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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Damn it's like looking in a mirror.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Atheists are always pulling this face like they can’t believe how stupid and credulous the person they’re speaking to is. Every single one I’ve met does this.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I was WAY more grumpy as a believer. Whoever wrote this probably pisses off all the atheists around them because they don't know how to treat them.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago (16 children)

I have become a megatheist. I buy into all the gods.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (6 children)

New gospel: All Gods are real and the reason they no longer meddle in the affairs of mortals is because they are too busy fighting their wars in heaven.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If I remember correctly this is from a site it gave fursona to other groups they didn't like including Jewish, and Islamic folks. It was an educational site directed to children

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it was called Lambuel or something. I got a lot of laughs out of it.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I gotta watch evil on Netflix. Its good! Lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

“Why are they always so sad?”

Oh well, I guess believe whatever makes you feel good?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Just tell them to come back to you after they get everyone that's already Christian to agree on everything first.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Guaranteed this was put out by a very clever anti social atheist

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

im proud of the truths outlined here

[–] [email protected] 124 points 2 months ago (3 children)

They call me godless when they use Comic Sans top to bottom.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago

Hey you sure seem grumpy. Are you atheist?

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Why are they always so sad, or why are they so sad when there are evangelical christians around? Because I think it's the latter.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Might be from the new Space Jam

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I suspected it might be but Mad Max references seem a bit heavy for space jam

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It is a Mad Max reference, but I think it's a reference to a Space Jam scene making a Max Max reference.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

Holy shit. I can't believe I recognize this art.

This shit is ancient, and it was drawn as satire/bait. Nobody is handing out these flyers seriously. This post is rather embarrassing. Satire is dead I guess.

Edit: sources:

Source for text: scroll for text. I don't know where the goat went. This website is a high-effort satire page that hasn't been updated since like 2010. Looks real at first glance but just click around, it's clearly not a real church.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don’t know where the goat went.

It tries to serve you .swf (Shockwave Flash) versions unless your browser doesn't support embedding, in which case it'll serve you .gifs instead. I guess that, since modern browsers do support embedding in general but not Flash, that's why they don't display either version.

Here are some of the .gif alternatives:

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Satire is dead I guess.

Yes. We're at this point now. It's Poe's law.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Man this brings me back, haven't seen this since the 2000s. You can find the goat as a printable figure on the Kidz crafts link

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (4 children)

So I followed your link, found the quoted text, and and had a look around the website. I genuinely cannot tell if this is satire. Most of the links are now dead, but the ones that work seem to lead to serious sources. If it is satire, it is very high effort.

Anyway, I'm going to share with a friend who has more personal experience with this kind of thing and get their perspective.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There is an image to a shop page:

This link is broken. Hmm.... If this were a real organization that needed money, wouldn't they either shut this site down entirely or fix their shop page?

Notice the LOL acronym. Now visit this page:

kids artwork

Here are some of my favorites (notice most of these children are pretty talented and drawing with computer programs in 2010):

Edit: I should have grabbed the image with "shotacat" lmao

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So quick update: my friend who was homeschooled in a religious household but is now atheist thinks it is not satire. My take is that if this is satire, it's going over a lot of people's heads.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Well, there's this...

...but honestly, I could see somebody sufficiently naive not recognizing that for what it is.

This one, however, is a bit less covert:

And then you recall reading this in the intro on the first page, and a pattern starts to develop:

My OBJECTIVE is JUST 4 KIDZ! The "Z" is for "ZEALOUSNESS," 'cause Jesus wants us to be hot for Him, not lukewarm.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

i cant believe some people think this is satire i mean come on its a real ministry with a clear message of love and salvation through jesus christ its not some kind of joke or parody its a genuine attempt to spread the word of god and bring people to christ

i mean look at the content like habus corner where it says wouldnt you rather have just one god who loves you a bunch than a bunch of gods that dont love you at all thats just so profound and insightful

and the maze training where you help lambuel get to the church on time while avoiding temptations thats just so practical and wise i mean who wouldnt want to avoid money and ice cream and slutty lips and a cozy bed

i mean what kind of person would create a fake ministry just to mock good christians and make fun of their faith

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think there is worse in churches with actual believers.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Good old Objective: Ministries.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Handle us? You'll handle us? You know, your predecessors had much more respect.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh yes, i really should be handled by an adult.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This is AI generated, right? Looks off.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

nah i saw this last decade

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't look like that to me, it just looks like someone quickly drew it up in that general style.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The thumb looks cartoonish, the fold under "...but then why are they" is inconsistent and has the bottom of letters too far under it, the words at the bottom of the page look especially borked (look at "are needed"). Pretty certain this is a generated image.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Google reverse image search has it showing up on ytmnd in 2006. I don't think it's AI generated.

https://ytmnd.com/sites/349633/profile/1

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Ah nice find, thanks! I think this was used as a reference to generate an image of someone holding an actual printed copy, then

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I suppose it sort of looks like that, but it also looks like it could have been an image that was smoothed/upscaled by an "AI" algorithm, but not generated by it directly.

I've upscaled a lot of images before, and the slight font blurring, crinkle lines becoming smoother, translucency of the fingernail looking off, etc all looks to me more like upscaling or smoothing than it does a complete generation.

I'm not ruling it out completely, but generally, this length and quality of text isn't something an AI model can consistently do. It will deteriorate very quickly if you try and have a GenAI model output this much text.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I think it's worse than what you've described -- the closer I look, the worse it gets. The font isn't slightly blurry, it's garbled and the letters are inconsistent. The crinkle lines aren't just smoother, they don't look like paper crinkle (loose point on my part, I'll concede -- hard to describe). The fingernail isn't oddly translucent, the entire thumb looks like a cartoon thumb. Someone else found the original image on ytmnd, I think using that as an input is how the length and consistency of the text was barely maintained. The bottom right part of the background behind the goat demon isn't right either, unlike the original.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I think that given that context, the idea they used it as a base image and generated the rest on top of it does actually seem quite likely. Especially if they'd used a tool like ControlNet, that would explain how the text was still as consistent as it is, albeit not perfect.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I was always so sad because I had to pretend to be a boy. Doing way better now.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Grumpy and bitter? You are the fucktards constantly trying to spoil all the fun!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

What doppelgänger said.

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