Now we know who to blame for Covid.
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Actual faith vs performative religion.
For context: cutting off one's beard is forbidden in Sikhism.
Note: The proper name for the religion is Vodun, not Voodoo.
atheostic reblogged
Today on ‘Covid Questions’...
If God is everywhere, why do you need to risk praying in a church?
This reminds me of the Mike Pence segment on Last Week Tonight where there’s a clip of Pence saying he needs to “go home and pray about it” and John is like “Can’t you do that FROM THE OFFICE?”
If you’re not wearing a mask because you think God will protect you:
1. What happened to “God helps those who help themselves”?
Have you never heard the story about the guy who’s trapped during a flood and turns down help three times because “God will save me” and when he dies he asks God “Why didn’t you help me?” and God’s like “Dude, I sent you help three times and you turned it down.”?
You’re the dude in the story insisting God will protect you.
2. If you’re turning down wearing masks because you think you’re safe that necessarily means you don’t care if people who aren’t safe die.
Is your God someone who would protect a person who didn’t care if others lived or died so long as they themselves were safe?
If your answer is “No” he’s not protecting you.
If your answer is “Yes” then he’s not a god worthy of respect, let alone worship.
atheostic reblogged
justsayin.
Gotta get those collection plates filled.
The title makes it sound like someone beat him up for saying that, lol
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I have no words…
flipyeahkelly
not sure if y’all know this but you really do not have to be an atheist to know and understand all that
catholicmandalorian
Twitter comes to basic common knowledge they mistake for mind-blowing revelation example #11420
Hi there, I think I can clear up some misunderstanding about that tweet.
Why the first sentence?
Theists (Christians and otherwise) often get taught what basically boils down to something along the lines of “atheists have no hope and live sad, miserable lives because they don’t have meaning to their lives or the peace of believing in an afterlife”.
Not every denomination of every religion, mind you, but you’d be surprised how often we hear something to that effect parroted at us. Which means a ton of people, especially those who have delved into apologetics at all, get taught to think this.
Atheist support groups report that it’s actually a VERY common fear of people in the process of deconverting from religion (that their lives will become meaningless/depressing without religion).
So as a newbie atheist, the person is expressing surprise, relief, and amazement at just how wrong what they were taught regarding what being an atheist is like was (and additionally adding confirmation to other religious folk on their way out that it really is okay to not believe in a deity; that the sky doesn’t fall on your head and the world doesn’t become hopeless when you stop believing).
Why the second sentence?
Likely because, as is the case with many religions/denominations, they were taught things like "you did something to deserve any pain/hardship you go through” (that’s the entire teaching behind the Hindu/Buddhist concept of karma, for example), “people not being prayerful enough causes plagues/natural disasters” (a rabbi, for example has claimed that coronavirus is God punishing people for allowing gay pride parades; there’s a pastor who’s also claiming gay people are to blame for coronavirus; and an Iranian cleric claimed in the past that earthquakes are caused by women wearing tight pants).
Not believing in any deities frees a person from such beliefs and fears that they are in some way to blame for bad things out of their direct control that happen to them or others.
It’s not surprising that there’s a portion of Christians who don’t understand why the lockdown is important – if they think evolution isn’t true because “it’s a theory” they probably don’t believe germs are real either, because Germ Theory is also, well, a theory.
