• IninewCrow
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    743 months ago

    The Simpsons and Super Nintendo Chalmers had it right decades ago …

  • @ChickenLadyLovesLife
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    253 months ago

    I used to work for a software development company in Louisiana. At company meetings the CEO would always close with a prayer to Jesus, which was certainly the only time in my programming career I had to deal with that. Maybe 80% of the company were Christians but the rest of us were Jews, Muslims, Hindus and atheists (just me) and it was always weird to be looking around at each other while everybody else had their heads bowed. Unfortunately, this company was pretty much the only game in town for programmers so nobody was willing to call the CEO out for this shit.

    • @[email protected]
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      123 months ago

      What the fuck, that is straight up unprofessional and exclusionist. I’m sorry you had to go through this.

  • @[email protected]
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    183 months ago

    Unfortunately, most people are emotional creatures first. Sometimes only. So facts don’t really matter because they’re engaging on the emotional level of “christian stuff feels good and safe, but other stuff feels dangerous and foreign”. We all do this to some extent. There’s no solution.

    People mostly change their mind because stuff coming from their in-group, or horrible trauma.

    • @[email protected]
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      183 months ago

      There IS a solution to this particular problem, namely don’t use schools as a vector for spreading religion.

      • @[email protected]
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        43 months ago

        That’s true for this specific thing, but won’t solve the underlying problem of “things I’m comfortable with are good, and abstract things like facts and fairness don’t matter”

        • @[email protected]
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          No disagreement there, although I also think what people feel comfortable with is a malleable thing and by implementing policies that work for everyone as well as for Christians we could improve the world a little.

  • @[email protected]
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    183 months ago

    I grew up poor. We never got to go to the christian summer camp like all our friends. The upside is that we never got sexually assaulted like all our friends.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      73 months ago

      You just got lucky. Poor kids get sexually assaulted in the pastor’s private office instead.

      • @[email protected]
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        43 months ago

        Christian terminology for religious leaders is so insulting. A pastor implies that his followers are sheep, incapable of critical thought.

      • @[email protected]
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        33 months ago

        Public non religious schooling helped. I had sorted things out pretty early on that being alone with any adult was not beneficial. I was a nervous and frightened child and I honestly believe that it saved me on many occasions. My best friend whom I have known since I was four did not have such luck.

  • @UnderpantsWeevil
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    153 months ago

    Okay, but here me out. What if God is real and doing the Christian thing guarantees that your team wins games against the Pasadena Pagans?

    • @AeonFelis
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      63 months ago

      Then the team that prays should be disqualified for cheating.

      • @UnderpantsWeevil
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        33 months ago

        Nothing in the rulebook that says a dog can’t play basketball divine intervention is prohibited during play.

    • shastaxc
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      53 months ago

      They should be hedging their bets and have each player pray to a different god.

      • @UnderpantsWeevil
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        33 months ago

        Getting my son’s high school coach on the horn to suggest this as a new approach. To date, we’ve just been banking on angels assisting the outfield, and it has not worked out.

    • @[email protected]
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      33 months ago

      I’m questioning the morality of the god that cares about high school football games more than starving children.

      • @UnderpantsWeevil
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        13 months ago

        They can care about both and be equally effective.

    • @hexabs
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      33 months ago

      Guaranteed if all do it or can nutjob Jerry take care of that department?

      • @UnderpantsWeevil
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        33 months ago

        I’ve never seen a pagan professional sports team win the championship in any major league.

      • @Viking_Hippie
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        33 months ago

        Pretty sure it’s NFI: normal for Idaho 🤷

        • linuxgator
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          33 months ago

          That’s the first time I’ve ever seen normal and Idaho used in the same sentence.

  • @dubious
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    143 months ago

    i mean, if you support a rational society that uses reasoning to create an altruistic stewardship of the world, then it pretty much justifies an any means necessary approach to defeat christian nationalism (or any other superstitious, irrational belief system). otherwise, the next century is going to unimaginable suffering.

    and this is why i support militant atheism.

  • @Phegan
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    123 months ago

    Paganism is way better than monotheism

    • @Entropywins
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      103 months ago

      Why be wrong about one thing when you could be wrong about lots of things…I’m just an atheist messing around no offense meant

      • @CheeseNoodle
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        63 months ago

        I think because pagan religions are generally pretty tolerant of other forms of worship.

      • @[email protected]
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        “Pagan” is a very broad term, and I could see a form of athesist paganism developing. Nature exists, and you can start with that. Rituals would be purely an expression of appreciation for the natural world around us.

        Plus, you have an excuse to run around naked in the woods. Which is the actual goal here.

      • @Phegan
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        13 months ago

        I’m not a pagan, so no offense taken.

  • @NorthWestWind
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    83 months ago

    I saw through this in my early secondary school years because they got too annoying for me.

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    The two times religion entered my school life were when we studied myths in English class, and in sociology where we watched Jesus Camp and had to figure out how people could be so retarded (different time)

  • wuphysics87
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    53 months ago

    I wasn’t uncomfortable. I was thinking get it girl! It takes a lot of courage to go to a school and teach kids the goat mother birthed them under a pale blue moon.

  • @lath
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    -243 months ago

    But it’s a Christian country. So get with the program or get burned at the stake, hanged, stoned, drowned, flayed and shot. Not necessarily in that order.

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        53 months ago

        I like your nickname.

      • @lath
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        03 months ago

        Constitution, smonthitution. If it ain’t written in the one and true Holy Bible, it ain’t nothing worth following.

      • @lath
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        03 months ago

        At this time the counter reads only 18 out of 37. We still have 19 in the loop, so while the numbers are neck and neck, the majority came through on this one. There may yet still be hope for us after all!

      • @lath
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        33 months ago

        The people who want to make it an exclusively Christian country.

  • Lucy :3
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    -273 months ago

    He got it wrong, that were literally schools in 1935 germany.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      313 months ago

      They never suggested there weren’t.

      Saying something doesn’t belong in schools doesn’t mean it was never in schools.

      • Lucy :3
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        43 months ago

        I said “they got it wrong” because they literally said “I got [the details] wrong”, I just continued the “joke”