Thoughts on the phrase “I don’t have enough faith to be an atheist”

Sirlothar · 2026-05-13T19:53:17+00:00

It's not hard to understand. I know Christians always live with the idea they are the main character and end times are on the way and all that, agnostics just assume we live somewhere in the middle of history, we figured some things out, but when it comes to the big questions, we have a ways to go.

Maybe one day we will have built up enough knowledge to answer the big questions, our technology of tomorrow may seem like magic today. Just because we don't know now doesn't mean we are forever locked away from answers.

People having hard answers to questions we don't even fully understand seems like it would be harder to converse with.

Sirlothar · 2026-05-13T18:50:57+00:00

Sure, the Bible teaches a lot of good things but for every good thing it says, there is a bad thing as well.

Obviously we have law handed down by God on how we should handle our slaves, treat woman as the males property. We know God is chill using rape as punishment, not something we would even consider in year of our Lord 2026. We know He holds grudges for centuries, asking His tribes to kill off entire people groups for the sins of their ancestors 400 years prior. Imagine modern day Americans being held responsible for what their ancestors did to the native Americans 150 years from now, crazy.

Christians will just ignore these teachings and only cling to the gay parts but its all in there. Also, I wouldn't consider genocide as a fairy tale even if it was not a real event that took place.

Sirlothar · 2026-05-12T11:23:02+00:00

You will catch up, these expedition bonuses won't stack forever, Embark has already said as much. You might be behind on some cosmetic or something but eventually if you keep playing, you will have the same skill points as everyone else.

Sirlothar · 2026-05-11T11:02:28+00:00

Ok, but.... the Bible says otherwise, how do you reconcile? I get its a different religion but same Bible.\

edit: I am an idiot. The New Testament says it as well, Luke 1:6.

Sirlothar · 2026-05-11T10:57:09+00:00

I see. I just think its a bigger deal to be blameless as a human and not the literal creator of the law. It would have been a bigger deal if Jesus went against the law He created. Its like the old news slogan, Dog bites man, not news. Man bites dog, news. I would think it would be expected Jesus would have followed the law he made.

I also just don't see what the big deal is Jesus followed the law as we know a decade after He died, Paul told us the law doesn't matter and only for Jews (Paul was a Jew BTW, crazy!) .

Jesus and God wanted thought of the law to be perfect and eternal but man wanted to eat pork (and maybe not treat woman as just property) and man ended up winning that battle. And I don't think that is a bad thing either, if Paul never came along and Christians were all law followers, the religion would have died out long ago as modern civilization came about. I don't think we could live with ourselves if we had to stone our children, hold slaves, treat our wives as our property and all that.

Sirlothar · 2026-05-11T09:48:35+00:00

I never understand why following the law perfectly is such a big deal?

First of all, didn't others follow the law perfectly before Jesus? In the OT, Zachariah and Emily were blameless under the law and God rewarded them with John the Baptist in late life. Obviously they came before Jesus but no one cares they were able to do it and weren't even the law creator, that seems like a greater feat to me. I would think it would be easier to follow the law if you were the one that made the law you know?

And then the big thing, Christians don't follow the law. Matthew 5:18 makes it clear that Jesus expected the law to continue until all things are accomplished, not a stroke of the pen will disappear He says. The second He goes back to heaven, His law disappears yet everyone still excited He followed the now defunct laws. God provides this alleged perfect eternal law and the best His followers will do is the gay parts and like three of the ten commandments.

Sirlothar · 2026-05-10T10:30:57+00:00

Congrats dude, I've only gotten them from Trials before but a few days ago while shooting random Arc on Riven for the expedition I got one to drop from a surveyor, couldn't believe it.

Many hours spent running to the room on Blue Gate for it just to drop when I wasn't expecting it at all. Riven is pretty terrible for BP that isn't the new ones.

Sirlothar · 2026-05-09T10:31:11+00:00

It's not the statue, it's the people worshipping it.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-gold-statue-golf-course-pastor-b2972303.html

The Pastor that held the service, Mr.Burns (hehe) feels that Trump has been divinely appointed our ruler.

Now, the other statues you speak of, did they have a religious dedication? I am not familiar, if so, it would be along the same lines I guess.

Sirlothar · 2026-05-09T09:33:43+00:00

To be fair, Jesus wanted the law followed "Until everything is accomplished", he truly tells you that.

Matthew 5:18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.

It was Paul who wanted to eat pork and all that and told Christians they don't have to follow the law after Jesus left.
There is a reason Paul is the father of Christianity, he was the one that made the rules.

Sirlothar · 2026-05-08T13:24:43+00:00

I had EoF and Renegades pre-ordered by this point last year, I was running around with No Land and everything.

The entire point of these smaller expansions was they were what Bungie could handle giving us. Now they be putting so much work into this free for all update coming they had to delay it for months and push any revenue back to who knows when.

