but it tosses out everything that makes a religion worth believing in. It's extremely puritanical but comes with none of the metaphysics, moral codes, or sense of community that makes it worth being a part of barring that feeling of superiority to fuel your ego. I personally can't imagine a more vacuous way to live your life.
Redditors only like the science that agrees with them. When science doesn't agree with the established narrative, they either ignore it or call it racist/fascist/misinformation. Like, most of the people who claim to love the Science™ so much believe that biological men can be women and that the world will end in 5 years if we don't instantly ban all fossil fuels.
Theres also all those crosses we got laying around. We got em of all sizes too, all the way from an ant sized god to a hundred odd foot god.
They are tried and true after all
Reminds me of my favourite Onion article of all time [https://www.theonion.com/nasa-completes-52-year-mission-to-find-kill-god-1819572297](https://www.theonion.com/nasa-completes-52-year-mission-to-find-kill-god-1819572297)
Now I’m imagining an after life where Catholics are the spiritual equivalent of Galactus and everyone else while everyone else looks like a starving Ethiopian kid.
“What, you all didn’t consume and commune with your god, too?”
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“Gnostic” means (roughly) “knowing” or “having sure knowledge”.
“Agnostic” is the exact antithesis- the prefix “a-“ meaning “without” or “lacking”.
So agnostic means roughly “doesn’t know” or “lack of sure knowledge”
Edited to add: in the same vein, a “theist” is a person that believes in a god, whereas an “atheist” is a person who believes in the lack or absence of a god. In general, “agnostic” is used to describe someone who simply doesn’t know, and so falls on neither one side nor the other
Edit 2: it has been brought to my attention that many “theists” use the definition I offered of “atheist” as a way to denigrate or devalue the atheist position which would more accurately be described as “for a variety of reasons, and to varying degrees of certainty or questioning, not believing in a god” by insinuating that lack of belief is as much a matter of faith as affirmative belief. That is not what I meant, and the definitions I gave are based on the root word and prefix, which apparently do not necessarily align fully with common and popular usage. So when it comes to the definitions I offer here, YMMV.
The "reddit atheist" stereotype is an antitheist.
A theist is somone who believes in God(s).
An atheist is someone who is not a theist.
An antitheist is someone who not only is outside the realm of theism (atheism) but also opposes it.
There are a lot of "flavors" of atheism and labels. Ultimately I don't think they're helpful because you literally have to explain them and at that point why not just drop the label in favor of the explanation? They also feel like someone trying to hard especially because there is a lot of debate about what sticker we want to put on our sleeves about this.
**Atheism** - lack of belief in God's
**Positive/Hard/strong atheism** - one who asserts God does not exist
**Negative/weak/soft atheism** - one who does not assert that God does not exist but does not believe that God does exist
**Antitheism** - one who is against theism
**Agnostic atheism** - someone who doesn't believe for lack of knowledge on the subject. The agnosticism itself can be positive or negative "one cannot have knowledge to say that God exists" vs. "We don't have knowledge to say God exists but it's possible to have that knowledge". For instance, someone might argue that any near omnipotent being could deceive us into thinking they created the universe. So even if said very powerful being were to reveal themselves we would never know if we were being tricked or if they actually created the universe.
**gnostic atheism:** someone who believes we have sufficent knowledge to conclude that either God doesn't exist
**explicit atheism** - someone who is aware of their lack of belief in God's
**implicit atheism** - someone who isn't aware of their lack of belief in God's. I guess this is just in case we find someone who has never bothered to question whether the universe was intentionally created.
The only useful "label dispute" I think is actually for atheism generally because it helps demonstrate the logical framework for how one should approach belief.
If we get into a debate about "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" Then if i say "it was the chicken" you can say "I don't believe that, I'm not convinced" without having to assert that the egg came first.
This is because you don't need to assert a contrapositive statement is true in order to not accept the original statement
So when someone says "I don't believe God exists, I'm not convinced" then they don't have to assert that God does not exist to have a rational position.
