• huf [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    yeah well, all this just means god claims a monopoly on sins.

    like your state claims a monopoly on violence, etc.

    • the_post_of_tom_joad [any, any]@hexbear.net
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      Yeah it’s a just a lesson see?

      Showing us how just how deadly

      those sins can be so we must…

      What he says not what he does

      sung to the tune of ‘hark! the herald angels sing’

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    People get mad when God waits to punish evil then get mad when He actually does it. If God punished evil immediately, we’d all be dead lol.

    Also, in terms of tithing, it doesn’t have to go to a church, just to a selfless but good cause. I even saw giving money to a friend who was financially struggling and had a bill to pay that they couldn’t pay a “tithe”. Asking people to give to charity isn’t greed

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      People get mad when God waits to punish evil then get mad when He actually does it.

      Never happened, nothing to be mad about. If you mean as an hypothetical scenario where a God exists and he punishes evil then I’m not sure people would get mad, unless they’re evil themselves.

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        Internet atheists constantly criticise God for things like Sodom and Gomorrah or Jericho, or The Flood

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          I hope they criticize the idea of a good God commiting or letting people commit such atrocities when an alternative is available.

          I can only speak for myself because atheism doesn’t inform you much about one’s belief system but the problem of evil expressed well my issue with the idea of a good God being more than apish fabulations. And to add to this point, religious people who died despite praying and living under the covenant aren’t able to witness the futility of the practice, only the few who survived do so.

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            But you’re arguing against a god that’s not the God of Christianity. You’re arguing against a strawman god.

            hope they criticize the idea of a good God commiting or letting people commit such atrocities when an alternative is available.

            And to add to this point, religious people who died despite praying and living under the covenant aren’t able to witness the futility of the practice, only the few who survived do so.

            The God that Christians believe in does punish evil- through Heaven and Hell. Evil will be punished at the judgement. The punishment for sin is Death, so if God punished evil as it happened, literally nobody would be left.

            As to you talking about Christians (I assume) who “died” despite praying, they’re in Eternal Glory now. A Glory so magnificent that they wouldn’t even spare a thought for the suffering they went through while on earth.

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              All God that is defeatable on the mind of a believer is a strawman God, as for it being the God of Christianity^TM well that’s a whole other can of worm.

              A lot of what I’m talking about gets lost in translation and the way you equate sin with evil shows how we need a better way of communicating than church words if we want to have a better conversation.

              I guess the best way to present it is that if you think the Christian God is a good God then he’s not showing it in the reality we can experience.

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                Sin and evil are equated lol. And any God who convicts people of their evil will be disliked by them, like how an angry kid dislikes a reasonable teacher

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                  Isn’t sin by definition offence against a God? The way I understand it christians see God as the ultimate authority. Like a father to a son. It makes sense given the fact that we are raised in an authocratic environment. I guess my point is when someone doesn’t believe in the concept of God, good and evil as an authority is nonsensical. Eutyphro dillema and all that.

                  If you want to understand an atheist then you need to understand this first. If you mostly care for the carrot and sticks of your particular religion then I understand why you aren’t motivated towards having a productive conversation.

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    As far as I know these sins are only sins for mortals. For example pride is wrong because you worship yourself instead of God. Sloth is wrong because it would be your job to better the world, not God’s and so on.

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      Right, God knows better than you and is above it all you stupid animal, sit the fuck down, shut the fuck up, and blindly follow whatever the newest version of the Bible says, because that’s what “faith” means

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      but it is ultimately completely pointless. someone(or rather many someones) made up the OG bible canon and some fanfics are becoming almost canon by being well known. same difference

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        Revelation is one of the most quoted judeo-christian texts, and I recently learned that it was written as a fanfic and it took the fandom a surprisingly long time to recognise it as part of the official lore.

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      The term isn’t found in the bible,but there are plenty of references to the sins.

      Mark 7:20-23 (NLT) 20 And then he added, ‘It is what comes from inside that defiles you. 21 For from within, out of a person’s heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22 adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness. 23 All these vile things come from within; they are what defile you.’

      Proverbs 6:16 - 19 (KJV)

      These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

      A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood

      An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief

      A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren

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      Most are derived from Psalms, Proverbs, and other locations in the old testament. It came from Catholicism. The weakest of the seven for a Biblical origin is Sloth, as it is derived from a failure to act in line with scripture. The list itself is not of canonical origin but is instead a collection of thoughts in a simplification that is easier to digest and remember.

