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There's this whole Jack Chick knockoff world that has been around for decades despite having the worst arguments.

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[-] solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 3 months ago

It's a little amusing that they correcty identify that calling evolution a religion is an insult.

[-] magnolia_mayhem@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Excellent point

[-] the_dopamine_fiend@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago

My favorite is the one about the evils of D&D. It ends with the protagonist literally entering a Warlock pact with Jesus as their Celestial patron, sealed with a ritual book burning.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Have you seen the one called "Are Roman Catholics Christians?"

Or the one made entirely to shit on a lady in Bible study who dares question something about Christianity.

The entire series is blindly hypercritical of everything and has no idea it's a joke. It's incredible.

[-] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago

Nice. My favorite is the college professor getting schooled by a Christian student. "Oho, you think quarks are real? You cannot even see them. The only force holding atoms together is the power of Jesus Christ."

[-] RatBin@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I'd say I could feel damn well these subatomic forces when I stomped my little toe on the sharp angle of my furniture. They are way too tangible to be invisible forces

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago
[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Somebody Goofed

So what the fuck was the point of that? You can try to accept Jesus, but if Satan comes in and god-blocks you, then kills you in an intentional train accident, you go to hell for eternity anyway?

How is that an endorsement of religion and of God's love? That's just bullshit.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Jack Chick had a very unusual understanding of Christianity. But I guess that's what happens when your holy text is incredibly vague.

[-] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

This seems like an amazing concept, I did a quick search but couldn't find any already written description of using real-world religious figures as warlock patrons.

I also want to play with Buddha or Kim Il-Sung as a patron

[-] cetvrti_magi@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

Anyone who knows literally anything about evolution knows what a strawman this is.

[-] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 10 points 3 months ago

"we didn't come from monkeys"

"correct, and you also didn't come from your 5th cousins John and Ester." (as far as we know)

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

Their names are Johann and Esther, okay? And yes, I do. Sincerely, Mr. Habsburg.

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago

Prof is thirsty for some daddy ape

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

"Published"...

It's someone who named their Twitter account "creationism"

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Chick Tracts are still being published. That's where that cartoon came from and what OP meant by "they're still being published".

[-] taanegl@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Well I published a paper the other day, properly annoted, with citations... it's basically "God is good, Jews are bad" written 777 times, where each iteration refers to the previous statement, which I published through the renowned public journal known as Facebook.

Check mate, acedem-I mean atheists.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Still being published, but they aren't making new ones now that Chick is dead as far as I know.

Plus, they're highly entertaining and I seriously doubt they converted anyone because Chick's whole theory was that many people have never actually heard of Jesus and once they hear about them, they'll be Christians.

[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I don't know if they converted anyone, but I'm sure they're partially responsible for more than one person questioning their faith when their parents made them hand out those tracts in front of stores instead of having Christmas or Halloween.

[-] btaf45@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

If god depends on the help of little children he must not be very powerful.

[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

"Suffer, little children! Come unto me!"

[-] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 5 points 3 months ago

Funny how that works, when you stop believing in bullshit once you get educated. No wonder they hate education so much.

[-] Fixbeat@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

This should be in religiouscringe.

[-] magnolia_mayhem@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I didn't know it existed

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Not daddy. Cousin. Very distant cousin.

But then all animals, plants and microbes are also distant cousins.

Our Sun is a second- or third-generation star. All of the rocky and metallic material we stand on, the iron in our blood, the calcium in our teeth, the carbon in our genes were produced billions of years ago in the interior of a red giant star. We are made of star-stuff -- Carl Sagan

PS: Did Lemmy kill line-break support? Not seeing it in the markup guide.

[-] Sorgan71@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Thats the funniest picture ever drawn

[-] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I mean, people didn’t stop being stupid so….

[-] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

More like Zaddy

[-] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Why must religion insist on being mutually exclusive with the theory of evolution?

[-] Halasham@dormi.zone 10 points 3 months ago

Because it's a control scheme. One of the ways this method of control works is to differentiate themselves from the wider world by claiming to have some special knowledge that a commonly held facet of reality is wrong and only they understand what the truth of the matter is.

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

Dunno. But I guess that's because a lot of the religious discourse relies on the idea that humanity - or at least, some human group - is the special snowflake ultimate creation of the gods. While biological evolution shows that we're yet another species of animals.

[-] btaf45@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

The Yahweh character in the OT is a science illiterate. He freaked out when the Babylonians build a 50 meter tall ziggarut and thought they could reach outer space (100,000 meters for sub-orbital).

[-] ekZepp@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

You don't have to belive. You need to fact-check if they are.

.... just kidding 😂

[-] hark@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago
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