She is trying to be cheesy and low effort, but this is actually based as fuck.
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I can’t because of my religion = Awesome.
You can’t because of my religion = Gobble deez nuts.
It's funny that many religious people don't believe in evolution via natural selection, because the survival of religions themselves clearly favors the ones that are all fucking pushy and irrational about it.
I hate when people say "I can't" and blame religion, religion is a choice, so they should say "I won't".
They say "I can't" when what they mean is "I'm not allowed to" the same way a child says "I can't, I'm grounded." Sure, they both can but by their rules, they're not allowed to, and in both cases, they believe that consequences will follow if they break the rules.
The difference to me is that people want to follow a religion, but they have to follow laws
You decide to follow the laws, everytime you do you take responsability for your own actions, laws are just as made up as religions
Do they have to follow laws? Only if they're afraid of the consequences of breaking them.
The way I see it, If people are genuinely convinced it's true, then it makes sense to follow whatever teachings they think go along with it, though I can't understand how people are genuinely convinced.
Still a choice, though.
Intentionally walking into traffic or having a nice picnic is a choice.
Doesn't mean one isn't more appealing.
If you genuinely believe that it's eternal paradise vs eternal damnation, technically it's a choice, but it's definitely weighted.
Not to defend actions taken by such people in pursuit of their believed outcome.
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I understand that religion and belief bring people a sense of belonging and purpose - that's cool, and I'm happy for those who's lives are enriched because of it.
But when that sense of purpose becomes dictating to other people who aren't part of your religion what they can and can't do - pound sand.
Then why do people defend Islam here so much, genuine question
People defend the right to HAVE and participate in a religion, Islam being one of them... not the right of religious people to impose THEIR beliefs on OTHERS
Can't really make it clearer than the comic did
You just made the point so much more clearly than the comic lol.
If they are referring to Christianity, the only time the new testament really says this is in a letter from Paul which was not actually written by him and a likely forgery. Jesus himself was radically egalitarian.
Ephesians 5:24: "Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands".
Colossians 3:18: "Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord".
Peter 3:1-6: Instructs wives to be submissive to their husbands, using Sarah's obedience to Abraham as an example.
Also Paul never even met Jesus, yet speaks as if he did.
He must've gotten tired of persecuting christ-followers so he decided to make up a story about his conversion experience in order to co-opt the movement, claim and assert his authority over it, and instill it with Roman-style systems of patriarchal morality...
Well within Christian canon, he essentially met Jesus’ spirit many years after he had died. But obviously that only works if you actually believe in the supernatural aspects of it
You can even believe the supernatural aspects of it and think Paul specifically was full of shit.
Paul is fanboying about Jesus and it became canon
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Yeah, but some denominations of Christianity really hammer that idea in.
Let's not even talk about how little Mary Magdalene is in the Bible, even though it seems she might have been Jesus' #2 at a point.
A religion that says they're the correct one, and all the others are bad people, is a cult. And there are no good cults.
Its littered throughout the old testament.
Jesus himself was radically egalitarian.
Just radical enough to never suggest that people shouldn't own slaves
The bible as we know it is a book assembled by the Roman Senate in roughly 350CE(cant be arsed to find the real date). Oddly enough, it is the new testament books that are not in that assemblage that contain the forward thinking ideas(to the Romans, not to the remaining celts and gauls) of an idea of womens rights and of things likr private, personal religion.
"the lord says: believe in me"
"the devil says: believe in yourself"
"kamina says: BELIEVE IN THE ME WHO BELIEVES IN YOU!"
absolute chaos
Actually the devil says "I don't exist and your antisocial impulses are part of your biology that are no longer useful in modern civilization. You should learn some self control"
Actually the devil says "You probably didn't even know it, but I am a fiddle player too".
The devil absolutely doesn't say that lmao
Same feeling when I’m told not to stick my dick in another dude
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