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[-] Z745812939054@lemmy.zip 200 points 1 month ago

when people flat out refuse to consider facts, evidence, reality in forming their worldview, then the only thing left is mockery and ridicule, lest other people buy into the stupid bullshit

religion is a fucking cancer on the human species--it's causing preventable deaths ("nO iNsULiN fOr BaBy!!! PRAYING WILL FIX IT"), and it's long past time for it to be relegated to the embarrassing/shameful/fucking asinine drawer of history files

[-] Ekybio@lemmy.world 76 points 1 month ago

Now remember: These people are still allowed to vote...

[-] sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 1 month ago

And worse they exist in sufficient numbers for political parties wanting to cater to their views and ideas, changing the political landscape. Influencing policies, law making.

(This is a pretty echoey comment I guess)

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[-] warm@kbin.earth 21 points 1 month ago

Religion is indeed a plague on humanity.

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[-] d.rizo@piefed.social 132 points 1 month ago

Maybe we should start reviewing churches the same way: Nice church but the guy at the front was talking funny about his imaginary friend... Only two stars.

[-] Seasm0ke@lemmy.world 87 points 1 month ago

Lol the stained glass was beautiful but they hate gays here

[-] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago

The priest clearly doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Matthew 6:5-6 states “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.”. One star for not obeying the Bible.

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You are not wrong but Jesus wasn't against group prayer, he intended on building a church a few pages later

Matthew 16:18

And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.

You should have referenced a couple of pages after that where he has something direct to say about preachers

Matthew 23:8-12

“But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers. And do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven. Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Messiah. The greatest among you will be your servant. For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.

Jesus had some pretty rad opinions even if his reasoning was often flaky

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[-] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 100 points 1 month ago

It's wild that some people do genuinely believe the earth is only 6000 years old.

There are human-made artefacts you can go look at in a museum right now, potentially even touch with your own hands, that are older than 6000 years old.

~~Even if you refused to accept other archaeological evidence, recorded human history goes back about 10000 years. So are those 4000 years worth of humans just non-existent?~~

((Edit - @Danquebec@sh.itjust.works is kinda right. The very earliest of proto-writing, for when one could even argue that recorded history begins, is around 6000-6600 years ago. So that actually would be within the Christian faith timeline, but just barely. And I seriously doubt the Christians had these people in mind as their earliest ancestors.))

Like it really must take some proper mental gymnastics to deny something you can see with your own eyes and say some demon made it all up specifically to fuck with Christians.

Quite easy to explain: 6000-6500 years ago, when god created the world, it put those things there during the creation process for... reasons.

Checkmate atheists!

[-] grte@lemmy.ca 54 points 1 month ago

Because he's a trickster! Haha! And if you fall for one of his tricks, he sends you to hell! For eternity!

The sanest worldview.

[-] decolo@piefed.social 33 points 1 month ago

No, you see, the devil, who is a trickster and definitely not the same entity as God, created those fake artifacts to own the libs

[-] Blibly@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

And God, all-powerful and in control of everything, just let him do it. He could stop the devil but he just...doesn't.

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Somebody's gotta give these babies cancer.

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[-] criticon@lemmy.ca 48 points 1 month ago
[-] keiko@fedia.io 31 points 1 month ago

“I do not understand,” reads an ancient line of pictographs depicting the sun, the moon, water, and a Sumerian who appears to be scratching his head. “A booming voice is saying, ’Let there be light,’ but there is already light. It is saying, ’Let the earth bring forth grass,’ but I am already standing on grass.”

“Everything is here already,” the pictograph continues. “We do not need more stars.”

(thank you for sharing the link. i hadn't read that one yet and it's very good <3)

[-] Krudler@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

In North Africa 40,000 years old tools have been found as well

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[-] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 17 points 1 month ago

We've found 28,000 year old dildos.

To be clear, yes there are sex toys older than Christians think the world is old.

[-] KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago

Around 1400 AD, the word "dildo" was first used. It derives from the Latin word "dilatare," which means "open wide," and the Italian word "diletto," which means "delight."

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[-] keiko@fedia.io 13 points 1 month ago

Like it really must take some proper mental gymnastics to deny something you can see with your own eyes and say some demon made it all up specifically to fuck with Christians.

Well, you can't see the age of a thing. And young-earth creationists certainly don't understand how we know the ages of things. So instead, they believe what they're told by people they trust, and those people say shit like "were you there?"

