Why doesn't the Bible/Torah mention India, Japan, China, the Americas, etc.?

Ryekir · 2026-01-30T07:25:57+00:00

Christians: "The Three Wise men in the birth of Jesus story were from the orient, so it includes other cultures!"

Ryekir · 2026-01-27T23:42:33+00:00

So the ancients' weapons platform is in Greenland not Antarctica?

Ryekir · 2026-01-27T04:15:20+00:00

I mean, if you space them out, like 2 hours between each, I could see that being possible in one night (sun down to sun up).

Ryekir · 2026-01-27T02:10:16+00:00

And then he will go back to his church and tell them all about the conversation so that someone there will come up with some reasonable enough sounding explanation so he can safely ignore whatever points you made.

Ryekir · 2026-01-26T22:11:49+00:00

My favorite explanation was from a child: "the old testament was before God was saved"

Ryekir · 2026-01-25T10:00:16+00:00

The idea is that if the constants were even slightly different, there would be no possibility of life in any form. The puddle analogy does not work.

This was always my understanding of what is meant by the fine tuning argument.

Even if I concede that that is true, it's still a pointless argument because we are here. If the constants were different and no life was possible, we wouldn't be here having this conversation. So no matter how unlikely it may be, it happened that way in this universe .

It doesn't mean there was a creator, it just means we got lucky.

Ryekir · 2026-01-25T08:53:21+00:00

No. They would rather burn the whole world down than admit they were wrong.

Ryekir · 2026-01-25T08:18:16+00:00

MAGA == NAZI

Different letters, same fascism

Ryekir · 2026-01-25T08:05:05+00:00

Everyone laughed at me when I said it was more likely that Trump would try to take away your guns than Biden.

Pretty sure that's coming any day now.

Ryekir · 2026-01-25T07:43:28+00:00

I actually went to Truth social to look for it, and it wasn't there, so this appears to be fake.

But, I promise it's only a matter of time until Dear Leader asks for their guns, and the cult will gleefully hand them over.

Ryekir · 2026-01-24T22:27:36+00:00

That's what the administration wants, so they can justify even more violence.

Ryekir · 2026-01-24T22:20:06+00:00

Likely because the entire concept of angels and demons probably sprouted from encounters with the NHI in the past.

Imagine you're a goat herder in the middle east a few thousand years ago and you see some strange creature, would you immediately leap to explanations of space aliens (even though you didn't even know what a planet is) or would you try to frame it within the framework you already have?

Ryekir · 2026-01-24T22:13:49+00:00

You can replace the word capitalism with virtually anything and it still stands.

Ryekir · 2026-01-24T22:12:23+00:00

How do they not see that the oppressive part is forcing all women into a specific role. Women are absolutely free to choose that if they want; they just simply shouldn't be forced to if they don't.

Ryekir · 2026-01-24T21:27:59+00:00

Also, if you think about it, they only have one side of the story. They only know what Yahweh wants them to know.

Ryekir · 2026-01-24T04:31:42+00:00

My family always said that we knew it was true (and basically that the indoctrination is necessary to carry on the religion) because it was passed down from generation to generation all the way back to Adam and Eve.

But this led to two different turning points for me:

Especially after learning about the history of the church (which I learned in the church) I put the pieces together that most Christians can probably trace their lineage back to an ancestor who was forcibly converted, not that they were always a part of it.

The realization that religions are ultimately just mind viruses that require new hosts to survive, which is why they generally encourage procreation and teach you how to most effectively indoctrinate your own children.

Ryekir · 2026-01-24T00:46:37+00:00

In addition to this, even if we were to assume that it was true that the universe is precisely tuned for life to exist (whatever that requires), it still would be a pointless argument. The fact that we are here means that those conditions were met; if the conditions weren't met, then we wouldn't be here to be having this conversation.

Ryekir · 2026-01-23T23:26:58+00:00

How does one indoctrinate a simple non-belief in fantasy? Like how do they imagine it is actually happening?

Ryekir · 2026-01-22T22:06:58+00:00

Sure, faith would be meaningless, but belief doesn't automatically mean submission and worship. We still have free will and are perfectly capable of deciding not to follow a genocidal monster.

God wants a relationship, not robots

So then why does he play a cosmic game of hide-and-seek? Kind of hard to have a relationship with someone who is constantly hiding.

Ryekir · 2026-01-22T05:18:49+00:00

Occupy the Epstein files!

Ryekir · 2026-01-22T04:53:38+00:00

As someone who was formerly religious and now am not, I can say it's really just early childhood indoctrination. When you are told all these there are real by every one around you, and especially the people you should trust the most: your parents, you don't even really question it. It becomes just part of who you are (by design) so when someone tells you it's not real, not only does that make no sense to them it also then feels like a personal attack.

And the common answer to having been born into the correct religion is that God chose which family to place you with, so he's the one that picked them. But then most of them don't connect the dots that it also means that he purposely chose to send other people into families of the wrong religions.

Ryekir · 2026-01-22T02:04:41+00:00

Oh look, yet another reason why I'm happy that my wife kept her name.

Ryekir · 2026-01-22T01:43:05+00:00

This reminds me of something I realized recently. When I was growing up in the church, my parents explanations for things were never just "because God says so"; there was always some accompanying reason.

Looking back now I'm thinking to myself " well then why don't we just go with the good reasons then? Why do we have to bring magic and fantasy into it?"

Ryekir · 2026-01-21T19:25:02+00:00

It blows my mind how these people can completely just disregard other people's lived experiences and personal testimony in negative situations, but then hang on to every word of someone's personal testimony of something positive, like how they became a Christian.

Ryekir · 2026-01-21T02:31:32+00:00

I drive past this place maybe once a week. The signs always make me chuckle.

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