      There is some value in the scripture when it comes to philosophy, however small that may be. It is a great example of what humans were able to directly observe in their time, the ways humans were manipulated with their vulnerabilities, how politics and religion were the same thing in past eras, and many other minor intrigues. Still, 99% of life that has ever existed has gone extinct, and there is not a single reference in scripture that reflects ontological knowledge of the universe. Every bit of every religious work around the world can be explained by human observations and meddling. If a God exists, the least they could have done is prove their existence by giving any of the cosmological constants that are the fundamental building blocks of the universe, or act like a sane person and give me a call any time - my phone is on. Faith is a synonym for fantasy, and primarily persists because of religious isolationist social networking, and teaching faith to gullible children before they have a choice in their social networking development path.

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    Envy is an interesting one, I think this is usually based primarily on the ‘Golden Calf’ story.

    There’s a bit of context that makes that story much more interesting. The stories that eventually led to what we think of as the christian god depict god as a bull. It brings up the possibility that the story wasn’t calling out against worshipping other gods but instead a warning against reverting back to old ways, changes how you approach the story.

    Historical evidence there is really all over the place though, there’s a LOT of other interpretations and possibilities.

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      the one unique thing about the religion that became the abrahamic religions was that its followers went around the fertile crescent destroying other peoples temples and attempting to convert everyone to their religion and saying that their god was the only real one, and they never stopped doing that. Regardless of the interpretation of that one particular fantasy i think this particular god has the whole envy thing pretty well locked down.

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    I know Anon is, uh, joking and we shouldn’t use a 4chan greentext for real discussion, but the wrath and envy points are why I’m more inclined to believe the Gnostic version of Christianity over the others. It’s super weird and telling that the Judeo-Christian God is extremely jealous.

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    Funny thing - no god(s) have ever punished a single person for any of those transgressions - only people do.

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      I think you meant gambling, but gamboling is probably disallowed by these nitwits too.

      “Yaehab, such demonstrations of joy allow Satan into your heart!” *Backhands child*

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      Yep. The whole idea of seven deadly vices and seven heavenly virtues is a Christianization of the Ancient Greek ideas of virtues and vices. There really isn’t a direct connection to the Bible.

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    If you read the old testament in particular, god never denies the existence of other gods, only that he’s the best one. Yahweh was actually just one god in an ancient pre Jewish pantheon. He was like Dionysus, a god of harvest and wine and rebirth. Different tribes had different chief gods, but all accepted the existence of the others. Just happened over time that the people who worshipped Yahweh were the only ones left and it became a monotheistic religion.

    I’m sure back in the day, those gods were more similar to Greek gods, flawed and monstrous, and entities to fear. That’s why the old testament god is such a psychopath.

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        Its a shame that a lack of hard evidence and a disdain for looking for more from theological groups resisting demystifying their religion means we don’t know or have records on a lot of the early days of poly to mono theism.

        Considering it looks like the 18th Dynasty of Egypt had a push to move away from Poly in Amun that involved building a new captial with the help of skilled laborers from the North Canaanites only to be be attacked for their position by the older poly religious leaders causing the downfall off the new capital falling and the workers fleeing back across the desert…

        I mean there is so much to piece together of how politics and the empires of the time influenced how we as humans and religions developed but then you might ruin the idea of magic with real world incredible stories.

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      Elohim (one of his several names; I like this one, because it betrays his Canaanitic roots) is one of several Canaanitic gods, which makes a lot more sense than him being the only god yet him being jealous of other gods (that don’t exist).

      Edit: El was also portrayed as a calf, which makes the worshipped golden calf make a lot more sense in the story of Israels formation. What does not make sense is the pre-Israelites going to a land they already lived in, historically speaking

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        They mentions the egypts gods too, don’t remember where, I only know because my mom got angry at me when I questioned that part lmao

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        Some appear in the bible or are mentioned. Baal I know was one. And was later turned into a satan thing by medieval Christians. Ashira as well gets mentioned in the Bible in a vague sense, but she was the wife of Yahweh.

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        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahwism

        At the head of this pantheon was Yahweh, held in an especially high regard as the two Israelite kingdoms’ national god.[3] Some scholars hold that the goddess Asherah was worshipped as Yahweh’s consort,[3] though other scholars disagree.[4] Following this duo were second-tier gods and goddesses, such as Baal, Shamash, Yarikh, Mot, and Astarte