And honestly, my response (if it ever comes up) will be this: "Yes. I was there. I am God. I was there before there was. I formed this world from nothing. I am your God. Worship me." And if they question any of that, I will respond with "WERE YOU THERE?!! CUZ I FUCKING WAS!!! AND I SURE AS HELL DIDN'T SEE YOU THERE!!!" followed by "PROVE ME WRONG"

Thank you, have a nice day/night <3

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[-] YaksDC@sh.itjust.works 72 points 1 month ago

This exact thing happened to me when I was visiting Luray Caverns in Virginia. A kid kept interrupting the tour guide to spout this nonsense, while his parents looked on proudly. The rest of the group eventually audibly groaned whenever the kid opened his mouth. Besides the absolute nonsense the parents were happily teaching this kid to be a rude dickhead.

[-] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 1 month ago

They are trained to act when some words are said. The parents reward this behavior because it "brings more souls to salvation". In the end it just annoys professionals and makes them unable to teach in class or to even give a tour.

[-] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

Worse is it's almost guaranteed these insufferable types will suddenly clutch their pearls if you tell them to stop talking "you're interrupting my presentation" "you're suppressing the word of God. I'm the victim here, not these people I'm repeatedly annoying"

[-] sockinacock@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago

"You are using the Lord for your own Vainglory, you claim your words for His, that is Heresy at best and Apostasy in truth. You have turned your back on The Lord and thus must be silent on his workings Apostate."

I've found this tack works real good for shutting up most crazys in public spaces, I don't recommend using it in private or with people you have to interact with regularly/repeatedly.

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[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 67 points 1 month ago

Imagine being confident that its not 300m, but unable to pin it down to the exact number of years. It was only 6000-6500 years ago, did you lose count?

[-] lauha@lemmy.world 64 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Both views can be right, assuming big enough errorbars.

Earth is 6000 years old ±14 billion years.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago

Earth was actually created last Thursday.

[-] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 month ago

Actually, no. The earth was created this morning, when I woke up. I was dropped into it in media res, complete with a backstory and the lore. It will be deleted when I go to bed tonight.

[-] jdr@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The earth will actually be retained for quality and training purposes, and your personal data will shared with our 6000 intimate partners.

[-] TheEntity@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Earth, the roguelike edition!

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[-] BillyClark@piefed.social 60 points 1 month ago

The author of that review also doesn't know how to use punctuation.

"They gave inaccurate information from a Christian perspective," is most straightforwardly read as if the person giving the information is Christian.

Whereas, "They gave inaccurate information, from a Christian perspective," is what they meant, that the receiver of the information is Christian.

[-] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 month ago

that immediately annoyed me as well. I was ready to discount this person's opinion before I even finished reading it.

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[-] ChaosPilot@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 month ago
[-] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

If the fundamentalist Christians understood any of that they would be so angry right now.

[-] scutiger@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Lead can exist without having previously been uranium.

[-] Furbag@pawb.social 15 points 1 month ago

Yeah, you can't argue against creationism when creationism itself is not falsifiable. If every piece of evidence to the contrary can be explained by "God made it that way on purpose." Then no amount of evidence will ever be considered enough.

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[-] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 31 points 1 month ago

As a kid, I was targeted by one of the local churches that some of my family members attended at the time. Apparently at some point in early grade school, some of my school peers who went to that church informed the pastor that I believe in evolution. From then on, adults from that church and kids I went to school with coordinated in tandem to ridicule and isolate me -- a literal child.

Far too many of these people are evil to their core. If they'll harass and intimidate other peoples' children, they'll surely cross any other boundary. It's not even about being unintelligent, so many are simply willfully ignorant.

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[-] voxthefox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 month ago

When we were trying to liquidate my late FILs massive rock collection, one of the rock shops we were recommended ended up being owned by young earth creationists, dude was a geologist who thought all these rocks were 6000 years old. People be crazy.

You can't be a geologist and a creationist.

You can be an idiot who thinks themselves a geologist tho.

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[-] cyclonedusk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 month ago

for a second there I thought this was an atheist saying that the cave guide was spouting info from a religious perspective and therefore the information was wrong.

how disappointing.

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[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 month ago

They ~~walk among us~~ control us through violence

This isn't some wacko fringe. This is the people who control the state in USA at least.

[-] NABDad@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

No, the people who control the state are not these people. These are the ignorant people that are used by the people who control the state.

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[-] the_q@piefed.social 18 points 1 month ago

When the number is too big it's scary.

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[-] mechoman444@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

What's more... The age of the earth is never mentioned in the Bible. They just counted the years roughly using the genealogies in the various books.

These people just believe what they're told by the clergy of whatever version of Christianity they aspire to.

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[-] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

The walking dumb.

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 15 points 1 month ago

Modern geology was started by 18th century Christians seeking actual proof of the Flood. Unlike today when beliefs are challenged and the claimant doubles down or makes up facts, those Christians followed the data and discovered a much older Earth in the rocks they explored. And it got older as we learned more.

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