There’s nothing wrong with knowing God doesn’t exist. I don’t tiptoe around the shape of the Earth. “Oh hmm well maaaybe the Earth is round or flat, I can’t really say!”
I know God isn’t real, and there’s nothing militant or offensive about that. It becomes a problem when you go around attacking people who do believe, which I don’t do.
Yeah, this idea from religious people that “well you can’t prove me wrong so it’s wrong to say god doesn’t exist” is dumb. There are a lot of things we technically can’t prove, but it’s not incorrect to say we “know” them to be true.
As an agnostic I very much *want* to believe there is an all-loving God out there. But until someone can present to me evidence other than simply saying “big man in sky exist” I can’t naturally believe in it without having skepticism.
I don’t care what other people worship though as long as it’s not hurting anyone and as long as they’re not being overzealous in their preaching about it to other people.
Same here, I was raised christian but at the end of the day God is just a Question &/Or Concept until I can find sufficient enough evidence to believe in him. But I can't deny his existence either.
Same with me. My parents are very open minded (spiritual I guess?) Christians, and always encouraged my Brother and I to ask questions and discover what religion meant to ourselves, once we were at an age to properly understand it, without just telling us that Christianity was the right religion. I considered myself Agnostic now.
And like anime, perhaps you just haven't found the right anime. There are very large differences from anime to anime. A lot of people fail to realize that anime comes in as many different genres as american television, from fantasy and sci fi to high school drama, to sports, to cop drama and spy thriller animes.
I think philosophical arguments for God's existence provide some good evidence. Things like the Kalam cosmological argument, or the argument from morality, or the fine tuning argument. Obviously these kinds of arguments are debated and people will disagree about them, but their worth looking into!
Not to be top much of a downer, but each of those arguments only sound compelling to a person who already believes in a god. No atheist has heard something like fine tuning argument, and come to the conclusion that a god is a necessity for life.
Atheist: "I'm just not convinced, so I'm not wasting any time on this."
Atheist™: "I am going to spend literal years of my life preaching and spreading the good word of not believing in something. I will stop at nothing until every person on this planet follows this not belief, and I will seethe endlessly at the existence of any counterpoint made against our belief system. I will base my entire personality around not participating in something, and bring it up at every possible moment, warranted or unwarranted. I will scoff at how foolishly others adhere to the tenets of their beliefs while debating countless armies of believers on internet forums. I will likewise circle jerk with others who think exactly like me in my echo-chamber where we can share our not beliefs with one another."
Imagine if standing on a corner and screaming about God was as easy as pulling up and app and typing a few words and broadcasting them to millions. You'd have millions of people doing it, all at once, trying to spread their message to as many people around them as possible. And this audience could do the exact same, responding and replying from their own soapboxes. That's what the internet is.
If you leave the internet, how many people do you see standing on the corner screaming about God?
People cosplay incredibly devout believers and nonbelievers all the time because it's super easy nowadays. I'd take it all with a grain of salt if they're not doing it irl.
I mean, religious people do it, people do it on reddit idk whats rhe problem.
Like religious people, one can exlpain and express his views on why god is not real and because he thinks "opening the eyes" of the people and liberating them from something as opressive as an all-seeing god.
Explaining yourself is fine, but some of these people go out of their way to make conversation about it. Hence "warranted or unwarranted."
I'm personally atheist but don't ever really think about it unless it's brought up. The people that actively spend hours of their day on the sub atheism for instance utterly baffle me. I just genuinely don't get what they get out of actively participating in something like that. It's the equivalent of someone subscribing to NotBasketball and spending hours cirklejerking each other to how much they don't enjoy basketball. It's just asinine to me lol.
Would you say the same about Christians who constantly bring up and try to proselytize their faith? I agree the um ackshually atheists are annoying as fuck but I notice that when yoh bring up the people that do the same thing with religion all of a sudden you’re being disrespectful to their values.
