• burgermeister@lemm.ee
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    25 days ago

    Honestly the whole “if there’s no god then how do you know right from wrong” argument is astounding to me, I don’t know how someone can say that with a straight face.

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      25 days ago

      The question I get asked by religious people all the time is, without God, what’s to stop me from raping all I want? And my answer is: I do rape all I want. And the amount I want is zero. And I do murder all I want, and the amount I want is zero. The fact that these people think that if they didn’t have this person watching over them that they would go on killing, raping rampages is the most self-damning thing I can imagine. I don’t want to do that. Right now, without any god, I don’t want to jump across this table and strangle you. I have no desire to strangle you. I have no desire to flip you over and rape you. – Penn Jillette

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        24 days ago

        Hell, I’m not even an atheist, but if someone actually came up to me with this kind of shit, I’d run as fast as I could. Like, why would you want to rape or murder in the first place? If you need to be threathened with eternal torture in order to be a good person, then maybe you’re not a good person.

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    25 days ago

    I had one guy who told me that he believed that God made the white people.

    And that the black people evolved from monkeys.

    And the people like me who are Native American and the Indians and Chinese and whatnot are all products of miscegenation between the white people who have souls and the black people who do not.

    Surprisingly, being told that i am the proud possessor of some undefinable fraction of a human soul was not enough to get me to participate in their religion.

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      24 days ago

      This really makes me rethink a lot of my core beliefs. I used to believe that racism is an ancient problem that we will one day overcome, but after reading this, I believe new types of racism can still be invented, and we have to fight those too.

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    25 days ago

    I remember a YouTuber explained that since watches work and had a maker, that humans are immensely more complex, so that’s evidence of a maker of the human.

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      25 days ago

      Don’t get me started on how badly crafted the human body is. If someone designed us, they should be dragged out in the street and shot.

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        25 days ago

        Why can’t I breathe out of my nose ever? Why does food go down the same hole as air? Why do I have to sleep? Why did I have to get boners in Mrs. O’s second hour Spanish class right before the end of class and have to walk to lunch at half mast for the whole second semester sophomore year?

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          25 days ago

          The recurrent laryngeal nerve. Our liquid waste evacuation tubes sharing space with our reproductive organs. Our reproductive organs being immediately adjacent to our solid waste evacuation tube. Hangnails. Acne. Teeth (god damn luxury bones).

          But my go to for “if there is a god, they’re not worth worshipping” is always Children’s. Bone. Cancer. Those 3 words should not fucking go together.