Lol the stained glass was beautiful but they hate gays here

More importantly, if your faith is having an effect on policy.. guess what, your religion must now start paying taxes.

Why should the rest of us pay for your idiotic ideas that are now turning into policy and law.

Now remember: These people are still allowed to vote...

Religion is indeed a plague on humanity.

The problem is they turn the ridicule around to "confirm" their beliefs and push themselves further in.

Cult behavior

“God put those fossils there to test our faith!”

Always gets me.

They’d sooner believe that their god would lie to them rather than that they’re wrong.

The sad thing is that even mockery probably won’t help much, because this type of person, unfortunately, defends their ignorance with the very same, utterly idiotic strategy that allows those who control them to shield their outrageous nonsense from rational arguments: They convince their deluded followers that they belong to "the select few" who know the truth—"the enlightened", or whatever they call themselfs. Thus, they proudly flaunt their absurd ignorance, paying no heed to arguments or ridicule, since they are genuinely convinced that they are the only ones who cannot be deceived.

However, these people cannot—and, above all, do not want to—realize that the deception lies precisely in their leaders’ strategy, for that would mean, of course, that they have wasted half their lives on some charlatan who has not only shamelessly exploited them but has also made them the laughingstock of society. Their idiocy is an integral part of their self-image and their personality, which is why turning away from it often means turning away from everything by which they define themselves - and that surely is a hard thing to do.

These are the typical tactics used by cult leaders. Unfortunately, there is an frighteningly high number of people who are susceptible to them—and not just in matters of religion, as the MAGA cult makes abundantly clear: It operates according to the same logic—an in-group is formed and sworn to the cult leaders’ goals, with the immediate understanding that rationality must be replaced by slavish faith in the leader or some kind of promise of salvation, because otherwise the cult members would, of course, immediately see through all the crude lies.

It's truly amazing that even in an age when almost everyone carries the entirety of human knowledge in their pocket, it still works, but unfortunately, the internet also has the effect of bringing like-minded people together in their absurd worldview, as is the case with Truth Social, for example—though the name of this deranged platform already makes it very obvious that it is a tool designed precisely and exclusively to fulfill the aforementioned cult tactics.

Edit: Of course, you’re still absolutely right: scorn and contempt are the only things one can show toward people like this—they themselves are probably beyond redemption anyway, but openly rejecting them makes it harder for them to recruit new members for their cult. These people should be treated for what they are: a danger to society, even if they themselves are often nothing more than foot soldiers who may even be unwittingly advancing the interests of their evil masters.

It's probably corny to reference Star Wars here but Andor really nailed it with the Mon Mothma speech when she said the distance between what's said in the senate and known to be true has become an abyss and that the loss of an objective reality was perhaps the most dangerous thing to risk in a democracy. There is no common ground to have with these nutjobs because every time you offer them an inch, they'll ask for a mile more.

Quite easy to explain: 6000-6500 years ago, when god created the world, it put those things there during the creation process for... reasons.

Checkmate atheists!

https://theonion.com/sumerians-look-on-in-confusion-as-god-creates-world-1819571221/

In North Africa 40,000 years old tools have been found as well

We've found 28,000 year old dildos.

To be clear, yes there are sex toys older than Christians think the world is old.

Like it really must take some proper mental gymnastics to deny something you can see with your own eyes and say some demon made it all up specifically to fuck with Christians.

Well, you can't see the age of a thing. And young-earth creationists certainly don't understand how we know the ages of things. So instead, they believe what they're told by people they trust, and those people say shit like "were you there?"

And honestly, my response (if it ever comes up) will be this: "Yes. I was there. I am God. I was there before there was. I formed this world from nothing. I am your God. Worship me." And if they question any of that, I will respond with "WERE YOU THERE?!! CUZ I FUCKING WAS!!! AND I SURE AS HELL DIDN'T SEE YOU THERE!!!" followed by "PROVE ME WRONG"

Thank you, have a nice day/night <3

We can count tree rings to 12000 years ago with our eyeballs. You don't even need any fancy tools.

For a lot of people, science is just a matter of believing in something someone tells you, no different from religion...

Recorded human history doesn't go back 10'000 years. It's closer to 5000 years.

Humanity in 6k years would be quite the speedrun at a humorous glance.

Any other perspective arguing this is absolute lunacy.

They are trained to act when some words are said. The parents reward this behavior because it "brings more souls to salvation". In the end it just annoys professionals and makes them unable to teach in class or to even give a tour.

"You are using the Lord for your own Vainglory, you claim your words for His, that is Heresy at best and Apostasy in truth. You have turned your back on The Lord and thus must be silent on his workings Apostate."

I've found this tack works real good for shutting up most crazys in public spaces, I don't recommend using it in private or with people you have to interact with regularly/repeatedly.

They got lost, never to be seen again, and the rest of the tour group has no clue where they went? What a shame.

Future redditor

Both views can be right, assuming big enough errorbars.

Earth is 6000 years old ±14 billion years.

that immediately annoyed me as well. I was ready to discount this person's opinion before I even finished reading it.

Yeah, I had originally read it as if the tour guide was giving incorrect information, like by using religious terminology instead of B.C.E./C.E.

The Venn Diagram of People who believe a literal interpretation of the Bible & People who don't know how to write well, is pretty much a circle within a circle.

Yeah that confused me, but it didn't annoy me until you pointed it out lol.