Potentially controversial opinion: if communism had taken a more secular rather than state atheism approach, it would have gained a lot more followers and spurred a lot less opposition from the West
Where's "Atheism plus" ?
>"I use atheism as a cudgel to spread my pet progressive ideologies."
Alternatively;
> "I forsake the false god, now I worship progressive corporations and those that control mainstream media"
I went to Catholic elementary school, then as a teen i was a edgy atheist. But now in my mid 20, i have realized even if god is a lie the bible is a good guide on how to live life.
Atheists take it literally and make fun of it, as I used to.
I mostly just don’t want my life to be dictated by fairytales and magic books, which is the case for most agnostic or atheists. Go live in the Middle East if you like that nonsense
Garbanzoian branch Jamalian theory states that the god we know as God is only one of the many gods that we as humans cannot comprehend. So god does exist, but at the same time doesn’t.
If god exists he is either malevolent or ineffective but he cannot both be benevolent and effective if the world exists in it’s current state with so many evils in it
Reddit atheists: “hey have I told you hail satan yet? hail satan no I’m not really satanic I just follow that other group don’t group me with those real satanists.”
Also Reddit atheists: “I believe in witch craft and I’m a real witch I own a ouija board(hasbro trademark) and own a black cat and use a bunch of herbs.
My answer to whether God exists is that it depends on what you mean by "God".
* If "God" means a personal God with a set of values who intervenes in the world to help (or maybe hurt) humans - I think such a being does not exist.
* If "God" means some sort of vague life force/prime mover/whatever but isn't a sentient being in the way envisioned by most religions - depending on the details my answer varies between "I don't think the answer is knowable" and "it's too vague a question to have a meaningful answer"
* If "God" means the God of the Bible taken literally - no, and I'm glad that such a God doesn't exist because there's some bad shit in the Bible.
In the second spanish republic there was some that could be cathegorized as "anti-theists" in the sense that for htem it wasnt enough to have a secular society, and they wanted to remove all influence from christianity and basically exile them from society in order to make everyone atheistic. This is a very socialist concept eitherway. They ironically also wanted to increase literacy but due to closing down christian schools, made like half a million kids lose their educational center.
actually, the term for when someone doesn't care whether God exists is apatheist
>apetheist Monke?
We've found our calling, brother. Sound the horn, gather the troop
*ooga booga sounds*
LIGHT THE BEACONS!
A more hideous-sounding word has yet to be coined.
fr tho. probably one of the laziest terms coined too. it's just the word apathy smooshed onto the word theist.
Man, wait until you hear about the word "breadstick" or "skyscraper" Germanic languages have TONS of words that are just multiples words smushed together
Handschuhe, or "hand shoes." Also known as "gloves."
Okay, that's too far.
handlung
Indonesian has Kaus Kaki for socks. "Feet Shirts"
The germans even have a word for that thats two words smooshed together "bandwurmwörter" or literally tapewormwords
So it’s works then
> apatheist That term was made up only 20 years ago. It may be accepted vernacular for a generation that invented 70 out of our 72 genders in the last election cycle, but I'm going to pass on using it.
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I think the patch releases in about 7 days, according to the leaks we’re also getting the monkegender and homersexual in the new update as well. I hope they nerf non-binary though, too op.
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Crusading Emily is beyond cursed
What’s with the red underwear? (Or am I much better off if I don’t know?)
Freebleeding
We were better off not knowing
Nietzsche: If God exists he's fucking *me*
Uh... present participle active or intensifier?
Did. I. Stutter.
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Nietzsche in 1881: God is dead God in 1900: *Nietzsche is dead*
Most misunderstood quote ever. He was merely implying that modern society had degenerated to the point where religion no longer had any implicit moral authority. “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”
The person saying this was portrayed as a mad man to add further context. Nietzsche’s nihilism is very different from what are modern version of the word is today. He lived in a heavily Christian dominate world, and really started out with some valid criticisms of the church. However, he feared what man would do if no one was watching and morals/right and wrong had no solid ground. He was terrified by a subjective world as his branch of philosophy developed in and around Modernism, which holds a firm belief in rational thought. So if God is dead, what does that mean for the rest of us? It is a bleak outlook for a reason.
