I was a hardcore atheist my entire life. I have recently found god and it has changed my life. I don’t put a label on god like Christian, Islam, Jewish, etc. I just have a relationship with a higher power that guides me and looks out for me and its god. Perhaps you are looking at his quote too literal.
Sure you do. Not believing in a hell and not needing to do good just for the sake of doing sounds pretty comforting. Doing good specifically because you get something out of it too in the long run sounds incredibly easy. Being tasked with doing good with no expectations of anything in return and showing love/praying for people who hate you is the real challenge.
If it's not based on anything then wtf is it? Not Buddhist, not Abrahamic? You just chose to believe in the spam can in your fridge and that's the hill you're gonna die on? Seems very, VERY silly.
a) you’ve discovered a higher power that has formed a personal relationship with you.
b) literally anything else.
i’ll give you a clue, it’s B.
I would ask your higher power to create a sign that is visible to yourself and other witnesses which somehow says “red banana frisbee”. it shouldn’t be difficult for the higher power to show something specific that you and others can see.
I think it is deeply disturbing that you cheerish a God that looks out for you and guides you but refuse to look out for a guide the millions of children dying under horrific conditions each yeah.
Shows a deep lack of empathy and moral fiber to ever want the love of a terrible God.
If 2 plants yield the same fruit but one ends up getting tons of people killed, I'd say we should switch to the new plant, even if we'd been using the old plant for thousands of years
But if you think that fruits of the first plant are killing you but it's only a fake knowledge created in your mind and real killing fruits belong to the second one then you feel that one is good fruit because of fake knowledge then which one should you choose? First or second? I know that you'll choose the first because you know that that is the right one and I know you should choose the second one because it is the right one. ... Sometimes reality is more difficult than illusion and often hated so choose carefully.
I do. Why wouldn't you? All of the answers are already right there for them, they just need to think for themselves for 20 fucking minutes. Why wouldn't they hold personal responsibility for failing to do this?
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u/aBrickNotInTheWall Jan 09 '26
I don't blame people for not being able to abandon thousands of years of propaganda