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Any time you want to help out, go ahead... (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/atheistmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] 16 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I’m functionally an atheist. I certainly have a disdain for religious orgs.

I’d accept the argument that this, in fact, a test. If so, religious people are failing it.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    There is a novel, and damned if I can remember the title, where a rabi proposes that god commanding Abraham to kill his son was a test, which he (Abraham) failed.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    My understanding of the story (in the novel, which I still can't remember the name) was that in knuckling under to the command to murder his own child, Abraham failed the test.

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If so, religious people are failing it.

    How so?

    I might have misunderstood your statement. If this life is a test and the eternal afterlife is what they seek, how are they failing it?

    They don't care about a finite 90-something year life and would give it away for an eternity which is incomparable.

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