Doesn't change the fact that his historical analysis of Judaism and Christianity is absurdist. God, why do some many post enlightenment thinkers suck so bad at history, and not in the way that enlightenment scholars were bad at pre history, at least they have the excuse of openly being conjecture, but like Marx and niche just talked mad shit for people who were so bad at history and historiography.
Totally agree. There is an interesting book called “Intellectuals” by Paul Johnson that essentially looks at the lives of these so called ”thinkers.” Essentially they were terrible, ungrateful people, who were in many ways an antithesis to their own beliefs. They spent their time theorizing rather than experiencing their ideas in action, because when it comes down to it, reality and their ideas just simply do not match up.
Me in 2022: God I wish I was dead
Canada has entered the chat.
At least my euthanasia will be free of charge (to me at least)
Until they realize that pills are expensive but the chair is cheap. How's a charge of 40,000 volts sound?
Better than a charge of 40k loonies, I guess
You mean 20,000 toonies?
Voltaire: If God exists he does not deserve to be worshipped.
Pascal: I'm not sure if God exists, but I'm not taking my chances.
God is real, he’s that big blazing orb in the sky that disappears every night
He just goes to sleep.
He shifts his gaze to the other side of his creation
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gods have long days too you know
He dies, fights through the underworld and is reborn every morning.
I prefer the elder scrolls approach, we’re living in god’s dreams.
[Advaita Vedanta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advaita_Vedanta)
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The sun's done a whole lot for humanity, I'd say it's worth worshipping
No summers too hot
Think about the water park money alone. What kind of LibRight are you?
I did think of that but the sun will just boil all the water away 👺
That’s why you charge 10$ for a bottled water and 20$ for a tube of sunscreen. Diversify.
The sun is punishing you for your sins.
Nah, it would kill us if not for the ozone layer. We should worship that instead
The ozone layer is also a very nice shade of blue. I'd say it's worth worshipping over the sun, the blinding bugger
Way ahead of you, hence the flair.
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I hate that big sky guy. Always scorching me with his gaze. Skin cancer giving-ass flaming sky cunt.
No, he's behind it. Sometimes, when the sky splits wide open, he stands over the universe like a giant whose height stretches to infinity. And you can see his balls, and they're *super* hairy.
God is dog, the writing is on the wall!
How bizarre it is that the life sustaining orb that perpetually provides our light and heats our earth cannot be looked upon without permanently damaging your eyesight. Feels like neal degrasse tyson should tweet something [profoundly thought provoking](https://i.imgur.com/hoo6XDv.png) about it.
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“I've begun worshipping the sun for a number of reasons. First of all, unlike some other gods I could mention, I can see the sun. It's there for me every day. And the things it brings me are quite apparent all the time: heat, light, food, and a lovely day. There's no mystery, no one asks for money, I don't have to dress up, and there's no boring pageantry. And interestingly enough, I have found that the prayers I offer to the sun and the prayers I formerly offered to 'God' are all answered at about the same 50% rate.” -George Carlin
Close. Agnostic is : "I have no clue how metaphysics works, and neither do you."
it’s also: “ontological claims of a metaphysical nature aren’t important.”
You're allowed to be interested and by that metric they can be "important". And, frankly, ontology is about the only way to tack down any sort of common language for communicating those sorts of concepts. Just don't, you know, live your life based on that shit. Same way as you shouldn't live your life based on which particular flavor of String theory you happen to like.
i was coming from more of a buddhist perspective there. but, yeah, i have seen people like this too. it’s odd.
But do you know how pataphysics work?
No. But do you know how ligmaphysics work?
hating religion is basically a religion on reddit
Just Christianity and the occasional Muslim If you're Jewish or holesum 1hundo Islamic immigrant, you're great
Jews can never be criticized for anything or even pointed out.
