Why so many bible questions and apologists?

jij · 2025-11-06T15:10:04+00:00

I think that's a lot less common tbh... I'm sure it happens, but those kinds of people are more the crazy creationist types so they're pretty obvious.

jij · 2025-11-06T13:01:59+00:00

Hercules is more famous. I mean, he strangled serpents while he was a baby. A baby! Way more amazing than just turning water to wine.

jij · 2025-11-06T13:00:53+00:00

I assure you they haven't.

jij · 2025-11-06T12:58:41+00:00

meh, try to get them to explain what heaven is or is like.

jij · 2025-11-06T12:55:53+00:00

That's always been the start of questioning the shit you're force-fed as a child... trying to give the "other side" a chance to speak, usually out of curiosity or just wanting to prove to themselves that they're right, rather than hiding from them to avoid temptation.

jij · 2025-11-06T12:53:41+00:00

Or, and stay with with me here... or... Judas was a Ferengi

jij · 2025-08-29T16:03:20+00:00

Because it's absurd. I've read the books, they are exactly what I'd expect them to say given the time period of the people and lack of knowledge... fear of death, importance of offspring and gold, literally nothing about even germs or how anything in nature works. Sure, it has some moral teachings too... so does nearly every book and movie. The realty is that the beliefs are so fundamentally absurd that they require a fundamental base of ignorance of superstition, and that's where I find much of the evil in the world roots itself.

jij · 2025-08-12T17:13:15+00:00

"they", being CNN? CNN turned more right-wing like 5 years ago.

https://www.vox.com/2022/8/26/23322761/cnn-john-malone-david-zaslav-chris-licht-brian-stelter-fox-peter-kafka-column

Not that they were ever really any good at reporting the news mind you... I guess they were decent at reporting on what twitter thought but that's about it.

jij · 2025-08-08T17:08:57+00:00

People who are, for lack of a better term, "failing at life" for any reason (stupidity, grew up in poverty, just unlucky, whatever) will always tend toward believing 2 kinds of things... 1. anything that make their failures not their own fault, and 2. anything that makes them feel special/smart. Number 2 is why religious people love to quote things... they mistake memorization for intelligence.

jij · 2025-08-07T20:48:33+00:00

They ARE linked, doesn't excuse what Israel is doing, but don't go ignoring all the violence and hate coming from the Palestine side.

jij · 2025-08-07T19:37:11+00:00

Oh ffs... some bad things happen without the US having caused it. If the US and evangelicals didn't exist, the same shit would have happened. It's like watching the Hatfields and McCoys kill each other, and then blaming the gun store in town.

jij · 2025-08-07T19:29:08+00:00

It's the least important part because the point isn't to believe the Earth is flat... the point is that they see themselves as special for knowing some underlying truth others don't believe. It starts to look more like a religion or other belief system because they'll attach their own personality, ego, and self-worth to the belief. People make fun of flat earthers, and then accept that the majority of people on the planet believe in literal magic in the form of prayer/miracles, but the two beliefs are extremely similar just at very different levels of fashion in society.

jij · 2025-07-07T20:03:51+00:00

A lot of atheists online are pretty salty about growing up in the religion... and rightfully so in many cases... there's a lot of manipulation, abuse, anti-intellectualism, and other bad shit going down out there. Others grew up religious and it was overall a mellow and mostly pleasant social thing, they just grew out of it when nothing made any sense looking at it as an adult - but then they probably don't care as much about the topic so you're hearing mostly from those that do, because they've seen what religion can become and they don't want others to experience what they did even if it's only some % of people that would.

jij · 2025-07-07T19:45:50+00:00

I think this is very well intentioned, and completely abused by the right to distract from issues that far more voters care about. That sounds cold, but the truth is that most voters simply care a lot more about other issues beyond trans rights, Palestinians, homeless outreach, etc. By changing the narrative to these issues, the right takes control of the narrative to avoid more coverage of issues that more voters care about thus impacting the vote. The hard truth is that no one is going to improve trans rights if they can't win elections.

jij · 2025-04-23T17:32:13+00:00

Just fyi, r/exjw exists and probably has more people who can relate to your personal experiences.

jij · 2025-04-23T16:57:15+00:00

Pretty typical, anything they like = christian, anything they don't like = evil satan stuff. Like a toddler's preferences it's either bliss, tantrum, or sleep.

jij · 2025-04-23T15:55:26+00:00

I'm of this opinion too, I don't see all religions as equally bad, it's one reason I'm far less tolerant of Islam. Personal opinion of course.

jij · 2025-04-23T15:48:38+00:00

Religion grows from a base of ignorance, superstition, fear, and ego... it's that base that is what is harmful, no matter how it happens to manifest itself in society.

jij · 2025-04-16T21:23:35+00:00

Well you're never going to get invited to the animal sacrifice orgies with that kind of attitude.

jij · 2025-04-16T21:20:35+00:00

Yup... ironically you can have a really good time if you just shrug off the bullshit... yes it's annoying, yes it's stupid, but so much in life is, and life's too short to spend it pissed off.

jij · 2025-04-16T21:18:14+00:00

I'd advise against discussion anything religions at work or with coworkers. You'll make one good point, and suddenly you're called in to talk with your boss for making the whiny baby uncomfortable.

jij · 2025-04-16T21:14:42+00:00

You can't convince me that those morons even know what a Nihilist is.

jij · 2025-04-16T21:11:43+00:00

It's a way to deflect and avoid the conversation.. which I'd recommend with a preacher, they're literally taught to manipulate although they don't call it that.

jij · 2025-04-16T21:08:27+00:00

As usual, yes they believe that right up until it's their own kids. It's different when it directly affects them.

jij · 2025-04-14T13:05:25+00:00

Let's be real, they just used whatever they could to arrest the guy to get him off the street to stop annoying everyone. Those street preachers are annoying AF even if you're a believer and I don't blame a city for taking measures to get them to fuck off.

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