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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

All religions.

The crazy thing is that the three main religions all derive from the same dumb story of Abraham convincing himself that God wanted him to murder his own son to prove his belief in God.

Luckily some slightly sane part of his mind kept him from doing it, but his delusion convinced him it was God that stayed his hand.

I recently read that up until fairly recently in human history, people didn't understand thinking. They didn't realize it was their own mind coming up with ideas, they literally thought God placed it there. Come up with a good solution to a problem? You didn't think of it, refine it, figure out how to apply it, etc. GOD gave you the idea. They really didn't think they were capable of their own independent thought.

So all three religions worship the exact same God, and believe in the same origin stories, but we still have to genocide all the others because their version of the guy with uncontrolled schizophrenia who tried to murder his son in the name of God, has different nuances than my version.

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[–] Zink@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Whoa whoa whoa... Are we talking the guy with uncontrolled schizophrenia who tried to murder his son in the name of God council of 1879 here, or the guy with uncontrolled schizophrenia who tried to murder his son in the name of God council of 1912?

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 5 months ago*

I considered linking Emo Philips' brilliant joke, now you've forced my hand:

https://youtu.be/ANNX_XiuA78

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world -2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

One person seems to go "um, ackchually, real christians like Barack Obama are not like that".

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

Given the fact that Americans were so obsessed with religion it's probably necessary for any politician to pretend to be religious it doesn't mean they actually are.

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

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[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They're not wrong. The new testament is pretty unambiguous on what Jesus was about, and their religion is named after the guy.

Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

The peacenik that willingly sacrificed himself to save people. Someone that repeatedly preached tolerance, kindness to strangers, and that greed is evil. So I have absolutely no problem calling people that don't subscribe to their guy's teachings fake or hypocrites -- especially when there's examples of people that do follow that creed. E.g. Bob Ross, Fred Rogers, Dolly Parton, etc.