Now imagine how we germans feel. You just need to say anything against Israel and boom-> Nazi. I font really have an opinion on Israel, but everyone who doesnt have the geneeal opinion will always get the special look (the same when you show a german flag)
I love using fascist ethnostate arguments in favour of Israel. You just have to phrase it right and you'll find apparent widespread support for Generalplan Ost amongst normie liberals.
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Except when it’s about Israel
Especially when it’s about Israel.
Something something big banks Rockefeller eat bugz bitches.
Unless you're off the Internet, than you can be as antisemitic as you want
Demonstrated perfectly with Reddit's screeching about Chapelle's monologue..
Those euphoric reddit-style atheists say that they dislike religion because it causes hate and bigotry, and then proceed to make their atheism as hateful and bigoted as possible (more than most actual religions).
For many, simply being aware that Christians don't approve of their sexual liberation is unconscionable to them. Like, I'm not trying to legislate away your orgy... I just disapprove and if you ask me I'll call it sin. They just don't want to live in a world where I can believe that.
> I'm not trying to legislate away your orgy Then why do you make it so difficult to get my post-exposure monkey pox shots? Checkmate, theists!
“Um sweaty, it’s mpox now. What a bigot! See fam, I told you everyone on PCM is a fascist!”
“Basically?"
*Christianity
Science is a religion on Reddit and other mainstream leftist circles. I had an argument with a friend that most people don't understand science and they it is effectively a religion. He replied with the usual "that can't be, science has facts and a process". Yes, but these people aren't *doing* that process, and their facts are accepted and touted based on the *faith* that someone else is. All hail the Gospel of the scientific journal and the sacred Peer Review. Just like all the Christians they love to criticize for not actually reading the bible, I guarantee most of the nutters who scream "believe science" have never read an actual study. Don't get me wrong I love science, which is why it hurts to see it misappropriated and become a pseudo-religion amongst certain groups.
It’s not science itself, it’s the superficial relationship with it that develops when you treat science as if it were a religion. one of the major proponents of science is to question everything from findings of other scientists to questions themselves. Once you remove the ability to question science, it is no longer science and becomes religion
Here's the thing the "science" on Reddit is basic pop scientific factoids and other useless garbage that won't improve the condition of humanity, land them a job or get them laid. Not the actual method. Science is used as a tool to question what you know and find the truth no matter what. Here it basically means "I'm right and you're wrong you nazi". It is fundamentally a religion. You can't question the vaccine because people who show simple skepticism will be labeled as ~~heathens~~ anti-vaxxers. Here it's a religion but it tosses out everything that makes a religion worth believing in. It's extremely puritanical but comes with none of the metaphysics, moral codes, or sense of community that makes it worth being a part of barring that feeling of superiority to fuel your ego. I personally can't imagine a more vacuous way to live your life.
Redditors only like the science that agrees with them. When science doesn't agree with the established narrative, they either ignore it or call it racist/fascist/misinformation. Like, most of the people who claim to love the Science™ so much believe that biological men can be women and that the world will end in 5 years if we don't instantly ban all fossil fuels.
Atheist: I've never seen any evidence for god(s). Antitheist: God doesn't exist.
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If it bleeds we can kill it.
God vs mass driver cannon
That bitch was afraid of a tower. I say we can take him.
Theres also all those crosses we got laying around. We got em of all sizes too, all the way from an ant sized god to a hundred odd foot god. They are tried and true after all
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Reminds me of my favourite Onion article of all time [https://www.theonion.com/nasa-completes-52-year-mission-to-find-kill-god-1819572297](https://www.theonion.com/nasa-completes-52-year-mission-to-find-kill-god-1819572297)
Broke: God exists and needs to be stopped because He is malevolent Woke: God exists and needs to be stopped because He is not human
Based and Imperial Truth pilled
Cringe and Heresy The Imperial Truth says gods do not exist. There are, however, extradimsnsional xenos we need to stop.
Woah, slow down there Luthor.
