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I love this Nietzschean "There is no meaning for existence; people have no reason to exist" spiel. Now tell that to trannies.
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Let me know next time an atheist beheads someone for drawing a cartoon of Richard Dawkins.
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Anti-Christian Atheists torturing Christians wasn't rare in Communist regimes.
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I ain't watching that. Isn't the Devil's Bible a joke nickname for Bibles that misprinted the ten commandments?
Edit: Nevermind, I must be thinking og something else.
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Wasn't there a sect of Chinese religion... Feng shui or something that communism was trying to snuff out?
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communist regimes arent exactly known for their religious freedom
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That;'s the one, claims of organ harvesting and that lovely stuff, still going on. Whether it's the Chinky state, or the Chink wackos, hard to say.
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Communist Romania tortured anyone who looked at them the wrong way. Ceausescu adopted conservative views on abortion later on but the same widespread terror continued. There's a reason he got shot on Christmas Day.
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Considering how the Chinese government is acting towards Australia lately I'm inclined to say the former
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Falun Gong. Still are as far as I can tell.
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“So which is more probable: That today's atheist apocalyptans are unique and right? Or that they are like their many predecessors—at the very least, in their motivations? If anything, the vehemence with which the believers in emergent complexity debunk all religion may betray their own creeping awareness of the religious underpinnings and precedents for their declarations.
In fact, the concept of Armageddon first emerged in response to the invention of monotheism by the ancient Persian priest Zoroaster, around the tenth or eleventh century BCE. Until that time, the dominant religions maintained a pantheon of gods reigning in a cyclical precession along with the heavens, so there was little need for absolutes. As religions began focusing on a single god, things got a bit trickier. For if there is only one god, and that god has absolute power, then why do bad things happen? Why does evil still exist?
If one's god is fighting for control of the universe against the gods of other people, then there's no problem. Just as in polytheism, the great achievements of one god can be undermined by the destructive acts of another. But what if a religion, such as Judaism of the First and Second Temple era, calls for one god and one god alone? How do its priests and followers explain the persistence of evil and suffering?
They do it the same way Zoroaster did: by introducing time into the equation. The imperfection of the universe is a product of its incompleteness. There's only one true god, but he's not done yet. In the monotheist version, the precession of the gods was no longer a continuous cycle of seasonal deities or metaphors. It was nor a linear story with a clear endpoint in the victory of the one true and literal god. Once this happens, time can end.
Creation is the Alpha, and the Return is the Omega. It's all good.
This worked well enough to assuage the anxieties of both the civilization of the calendar and that of the clock. But what about us? Without time, without a future, how to we contend with the lingering imperfections in our reality? As members of a monotheist culture—however reluctant—we can't help but seek to apply its foundational framework to our current dilemma. The less aware we are of this process—or the more we refuse to admit its legacy in our construction of new models—the more vulnerable we become to its excesses. Repression and extremism are two sides of the same coin.
In spite of their determination to avoid such constructs, even the most scientifically minded futurists apply the Alpha-Omega framework of messianic time to their upgraded apocalypse narratives. Emergence takes the place of the hand of God, mysteriously transforming a chaotic system into a self-organized one, with coherence and cooperation. Nobody seems able to explain how this actually happens.”
― Douglas Rushkoff, Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
In fact, the concept of Armageddon first emerged in response to the invention of monotheism by the ancient Persian priest Zoroaster, around the tenth or eleventh century BCE. Until that time, the dominant religions maintained a pantheon of gods reigning in a cyclical precession along with the heavens, so there was little need for absolutes. As religions began focusing on a single god, things got a bit trickier. For if there is only one god, and that god has absolute power, then why do bad things happen? Why does evil still exist?
If one's god is fighting for control of the universe against the gods of other people, then there's no problem. Just as in polytheism, the great achievements of one god can be undermined by the destructive acts of another. But what if a religion, such as Judaism of the First and Second Temple era, calls for one god and one god alone? How do its priests and followers explain the persistence of evil and suffering?
They do it the same way Zoroaster did: by introducing time into the equation. The imperfection of the universe is a product of its incompleteness. There's only one true god, but he's not done yet. In the monotheist version, the precession of the gods was no longer a continuous cycle of seasonal deities or metaphors. It was nor a linear story with a clear endpoint in the victory of the one true and literal god. Once this happens, time can end.
Creation is the Alpha, and the Return is the Omega. It's all good.
This worked well enough to assuage the anxieties of both the civilization of the calendar and that of the clock. But what about us? Without time, without a future, how to we contend with the lingering imperfections in our reality? As members of a monotheist culture—however reluctant—we can't help but seek to apply its foundational framework to our current dilemma. The less aware we are of this process—or the more we refuse to admit its legacy in our construction of new models—the more vulnerable we become to its excesses. Repression and extremism are two sides of the same coin.
In spite of their determination to avoid such constructs, even the most scientifically minded futurists apply the Alpha-Omega framework of messianic time to their upgraded apocalypse narratives. Emergence takes the place of the hand of God, mysteriously transforming a chaotic system into a self-organized one, with coherence and cooperation. Nobody seems able to explain how this actually happens.”
― Douglas Rushkoff, Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
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Falun gong. They're like a diet version of Scientology.