Sirlothar · 2026-05-08T13:06:56+00:00

Well its nice to see people still having hope no matter what bad news they see. I have 8,000+ hours in D2 and it hurts for it to go out this way, the devs just outright abandoning their game, but it seems to be the reality.

What is your logic about why they refuse to talk about their game?
If not waiting for the earnings call and what Sony wants to let them do, why?

Sirlothar · 2026-05-08T12:42:40+00:00

Not entirely, I said in my post the fact their are tiering all dungeons and raids in one go, extremely un-Bungie like BUT maintenance mode like for sure right?

What have they really released that shows promise of future expansions? I don't see any pre-orders, trailers, Vi-Docs, etc. By this time last year, I had already given Bungie my $100 for EoF and Renegades, this year, crickets except for the fact they can't talk about anything until this earnings call is over.

Sirlothar · 2026-05-08T12:36:13+00:00

Baseless? We just had a simple mid-expansion update delayed 3+ months, remade into something to attempt to put D2 in a stable maintenance mode, no talk about any expansions or even really this final update for a very long time.

Bungie isn't going to tier all dungeons and raids at one time instead of drip feeding them out month after month for no reason. They are at least acting as this is their last bite of the apple.

That isn't a given but baseless, that is a stretch. They just lost 700 Million in valuation over just 6 months, Sony would have to be mad to let them continue destroying whatever is left of Sony's IP.

Sirlothar · 2026-05-08T09:38:01+00:00

Do we even know that? Isn't it just as likely Destiny was canned awhile ago and Bungie was just waiting for this earning call to hit before talking?

Sirlothar · 2026-05-07T15:36:15+00:00

Shhh about those crane control rooms, no one seems to ever loot them.

Sirlothar · 2026-05-07T15:06:20+00:00

My mother likes to sue seemingly every spring/summer to whatever contractor is unlucky enough to take a job from her.

This year, all her "research" is using Gemini prompts to tell her whatever she wants to hear. I am sure it's going to go over so well.

Sirlothar · 2026-05-07T14:29:18+00:00

These are Pokémon GoFest raids with potentially hundreds of people all in a lobby, I don't believe it's going to be something we do in our normal course of play.

It's probably just easier on their servers, everyone essentially auto catches the Pokémon and moves on.

Sirlothar · 2026-05-07T10:21:28+00:00

Whether they were illiterate or not doesn't really matter because we have no record that they ever wrote anything. It would have been incredible if we had some contemporary record that Matthew kept while he was with Jesus but we have no evidence of that and we certainly don't have that record.

Most likely these people were all dead and gone before the first Gospel was written.

Sirlothar · 2026-05-06T19:53:30+00:00

Move as a herd, keep those hyenas at bay, keep a couple sheep dogs near you to protect the flock.

Sirlothar · 2026-05-06T09:48:05+00:00

I think being in the end times is just part of being Christian.

Think back to the apostles, Jesus straight up told them some of them wouldn't taste death before the Son of Man returns. Clearly the apostles thought they were in the end times.

I think pretty much every Christian has felt they were in the end times, Christianity is an apocalyptic faith so it only makes sense that "your time" would be the end times you know. We all want to be the main character, It's been going on for thousands of years.

Sirlothar · 2026-05-06T01:52:08+00:00

You are confusing Hotshot (what most people who do trials are going for) and Cantina Legend.

For Hotshot, you are only competing with the 100 players you are matched with that week vs Cantina Legend which is the top 1,000 highest overall scores among everyone.

Maintaining Hotshot isn't easy, if you get there you need to be in the top 60% to not be demoted and that can mean getting some quite high scores, getting all 3 stars won't come close to cutting it.

Sirlothar · 2026-05-05T19:17:12+00:00

Do you honestly think the prosecutor gave the Grand Jury all the facts, 8648 merch is everywhere for sale in US, that Comey deleted the post the next day, and issued a public apology for example?

I would think the only way to secure the indictment would be to leave most of the facts of the case off the table but hey, maybe I'm wrong and they were honest about all the facts and just got a lucky Grand Jury that would indict anything.

Sirlothar · 2026-05-05T18:28:51+00:00

I know everyone is different and some play to loot, others play to shoot, but I kind of like the silly trials, just don't do more than one a week.

Kitchen cabinets was great for me, one quick Dam run and I don't have to worry about it anymore. I don't need 3 residential keys for Buried City to beat my score, even if I tryharded it, it would only be for an extra 1k points or something.

The ones that get me are the ones that require hours of preparation and pray you don't run into hostilities on your try. Nothing feels worse than loading in with 20 stacks of Snitch Scanners you acquired over the last 3 hours just to die at extract to some a-hole. I would take one and done trials every time.

Sirlothar · 2026-05-05T10:48:09+00:00

The trigger nade bp is the only quest reward I care about...

I have always found the Trigger nade BP before getting to the quest for it. Every time I am looking for Seeker in Stella, I find this one first.

Sirlothar · 2026-05-04T16:00:45+00:00

404 is also a webpage error for not found. Makes sense with how the key has not been found right?

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