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Time to start turning my coworkers into atheists.
All jokes aside, this ends when we ban orginized religion.
Nobody should be publicly religious. Do it in your own home.
I haven't worked in an office since before the pandemic, but back when I did I had super religious republican guy who sat to my left. On his left there was another lefty atheist like myself. 3 years later we had him voting for Biden and doubting his entire faith.
You broke through the religious echo chamber. Well done!
3-4 years of being proven incorrect day in and day out does that I think. Takes persistence. I still keep in contact with the guy actually. He's a really good guy, just was very ignorant on a lot of things. I've heard he's had a lot of arguments with the very conservative side of his family since then.
My mother, on the other hand, nearly 80 years old and completely brainwashed. No amount of persistence would ever work on her. Unfortunately, I think thats the reality for the majority of the MAGA idiots.
Keep it between you and god, where it belongs.
So your jokes weren't aside. "I only want people to be publicly atheist and nothing else."
Asking people to be sane and use some critical thinking in the face of proselytizing woo woo nonsense and rubbish is a reasonable thing to do.
Personally I wish we could all be publicly nothig. Not religious, not atheist. Let's not talk about it all, at all.
Atheism is funny what else has a name for not believing in something.
Agnostic
Amoral
Apolitical
What's your point?
I don't think we should hire any Catholics because they believe eat humans and drinking their blood is legitimately okay. The people who believe God decides anything in day to day life should all be fired for not being able to accept scientific theory, which is the same scientific theory that drives the economy in which this company runs. I mean come on they are clearly braindead drones who believe anything they are told and have proven they can't innovate anything new that could help us. Also all Muslims are terrorists, they've been proving it on the news every night for decades, we shouldn't hire them either.
In most companies they would just get rid of you for talking about the news / politics. If you fire someone for preaching their religion the company can be sued for illegally terminating an employee do to their religious beliefs. It's not a good idea.
Either you're a troll or a religious zealot.
I don't think companies should get rid of people for talking about news and politics in a respectful manner
I find you calling me a religious zealot to be hindering my right to tell you why you're going to hell for the next 8 hours as is my given right now. In fact I think HR may find it pertinent to know you were calling people religious zealots for practicing their legal rights at work.
....it isn't trolling, it was the discussion as to why this is a bad idea.
You called Muslims zealots, and Christians cannibals and stupid.
Smells like an Atheist religious zealot to me.
No I called Catholics cannibals, which they believe they are. The Eucharist being the actual transformation into the body and blood of Christ is one of the main differences between Catholics and some protestant denominations that split off. Methodists for instance, do not. Lutheran's believe it is a physical transformation and not just a spiritual ceramony one either.
Thereby, they intentionally eat a person's flesh and blood every Sunday, or rather they try to.
Also I never called Muslims Zealots, I called them terrorists, because that's what I learned from the news. Which was obvious satire... Zealots are obsessive, not necessarily terrorists. A good example of zealots would be the Jesuits.
(Though one could argue Jesuits were church sanctioned terrorists... But that's besides the point)
Uh... I'm pretty sure the catholics believe strongly in the principle of transubstantiation. It's still taught at the teenage level before confirmation. That is the exact opposite of what you're claiming the lutherans believe, which, seeing as I remember my 'lessons' in one of the synods' influence, lutherans don't even really claim the transubstantiation is a real thing.
From what I understand Luther doesn't believe in transubstantiation, he/they believe Christ's blood and body are just naturally occuring in the Eucharist. It doesn't have to become it, but you have to believe you are actually eating the body and blood of Christ. How would that be opposite if I never even mentioned transubstantiation? I just mentioned the Eucharist, which both Catholics and Lutheran's eat, believing it physically is/contains Jesus.
In my experience, most Christians don't study their beliefs, so many people who claim they are Catholic, like my mother when she sent both my brother and I as kids to Catholic stuff, doesn't know/believe that to be Catholic she must really believe she is doing so.
