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AlexanderPerez-z3q #fundie

Nah, I think the OP is talking about ANY non-Christian religion.

I assume he’s talking about Odin/Woden and all those. You know, Asatru, Germanic Paganism.

No expert on that, but I was under the impression that worship was not really a thing with those? That the adherents of these faiths considered the personifications of the wind, sky, thunder etc. to be powerful good friends that one could stand beside? By all means correct me if I’m wrong about this.

Robert316 #fundie#pratt

“You who belive in Darwin”
I don’t ‘believe’ in Darwin. He wasn’t a prophet and didn’t establish a religion. I accept evolutionary theory as current science.

“can you prove we came from apes?”
Well, we ARE apes. So in coming from my parents, i came from Apes, yes. My kids came from apes. i was there.

“What proff do you have?”
Taxonomy.

“Can a tornado after picking up debliss spit out a brand new car? No it cannot.”
Has anyone ever claimed that it could?
What a worthless analogy.

“Nethier does anything in life coincidentally happen.”
Feel free to prove this claim.

“We and nature where all created.”
I don’t believe you. You have a book and you have certainty. And apparently no spellchecker.

“He fringer prints are everywhere.”
A lot of claims, here, no evidence to speak of…

“Evolution is a lie and it cannot be proven that we came from apes.”
Wrong AND incorrect.

“It takes more faith to belive in evolution than it does in a Creator.”
Another bullshit claim. how do you measure ‘faith,’ then?

“Open up your minds.”
But I’m terrified that I’ll become as ignorant as you!

“God created science, not man.”
Swing and a miss. Prove that gods exist, first, then prove that science is an artifact of one.

Rusty Entrekin #fundie

Eivind Berge #sexist

Nick Harvey #conspiracy

CHRISTinCheryl #fundie

“I realize GOD is really, really, patient with man”
Really?
He’s omniscient, ain’t he?
He knows EVERYTHING we’re going to do. AND everything he’s going to do in response.
He knows exactly when he’s going to trip offline and fling retribution everywhere. Is that patience or fatalism?

“BUT I have to wonder how much more evil can he put up with.. with the ways things are now. HES gotta be furious ..”
I dunno.
I mean, someone was taking my lunch out of the fridge on a regular basis. I painted one sandwich in hot sauce, knowing someone would steal it. When I heard someone crying in the cubicles, I wasn’t furious that someone had done what i knew they were going to do. I wonder if God can be furious at what he knows we’re going to do.

“I guess thats why the TRIB will be so awful, because GODS wrath has been stored up soo long and hes given man soo much grace ..”
Or since he made man wicked from day one, he could just forgive everyone their transgressions. But then Christainity wouldn’t have the appeal of a good revenge fantasy.

“His wrath is just gonna explode sometime soon ..”
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAny day, now.

usachinanukewar #fundie

Peter LaBarbera & Matt Barber #wingnut #homophobia

Gay conservatives make absolutely no sense, but it's a problem that solves itself. They either get killed by their friends for being who they are, or they grow up and realize they actually do care about other people (thus curing them of their conservatism).

Matt Keefer #wingnut

Every single nazi, both in the 1940's and today, is a bad person. Next time we fight them, we can't let a single one survive to spread their poison again.

> “Who is to say if we were both there in the same place and time, that we wouldn’t have done the same thing”

YOU would do the same, because you're a nazi.

Tatsuya Ishida #racist #wingnut

AlexanderPerez-z3q #fundie

sobercommunist #fundie

There SHOULD be a stigma against people who knowingly transmit deadly viruses to other people. As an adult, you are responsible to others in society. You reject that responsibility because it means you won't get what you want from others. That's why no one cares about your feefees. You don't care about them, why should they respect you?

sub TEN 2 mile #fundie

“If you truly had the Holy Spirit, then you would still be a Christian.”
I believe this to be true.
But I’m an atheist.
Because I don’t believe there are any gods. Or holy spirits. Or demigods. Or much in the way of the supernatural.

