Mastodawn

I truly think that #Religion is a global mental health problem.

ALL organised religions are cults preying (pun abso-fucking-lutely intended) on people with mental health issues.

TerryB Nov 10, 2023

@juglugs 3 is a misreading. The belief is that God offered his laws to various (local) other tribes first. 7 is less interesting than the various other claims of mysterious manifestation.
Christians seem to believe that their version of still God pops his head round the door to promote a Saint (and maybe a Pope) or send a miracle from time to time

@terryb

Ask your god to come to me and explain 3 and I might grant it an audience.
If it does not respond within 7 nights of this post, I shall declare it as bunkum.

@juglugs @terryb

Lemme guess, raised Evangelical?

Edit - Maybe Catholic...

Edit2 - Turns out, it's "Anglican but thinks that doesn't count as religious".

TerryB Nov 10, 2023

@juglugs You can do what ever. I'm not actually religious btw.
But your aggressive rejection of (specifically Christian) religious belief does suggest something beyond simple atheism.

From this, it is sounds like you think:

"Religion" and Christianity are the same thing.

Judaism and Christianity are the same thing.

The phrase "Chosen people" means what Christians think it means and Jews don't get any input.

Which doesn't make you so much "antitheist" as it makes you "anti-non Christians".

Edit - Formatting

@imstilljeremy

No, no, I am antithiest. I am actively against ALL organised religions.
It's 2023, we have no need for superstition.

It's weird that you made a post that keeps making Christian claims, then:

That all religions look like theirs.

That uses their definitions for other people's religious terms.

That, otherwise, only references things that exist within Christianity.

If you are against ALL religions, why would you be endorsing the claims of just the one with which you were raised?

@imstilljeremy

I'm not endorsing anything, my friend.
It is a sarcastic joke about the pitiful state of one of the "big 3".
Also, I wasn't raised with any particular religion - you've assumed incorrectly there.

So, your post was about Christianity, not all religion? Then why are you talking about Jews in it? And insisting that you are discussing all religion?

See, the problem is that you are talking like Christianity is "religion" rather than a religion. And one that shares very little in common with others, though adherents believe that all behave like it.

And lol, you were raised in a country with a state religion where the head of the state is also the head of the religion. And you are claiming you weren't raised with a religion?

Though, I will definitely concede that you are neither Catholic, nor Evangelical. Just an Anglican.

@imstilljeremy

Who says my post is about Christianity or Judaism???

JustNate Nov 10, 2023

@imstilljeremy You seem absolutely insufferable as a person.

Jake in the desert Nov 10, 2023

@juglugs THANK you. Tired of all the religious garbage everywhere. It's a scourge

Take It EV Podcast 🎙️Nov 10, 2023

@juglugs @[email protected] we shall not forget the crying with toilet water , major event.

drdr6262 Nov 10, 2023

@juglugs You missed out the bit where ‘God’ promises a bit of land to one sect and then, later, promises the same bit of land to another sect.

Does ‘God’ then make themselves comfortable and watch the subsequent human battle as a form of entertainment?

Howard Cohen Nov 11, 2023

@juglugs Seems legit.

Berkubernetus Nov 11, 2023

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9. PROFIT!!!

Jeff Shaffer CBET, ret Nov 11, 2023

@juglugs
Number 7 cracked me up.
Pleased I am able to support the non-prophet non-profit, FFRF. My favorite part of the monthly newsletter lists the supposedly religious folks who are facing legal repercussions. Things like the theft of church funds by a deacon or some such scam, but most common are sex crimes committed by people in positions of power. Conspiracy theories abound of this or that group of folks, like rich Democratic politicians, of being pedophiles but these are actual names and cases that are real.