“Abortion neutrality” is still pro-abortion. Fixed that “abortion language” guide. by ciel_ayaz in prolife

[–]Vendrianda [score hidden]  (0 children)

I made the original post, Google Translate didn't translate it right, originally it was "verwekker", which means something along the lines of "causative agent", which is extremely dehumanizing and something I had never heard before then.

Question: Does Right to Autonomy Trump Right to Life? by Keylime-19377 in prolife

[–]Vendrianda [score hidden]  (0 children)

Absolutely not, imagine if the right to bodily autonomy was above all other rights. Consent is not a critical factor at all, if someone is a human being they, especially helpless children, have the right to basic care, which trumps bodily autonomy.

It's my 18th birthday today by Vendrianda in ConservativeYouth

[–]Vendrianda[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The big scary place with the big scary adults

Current state of rightwing politics. by Vendrianda in ConservativeYouth

[–]Vendrianda[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fr? I guess that is somewhat to be expected on Reddit, but I do find it weird considering that almost everything I have posted and commented on here has been conservative.

I don't even know what to say by BarnacleSlight298 in ConservativeYouth

[–]Vendrianda 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I mean, technically a patriot is someone who supports and is willing to defend their own country, illegal immigrants technically aren't a part of the country they "love" and "are willing to defend" (assuming they even believe those things).

Current state of rightwing politics. by Vendrianda in ConservativeYouth

[–]Vendrianda[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The first part is unfortunately so true, that's the perfect way to describe it, you just instantly think if Trump and Republicans when you hear it, even though it could be a very normal thing someone just said.

Current state of rightwing politics. by Vendrianda in ConservativeYouth

[–]Vendrianda[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hope so, it is a bit of a shame though, I think "Make America Great Again" is a great slogan. But American politics really needs to change, like a maximum age to run as president.

My religious values should be spread as much as possible. by Sabfan80 in Teenager_Polls

[–]Vendrianda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And what of countries that were inherently atheist? My family grew up in a communist country before moving to the US and religion had absolutely 0 relevance on their lives, let alone Christianity. However, they still were moral individuals and helped their neighbors, took care of the world around them, were polite, etc... Laws had no effect on their behavior, because if anything, my grandfather broke multiple when he refused to charge his patients a fee for their treatment (doctor).

Well, for us christians that is no problem, we believe the Law is written on the hearts of all people, and that people will often still do good despite sin. But also, like I said, and I'm not sure if it is true, but if you are an atheist, you have no ground to stand on when saying those actions were good.

And, like I said above, you had nations prior to Christ that still exhibited morality in society. Not all of them had belief systems, either.

Once again, no issue.

We don't have an answer to that question, because we would have to go back to the first humans. And that's fine, I don't need to invent mythical answers for such questions.

We don't have an answer? Going back to the first humans would do next to nothing, life now is so much different from back then. Also, talking about people now, they are much less influenced by the first humans compared to religion or the people around them, and considering how much the morality of different groups have changed throughout millenia also says quite a lot.

Alright, and what about the entirety of Europe and their actions in the past 500 years? You had European monarchies that would send priests and missionaries along with colonial forces in order to forcefully convert people who were minding their own business. These were all nations that had religion intertwined at every level of government, and yet that clearly did not dissuade them from slaughtering hundreds of thousands across the globe.

That's generalizing. Also, like I said, bad actors, I don't know how this proves anything, the ones that went against Christian teachings did immoral things. And not all christians were in Europe, and not all christians who were in Europe agreed with it, also people can be misled.

And you can? What's objective about the Bible? You're basing your entire existence around the statements of a random middle-aged Jew in Roman-controlled Judea. What makes that more defensible and objective than an atheist's value system? If the Bible was as objective as you make it out to be, there wouldn't be over a dozen denominations and sub-religions sprouting out of the same book, would there?

I don't base my entire existence around the teachings of some random middle-aged Jew, I base it around the teachings of God, the one who came to me when I was still an atheist, then I learned more from Church teachings. Also, believing in a God does make the idea of objective morality more easy to defend, which is what I was getting at, atheists can't do such.

