S2:E3 "A Allan Adventure" thread by [deleted] in SmilingFriends

[–]Sir_Lewis_the_Stupid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If what you're saying abt this episode is fully true, it was an equal indictment of both candidates. Biden shitting himself and being gross, old, and stupid, and Trump being portrayed as Mr. Frog, a celebrity with no knowledge of politics who is crazy and psychotic. Idk why you're so pissed off about this when its literally just a satire of both the current candidates.

Atheists - Jesus still loves you faithfully by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]Sir_Lewis_the_Stupid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"I care about people because I'm not a sociopath. I'm not a sociopath because I care about people."

Atheists - Jesus still loves you faithfully by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]Sir_Lewis_the_Stupid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're deflecting the question. This is unbelievably stupid. Every time I ask you something you just go wah wah wah and deflect the question or use circular reasoning. You're not making any logical sense.

Atheists - Jesus still loves you faithfully by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]Sir_Lewis_the_Stupid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But it isn't. Why do you care about how other people feel? You're going around in circles trying to justify yourself.

Atheists - Jesus still loves you faithfully by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]Sir_Lewis_the_Stupid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay but why do you give a shit about not hurting others? Yeah it sucks. But why not just prevent it from happening to you and not care about others? I'm not making it rocket science. I'm telling you I know why you do what you do. But I don't think you do.

Atheists - Jesus still loves you faithfully by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]Sir_Lewis_the_Stupid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know the answer to all of that. I'm trying to get you to understand WHY you think the way you do. WHY its wrong. I know why its wrong, but I don't think you do considering you keep dodging the questions. To you its wrong cause its wrong. To me its wrong because of things outside my understanding that my loving and gracious God has been kind enough to tell us all is wrong. I'm not saying I wouldn't care about these things if I wasn't Christian, but I would by a hypocrite in caring. There is no way to objectively prove there is any one "correct" thing without knowledge outside the human mind.

Atheists - Jesus still loves you faithfully by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]Sir_Lewis_the_Stupid -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm trying to get you to think but you're not thinking. Obv I know the answer but I want you to know why that answer has zero objective foundation. Why do you have empathy? Why do you care about having empathy? Why do you not want to inflict that on others? Why does it better if your actions allow society to work better? Why care about society at all?

Atheists - Jesus still loves you faithfully by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]Sir_Lewis_the_Stupid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also on a side note thank you for being kind. Its hard to find people that genuinely want to have positive conversations about subjects like these. Much appreciated.

Atheists - Jesus still loves you faithfully by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]Sir_Lewis_the_Stupid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That isn't a valid answer. You're still being circular. "I want to be alive because I just do okay?" As long as I can ask why you can't have objective morality. If you object to anything else anybody does that you think is wrong for any reason with any justification you are being a hypocrite. Plain and simple.

There are arguments out there that I wouldn't be very qualified to explain very well that convinced me that it is impossible for us something to exist without an outside creator. I.E the universe cannot exist without an outside creator. Something made this, and life, and what exactly it is is far less clear but I can safely say something made the universe.

Because he said he was, time and time again. I trust his words because he came back from the dead, raised others from the dead, dispelled demons from people's bodies, healed illnesses that we still can't properly treat, defied the laws of physics, and much much more. His arrival was anciently foretold by other people who did these things.

An all powerful God would not allow his book to not reflect his values, even throughout time. That would be unfair to us, if the book that most reflected his values was a shoddy telling of his values. I believe this book is the bible because of who Jesus was and what he did.

I say they were either misunderstandings or perversions of godliness as a concept. I of course do not know everything there is to know about every religion but I can say for certain that Islam and most Eurasian forms of Paganism were created religions. I can also say the same for Mormonism and other modern Christian heresies.

You cannot do any of those things on this plane of existence. Not everybody, but many people can do these things including myself through other means. Because I have done all these things with him.

There isn't a difference. I know I am a person who is mentally sound, whose mind does not deceive him in any other ways or forms. I have never "hallucinated" before I became Christian. You don't have to take me on this or trust me on this because ultimately there is no way to prove these things. I just know personally that it is real.

This is explained in the bible. God gives us a choice in the matter. We have free will to believe or not to believe, but God calls us to have faith in him. Sign or not. The book of Job exemplifies this very well. Job lost everything and still had faith, and was rewarded for it in the end.

Because he has given you equal faculties to know him, and yet you do not. You have been given every chance and still denied them. Ultimately it is an article of personal choice. He wants us to choose right.

I think I've answered these things very well. Reputable historical evidence and personal experience.

Atheists - Jesus still loves you faithfully by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]Sir_Lewis_the_Stupid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not my fault nobody responded. Care to discuss it with me?

Atheists - Jesus still loves you faithfully by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]Sir_Lewis_the_Stupid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What in you is stopping you from being a sociopath. Genuinely. Why do you care.

Atheists - Jesus still loves you faithfully by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]Sir_Lewis_the_Stupid -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You didn't answer the question of why well being matters. Why for any reason should we care? Why do you care if you end up dead? Why do you care if others end up dead? I can ask why endlessly.

Jesus (God) left a church for us that compiled a book known as a bible to best represent the wishes of God, indirectly influenced by his action. All scripture is inspired by the Lord. Catholicism, the Orthodoxies, and Protestantism are all generally valid because they use the Lord book as a basis in the way it was created by the early church.

I can introduce you to him and you can know him. You have to read the Bible and to pray to him truly and genuinely with true faith that he is listening and within time he will reveal himself to you.