So she may really believe in Jesus, and not go to church in the last 15-20 years, but she in reality isn't a Catholic, she's another form of Christian and doesn't know it.
My brother and I both got dragged through the whole communion and he did his confirmation thing back in the 90s. Whole thing was stupid. I was rejected by the Church to be baptized as a baby because my father worked weekends and only my brother and mother went. So my grandparents lived next to a priest from another church and they just had me baptized there and brought me to the church that refused me anyways. I'll never understand the things people do just to fit in.
As an atheist, faith should be warmly invited, and traditions should be celebrated. You don't have to have anything to do with it. You can assert yourself without assuming you know what people think and classifying their worship. And, on another note: these are human tales. You think books that took generations to compile don't have a few nuggets of hard earned wisdom? Do you read Frankenstein and dismiss it because it's ludicrous?
hard disagree. we should allow them, but we definitely shouldn't be inviting and celebrating them. All religion does is undermine society and prop up the rich and powerful.
religion can get fucked.
You're simply wrong. That is not all that religion does. You and I have both seen, in person, the power of faith. This hard-line science approach is toxic. As somebody who has been entrenched in theoretical physics for 15 years and is currently running my own relativistic model, I can tell you with confidence that these physicists love selling half-truths and relying on rote memorization. Let alone interference from intelligence agencies. The scientists they shove in your face are not the ones from the Manhatten Project. They are incrementalists trained to mind their calculations and suppress dissent. This is a simple, obvious fact of a post-mutual destruction age.
Sure you are. Religion is is just a way to control the masses and always has been.
I'm going to add, you're confusing atheism with nihilism. You're a disrespectful bubble boy who needs to develop your social skills. Other people are important to your brain development, and your empathy and ego are profoundly undeveloped. Want some science dogma? Philosophies of mind, like Buddhism are really just pointing toward smooth operation between body and mind. 3 parts to your brain: conscious, subconscious, and other people. We are social primates with mirror neurons and facial recognition. That input is important for brain development. That's where you get ego and empathy. Work on it. Meditation is easy. Going outside and talking to people is easy.
I don't give a shit. It's important to the people I care about. You're fucking bankrupt. Sucks for you
fuck off
Yeah, like that. Psychological warfare is a bitch, huh?
Are you from the Fringe parallel universe?
My pointing to the project was a demonstration of what we can do when we're not in the middle of active suppression.
I was pointing to the spelling. Dude. Seriously.
My bad. Went over my head
I would agree with you if the Christians supporting Republicans weren't literally trying to start the apocalypse.
https://deadline.com/2023/03/praying-for-armageddon-cph-dox-film-evangelical-influence-on-american-policy-director-tonje-hessen-schei-interview-1235304641/
Thank you. I identified the parts of the machine, from the military-industrial-intelligence complex to the Epstein honeypot operation. This confirms my final hypothesis: The motivation is theological. An elite death/apocalypse cult. I suspected it because of the nature of the honeypot operation. Could have been gambling or personal blackmail. No. The desecration of innocence was a ritual, and the island, a temple. Revealing the final inner circle. The high priests of a cult. You can find their rituals being portrayed as frat-like behavior.
Banning religion has been tried, It doesn't work. Banning the awful things that religion makes people do is a better option.
Authoritarianism comes in many forms. Didn't any of you read 1984? I mean, don't waste your time - there's way better materials to learn from, but Thought Police, anyone? Also, no idea why you're getting downvoted. You atheists are dogmatic as fuck. I'm an atheist. Hey, let's ban Islam. That's how you sound.
There are multiple countries who have already banned orginized religion.
It is the next step of human society.
Examples? I'd like to see how it's going.
North Korea is basically the only one I could find.
And they execute religious followers.... Among other things.
They just replaced traditional religions with worshiping Glorious Leader.
True ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Learn to google things
So you're full of shit, got it.
If you can't learn to copy/paste into a sewrch engine then you are going to keep failing to know things for a long time.
I don't fucking care enough to spoon feed you, you're an adult act like it.