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Ever heard of the persecution of religious believers under officially atheist regimes?
Falun Gong. Feng Shui's the belief that buildings should be built in the right place to make them more auspicious or something.
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This guy is reddit personified.
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Redditors would purposely use being in the ICU and the possibility of death to get away with it.
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There's a difference between having a laugh about religion and being offensive for the sake of it, in the same way there's a difference between telling an ethnic joke and spamming the gamer word for the sake of it.
In both cases, the people being offensive for no good reason have crossed a line.
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I'm an atheist, but all too often I look around at other atheists and I'm damn near ready to start worshipping Zeus out of pure embarrassment.
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I see this meme lately by atheist commenters online that polytheism is "only" 5k yrs old as if thats a fact and are using it basically to say Christianity is so young even compared to polytheistic religions which are also "young". I'm pretty sure they're off by at least 1k because there are written records from Mesopotamia going back that long, plus I'm pretty sure there are other older polytheist civilizations than that like the Indus River Valley.
It really annoys me when they call people "theists". Not all religions are even theistic and they clearly have a particular stick up their ass about monotheism but are too pussy to state it because it will hurt Moslem and Jew feels (at least for the progressive atheists). It's like they're too stupid to even identify what they oppose.
"Theism" is such a broad thing, and are they really OK with superstition if it comes from a non-theistic sect of Buddhism? I suspect they would not be. Why make an enemy of so many people when there are many theists who support pro-science skepticism and science based medicine? I don't think you will ever convert everyone to atheism, the human brain isn't wired that way, but there are lots of reasons to teach critical thinking and practical applications of it like teaching people to identify pseudoscience like chiropractics and anti-vax so they don't get ripped off.
The screencap comes from a dumbass pastor from Chicago running an anti-witchcraft page and did a livestream recently for SEVEN HOURS! He's being dogpiled by equally cringey LARPagans, "witches" and atheists. I saw the page name and assumed it was some African witchkilling page. What a trashfire.
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It really annoys me when they call people "theists". Not all religions are even theistic and they clearly have a particular stick up their ass about monotheism but are too pussy to state it because it will hurt Moslem and Jew feels (at least for the progressive atheists). It's like they're too stupid to even identify what they oppose.
"Theism" is such a broad thing, and are they really OK with superstition if it comes from a non-theistic sect of Buddhism? I suspect they would not be. Why make an enemy of so many people when there are many theists who support pro-science skepticism and science based medicine? I don't think you will ever convert everyone to atheism, the human brain isn't wired that way, but there are lots of reasons to teach critical thinking and practical applications of it like teaching people to identify pseudoscience like chiropractics and anti-vax so they don't get ripped off.
The screencap comes from a dumbass pastor from Chicago running an anti-witchcraft page and did a livestream recently for SEVEN HOURS! He's being dogpiled by equally cringey LARPagans, "witches" and atheists. I saw the page name and assumed it was some African witchkilling page. What a trashfire.
Stand Against Witchcraft
Stand Against Witchcraft. 475 likes · 298 talking about this. A Christian ministry that focuses on respectfully presenting the gospel of Jesus Christ to those who practice witchcraft and paganism.
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That's a wack argument. It immediately presupposes that God can only exist if humans believe in God, which any theist (and most rationalists who are willing to debate in good faith) would immediately dismiss as an absurd assumption to make. Because if you believe in a deity that is timeless, then obviously it doesn't matter how old recorded history is since they're outside of that calculation.I see this meme lately by atheist commenters online that polytheism is "only" 5k yrs old as if thats a fact and are using it basically to say Christianity is so young even compared to polytheistic religions which are also "young". I'm pretty sure they're off by at least 1k because there are written records from Mesopotamia going back that long, plus I'm pretty sure there are other older polytheist civilizations than that like the Indus River Valley.
It really annoys me when they call people "theists". Not all religions are even theistic and they clearly have a particular stick up their ass about monotheism but are too pussy to state it because it will hurt Moslem and Jew feels (at least for the progressive atheists). It's like they're too stupid to even identify what they oppose.
"Theism" is such a broad thing, and are they really OK with superstition if it comes from a non-theistic sect of Buddhism? I suspect they would not be. Why make an enemy of so many people when there are many theists who support pro-science skepticism and science based medicine? I don't think you will ever convert everyone to atheism, the human brain isn't wired that way, but there are lots of reasons to teach critical thinking and practical applications of it like teaching people to identify pseudoscience like chiropractics and anti-vax so they don't get ripped off.
The screencap comes from a dumbass pastor from Chicago running an anti-witchcraft page and did a livestream recently for SEVEN HOURS! He's being dogpiled by equally cringey LARPagans, "witches" and atheists. I saw the page name and assumed it was some African witchkilling page. What a trashfire.
Stand Against Witchcraft
Stand Against Witchcraft. 475 likes · 298 talking about this. A Christian ministry that focuses on respectfully presenting the gospel of Jesus Christ to those who practice witchcraft and paganism.
That being said, there has to be someone who originally formulated this. Because most internet atheists are just parroting an influencer who told them something like this. Do you know the original source? Like maybe a youtube video, or a Neil DeGrasse Tyson interview or something?