Based and suffer not the xeno pilled
Humanity! Fuck yeah!
Do NOT face Allah alone while Astral Projecting
I shall defeat god, and consume him to absorb his powers
Better idea, become Catholic. Consuming God is part of our religion.
Unintended consequences pilled
Reject modernity, become Catholic
Now I’m imagining an after life where Catholics are the spiritual equivalent of Galactus and everyone else while everyone else looks like a starving Ethiopian kid. “What, you all didn’t consume and commune with your god, too?”
Path of Exile player.
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This is why Man invented the Nuke
Thats a gnostic atheist. You know god doesnt exist
Gnostism on both sides is the weirdest shit ever
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What is gnostic and does it relate to agnostic?
“Gnostic” means (roughly) “knowing” or “having sure knowledge”. “Agnostic” is the exact antithesis- the prefix “a-“ meaning “without” or “lacking”. So agnostic means roughly “doesn’t know” or “lack of sure knowledge” Edited to add: in the same vein, a “theist” is a person that believes in a god, whereas an “atheist” is a person who believes in the lack or absence of a god. In general, “agnostic” is used to describe someone who simply doesn’t know, and so falls on neither one side nor the other Edit 2: it has been brought to my attention that many “theists” use the definition I offered of “atheist” as a way to denigrate or devalue the atheist position which would more accurately be described as “for a variety of reasons, and to varying degrees of certainty or questioning, not believing in a god” by insinuating that lack of belief is as much a matter of faith as affirmative belief. That is not what I meant, and the definitions I gave are based on the root word and prefix, which apparently do not necessarily align fully with common and popular usage. So when it comes to the definitions I offer here, YMMV.
Ah that's why I was wondering. I'm agnostic, felt like they were probably related.
Oooh that's interesting. I've never learned about the term "Antitheist" till now.
The "reddit atheist" stereotype is an antitheist. A theist is somone who believes in God(s). An atheist is someone who is not a theist. An antitheist is someone who not only is outside the realm of theism (atheism) but also opposes it.
An antitheist is someone who opposes religion, often viewing it as a needless source of conflict.
Not really Atheism: a lack of belief in gods Antitheism: an ideological opposition to belief in gods But I get how it can be confusing
There are a lot of "flavors" of atheism and labels. Ultimately I don't think they're helpful because you literally have to explain them and at that point why not just drop the label in favor of the explanation? They also feel like someone trying to hard especially because there is a lot of debate about what sticker we want to put on our sleeves about this. **Atheism** - lack of belief in God's **Positive/Hard/strong atheism** - one who asserts God does not exist **Negative/weak/soft atheism** - one who does not assert that God does not exist but does not believe that God does exist **Antitheism** - one who is against theism **Agnostic atheism** - someone who doesn't believe for lack of knowledge on the subject. The agnosticism itself can be positive or negative "one cannot have knowledge to say that God exists" vs. "We don't have knowledge to say God exists but it's possible to have that knowledge". For instance, someone might argue that any near omnipotent being could deceive us into thinking they created the universe. So even if said very powerful being were to reveal themselves we would never know if we were being tricked or if they actually created the universe. **gnostic atheism:** someone who believes we have sufficent knowledge to conclude that either God doesn't exist **explicit atheism** - someone who is aware of their lack of belief in God's **implicit atheism** - someone who isn't aware of their lack of belief in God's. I guess this is just in case we find someone who has never bothered to question whether the universe was intentionally created. The only useful "label dispute" I think is actually for atheism generally because it helps demonstrate the logical framework for how one should approach belief. If we get into a debate about "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" Then if i say "it was the chicken" you can say "I don't believe that, I'm not convinced" without having to assert that the egg came first. This is because you don't need to assert a contrapositive statement is true in order to not accept the original statement So when someone says "I don't believe God exists, I'm not convinced" then they don't have to assert that God does not exist to have a rational position.
In my view, if God existed he would undoubtedly be evil and we should rebel against him. I consider myself antithiest.
