• Binturong@lemmy.ca
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    Time to found Epsteinology, a religion based around the release and realization of the Great Nefarious Files to bring about the Grand Awakening and destruction of the Orange Menace for the good of all Humanity.

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    I’m sure when atheists and satanists start proselytising there will be outrage - “we really meant Christians should allowed to bother their co-workers not you guys”

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      I bet you a coke this is to fuck with the FFRF and MRFF, two great orgs trying to keep religion out of our gov.

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    So this is where the new new atheist movement will start.

    Also, remember epstein? whatever happened to that guy?

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    I don’t think people really understand what’s comming. Everyone’s like “so now everyone can talk about their respective religion, haha”. But where I see this going is only the one right religion being acceptable in near future and everyone who’s making clever remarks being outlawed and prosecuted. The fact we’re not there yet makes the obvious progression to that none the less scary.

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      I don’t think you realize that christians aren’t as popular as they were before. There are a LOT of others and non religious. I don’t think christians are going to enjoy the process as much as they think.

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        True Christians find all this behavior disgusting. It is just capitalizing on a faith for profit and control while bringing harm to those that can’t pay the admission fee and/or have the wrong skin color.

        What’s going on is religious terrorism/extremism, and taking advantage of the dumbs to enable it.

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          I do genuinely feel bad for the people who actually attempt to live by the words of Christ. They will be hit in the backlash much the same as other Christians, undeservedly.

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          You misunderstand, when they inevitably try that, and try to continue the “Christian nation” shit, there will be a backlash, and the violence will likely get out of control. I would not be at all surprised to see a concentrated effort to murder Christians by mobs. Christians have gone so long without facing ANY BACKLASH whatsoever for their continued depravity. It will happen and they will cry about how much of victims they are.

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        10 hours ago

        For anyone else who also doesn’t recognize this, it’s a greeting phrase from the TV show A Handmaid’s Tale.

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    According to Trump, “re-thinking” means “doubling down no matter what, especially if you’re wrong”.

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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.

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      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.

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      So your jokes weren’t aside. “I only want people to be publicly atheist and nothing else.”

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        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.

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        Personally I wish we could all be publicly nothig. Not religious, not atheist. Let’s not talk about it all, at all.

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          Atheism is funny what else has a name for not believing in something.

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            Republican = not believing in science and/or data

            Jokes aside, what a weirdly leading question that doesn’t actually lead anywhere— the only reason it is given a name is because the social dominance of theism necessitated the distinction.

            There are also plenty of phrases regarding the rejection of something. Put “anti” at the front of plenty of philosophies or systems and boom, there you go.

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        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.

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          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

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            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.

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              You called Muslims zealots, and Christians cannibals and stupid.

              Smells like an Atheist religious zealot to me.

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                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)

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      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?

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        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.

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          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.

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            Sure you are. Religion is is just a way to control the masses and always has been.

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              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.

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          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.

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      Banning religion has been tried, It doesn’t work. Banning the awful things that religion makes people do is a better option.

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        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.

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        There are multiple countries who have already banned orginized religion.

        It is the next step of human society.

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            North Korea is basically the only one I could find.

            And they execute religious followers… Among other things.

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              china restricts evagelization and missionaries, but doesn’t outright ban religion.

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                China doesn’t ban organised religion. It even has a state church. China is paranoid in general, and an effect of that is they just like to keep religious followers where they can see them. In a way, literally, churches there are kind of like a compound (not a security compound) where they hold meetings and worship and house missionaries and stuff.

                It doesn’t ban evangelisation or missionaries per say, but mainly foreigners. Part of this is a concern with foreign interference (which to be fair, the USAID was recently exposed for sending money to Christian organisations abroad so the American megachurches can gain influence there.)

                It’s not ideal for Christians, but it’s nowhere near what @SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world was suggesting as “banning organised religion”.

                If anything, China can be seen as preferring organised religion to unorganised religion

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                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.

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    Ugh. Looking at the comment sections in posts about religious authoritarians, is about as insufferable as the comment sections in posts asking people to reduce their animal consumption.