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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Also I don’t think Christ would return if we were all being cool to each other, so they’re admitting they’re just trying to push humanity more off track.

How does that help you in God’s judgement? I’m pretty sure disrespecting all of his creation and doing the opposite of everything Jesus stood for won’t go well.

I’m agnostic, but selfishly I would not purposefully try to hasten driving myself to hell/damnation if I believed in it.

Thankfully the values my mom taught me are the same ones Jesus taught: love your neighbour as yourself and do unto others as you would have done to you.

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[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thankfully the values my mom taught me are the same ones Jesus taught: love your neighbour as yourself and do unto others as you would have done to you.

This is what baffles me when my dad argues with me for being left of center.

You sent me where they taught this, did you not want me to learn it?

(Also not religious, but kept some of the philosophy)

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago

There’s a lot of good Christian teachings that just make the world better regardless of your fear of eternal punishment or any god.

While outside my education I’m sure most religions too, but too many people get caught up in casting out others, or hating the non believers, or doling out punishments they have no right to.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's enough to drive one insane.

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[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 4 points 1 year ago

How does that help you in God’s judgement?

"The ends justify the means", or something.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

Remember when God said he didn’t want idols made

You are about 1700 years late to this argument. Christians reconciled with iconography some time in the Byzantium Era.

And after Protestantism? FFS, can you imagine what Joseph Smith would say about an AI Prophet, after spending half his career reading discs out of a hat with special sunglasses?

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[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sorry, totally unrelated but fun memory: Iconoclast was the first word whose unexpected etymology I (mostly) worked out on my own. I was watching a vh1 documentary on iconoclasts, and I’d just had a biology class where I’d learned about acetoclastic bacteria. I had a eureka moment wherein I leapt to the conclusion that “breaking the mold” was an older saying than I expected. I wasn’t totally right on that, but I was still psyched to have broken it down correctly.

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I don't have any problems with building beautiful things like cathedrals or making art in the name of God

But building oracles and such is gross. The who AI pope question was insane.

But I will have to read that article deeper, that's an interesting wikipedia link

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[–] suicidaleggroll@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

I don’t have any problems with building beautiful things like cathedrals or making art in the name of God

What about Catholics praying to little figurines and statues of saints? Because that's been going on for a long time

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[–] RustySharp@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

You know how people used to put pictures of their loved ones in a locket, or in their wallets, or as a background pic on their phones? That's what they were supposed to be. (As told by a catholic friend)

I can accept that. I have one of my kids in the car cause I used to drive like a maniac. It's a constant reminder of the kind of person I should be while driving.

But of course, people will be people, ignoring what they're told and doing whatever the hell they like... "This statue cried blood, let's pray to it!" (and ignore the leaking toilet upstairs)

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago

You're still not supposed to pray to anyone else, according to the Bible, and Catholics pray to the saints (and Mary I believe). Just outright heretical.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago

But building oracles and such is gross.

You're talking about a religion whose entire foundation is built on saints and prophets. The whole Jesus story is a big deal because it is fulfillment of prophecy.

The who AI pope question was insane.

It's certainly heretical to the Catholic Church. But fits comfortably in a bunch of New Age and Technocratic Futurist Protestant understands of their faith.