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Religious Cringe

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This is the official Lemmy for the r/ReligiousCringe***** subreddit. This is a community about poking fun at the religious fundamentalist's who take their religion a little bit too far. Here you will find religious content that is so outrageous and so cringeworthy that even someone who is mildly religious will cringe.

Rules

  1. All posts must contain religious cringe. All posts must be made from a religious person or must be showcasing some kind of religious bigotry. The only exception to this is rule 2

  2. Material about religious bigots made by non-bigots is only allowed from Friday-Sunday EST. In an effort to keep this community on the topic of religious cringe and bigotry we have decide to limit stuff like atheist memes to only the weekends.

  3. No direct links to religious cringe. To prevent religious bigots from getting our clicks and views directs links to religious cringe are not allowed. If you must a post a screenshot of the site or use archive.ph. If it is a YouTube video please use a YouTube frontend like Piped or Invidious

  4. No Proselytizing. Proselytizing is defined as trying to convert someone to a particular religion or certain world view. Doing so will get you banned.

  5. Spammers and Trolls will be instantly banned. No exceptions.

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Freedom From Religion Foundation

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[–] Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 93 points 5 months ago (12 children)

Guys, not playing baseball is just as much of a sport as baseball.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Agreed, let's skip gym class?

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lol, youre so naive. Skipping gym class is just like going to gym class.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 5 months ago

See? You caught it. You're playing sports right now!

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[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 40 points 5 months ago

Atheism is a religion as much as being bald is a hair colour.

An atheist can be spiritual or whatever but like I hope this person doesn't pull something with those mental gymnastics.

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 40 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I don't care if someone thinks atheism is a religion or not.

[–] tate@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 5 months ago

Nice.

But it does have real world implications for you, if the idea gains traction and enough people believe it. Just take as an example, how poorly we controlled the corona virus because a large enough number of people believed conspiracy theories about it.

[–] Areldyb@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

As long as they're going to insist on giving religions special rights, then yeah, sure man, atheism's a religion. I'm very devout.

[–] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 37 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Atheism is a religion like off is a channel on TV.

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Like bald is a hair color

[–] m_f@midwest.social 35 points 5 months ago (2 children)

They don't understand the difference between belief and faith. I believe many things, but have no faith in them. I will take contrary evidence into account.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm on mobile so won't type it super elaborately, but there is an interesting thing here about science education.

They don't really have the background to do elementary experiments to prove things, and many schools have under funded labs. Further many textbooks don't talk about the development of how we got to our current state; just how it works. More modern experiments require complex instruments; can't just borrow the large hadron collider for a weekend. As such we depend on papers published. I think that could give a similar vibe to Sunday School.

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

This is so backwards it's funny. We do those experiments in grade school all the way thru HS.

[–] kabe@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (5 children)

It's more than that; they don't understand the difference between belief and non-belief.

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[–] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago

No, it's not faith. If someone proves a god exists... I'll stop believing there are no gods.

[–] yokonzo@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Downvote all you want, I'm an atheist, but some of you absolutely treat atheism like a religion

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Yes, but with a reason.

No-one has committed atrocities like genocides in the name of atheism, no-one justifies crimes with atheism, no-one tries to ruin lives with atheism.

Religion, any religion, cannot claim the same

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[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 11 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Simple answer to this:

If your imaginary friend can provide proof of its existence, I will accept that it exists. Until such time; I will go with the null hypothesis; your god doesn't exist.

But don't feel special, because I believe that no gods exist.

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[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Held to with ardor and faith.

That's a belief, not a religion. I will admit that given that we have no way to prove that A god exists or not, we can only held beliefs of the fact, never certainty. Sure. It's not a fucking religion, a belief can be widespread without having an organisation that defines it and guides peo0pe around it, that's a religion.

Also, "one of the definitions of..."? So they cherry pick one of several definitions, understand it and apply it incorrectly and think that they won the thought experiment? Shaaame.

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Now watch Kirk Cameron explain a banana.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 2 points 5 months ago

Is that the one where he thinks a banana is proof of god because it fits in the hand nicely and some other stupid shit?

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

At that point nationalism is a religion.

[–] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

Ha.

After 5 president terms you'd think they'd get new material but it's like the kid at school that claimed they invented yo mama jokes.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago
[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They'll tell themselves anything to make themselves feel safe / right.

[–] Lemming6969@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

There are an infinite number of non-beliefs. Only beliefs matter, and here's where many people lose their minds, non-belief is more accurately refactored into a belief and can therefore be aggregated as a religion, as a matter of sematics.

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