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PSOL
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« on: January 01, 2024, 03:43:58 PM »

Abraham's god clearly forbade child sacrifice forever when he did that example.

I am never going to kill any son for anything but for mercy, and even then I swore off children when I was very young because I would never let them or I suffer in this world.
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« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2024, 05:15:24 PM »

No, I do not have such confidence in my own sanity.

Quote from: Genesis Rabba (actually this specific passage I am aware of because it is quoted on English Wikipedia)
Haran [Abraham's brother] was standing there. He said [to himself]: what shall I do? If Abraham wins, I shall say: "I am of Abraham's [followers]", if Nimrod wins I shall say "I am of Nimrod's [followers]". When Abraham went into the furnace and survived, Haran was asked: "Whose [follower] are you?" and he answered: "I am Abraham's!". [Then] they took him and threw him into the furnace, and his belly opened and he died...

"So let's recap. You believe yourself to be Jesus. You admit that you have been seeing the Devil, and that he commands you to jump off buildings, a command you resist only with great difficulty. You don't know where you are or how you got there, and your only weak explanation is that malevolent demons magically transported you there and meddled with your mind so you don't remember it. Using the Outside View, what is the probability that you are even remotely sane?"

"Look," said Jesus. "Could you just tell me what the temptation is already?"

Satan waved his hand, and a syringe materialized within it. "5 mg haloperidol, IM" he told him.
Crap, just lost a bet because of you.

At least I still have AGA.

I am in fact religious. I do believe in an all seeing all knowing God. I deeply respect that many will think differently, unlike you. And I hope you don't raise children sharing the same bigotry towards profound religiosity than you do. Have a nice day, I'm sorry to say I know you.
EDIT: Don't worry, the religiously devout will easily outbreed the likes of you. It's okay.

You got me. I admit that I have zero respect people who are willing to murder their own children because the voices in their heads told them to do so.
"Voices in their heads" Really telling on yourself here.
First, I added so many caveats and you jump to the most uncharitable interpretation possible. I just didn't give a complete total No, because of my beliefs around God. God is beyond our comprehension and it's just arrogant for us to play God or claim to know precisely literally everything about God and what he does. Your casual disrespect for religion is just hilarious. I didn't realize we had an r/athiest regular. And unlike Dule, he's actually unlikeable.
I don't go out of my way to tailor my religious beliefs to please athiests. You can be athiest or a non-athiest. I respect that. What I won't respect is your bigotry.
What a joke.

The sheer lack of self-awareness it takes to make jokes about r/atheism users being annoying in a thread where you literally contemplated killing children for your religion… it’s incomprehensible. Ever wonder why atheists are so self-righteous? It’s because we have to put up with the fact that a huge chunk of the society we live in is clinically insane.
People’s sanity has nothing to do with the wide acceptance of religion.
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