There’s this whole Jack Chick knockoff world that has been around for decades despite having the worst arguments.

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    7 months ago

    My favorite is the one about the evils of D&D. It ends with the protagonist literally entering a Warlock pact with Jesus as their Celestial patron, sealed with a ritual book burning.

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      Well I published a paper the other day, properly annoted, with citations… it’s basically “God is good, Jews are bad” written 777 times, where each iteration refers to the previous statement, which I published through the renowned public journal known as Facebook.

      Check mate, acedem-I mean atheists.

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    Still being published, but they aren’t making new ones now that Chick is dead as far as I know.

    Plus, they’re highly entertaining and I seriously doubt they converted anyone because Chick’s whole theory was that many people have never actually heard of Jesus and once they hear about them, they’ll be Christians.

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      I don’t know if they converted anyone, but I’m sure they’re partially responsible for more than one person questioning their faith when their parents made them hand out those tracts in front of stores instead of having Christmas or Halloween.

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    Funny how that works, when you stop believing in bullshit once you get educated. No wonder they hate education so much.

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    Not daddy. Cousin. Very distant cousin.

    But then all animals, plants and microbes are also distant cousins.

    Our Sun is a second- or third-generation star. All of the rocky and metallic material we stand on, the iron in our blood, the calcium in our teeth, the carbon in our genes were produced billions of years ago in the interior of a red giant star. We are made of star-stuff – Carl Sagan

    PS: Did Lemmy kill line-break support? Not seeing it in the markup guide.

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      7 months ago

      Because it’s a control scheme. One of the ways this method of control works is to differentiate themselves from the wider world by claiming to have some special knowledge that a commonly held facet of reality is wrong and only they understand what the truth of the matter is.

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      Dunno. But I guess that’s because a lot of the religious discourse relies on the idea that humanity - or at least, some human group - is the special snowflake ultimate creation of the gods. While biological evolution shows that we’re yet another species of animals.

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        7 months ago

        The Yahweh character in the OT is a science illiterate. He freaked out when the Babylonians build a 50 meter tall ziggarut and thought they could reach outer space (100,000 meters for sub-orbital).

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    6 months ago

    You don’t have to belive. You need to fact-check if they are.

    … just kidding 😂