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[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 52 points 3 days ago (3 children)

My thinking is, if the Christian God does exist, then based on his own scripture he's a heinous war criminal who isn't WORTHY of my respect.

[–] edible_funk@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

I always thought I had come up with a similar version of this of my own accord and then I later found out it was an existing quote. Wasn’t it by Marcus Auralias almost 2,000 years ago?

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

And if it's Oden and you're the fighter type, then maybe when you die, a Valkyrie will take you to Valhalla where you'd feast for ages.

I mean, hailing Thor and Oden doesn't cost very much compared to the christian god!

[–] daddycool@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Me too. I don't know if he exist, but if he does, he's a fucking douche.

Just kidding. He doesn't exist.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 6 points 3 days ago (2 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.

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 5 points 3 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.

[–] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 2 points 2 days ago

Either way, my point is, whoever posted this didn’t read