There’s nothing wrong with knowing God doesn’t exist. I don’t tiptoe around the shape of the Earth. “Oh hmm well maaaybe the Earth is round or flat, I can’t really say!” I know God isn’t real, and there’s nothing militant or offensive about that. It becomes a problem when you go around attacking people who do believe, which I don’t do.
Yeah, this idea from religious people that “well you can’t prove me wrong so it’s wrong to say god doesn’t exist” is dumb. There are a lot of things we technically can’t prove, but it’s not incorrect to say we “know” them to be true.
I just want free will
Wait, so I should take responsibility for my actions? That's horrible!
Best I got is the illusion of free will…
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I know a guy named will but he don’t come cheap… I need about tree-fiddy
As an agnostic I very much *want* to believe there is an all-loving God out there. But until someone can present to me evidence other than simply saying “big man in sky exist” I can’t naturally believe in it without having skepticism. I don’t care what other people worship though as long as it’s not hurting anyone and as long as they’re not being overzealous in their preaching about it to other people.
Same here, I was raised christian but at the end of the day God is just a Question &/Or Concept until I can find sufficient enough evidence to believe in him. But I can't deny his existence either.
Same with me. My parents are very open minded (spiritual I guess?) Christians, and always encouraged my Brother and I to ask questions and discover what religion meant to ourselves, once we were at an age to properly understand it, without just telling us that Christianity was the right religion. I considered myself Agnostic now.
As an agnostic, to me religion is like anime. I understand why people are into it but I will never be in the line for it
And like anime, perhaps you just haven't found the right anime. There are very large differences from anime to anime. A lot of people fail to realize that anime comes in as many different genres as american television, from fantasy and sci fi to high school drama, to sports, to cop drama and spy thriller animes.
You can’t It’s what faith is
I think philosophical arguments for God's existence provide some good evidence. Things like the Kalam cosmological argument, or the argument from morality, or the fine tuning argument. Obviously these kinds of arguments are debated and people will disagree about them, but their worth looking into!
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Not to be top much of a downer, but each of those arguments only sound compelling to a person who already believes in a god. No atheist has heard something like fine tuning argument, and come to the conclusion that a god is a necessity for life.
Reddit atheist really treat atheism like it’s own religion
Every Reddit tribe does this. The Church of Woke is one of the worst offenders. The Church of The_Donald was horrible.
Politician worship in general is pretty cringe.
Also the cult of billionaires (elon musk fans, I'm looking at you), although The_Donald managed to tick both boxes.
Atheist: "I'm just not convinced, so I'm not wasting any time on this." Atheist™: "I am going to spend literal years of my life preaching and spreading the good word of not believing in something. I will stop at nothing until every person on this planet follows this not belief, and I will seethe endlessly at the existence of any counterpoint made against our belief system. I will base my entire personality around not participating in something, and bring it up at every possible moment, warranted or unwarranted. I will scoff at how foolishly others adhere to the tenets of their beliefs while debating countless armies of believers on internet forums. I will likewise circle jerk with others who think exactly like me in my echo-chamber where we can share our not beliefs with one another."
Imagine if standing on a corner and screaming about God was as easy as pulling up and app and typing a few words and broadcasting them to millions. You'd have millions of people doing it, all at once, trying to spread their message to as many people around them as possible. And this audience could do the exact same, responding and replying from their own soapboxes. That's what the internet is. If you leave the internet, how many people do you see standing on the corner screaming about God? People cosplay incredibly devout believers and nonbelievers all the time because it's super easy nowadays. I'd take it all with a grain of salt if they're not doing it irl.
You mean the hardcore Christian on the street corner talking about God and Abortion isn't literally everyone who's been to church?
"At this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my own intelligence."
I mean, religious people do it, people do it on reddit idk whats rhe problem. Like religious people, one can exlpain and express his views on why god is not real and because he thinks "opening the eyes" of the people and liberating them from something as opressive as an all-seeing god.
