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

Not sure the gluttony thing is right. Has God ever been described eating literally anything?

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

He didn't create Eden for his future humans

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

Pride, wrath, envy, and sloth are correct. The others are a bit of a stretch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (11 children)

Well, it was never implied that God was supposed to be subject to the same commandments. The whole religion kind of requires holding God above one's self and others as well, as do many religions with creator gods. It doesn't really work if God is supposed to equal to us and subject to the same constraints, they're supposed by design to be omniscient and omnipotent and perfect and that's why we're supposed to trust in them and all their dictates if we want to 'saved'.

It's not a particularly remarkable insight or cutting blow to point out that God doesn't follow their own rules since everybody knows that including the devout and they think it's a good thing. I'd hazard a guess that the ability to accept this so readily probably explains a lot about overlap between strength of religious belief and embrace of dictators who also don't model their own edicts.

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

Occasionally, anon discovers a human invention.

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

If I remember correctly the worship the one true god thing originally only applied to the Hebrews/Israelites. It wasn’t until Christianity that it was forced onto other people.

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

This is cringeworthy, but then most Internet atheists are.

(And I'm an atheist just not the reddit type)

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

Your comment is cringeworthy 😡😡😡

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

I agree, I usually keep to myself but I sort of hoped lemmy could do better than other social media in criticism of religion. But no it's still the same strawmanning that they do in religious circles towards us. I feel that it vindicates the religious that when they come here, all they see are very bad arguments against their belief system.

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