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Yeah, i'm totally afraid of a god i don't believe exists (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 6 points 4 days ago (4 children)

New Testament is supposed to turn old testament on its head. If you read Acts, and if it is to be believed, Jesus was ahead of his time. Quite likely the worlds first hippy.

And yet.

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  • [–] 23 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Even if everything in both testaments is true, you still don't get credit for offering salvation from punishment that YOU are giving out of your OWN volition in exchange for overcoming weaknesses YOU created.

    If you submitted that as an animal test proposal for RATS you'd be thrown out of academia for gross ethical violations, and I don't feel like worshiping a deity that can't live up to the lofty moral ideals of a university bureaucracy.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 days ago

    My point was there are different schools of thought under the broad umbrella of Christianity.

    The original question was regarding the hellfire and damnation of the post. I answered that question. None of this was proposed as an endorsement.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago* (1 child)

    I mean buddha was like a thousand years earlier and im sure there were hippies before that too. jesus probably wasn't real nothing recorded exists about him except decades after his supposed life, he was the Aramaic Paul Bunyan

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