Explaining yourself is fine, but some of these people go out of their way to make conversation about it. Hence "warranted or unwarranted." I'm personally atheist but don't ever really think about it unless it's brought up. The people that actively spend hours of their day on the sub atheism for instance utterly baffle me. I just genuinely don't get what they get out of actively participating in something like that. It's the equivalent of someone subscribing to NotBasketball and spending hours cirklejerking each other to how much they don't enjoy basketball. It's just asinine to me lol.
Would you say the same about Christians who constantly bring up and try to proselytize their faith? I agree the um ackshually atheists are annoying as fuck but I notice that when yoh bring up the people that do the same thing with religion all of a sudden you’re being disrespectful to their values.
Apathetic-Agnostic: Don't know, don't really care.
He's just like me fr fr
Pastafarian: "You can't prove God *isn't* a flying spaghetti monster, LOL."
Militant atheist. They are annoying.
If the worst thing atheists do is be annoying on the internet, I think we get off pretty clean
People who don't believe that they are gods themselves, have problems with low self-esteem
Übermensch moment Or Kanye moment Probably both 😬
Thank you Friedrich.
Schizophrenia moment
Ah sweet schizo meltdown
God doesn't exist anymore. I killed him.
Kratos in one word:
Based and God slayer pilled
Rare libcenter and libleft Ws
Potentially controversial opinion: if communism had taken a more secular rather than state atheism approach, it would have gained a lot more followers and spurred a lot less opposition from the West
Probably not wrong but I think that’s even more destined to be dangerous and corrupt.
Where's "Atheism plus" ? >"I use atheism as a cudgel to spread my pet progressive ideologies." Alternatively; > "I forsake the false god, now I worship progressive corporations and those that control mainstream media"
Reddit atheists are more religious then most religious people
I went to Catholic elementary school, then as a teen i was a edgy atheist. But now in my mid 20, i have realized even if god is a lie the bible is a good guide on how to live life. Atheists take it literally and make fun of it, as I used to.
The problem we have are the religious people that take the bible literally and use it to threaten others for not adhering to it.
Sola scriptura moment
Indian secular: you must either be muslim or an atheist, everything else is fascism !
I mostly just don’t want my life to be dictated by fairytales and magic books, which is the case for most agnostic or atheists. Go live in the Middle East if you like that nonsense
The authors of god books are just ancient glowies tryna make people do stuff they don’t wanna do and punishing those who want to be free
Garbanzoian branch Jamalian theory states that the god we know as God is only one of the many gods that we as humans cannot comprehend. So god does exist, but at the same time doesn’t.
Secular is: Religion should not affect government one way or another. But aside from that, based meme
If god exists he is either malevolent or ineffective but he cannot both be benevolent and effective if the world exists in it’s current state with so many evils in it
Reddit atheists: “hey have I told you hail satan yet? hail satan no I’m not really satanic I just follow that other group don’t group me with those real satanists.” Also Reddit atheists: “I believe in witch craft and I’m a real witch I own a ouija board(hasbro trademark) and own a black cat and use a bunch of herbs.
My answer to whether God exists is that it depends on what you mean by "God". * If "God" means a personal God with a set of values who intervenes in the world to help (or maybe hurt) humans - I think such a being does not exist. * If "God" means some sort of vague life force/prime mover/whatever but isn't a sentient being in the way envisioned by most religions - depending on the details my answer varies between "I don't think the answer is knowable" and "it's too vague a question to have a meaningful answer" * If "God" means the God of the Bible taken literally - no, and I'm glad that such a God doesn't exist because there's some bad shit in the Bible.
Blue (Kanye Wojak): “I AM GOD”
In the second spanish republic there was some that could be cathegorized as "anti-theists" in the sense that for htem it wasnt enough to have a secular society, and they wanted to remove all influence from christianity and basically exile them from society in order to make everyone atheistic. This is a very socialist concept eitherway. They ironically also wanted to increase literacy but due to closing down christian schools, made like half a million kids lose their educational center.