• Krudler@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    I remember two adults acting as aegis for their child. The kid approached my door, handed me a flyer and asked me to come to his Jesus party. The parents were smiling hopefully. I have no idea what Jesus party even meant.

    I kneeled and said flatly “There’s no such thing as Jesus. Your parents and your pastor are lying to you.”

    They were HORRIFIED, the parents rushed up my stoop, the father literally grabbed the kid under his arm like a football and they fled.

    Am I an asshole? No. That child needed to know he’s being deceived.

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      Possibly unpopular opinion by a fellow atheist, but you’re just as bad as a preaching Christian by doing that. Trying to turn others to your belief system, however right it may be, is shitty, homie. Way to ruin a kids party, when you admit yourself you didn’t even know what they meant by Jesus Party. Made an assumption, ruined a kids week. YTA.

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        13 hours ago

        They will never be able to take from that child, the seed of truth I planted in that moment.

        Not trying to over-inflate the incident, but I remember being that young and looking to my elders for guidance. It would have been great if one rebel, at any point in my childhood, just said yeah I don’t buy this shit either.

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    The word “witness” caught my eye. Is this a Jehovah’s Witness thing?

    Are they using child labour to hand out their shitty pamphlets now?

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    I like how rational sorrows about the state of the world is considered grumpy compared to mindlessly giving away any responsibility by praying.

    Raped your wife/daugther? Pray! Got raped by family? Pray!! Pillaged an entire workforce for every dime they had, killing some of them by removing healthcare/firing them? Pray! Having no healthcare on the deathbed? Pray!!!Be an drunk asshole abusing your family? Pray!!!

    Shut the fuck up an PRAY!!!

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    13 hours ago

    I’m a Christian, the opposite happens as well. Why can’t we discuss our beliefs in a civilized manner? I will never tell my “pastor” about an atheist or theist in my area. Especially considering I have atheist friends.

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      I don’t need to discuss your beliefs for the same reason I don’t need to discuss the beliefs of the schizophrenic man that stands outside my building, clad in a blanket, shouting at the sky.

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      12 hours ago

      “Why some of my best friends are atheists! I just don’t let them anywhere near my kids.”

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      I have Christian friends. We all hang out because none of it matters. Sometimes we chat about it for the sake of chatting about it, but generally it’s the last thing on anyone’s mind. People who are vocal about their beliefs, one way or another, are annoying.

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        12 hours ago

        I lost a great life long friend 4 years ago and we gamed together. Sometimes when religion came up in a game we discussed it. Disagreed about it. Picked the controllers back up and played some more.

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    This is a bit more insidious than it appears- because it’s asking kids to rat out atheists to religious officials.

    There are absolutely areas in the US where being discovered as an atheist will ruin your life.

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      14 hours ago

      I’ll never accept any religion as long as atheist hate remains. How can you blame someone for not believing something with zero substantial evidence?

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      It’s so fucking culty to prevent kids from getting information that goes against the religious leader’s beliefs as well.

      “Don’t talk to the atheist! They might give you bad ideas that will send you to HELL” Literally preventing the spread of information that goes against their beliefs.

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        It’s called indoctrination. This is ironic as Christian Nationalists are in the vanguard against Transvestite Story Hour and panic over all the gay/transexual/satanic grooming that’s going on.

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      You can always say you believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster, tho.

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    You cannot attempt to battle an atheist unless you’re a level 10 Christian with at least a max level crucifix.

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      That will only work if the atheist doesn’t have any patients proficiencies, which comes with almost every athiest subclass. This gives the athiest advantage on charisma, intelligence, and wisdom saving throws from a character with the Christian class against the atheist. This is of course negated completely if the christian comes into the battle with the lawyered-up buff, but I didn’t splurge on the LegalEagle’s Book of Many Laws. So I’m not sure how that mechanic works.

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    Turns out, the Bible is wrong. The truth will not set you free. The truth makes you into a grumpy goat.

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      18 hours ago

      But what of tithing?? Who shall grift receive these woebegone atheists’ untaxed revenues?

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      Believing that there was a god who could make life less shitty for everyone but simply chooses not to would definitely make me grumpier.

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    Father, we also have other related news, We have a cease and desist from the Almighty claiming that if we continue to use his name to push our own agenda he is ready to take legal action.