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Religious Cringe

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This is the official Lemmy for the r/ReligiousCringe***** subreddit. This is a community about poking fun at the religious fundamentalist's who take their religion a little bit too far. Here you will find religious content that is so outrageous and so cringeworthy that even someone who is mildly religious will cringe.

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  2. Material about religious bigots made by non-bigots is only allowed from Friday-Sunday EST. In an effort to keep this community on the topic of religious cringe and bigotry we have decide to limit stuff like atheist memes to only the weekends.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Darwin lived to 73 when life expectancy was under 40. FuckFace McTotalGym has the advantage of means in a society where everything you need for a long and healthy life costs more than what most can afford.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Also, the condition he had would today be called a coronary thrombosis, and would be treated with either a stent or coronary bypass surgery. Neither of which, of course, existed in the 1880s. If he were alive today, his condition could be treated with what is considered a routine surgical procedure. Or, alternatively, managed decades earlier with a change of diet and cholesterol medication.

Darwin died of what is, today, both preventable and treatable heart disease.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

But religion got us those medical advances, right? It was only through fervent prayer that those procedures were created, right? Or some mystery of the Bible made manifest through a devotion to Scripture, right?

Just like somebody surviving a surgery and saying "I prayed and look what happened! Thank the Lord!" No, thank the surgeon and the countless medical professionals that preceded them.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

To be fair (to be faaaaaair), average life expectancy then, and throughout basically all of history, was dramatically reduced by super high infant/child mortality. Most people who made it to adulthood lived a lot longer than 40. Darwin was actually a pretty normal age to die even then. Especially since he wasn't subject to the other big killer of the young, dying in childbirth.

To be clear, I'm not endorsing whatever the hell this meme is, I'm just super into history and life expectancy is a really interesting topic (to me, at least, I'm sure most people think it's super lame).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I appreciate this comment. Not something I had ever considered.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Legit, talk to me when norris hits 110

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

…and with a lifetime of 19th-century healthcare

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And extremely wealthy which 100% does change life expectancy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Well aware.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Are you sure this isn’t a joke?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Well… it’s sarcasm…

Whether or not it’s funny is a matter of taste.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I definitely read it as one

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Chuck Norris: Made watchable B movies.

Darwin: Murdered God.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I thought that was Nietzsche

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think Nietzsche said it was a group effort

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Yes that's what it seems to be about in reality, but makes for a tighter joke if you just put it all on Nietzsche

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

He's just the chronicler.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Come on now, this is ridiculous!

Everyone knows that Chuck Norris cant die because death is too afraid to go near him.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

I'm not gonna pretend this isn't funny

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Chuck Norris is always on top during sex because he never fucks up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

They really don’t realize that Charles Darwin was Christian, how convenient

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Chuck Norris is pretty fit. I think that proves Darwin’s theory.