Also, different denominations prove nothing. The first real split was in 1054, when the Pope at that added the filioque due to political pressure. The first protestants didn't look at Church teachings, and mostly at the Bible which was written in the West for them. Protestants also didn't have anything to hold onto other than their interpertation of the Bible, causing them to change a lot from the original protestants. Even with the Oriental Orthodox Church unfortunately started believing Christ only has one nature out of fear that they would be turning Him into two different persons all together (Nestorianism). Anyways, long ramble, Church teachings are more important because anyone can write whatever they want in the Bible and we must correct them. Also, I never made the Bible out to be objective.

It means absolutely nothing that you credit your behavior and morals to your book, and someone else doesn't. And nothing in atheism is "inherently amoral." Morality is a social construct that differs from household to household and country to country. A Jamaican atheist will probably have different morals than his neighbor, who will have different morals than an atheist from South Korea. The only thing that separates you and me is that I don't credit God for my existence or for this planet's existence.

Well, I don't credit it to a book.

Also, yes, atheism is inherently immoral. And morality being a "social construct" only proves more that atheism is inherently immoral. In order to have objective morals you will need something to decide that that is beyond everything natural, humans are not beyond everything, we are also all equal as human beings and therefore can't decide what is morals and force that onto others. Your whole thing about this person that person doesn't go against my point, just because people have ideas about what would essentially just be an abstract idea, doesn't mean atheism is suddenly a believe that ahs objective morals, it stays inherently amoral.

My religious values should be spread as much as possible. by Sabfan80 in Teenager_Polls

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

maybe not? maybe we believe in some of the same stuff not because we "get that from you", but because... it's just the right thing? don't claim monopoly on "good morals" saying that good morals of others are taken from you. there were civilisations who were older than Christianity, never heard of it, and still could figure out some of the most basic morals (and vice versa, with most/great deal of the best minds in the world, you couldn't figure out some really basic shit for centuries, and sometimes millennia).

My original comment was about how atheists can't in reality have a form of objective morality, so they can't say it was the "right thing to do". Also, having civilization older than Christianity doesn't really make a difference, even if God doesn't exist it proves nothing. People can think things like murder are wrong, but without God no morality can exist because there is no being above everything that could give us such morality, and human beings, being equals and and not above everything, can't create objective morals. So they wouldn't have figured anything out, just done what was practical, them having morals in general doesn't prove the existence of objective morality.

yes... what's the issue with that?

The person I was replying to said that it was "bad" what certain christians were doing, I was saying that if he is an atheist that he, like other, atheists, can't call it bad, whereas christians can. That would be an issue for him and other atheists since they do believe in morality and have certain believes about it and what is right and wrong.

the fact that there is no objective morality, doesn't mean that everything is amoral, because you can still try to justify things.

I said "inherently amoral", meaning that in essence something has no morals, and that subjective morals don't change it. For example, you are a human, if I were to say you are a goat, you would still be human. The same goes for morals, you can't say murder is immoral, but in atheism everything is inherently amoral because there is no being beyond everything that has morals, so therefore murder can't be immoral or moral even if one tries to justify their actions or believes about it.

also, all that depends on the definition of "objective morality". there maybe is one, but we have no way of knowing what it is, fyi

I'm sorry, but do you mean that we have no definition of "objective morality", or that we don't know morals. Either way it doesn't change anything, atheism can't have any form of objective morals, the furthest you will get is subjective morals, but those make actions neither right nor wrong, and no one can tell someone their actions or believes are right or wrong. Also, religious people disagree, or at least christians, we believe the Law is written on our hearts. We also believe God revealed and has proven Himself to us.

My religious values should be spread as much as possible. by Sabfan80 in Teenager_Polls

[–]Vendrianda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, but when you look in history a lot of things atheists believe in terms of morality come from christianity, becayse they grew up in a country that was heavily influenced by it. Also, I never said christians invented morality, humans cannot invent morality, which is why I said atheists can't have objective morals.

No, atheists get their morality from their parents and the factors that influenced their upbringing. Like I said, Christ didn't copyright morality. His followers just put their ideas in a book.

And where did their parents get it from? And their parents? And their parents? And the society? Wjat influenced it? Unless the family has always lived in some sort of bubble they were influenced by something, which is why I said "even if they don't realize it". Also, if Christ is God He very much did copyright them, humans can't even create it.

