It is freeing to recognize that I have never sinned and it pissed Christians off when I say this. To clarify, in Christianity sin is not simply “the bad things we do” it is specifically an offense against god. God does not exists so i have never sinned against him.

I’ve been an atheist for for 16 years but it was only recently that I realized this distinction. It short-circuits the guilt based evangelism. It forces the christian to first demonstrate that god exists before they can convince me I have sinned and need to be saved from that sin. And to say the least, they are ill equipped to demonstrate the existence of god.

  • Colonel PanicEnglish
    2•6 months ago

    God commanded us to do things like stone women that spoke, gouge our eyes out if we lusted, kill slaves that didn’t obey, and on and on.

    So how exactly do we reconcile that god commands us to stone women to death that speak or have slaves and kill them for misbehaving and our laws that sorta say don’t kill people. Hmm?

    I hope you haven’t been sinning against those commands. Gods gonna be big mad if you haven’t murdered infidels lately.

    • @LemmyKnowsBestEnglish
      1•6 months ago

      well I don’t believe in the Bible because of all the bullshit you just cited. The only question here is what is the definition of sin. It’s purely religious so we can discard that word because religion is bullshit.