“Otherwise you can't say you had Him, seeing as you deny His existance...”
I can say that I BELIEVED i had Jesus inside me. Everyone i trusted told me i did. Same as you think you have an extra spirit inside you. I just don’t think it’s all that accurate.

AlexanderPerez-z3q #fundie

Well, that really depends on what you’re referring to as “pagan”. Druidism and Norse/Germanic Paganism are reconstructions based on scant and highly questionable records by outside observers. Satanism never really existed, at least not as Christians generally described them. Wiccans were never a singular religion but a collection of loosely related traditions which had some beliefs in common; despite that there’s no direct continuity between 20th and 21st century Wiccans and earlier forms, I wouldn’t consider the newer traditions to be false or mere larping. A lot of older shamanistic/spiritualist religions still exist, and I would consider Voodoo, Santeria, Brujeria, and Shinto to be examples of this. The New Age versions are bastardizations, though. Hermeticism is hardly practiced anymore, though they did leave records of their beliefs and practices. Ascended Masters have a very “pagan” feel about them, and might count as such despite that they originated in the 20th century. I guess you could maybe also count Scientology, depending on how broadly you’re defining the term?

Not that I would expect the OP to respect them any more if someone genuinely followed old pagan traditions, anyhow.

Wyatt Trent Farnsworth #racist

pentecostal girl #fundie

“I think creationism is much easier to comprehend, then this.”
Didn’t get very far in the Math courses, did you? ‘Easier to comprehend’ doesn’t mean it’s more accurate.

Demon POssession is more comprehensible than an imbalance of brain chemicals, but do you really want an exorcism or mood-stabilizing drugs?

Dr. Zev Ballen #fundie

Brian Ruhe #wingnut #conspiracy #ufo #racist #god-complex

Iain Macwhirter #transphobia

AlexanderPerez-z3q #fundie

“"Pagans" (aka LARPers, because pagan religious traditions were not written down,”
Right, because the only way to learn about a religion is to read the litany.

“and modern cults are made up for the aesthetic)”
I’d dare say that the pagan who had copies of Playboy and Sports Illustrated in his shrine as vessels for the Lady and the Lord, respectively, wasn’t really working on any aesthetic.

“in the comments can't separate fact from fiction,”
As an atheist, this strikes me as a description of most online apologists.

“that's probably why they worship evil spirits.”
You need to pick one. Either they seriously worship the gods, or they’re just posers. Can’t insult them both ways at the same time.

can't separate fact from fiction

I sense a great disturbance in the Force. As if a million Irony Meters cried out in terror and suddenly exploded.

epicenterdefacto #sexist #psycho

autowrench #conspiracy

Tatsuya Ishida #racist #wingnut

That sounds way too early… oh look… why is this old man who was more than a month short of eleven when Nagasaki was nuked performing a song from 1984 during World War 2?

@Zinnia #266372
I think it’s more “all Jews are Professional Victims”.

Asenath Mason #magick #mammon

Ultimatepassivecel #sexist #crackpot #quack

chicken little #fundie

momllennial_ #crackpot #dunning-kruger

Received #fundie

Tatsuya Ishida #racist #wingnut

I would presume that his intended message is along the lines of “Communists know very well that their ideology leads only to misery; the only reason why they would believe in it is because they want everyone, including themselves, to be miserable.” I base that not just on this strip, but also on a handful others where the punchline is Soviet wojacks taking joy in their own sadness or suffering.

“Melancholic song make sad, must be JYOOOOOOOOO conspiracy!”

Mother. Fucker.

You keep Leonard Norman Cohen’s name out of your fucking, Nazi-sucking mouth. That man is and was a fucking institution in my country, and he is above whatever syphilitic brainrot you got bouncing ‘round ‘twixt your ears.

Generalorder4 #crackpot

I vaguely remember the existence of that show, but I never watched it, so I can’t comment on the content. But when these kinds of conversations come up, I always ask, “escapism for who?”