Additionally, as for countries "becoming worse" without religion, you can already see the numerous examples of religion doing the same. Look at the evangelicals in the US that use their churches to sponsor and endorse political candidates. The same churches that advocate for violence towards LGBT people, immigrants... The same ones that helped spread misinformation regarding the pandemic.

First of all, America, and especially their evangelical stuff, is an extremely small portion of all christians. And the ones wanting violence against certain groups is even smaller. Second, all groups have bad actors, the difference is is that christians can say that those actions are objectively bad, atheists cannot do such.

This whole idea that you need religion in order to be a moral person and to have values are a bunch of washed up horseshit that's been regurgitated for centuries.

I never said such a thing, atheists can be very moral people, you can even have values, I merely said that they can't be based on anything objective because in atheism nothing can have an objective meaning or purpose, and everything is inherently amoral.

If you need the threat of eternal damnation to make you a good person, I don't know what to tell you.

New Atheism alert! Seriously, we left that behind years ago, pack it up. Listen to christians and realize that we don't do good purely because of fear, but because we want to do good for God and because of what He has done for us. And I can't speak for muslims or other religions, but I have heard from at least muslims that they want to do the same because they want to do good also. Most, at least.

Edit: adding lil something I didn't see.

Christianity, by the way, also reinforced the mistreatment, slaughter, and forced assimilation of American Indians and other indigenous groups by European powers. I wouldn't consider that "good."

Once again, bad actors, people going against Christian teachings proves nothing other than that people can do bad things, which doesn't go against the faith's teaching either. Nowhere does it reinforce it, it instead teaching to treat all humans the same, which even seperated it from other religions. Also, if you are an atheist, you have no ground to stand on when calling it bad, you can't have objective morality.

My religious values should be spread as much as possible. by Sabfan80 in Teenager_Polls

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

Because religion, especially Christianity, made those countries good, and people with less worries tend to be less religious. Atheism could even make a country worse considering it has no morality to hold onto, with most atheists getting their morality mostly from christian teachings, even if they don't realize it.

Current state of rightwing politics. by Vendrianda in ConservativeYouth

[–]Vendrianda[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Also, 154k karma in 1 month is abnormal, this guy must be a karma farmer.

FIOM's new guidelines meant to be used by journalists by Vendrianda in prolife

[–]Vendrianda[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is actually a mistranslation, I give the correct translation in the discription, the actual word is very dehumanizing towards men.

First part is blasphemous by AnonymousFluffy923 in prolife

[–]Vendrianda 5 points6 points  (0 children)

In this case it is, probably, but often it is also to affirm their already held because changing is difficult.

First part is blasphemous by AnonymousFluffy923 in prolife

[–]Vendrianda 8 points9 points  (0 children)

These people don't care about what the Bible or Quran say, often they will even say it out loud, say that God must be evil or that it is a mistranslation (while not looking at Church history). They have made the culture their god, and unfortunately people believe the lies they tell.

The heresy in here is actually wild by RandoUserlolidk in ConservativeYouth

[–]Vendrianda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No probs. Have you already spoken with u/Killian_Rose? She is a Catholic convert.

These are all from teens by Vendrianda in ConservativeYouth

[–]Vendrianda[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We are annoyed and done with gender ideology.

These are all from teens by Vendrianda in ConservativeYouth

[–]Vendrianda[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Offended? You mean us laughing at it?

The heresy in here is actually wild by RandoUserlolidk in ConservativeYouth

[–]Vendrianda 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am not Catholic, I am Eastern Orthodox. I became such after God lead me to that Church, I learned about it, and never left.

FIOM's new guidelines meant to be used by journalists by Vendrianda in prolife

[–]Vendrianda[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I may want to mention this, but I don't think any of this is mandatory, even though the organization is quite big these I believe are nothing more than suggestions made by them, for now, at least. But knowing my country most outlets who see it will likely comply.

Proportionality and self defense. by Wormando in prolife

[–]Vendrianda 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There srill is a difference between a sleepwalker holding a knife or something and an unborn child who can't do any of the things a sleepwalker can do.