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[–] 91 points 1 month ago (34 children)
  1. My religion says you can’t do that to me, but I can do it to you.
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  • [–] 39 points 1 month ago (33 children)

    Kind of inevitable when they worship a god who is supposedly always right, yet evidently wrong and blatantly hypocritical. "Always right" obscures the hypocrisy, they twist themselves into knots trying to make it make sense instead of just admitting it is literal nonsense.

    "That was the old covenant."

    So god was wrong then, realized it, and changed?

    "Well no, you're ignoring the context."

    Slavery and rape were socially acceptable, and omnipotent god didn't want to rock the boat?

    "We just can't understand omnipotence."

    They somehow fail to acknowledge that if god is ALL-POWERFUL, literally anything that happens is because he chose it to happen.

    "No, he gave us free will."

    If he's all-powerful, there is no free will. He knew what we would do with it and chose to create us anyway. All of our choices are his choice. Also, what about times in the bible when god explicitly swayed someone's mind? And why are we being punished for someone else misusing the free will?

    The bible exists to normalize, even glorify, abuse.

    I hope people everywhere stop tolerating death cults.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    One of my all-time favorites: "no Jesus fulfilled the law so we don't have to follow it anymore." Oh so we can do whatever we want now, the laws are gone! Don't worry about the ten commandments then.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Yes, lol. I don't even understand that phrasing. He came to fulfill the old testament law? How does one fulfill commands about beating slaves? "Not one jot or tiddle will change... except all the changes I'm making. But also I'm unchanging because I'm god." It frightens me when people assert that the bible contains no contradictions. It is a dangerous lack of critical thinking.

    Jesus's real message was "do as I say, not as I do, and maybe I'll spare you my wrath." And then he didn't even say clearly what we should do. I like the golden rule. Jesus neither invented nor embodied it, he was a complete hypocrite according to the gospels.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Not one jot or tiddle will change... except all the changes I'm making. But also I'm unchanging because I'm god." It frightens me when people assert that the bible contains no contradictions. It is a dangerous lack of critical thinking.

    It's almost like the whole thing was made up by an assortment of self-appointed leaders who were trying to control other people's behaviors.

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  • [–] 53 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    "Fuck off."

    Fixed it for ya.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    You can't say "fuck" it's against my religion!

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    You can't tell me not to say "fuck", it's against MY religion!

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  • [–] 46 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    "My religion says I can't get my kids vaccinated."

    "Fuck off."

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  • [–] 44 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    This isn't fucking Facebook, don't censor yourself

    Fuck, Fuck, Fuck, Fuck.

    Fuck, Fuck, Fuck, Fuck, Fuck, Fuck

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  • [–] 31 points 1 month ago (14 children)
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    [–] 20 points 1 month ago*

    People ask me why I, an atheist, am so political about my atheism. The answer, of course, is, that it's self defense against religion encroaching on my life via religious politics.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago*

    You forgot these: uc

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    Unfortunately, tolerating their delusions only encourages them.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Don't forget "Someone told me that my religion says you can't do that!"

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    When will we get rid of this right-wing artefact?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    If you don't like the religious right wait until you get a load of the post religious conservatives. Ross Douthat said this years ago and has written about it fairly extensively.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    And that's how a few satanic religions popped up, that said to do the thing the other religion doesn't want.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    NAMBLA, too.

    Hopped on the back of the LGBTQ movement and just started echoing all the grievances as an excuse for sexual assault.

    Then religious extremists used their bad faith as a popular critique of the larger movement. And the next 30 years was this stupid argument about whether Teletubbies were a grooming gang.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (11 children)
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