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Catholic church canonises its first gamer saint, and one of his favourite games was Halo (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

Yes, I know what you were referring to, I know how nested comments work.

Now, what I was referring to was:

there's no evidence for a god which acts like that

Now, you want to claim that God would not kill people for not going to church.

Cool, but even if he DID. It STILL wouldn't be on the top 10 most fucked up things which HIS OWN BOOK says he did, or has plans to do. Not even including the moral imperative to kill whoever the fuck he wants because 'he created them' (what even is this argument...)

But i digress;

God gave you a son.

No, bro, I'm almost certain I was the one who got my partner pregnant.

My partner and I did make our son lol, ive got DNA evidence.

If you want to claim God gave me a son, then you'll first have to convince me God exists.

Can you do that?

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  • [+] -9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

    God wouldn't kill people for going to church. That's what I said.

    wouldn't be on the top 10 most fucked up things which HIS OWN BOOK says he did,

    Yeah because such a list would be empty

    My partner and I did make our son lol, ive got DNA evidence.

    So you drew out the schematics? decided what hair to put where? Pieced each bone into it's place? Set the colour of his eyes? Drew out his fingerprints? Laid down each muscle and wired each nerve?

    Can you do that?

    Can you be convinced? What evidence would you expect to have to convince you? Some people cannot be convinced that the earth is round, that climate change is real, evolution is a real observable process of nature or that vaccines are safe and effective.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

    Yeah because such a list would be empty

    Empty? You’ve clearly never read your own book. Here’s just a taste:

    • The Flood – God drowns almost every human, animal, and child on Earth (Genesis 7).

    • The Plagues of Egypt – including killing the firstborn of every Egyptian family (Exodus 12:29).

    • Ordering Genocide – wiping out the Amalekites, including infants and animals (1 Samuel 15:3).

    • Lot’s Wife – turned to salt for the crime of looking back (Genesis 19:26).

    • Killing Kids for Mockery – sending bears to maul 42 children for calling Elisha “baldy” (2 Kings 2:23-24).

    • Hardening Pharaoh’s Heart – deliberately making him resist so God could “show His power” by killing more people (Exodus 9:12).

    • Jephthah’s Daughter – forced human sacrifice of his own child to fulfill a vow to God (Judges 11:30-39).

    • David’s Census Punishment – God slaughters 70,000 Israelites because David counted them (2 Samuel 24:15).

    • Job’s Torture – God lets Satan kill Job’s children and ruin his life as part of a bet (Job 1-2).

    • Eternal Hellfire – condemning billions of people to infinite torture for finite “sins” (Matthew 25:46).

    So you drew out the schematics? decided what hair to put where?

    No, and neither did God. That’s the point. I provided DNA, biology did the rest. By your logic, I didn’t "make dinner" unless I forged the cutlery and mined the iron for the stove. Dumb standard.

    Can you do that?

    Can God? Unless you can prove he exists, you’re just putting a holy sticker on a process we understand down to the molecule.

    Some people cannot be convinced...

    Yeah, flat earthers, climate deniers, anti-vaxxers... and theists.

    Here's the thing though, if I cannot be convinced, whose fault is that?

    Because I don't believe in god that means I'll go to hell, right?

    Why is it that the benchmark for being accepted into heaven is throwing away epistemic and logical foundations?

    Why is it fair to throw me to down to hell because those specific qualities are universally valuable EXCEPT for when we use them to evaluate whether its reasonable to believe in God without evidence?

    Doesn't God know the future? Doesn't God know that every condition that led me to this moment would cause me to reject any answer you've got for me?

    Doesn't that mean he set me up to fail?

    That is REALLY fucking stupid. Like, literally, definitionally stupid.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Everything you've listed are instances of God punishing evil. Are you suggesting God should let Hitler reign free in heaven without punishment? If that's the casewould you then complain that God isn't punishing evil? In many cases, you find instances of Atheists both complaining that evil currently exists, and then gets mad when it is punished! What a contradiction.

    I provided DNA, biology did the rest

    Where did DNA come from? Who made biology?

    You made dinner with your creativity. You designed it. Is it cruel to the dinner that you will eat it and boil it in your stomach acid?

    Unless you can prove he exists

    One can prove, but if you're unwilling to accept proof, then that's a different story.

    on a process we understand down to the molecule.

    Who designed that process? And do we really understand it? Atheists cannot even answer at what point human life begins.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

    Everything you’ve listed are instances of God punishing evil.

    • Flooding babies.
    • Killing firstborns.
    • Sending bears to shred kids for saying "baldy"
    • Torturing Job to win a bet.

    That’s not "punishing evil". that’s cosmic tantrums.

    If a human did it, you’d call it evil.

    You only excuse it because you slap "God" on the front. That’s divine command theory. might makes right. Which isn’t morality, it’s just fear dressed up as worship. Ironically, its the same logic which fascists like Hitler use.

    are you suggesting God should let Hitler reign free in heaven?

    Strawman. Nobody said "let Hitler into heaven".

