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[–] 127 points 3 months ago (17 children)

I grew up in the church, they will tell you that since a human(s) eradicated a disease, it was clearly god that worked through them. They always have a workaround bullshit answer

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  • [–] 75 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    This is also true when Epsteiner auctions off a 13 year old

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    Yeah the omnipotent God bullshit breaks when a rainstorm floods a girls camp and kills a bunch of them. But then they claim the devil did it, or even victim blame in a creepy and fucked up way wondering if they were really pure Christians or not, or if there’s some mysterious upside or lesson.

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

    Given that that were true; their god also created the disease and is responsible for all the suffering. Their god is still at a net negative.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    I mean if we accept the hypothesis that God exists, and that he created humans, he created them with a reason.

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

    That reason? Kill off every living thing god created.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    But didn’t he create it all for us though? Which then becomes a good excuse for us to consume it all.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Sure, but the logic reveals literally nothing. I can create an entire Sims world for the sole reason to see if the "turn pink clothing in to green clothing" mod works. Does the fact that their existence had a reason actually mean a damn thing?

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  • [–] -5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    exactly, that's why arguments like the one in this meme doesn't work

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    No rationale argument works on the irrational. The goal is to plant the seeds of rational thought. To appeal to people who aren't completely gone, yet. The meme works perfectly fine.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago

    see, the thing is, they are not irrational. their logic (god works through humans) is completely self-consistent, they are just basing their logic on a different set of fundamentals than us. you can say that they are not scientific, you then would be completely correct. but they are not irrational, and that's the difficult part of changing people's mind.

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