An awful lot of Western media which served as escapism for some people (regardless of whether that was its primary purpose) was aimed at middle class white people, because that was the demographic which had the economic power to both create and engage in large amounts of paid media. Thus that category of people generally lived in a media bubble which, outside of obvious niche exceptions, catered to their sensibilities, cultural norms, politics, and in the case of Christian-inspired works, religion. It was easy to claim that mainstream works were “not political” when the political influences were invisible to the typical consumer and occasionally to the creator as well. Which did have the unfortunate effect that those who needed/desired escapism the most generally had the hardest time accessing suitable niche works.

Today, there isn’t just one enormous mainstream entertainment media bubble and a handful of niche ones; what passes for mainstream is much smaller and more diverse, and there are a few dozen micro-targeted niche categories. The boundaries between mainstream and niche are also fuzzier. Thus the people who were specifically catered to in the past can no longer watch some random show, play some random game, read some random book, or whatever, and whether or not they liked it, have a 95% chance of being able to say “this was definitely made for people like me”. And sadly a lot of them hate this.

Tatsuya Ishida #racist #wingnut

Okay this is just bizarre now, looks like ‘ol tatsu finally lost whichever marbles he might have had before…

Generalorder4 #crackpot

@TheKingOfRhye #266339

Not only that but the team interected with people from various cultures in their quests, always eager to learn about these.

(I discovered the series when I was 20s, while travelling abroad)

ashlhee #fundie

“Seriously, is there even a plausible reason?”
To be an atheist? I grew up raised to believe in God, but i had questions. Most of the Christains around me couldn’t answer them, and more likely attacked me for answering them.
I went searching for the God i believed in… Woke up one day and realized i’d lost all faith. But none of the arguments for gods, any of the gods, make any sense to me.

“or are you just stupid?”
There are people who are smarter than I am, but I’m not stupid, no.

“[im going with the latter on this one] and yes i just called you stupid if you dont believe in God.”
Okay, sure. 1 Corinthians 6:10 says revilers doing go to Heaven. That namecalling means you’re going to Hell, just like me, huh?

“ My God. Yes im narrow minded but those of us who are right are allowed to be narrow minded.”
Wow, that’s stupid. And a lousy thing to brag about….

“And if you dont believe in God, youll wholeheartedly agree with me when your in hell that you are an idiot.”
I’m fully prepared to face God honestly, for all the decisions I’ve made and conclusions I’ve drawn.
Are you as prepared if you find yourself in front of Nephthys?

“no offense or anything.”
You can’t call me names and then cross your fingers and say ‘no offense.’

“oh and if your gonna be rude then dont post back,”
You called me stupid, but I can’t point out that you’re arrogant, semi-illiterate, and a wonderful Christain?

“i was just wondering how anyone could ever not believe in a God,”
Fear that i’d then become as stupid as you.

“im not trying to force anything on you,”
No, you’ll wait for my damnation to accomplish that.

“ so be nice!”
Why in the fucking hell would I be ‘nice’ to someone so hateful, dismissive, and smug?

user-29uhijfgpt #wingnut #pratt

Brent #fundie

Tatsuya Ishida #racist #wingnut

… What the hell are you trying to get at here Tatsuya? Because alot of music is just the person who made it venting in song about their lives. Blues is full of that kind of stuff.

Ray Myers #racist

How_delightful #racist

TimmyHutchFan #crackpot #fundie

<@KeithInc.> #266260

“That is why HE has tried to make them die off, because HE hates them.”
Tried?
The ultimate power of the universe was UNSUCCESSFUL in destroying something that offends him? Really? What a wanker.

For being all powerful, their god is shockingly weak.

Generalorder4 #crackpot

You can't have a non-white in the cast without them going on extended rants about inequality specific to the supposed mores of the very political climate of now. You can't have a white character without them being evil, stupid, or submissive. You can't have a villain without them either being misunderstood or some variation of the old bugbears of specially far left liberalism...which means they are beyond all saving. After all, the man might have lied, cheated, tortured and murdered people...but he didn't use a MICRO-AGGRESSION!