    But drowning toddlers and nuking towns isn’t "justice", it’s indiscriminate slaughter. If God’s only two settings are "do nothing" or "kill everyone" that’s a design flaw, not justice.

    Where did DNA come from? Who made biology?

    Same tired "who made X" game.

    Who made God?

    If you say "He always existed", then congratulations, you just admitted things can exist without being created. Which means biology doesn’t need your sky-dad either.

    You made dinner with your creativity. Is it cruel to the dinner that you boil it in your stomach acid?

    False analogy.

    My dinner isn’t a conscious being. If I invited you over and drowned your kid in my soup "to punish evil" you wouldn’t call it dinner. You’d call the cops.

    (Furthermore, I'm vegan, so my meals don't include anything which is/was a conscious being)

    One can prove God exists...

    Then do it.

    Stop dodging. Show reproducible, testable evidence that distinguishes your God from imagination. Until then, you’re just asserting.

    Who designed that process?

    Nobody "designed" it. Evolution by natural selection explains complexity from simplicity, no designer required. If you think complexity requires design, explain who designed God, who is infinitely more complex.

    Atheists cannot even answer at what point human life begins.

    Wrong. Biology is clear: human life is a continuum, not a single magic switch. What’s disputed is when rights should be granted, which is a moral and legal question, not a scientific one. You’re just mixing categories.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 year ago (9 children)
    • Flooding babies.
    • Killing firstborns.

    They were going to be evil otherwise.

    • Sending bears to shred kids for saying "baldy"

    They were essentially telling Elisha to kill himself. And he used God's name in vain.

    • Torturing Job to win a bet.

    Job is now in heaven. I don't think Job cares about the distant point in time when things were bad. That's like calling your parents cruel for banning you from videogames as a kid - although even that is more significant than what happened to Job.

    You only excuse it because you slap "God" on the front. That’s divine command theory.

    That's because God is God. If a pig slaughters another pig and eats it, then pigs would find that evil. Yet it's okay when a human does it.

    But drowning toddlers and nuking towns isn’t "justice", it’s indiscriminate slaughter. If God’s only two settings are "do nothing" or "kill everyone" that’s a design flaw, not justice.

    Oops! You didn't mention any nuking of towns 🤔

    Stop dodging. Show reproducible, testable evidence that distinguishes your God from imagination. Until then, you’re just asserting

    Finally, there's your goalposts. It has to be "reproducible" and "testable". Can you show me reproducible and testable evidence that Napoleon existed?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

    They were going to be evil otherwise.

    Pre-crime executions of babies? You’re justifying mass infanticide with Minority Report. That’s not morality, that’s thought-policing unborn futures. By that logic, God should’ve killed you before you typed this comment.

    They were essentially telling Elisha to kill himself.

    They yelled "baldy." You’re the one rewriting it as "kill yourself" to excuse bears mauling children. Imagine standing in front of a grieving parent and saying "don't worry, your kid had it coming for making fun of a prophet’s haircut."

    Job is now in heaven.

    So torturing someone is fine as long as you reward them later? If I broke your legs today but promised you a PS5 in ten years, would that make me moral? This is abuse with a consolation prize.

    If a pig slaughters another pig and eats it, then pigs would find that evil. Yet it's okay when a human does it.

    Wrong twice.

    First, might doesn’t make right. If God orders genocide, it’s still genocide. slapping “God” on it doesn’t turn evil into good.

    Second, your pig analogy fails with me because I'm vegan. It isn't okay when humans slaughter pigs. You just admitted your morality boils down to "the strong can do whatever they want to the weak."

    That’s not morality, that’s predation.

    That’s because God is God.

    Congratulations, you admitted it: divine command theory. If God ordered you to skin your child alive, you’d call it good. That’s not morality, that’s just worshiping raw power.

    Oops! You didn’t mention nuking towns

    Jericho, Sodom, Gomorrah. Ring a bell? The Bible is full of God wiping out entire cities. Pretending otherwise won’t erase the body count.

    Reproducible and testable evidence... Napoleon.

    Strawman.

    We don’t need to "reproduce" Napoleon, we verify him through multiple independent sources: letters, accounts, artifacts, battlefields. If you have comparable evidence for God, written by neutral parties, corroborated by archaeology, contemporaneous, and consistent, then put it on the table.

    Spoiler: you don’t.

    All you’ve got is one internally contradictory book written by believers.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Pre-crime executions of babies? You’re justifying mass infanticide with Minority Report. That’s not morality, that’s thought-policing unborn futures. By that logic, God should’ve killed you before you typed this comment.

    If He did, He would be well within His right to. If they weren't going to be totally depraved, He would have rescued them.

    They yelled "baldy." You’re the one rewriting it as "kill yourself" to excuse bears mauling children. Imagine standing in front of a grieving parent and saying "don't worry, your kid had it coming for making fun of a prophet’s haircut."

    No. Refer to the text and context.

