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Question: Which discredited atheist edgelord talking point is dumber?
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That Jesus is a plagiarism of Horus
 
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That Hitler was primarily motivated by Christianity
 
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Nathan
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« on: October 13, 2021, 11:37:24 PM »

I always found the "Mary is actually Isis" talking point funnier than "Jesus is actually Horus", as someone who actually worships Isis. "Sorry Christoids, but the Egyptians have a monopoly on the veneration of maternal figures, and to do it yourselves is literally stealing and you should give it back!"

Yeah, the idea that Christianity is "stealing" anything from other religions, as if religious beliefs are IP in the modern sense and all Zsuzsanna Budapest needs to do is hire Bent Pixels to copryight-strike every YouTube video of "Ave Maria", has got to take the cake here--as, of course, does the analogous lazy non-criticism of the other big proselytizing religions.
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« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2021, 10:11:42 PM »

Mormonism did rip off the King James Bible though.

No it did not. Religious canons are not "intellectual property" and religious founders, even sketchy and dishonest ones like Joseph Smith, are not Ye Olde Napster.
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« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2021, 11:37:58 PM »

Mormonism did rip off the King James Bible though.

No it did not. Religious canons are not "intellectual property" and religious founders, even sketchy and dishonest ones like Joseph Smith, are not Ye Olde Napster.

Oh yes it most certainly did. The Book of Mormon claims to outdate the King James Bible by thousands of years, and yet copies even MISTRANSLATED passages of it verbatim!

Joseph Smith was merely a common con artist (and criminal pedo rapist scum) with delusions of grandeur. Shamelessly copying the most widely read book in history and not expecting anyone to notice was not outside his wheelhouse, and says a lot about how little he thought of his marks/“followers.”

Mormonism does not and never has deserved to be treated as a respectable “religion.” And saying so is not at all like bad “edgelord atheist” talking points against all Christianity like those mentioned by the OP. It was clearly started as a cult more like Scientology than Christianity. Just because the LDS Church has in recent years purged the fundamentalists who refused to let go of the most bats—t insane (Adam-God doctrine), violent (blood atonement), misogynistic (polygamy), and bigoted (open racism against blacks) stuff they used to teach in the days of Smith and Brigham Young, and tried to whitewash themselves as a bunch of friendly wholesome squares, doesn’t change that.

I'm not passing judgment on the literary merits of the Book of Mormon or the theological soundness of its content, Alben, merely pointing out the dangers of applying concepts like "ripoff" or "plagiarism" to the world of religious scripture. The fact that modern Bible translations tend to be copyrighted is bad enough as it is.
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