What the fuck shows are you watching? I mean, I have seen shows where people mention inequality, etc, but extended rants? It’s usually one or two sentences.

And with regard to the villains, what the fuck are you talking about? I’ve seen so many right wingers complain about how the ‘new’ villains are always racist or sexist or homophobic or transphobic or ableist, etc, and they don’t like that because they themselves are racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, etc, and they don’t like seeing themselves in the bad guy.

@pyro #266337

Yeah, these people don’t realize that everything is politics, including stuff they like. They think it’s only stuff that’s overt or stuff they don’t like.

WickIsTrimmed #fundie

“The atheists that I've met have a lot of hate....”
A narcissist who is sure that he’s been chosen by god for the very immediate rapture finds that the atheists he meets are full of hate.
This is not a difficult idea for me, somehow
I imagine you meet a lot of hateful people, don’ tyou?

“starting first with self-hate and it snow balls from there.”
See, I’ve never, ever met a self-hating atheist. Not once. I’ve known a couple of self-hating Jews. And several young men that got really down on themselves when drunk, but not atheists.
So I suspect that you’re projecting. If you couldn’t convince yourself that the supreme power of all reality thought you were worth a shit, you’d hate yourself. I, on the othe r hand, have a granddaughter. Life is pretty cool…

TexasSky #fundie

“I often debate with evolutionists”
Do you mean experts in the field who study evolution, or do you just mean people who accept the science as more accurate than an ancient myth written down in your favorite book?

“because I believe that they are narrow mindedly and dogmatically accepting evolution without questioning it.”
And you narrow-mindedly, and dogmatically reject it without understanding it?

“I don't really care how God did what He did.”
Then you’re willing to accept that evolution IS the method he used?

“I know He did it.”
But at least you have objective evidence for this position, right?

Throttle #fundie

Damn, there's not even a nugget of accurate information in there.

"Liver problems" can absolutely self-resolve, and typically do until the body is no longer able to compensate for the dysfunction. Changing your diet could resolve some liver problems, but it is unlikely to be due to the addition of a single new source of protein by itself.

Mercury forms compounds in the body that are lipophilic, aka attracted to fats. Your brain is mostly fat, so, just due to the nature of your circulatory system, the mercury will build and build until you start experiencing symptoms. By that point, there's nothing doctors can do. There's no way to remove mercury from the fatty tissues in your fat head, yet. Meanwhile, you're losing 10 IQ points per month.

Let's not even talk about food-borne illnesses from improperly prepared meats. Suffice to say, don't do this. If you know how to prepare food so it is safe-ish to consume raw, you may slip up one day. The result could be a tummy ache, or acute liver failure. People definitely do die from food poisoning. If you choose to pursue this diet, these are the risks you accept.

dalton l #fundie

"i have to laugh when i hear all these so-called science freaks talk about how evolution is a fact in a given matter.”
There’s the FACT of evolution, it’s been observed.

“try understanding the phrase.... " theory of evolution."”
Yes. The theory of evolution is discrete from the fact of evolution.
Two different things. Like, dropping things happens. That’s a fact of gravity. The theory of gravity tries to explain why mass makes there be an up and a down.

“for those who need help.. a theory is an unproven idea without facts to support it.”
So, you don’t understand the ‘theory of evolution.’
You’re using the way tv crime dramas use ‘theory’ and pretending scientists use the word in the same way to describe theories.
That’s way, way wrong.

“all the so-called facts you talk about keep changing in content & context as science discovers that they have to adjust their thinking to save face.”
Not at all. New discoveries mean more information slotted in, none of it weakens the existing theory. We do have to change dates sometimes, but not the over all idea of evolutionary theory.

“prove that evolution is a hard & given fact, without a doubt & maybe you'll be doing something worthwhile.”
Okay. Got your latest flu shot this season?

“up to this point, i hear nothing but rederick without facts.”
Do you mean rhetoric? What are you in, 10th grade?