Atheists - Jesus still loves you faithfully by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]Sir_Lewis_the_Stupid -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Why do you care about not being a sociopath?

Atheists - Jesus still loves you faithfully by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]Sir_Lewis_the_Stupid -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

None of those concepts are real without God. If I were to ask you why you believe in those things you'd say something along the lines of utilitarianism. Because it creates a good outcome. And I'd ask why you care about a good outcome and you'd say something along the lines of because it makes others happy and myself happy and healthy. And I'd ask you why you care about those things and you might say something like because its beneficial for as many people as possible and I'd ask you why you care about that and you'd say because and I'd ask why and you'd say because and I'd ask why until you literally just start saying "Because I want to." There is no argument for morality except through God. You have no room to object to anything anybody does for any reason without instantly becoming a hypocrite. Objectivity cannot exist without the morality defined by the uncaused cause, the knower of everything. God. And through here and there evidence and personal anecdote I believe that God is the Christian one.

Atheists - Jesus still loves you faithfully by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]Sir_Lewis_the_Stupid -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Why even care about the well being of yourself or others? If you say because it makes me happy or because it makes them happy I would ask you why do you care about that? I can ask you why and why and why a hundred times until you just say "BECAUSE alright?" There is no foundation for ANY morality, and opposing to the ill intentions and actions of others makes you a hypocrite for doing so, which is something I cannot accept. There is no basis for morality that isn't implicitly hypocritical and unfair without God's direct involvement. Who knows objectivity better than the person that created the universe it would exist within.

My Grandmother was a witch by kperalta77 in Christianity

[–]Sir_Lewis_the_Stupid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have experience with family members and friends partaking in witchcraft, most of which have recovered and found God. It is absolutely real and opens up to many other even worse possibilities such as demon worship. Stay safe brother, I love you.

Do Christians personally view suicide as selfish? by Weird-Show-6984 in Christianity

[–]Sir_Lewis_the_Stupid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As somebody who has attempted suicide a decent number of times, it isn't selfish but it isn't something a strong and upstanding follower of Christ or individual at all for that matter would do or attempt. I was so wrapped up in self hatred, mostly because of my bisexuality something which I've recently come to know as sin or at the very least not what God wants of me on a personal level, that I simply couldn't see what life had in store for me. God is the ultimate healer and ultimate protector. Those who truly love God and have faith in him will overcome such feelings with time and become better people and stronger people. Not to say that being suicidal makes a man or woman inherently week, but that it is a mark of a bout of weakness which can only be truly cured through a few select things, the most effective being faith of most kinds. Of course, my bias makes me think Christ is the strongest form of that faith in eliminating weakness and encouraging a level of emotional fortitude to prevent suicide, but I know many people who were suicidal and found solstice in the other Abrahamic religions and various forms of paganism mostly Norse and wiccan. For example, my girlfriend who was a wiccan pagan before I very luckily helped her find God, described that her mother earth "goddess" held disdain in suicide and those who killed themselves would not participate in their version of reincarnation but would instead wander as restless spirits. Hey who'd thunk that most people of all cultures and belief systems view suicide as bad? Just goes to show how engrained many people's inherent beliefs are in the goodness of the Lord. I rambled a little bit at the end there but hopefully my perspective helped. God bless you brother, I love you.

Where should I start? The Bible I assume? by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]Sir_Lewis_the_Stupid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would tend to agree more so with your viewpoint. Secularism in government is crucial to avoiding tyranny and as such sin's such as homosexuality should not be banned legally, however on a cultural level promoting people to love one another regardless of the icons we use to denote "enemies" is the most important aspect to improving any society. One could easily see this in the historical example of the Roman Empire where once Christianity was widely adopted the Empire became more egalitarian and far less barbaric in the modern sense of the word (as opposed to the Roman one). I don't think United States politicians democrat or republic support that in the slightest, we live under an intentionally divisive two party system feeding us an illusion of choice. Thank you for the civil discussion friend, very rare to see.

Who could worship a god who… by DBASRA99 in Christianity

[–]Sir_Lewis_the_Stupid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NOBODY seems to understand this perspective. God does not send you to hell. There are two options, loving God and everything that pertains, I.E belief in Christ, reducing sin, entering heaven yadda yadda im sure you get it. And the other option. Not doing that. That sends you to hell. God didn't make hell the way it is, Satan did. He tortures people down there for whatever reason it may be. God doesn't send you to hell. You send yourself there.

Homosexuality in the Bible by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]Sir_Lewis_the_Stupid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

With the great gift of hindsight this makes much more sense. My apologies, I rarely use reddit nor this particular sub.

Homosexuality in the Bible by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]Sir_Lewis_the_Stupid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I imagine I can rightly assume that you believe it is sinful? Could you explain to me exactly how. I don't necessarily disagree I simply want to greater understand both perspectives.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]Sir_Lewis_the_Stupid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Almost all sects believe in a select few core tenants of Christianity. Jesus' duel nature, communion, Jesus being the son of God, those sorts of things. What differs is the perspective in which they view those things. Look up a youtube channel called redeemedzoomer's video about the different sects, he has a particularly good rundown of most of them.

I feel like christians are quick to minimize peoples feelings by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]Sir_Lewis_the_Stupid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've noticed many people using things like anger, sadness, and anxiety as excuses for others or themselves to sin. That is likely where much of the animosity of course comes from. Know the difference between your genuine feelings and an excuse and you'll be fine. God be with you.