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Accidental rapture (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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A man flying the air with the caption “My Atheist ass getting raptured by mistake because I act more like Jesus than most evangelical Christians.”
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[+] -20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (15 children)

Just because you weren't intellectually and/or emotionally competent enough to believe in the Creator doesn't mean you didn't act right and that He'd just disregard you. And certainly many of these hypocrites will taste Hell before righteous "nonbelievers". 👍

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  • [–] 20 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Just because you weren't intellectually and/or emotionally competent enough to believe in the Creator

    I always find it funny when believers think they have to be intellectually/emotionally more mature than non-believers when non-believers don't need a spiritual crutch to get through life.

    You're welcome to believe in a creator if that helps you get through the day, but don't pretend you're a better person because you believe in a god. Pretending it makes you more intellectually or emotionally competent actually tells people the opposite of what you think it does.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I know right. They get their decency and morals from a book and ours comes from within.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Everyone's comes from within, cause there are no amount of words that would suddenly change human nature. The books just delineate and expand on basic, natural human morality. 👍

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago*

    Everyone's comes from within, cause there are no amount of words that would suddenly change human nature

    I'm going to assume you've never had a real conversation with (m)any Christians about this. Because plenty will end up telling you their morality is external, rather than internal.

    You have no idea how many times I've had this conversation and basically been told that they have no concept of where my morals would come from, because theirs comes from the Bible. I've even had conversations where Christians make comments about the shit they want to do but can't because of their religious morality or gone out of their way to try to justify their actions in her eyes of their god. Their morality isn't internal to them and their core beliefs, it's an external pressure to behave properly for their religion/congregation.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    you weren't intellectually and/or emotionally competent enough to believe in the Creator

    That's the funniest joke of 2025 lol
    Marianas Trench level of self-awareness

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Oh no, trust me, I've walked both paths! But I know what's my audience here so I won't even complain about the reactions, lol.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    If every religious person was like you we wouldn't have so many problems in the world. You are right, you choice is your and mine is mine. We don't try to change each other mind and are respectful of the others choice. 10/10 wishing everyone acted like that

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago* (4 children)

    That's hilarious.

    It takes intellectual competence to believe in magic?

    The best argument I've ever heard for any god is "you can't prove it didn't happen this way."

    But I'm sure you have better than that, right?

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    It takes intellectual competence to believe in magic?

    Yes, it does. Faith is like a muscle, it has to be exercised or it will atrophy, but with it, one can choose their beliefs, regardless of evidence. At the lowest level, this makes placebos stronger and helps quiet intrusive thoughts. At the highest levels of magical skill, all reality is one's plaything. Because by changing your beliefs, you can rewrite your perceptions and remake the world as it exists within your own eyes.

    Jesus said as much in the parable of the fig tree.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    That's not very convincing to people who care about believing true things, and it's certainly not what I'd classify as "intellectual competence."

    Whatever works for you, great. But saying people who don't delude themselves are lacking in intellectual or emotional competence doesn't seem to be an effective message.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    doesn't mean He'd just disregard you

    It's said many times both in the Old and the New testaments that whoever doesn't believe, is totally fucked for eternity. Read your own main book.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    It's also said that everyone is saved. Everyone.

    https://salvationforall.org/2_Is_Salvation_For_All_Biblical/1_salvation_is_biblical.html

    For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

    There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.

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