"It's not a cult." Wake up Karen, it's a cult.
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All of them.
They're all stupid.
Pascal's Wager
"My God thinks I should drink, and do drugs, and rob the blind and sick. I'm not entirely sure if that's right, but I should do those things just in case I have to to get into his good graces."
Even they have to think it sounds pretty silly when you turn it around on them.
My friend once told me he had heard this very convincing argument on why he should believe...
I told him the usual "gimme your wallet, I'm your god or whatever", and he relented that maybe it's not so simple.
Then a few years later, there he goes bringing it up again...
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Honestly the whole "if there's no god then how do you know right from wrong" argument is astounding to me, I don't know how someone can say that with a straight face.
The question I get asked by religious people all the time is, without God, what's to stop me from raping all I want? And my answer is: I do rape all I want. And the amount I want is zero. And I do murder all I want, and the amount I want is zero. The fact that these people think that if they didn't have this person watching over them that they would go on killing, raping rampages is the most self-damning thing I can imagine. I don't want to do that. Right now, without any god, I don't want to jump across this table and strangle you. I have no desire to strangle you. I have no desire to flip you over and rape you. -- Penn Jillette
When someone tells you who they are believe them
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Without the [holy book], how would morality exist?
Maybe we need to thank religion for saving us from some literal sociopaths...
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I remember a YouTuber explained that since watches work and had a maker, that humans are immensely more complex, so that's evidence of a maker of the human.
That's Paley's Teleological argument from the 18th century. It's a classic but back then you have to remember clocks were more impressive.
The modern day spin on it is the "fine tuning" argument. Basically: the chances of life existing at all with our earth and the solar system being in a goldilocks zone seems too perfect to be a coincidence. You can probably explain it with selection bias but it's a better argument nonetheless.
Which would make sense if this was the only solar system in the galaxy. 1 in 8 chance (rip Pluto) is pretty impressive, but when you include the rest of the galaxy 1 in however many trillion stars with however many trillions of planets is pretty low odds. Mathematically there should be more planets with life on them, so either we can't find them, they're too far away, they all killed themselves, or some other reason is preventing us from finding them.
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Phones are more complex than watches. Phones are made by Jesus confirmed.
JC Mobile - Unlimited Data, Eternal Life.
Don't get me started on how badly crafted the human body is. If someone designed us, they should be dragged out in the street and shot.
Why can't I breathe out of my nose ever? Why does food go down the same hole as air? Why do I have to sleep? Why did I have to get boners in Mrs. O's second hour Spanish class right before the end of class and have to walk to lunch at half mast for the whole second semester sophomore year?
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Without knowing the constraints I'm going to have to withhold judgment.
Unless God is omnipotent cause if so he really sucks at this.
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