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For those asking why I no longer believeโhere are the specific doctrines and difficulties I could no longer reconcile.
Subsitutionary atonement
The concept of eternal torment
The improbability of a resurrection or miracles
The hiddeness of god (mainly in my own life)
The lack of change in the lives of Christians
The problem of random, and unnecessary suffering
The lack of unity in Christianity
I am aware all Christians don't share the views on these, some don't even see issues.โฆ. but I was raised evangelical Christian and they embrace or explain them away as part of their theology. The fact Christians don't agree is the last problem.
Please don't feel the need to give me a refresher course on the apologetics. I know those all too well.
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This bullshitโฆ.right here. Iโm Agnosticโฆand this photo shows one of many reasons why.
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Seriously! Ugh. By the time I adjust to fall backward, spring is here with the forward BS.
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Just a friendly reminder that James Comey is still being criminally prosecuted by the Trump administration for posting a photo with beach shells the shape of
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Hard to believe. But thatโs how far the GOP has fallen.
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Trump: Abdul El-Sayed would be the only senator that will have to go through a metal detector before he's allowed to go into the Senate. I want him to have a metal detector.
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Now that food has replaced sex in my life,
I can't even get into my own pants.
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Hereโs an interesting thought experiment, suppose Adam and Eve actually existed and they lived forever if they didnโt sin. Assuming their offspring also didnโt sin and lived forever. In a few thousand years youโd have a quadrillion people roaming the earth, living forever!
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Sunday Reflections
thegrumpysociologist.substacโฆ
I didn't leave Christianity angry eitherโฆ one doubt lead to another, and another, and another. It never had sufficient answers for the deepest doubts.
I didn't leave Christianity angry. I left it after one small conversation with a friend about good and evil. One question I couldn't answer honestly, and it sent me questioning everything I had believed my whole life.
I did the research nobody wanted me to do. Now I write ebooks and share what I found, the evidence on the table.
And I want to connect. With skeptics who see it like I do. With believers who see it completely differently. With anyone still sitting in a pew quietly doubting and thinking they're the only one.
Follow along, reply, argue with me, ask me anything. I answer. Meaningful conversation with everyone is the whole point of this account.
~TExB
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We donโt need to imagine motives, only admit the facts. The fact is:
1) Trump grotesquely exploits religion for political gain
2) this gives him another photo op before midterms he can use to exploit religion for political gain
I donโt need imagination; you need denial ๐
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Content penned by their god's hand: 0%
Content penned by men in the midst of a fever dream: 100%
The idea that this god used men as pens, giving them divine will/inspiration, is undeniably one of the funniest explanations ever given for a text's authorship.
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Replying to @hookskat
Itโs often this concern that makes me think it may be bad to rip Christianity away from these people.
Monkeys donโt believe in god, and none of them do crazy things bc they are too busy living life and being monkeys. They donโt ponder their purpose: to be a monkey.
Belief related behavioral modifications are a very human problem that religion has brought to light.
Perhaps it would be different if they hadnโt been inundated with religious imagery and dogma all their life, but I am confident that if they learned the science to get to the point of apostasy, a significant proportion would go on violent rampages. They simply canโt handle their actual purpose: to be a human and live their life and let others live theirs ๐ซฃ
Trueโฆ he blocked me so I couldn't respond to you. Quote is the best I could do.
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Original Sin. Sodom and Gomorrah. The Flood. Egyptโs firstborn. Davidโs innocent infant son.
A biblical pattern: punishing the many for the sins of some, killing innocents rather than merely the guilty.
God kills Davidโs infant son because of Davidโs sin (2 Samuel 12:13โ18).
Then God sacrifices his own innocent son for humanityโs sinsโthough an omnipotent God could simply forgive.
And we call this divine justice?
Replying to @Askwhyisit
It would help me think of my opinion on your question if you provided an example of some action for which you think God punishes people.
or,The God of which religion or religions or philosophy? Do you believe it's unjust for... 1/2
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This. Itโs fawning over him so he can get his photo op
If you arenโt ashamed of your church letting itself be used by a con man this way, then Iโm ashamed for us both
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Simping for billionaire oligarchs who don't give a tiny, dry, flaccid fuck about you is peak stupidity. Why are you defending an asshole whose boot is on your skinny neck? If that's your kink, fine. But it's deeply deranged, misplaced and delusional on your part.
