    2 Kings 2:11-12, 23 [11] And as they still went on and talked, behold, chariots of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. [12] And Elisha saw it and he cried, “My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” And he saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes and tore them in two pieces. ... [23] He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”

    Basically, Elijah is missing. Elisha is claiming to be his successor. They mock the account of Elijah leaving earth instead of dying, and basically telling Elisha to go disappear with Elijah. Since they possibly didn't believe Elijah was carried up and instead died, they'd be asking Elisha to do the same.

    Job is now in heaven.

    So torturing someone is fine as long as you reward them later? If I broke your legs today but promised you a PS5 in ten years, would that make me moral? This is abuse with a consolation prize.

    A PS5 isn't comparable to heaven. An eternity in paradise isn't a consolation prize. And God didn't torture Job. Satan did.

    your pig analogy fails with me because I'm vegan.

    Fair. I hope you'd agree that killing unborn children is also wrong.

    Congratulations, you admitted it: divine command theory. If God ordered you to skin your child alive, you’d call it good.

    How would you define morality

    Jericho, Sodom, Gomorrah. Ring a bell?

    The towns so bad that only one decent person lived in them? Who were spared alongside their family, despite their family also being terrible people?

    We don’t need to "reproduce" Napoleon, we verify him through multiple independent sources: letters, accounts, artifacts, battlefields. If you have comparable evidence for God, written by neutral parties, corroborated by archaeology, contemporaneous, and consistent, then put it on the table.

    Spoiler: you don’t.

    I do. There are multiple independent sources pertaining to Jesus, accounts. Alleged artifacts, definitely sites mentioned are proved to have existed. They are contemporary and consistent.

    All you’ve got is one internally contradictory book written by believers.

    1. No, we don't. The New Testament is 26 separate writings. And even then, there are a few writings outside of it such as Josephus, The Didache, and Polycarp.

    2. You're expecting someone to literally see Jesus rise from the dead and write about it and not be a believer? That's like me saying "Everyone who writes pro vaccine material is pro vaccine. Find me some anti vaxxers arguing for vaccines, then I'll listen".

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    If He did, He would be well within His right to.

    Translation: God killing babies is fine because God did it.

    That’s not morality, that’s raw power worship.

    If Hitler had been omnipotent, would you have called his actions "right" too? Because your standard isn't good vs evil; it’s just strong vs weak.

    Basically telling Elisha to go disappear with Elijah.

    So the kids didn’t say "kill yourself", they said "go up like Elijah" Which is mockery, sure, but still not a capital offence.

    You’re still defending child-murder-by-bear for playground trash talk. If your morality system equates insults with death, it's not morality, it's authoritarian fragility.

    An eternity in paradise isn’t a consolation prize. And God didn’t torture Job. Satan did.

    Wrong. Job 2:3 literally says God gave Job into Satan's hand "without reason". If I hand my kid to a known abuser "as a test", I’m responsible for everything that follows. Passing the blame to Satan doesn't make God look better, it makes Him look like an accomplice.

    I hope you’d agree that killing unborn children is also wrong.

    I'm pro-choice. I don't believe potential life has more value than the actual lives of the people carrying them.

    But here's the kicker: even by your standard, your God fails. The Flood, the plagues, Old Testament wars; unborn children wiped out en masse. You claim to worship the "sanctity of life" but your own deity is history's biggest abortionist.

    How would you define morality?

    Morality = reducing unnecessary suffering and increasing well-being.

    By that standard, bears mauling kids, floods drowning babies, and plagues killing firstborns are immoral.

    Your definition is "whatever God says" which means if God told you to burn your toddler alive, you'd call it good. That's not morality, it's obedience.

    The towns so bad that only one decent person lived in them.

    Even if you take that at face value, God still torched everyone; children, infants, livestock. Collateral damage doesn't vanish just because you declare "everyone there was bad". That’s exactly the justification every human tyrant has ever used.

    We do have independent sources for Jesus... Josephus, Didache, Polycarp.

    None of those are contemporary.

    Josephus was born after Jesus allegedly died, and his passage about Jesus is widely considered tampered with by Christians.

    The Didache and Polycarp are Christian writings, believers repeating their own story, not neutral evidence. That's like Mormons citing Joseph Smith's buddies as "independent sources"

    Also, proving Jesus' existence doesn't prove his divinity. I dont care if a person named Jesus lived 2,000 years ago.

    And no, your vaccine analogy fails. We have independent, testable, reproducible data for vaccines. If all we had were 26 internally inconsistent pamphlets from believers claiming vaccines worked, we'd laugh them out of the lab.

    Your entire defense boils down to this: "God is good because He's God". That’s not an argument. That's an abdication of morality. You'd excuse anything; genocide, torture, infanticide; as long as it had divine branding.

    Which means you don't have a moral compass at all.

    You've outsourced it to a book that justifies things you'd call evil in any other context.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    Wait a second. You argued that God made the babies... so if the babies were going to be evil... he made them that way. That sounds more like evil to me.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    God doesn't create evil

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    But God created everything. So he must have created Evil or it wouldn't exist.

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