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[–] AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 78 points 10 months ago (4 children)

is judging people based on what others have done not the whole point of Catholicism?

[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 28 points 10 months ago (2 children)

There's also buying forgiveness and inquisitioning.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 15 points 10 months ago

And there's covering up mass rape of children.

[–] MightyCuriosity@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago

Matthew 7:3: “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?

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[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 49 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Oh I'm totally Judging you too catholic. Any religious nuts btw

You want to believe in something go ahead that's healthy,

You want to be part of a money making, rule setting, kid raping, woman killing (see how any religion applies?!) organization that tells you how and what you have to believe and that some people are less than others?! Then you are fucked up

[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"see how any religion applies?!"

Atheist of fundamentalist protestant extraction. Aren't like some of the Buddhists pretty cool? Especially the Zen Buddhists. Also, Sikhs seem cool. And the Jainists.

I could totally be wrong. Organized religion is a terrible thing in almost all of my experience.

Wiccans have been real cool in my experience. They have really fun orgies.

[–] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You're right. It should say "most religions". Jainists are the top example of a non harmful religion but very few Jainists exist. Sikhs do seem pretty cool but I haven't done too much research on them. Buddhism is actually rife with violence and encourages masochism though the Zen sect is definitely better.

I think the real point though is that saying, "I'm religious", should be an embarrassing and negative statement. Not something that means the person should automatically be given the benefit of the doubt because a minority of religious people are just harmlessly misinformed. It's like saying, "I'm a cannibal, but don't worry, I'm part of a special Zen cannibal sect that only eats people after they die of natural causes and consented to being eaten because we think that it really helps the circle of life and the environment". It's not technically hurting anyone but it's still weird and when you hear cannonball in general you should still automatically assume that person is dangerous.

[–] androogee@midwest.social 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Different person sticking their nose in, but I really respect what the Satanic Temple is doing. Like in general, but also specifically their stance that religion should not be ceded as the territory of superstition.

Like it or not, religion is one of the fundamental building blocks of community. It provides gathering. At its best it encourages sharing, both of burdens and of blessings. Prayer is so often just meditation focused on helping one another.

I was raised in Christianity, and I am downright resentful of so much of what they did to me. But god I miss the community. Kink is the closest thing I have found in secularism.

No Satanic Temple near me unfortunately. I'd love to have something like that in my life.

[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Holy cow! I have my TST card and everything. Kink has been incredibly important to my girl and I building a feeling of community.

Was in the hospital once. My family organized prayer circles and shit and I had to shut off Facebook. Then they tried to do some deathbed conversion shit while I was on heavy opiates. I giggled at the guy they sent to my room and called him an alien. The kink community brought my girl, and our former partner, food and ran errands for us. Ran interference with the hospital over our poly realtionship. The kink community took care of my people when I couldn't.

Like any other community, it has its problems, but has been pretty wholesome.

I bet you and I would get along well.

[–] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

Agreed on all accounts. I hope that things like the Satanic Temple will be the norm someday where people can have a community without the lies and abuse that are currently synonymous with religion. Interesting about Kink. Glad it's working out for you.

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The main thing for me is that spirituality and faith don't need organization. If you believe in buddah and his teachings go fo it, you don't need a temple to tell you how to do it. If you believe in jesus just follow his word you don't need to supporr and give money to a company just so you have a building to go pray.

God, Jesus, Buddah, Allah, Shiva, Ogun, the great pastafari... it doesn't matter who you believe they don't care about buildings, gold and pretty clothes and they don't need a "special" person to "guide" you throgh you faith.

Your faith is yours only

Edit: Just to add that a community that supports you and helps you when you need has nothing to do with religion. It can be your neighbours, school friends, work friends, even relatives sometimes lol

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

You want to be part of a money making, rule setting, kid raping, woman killing (see how any religion applies?!)

With the “see how any religion applies” part you are so close to recognizing that this is a strawman argument.

You can take any sufficiently large group of people and find bad subgroups. You can take any sufficiently large organization and find corruption.

Your statement can apply to more than just religion. You could apply it to any country, for example.

[–] podperson@lemm.ee 35 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And Veggietales (screenshot in the meme) is a Christian-themed show for a Christian audience.

[–] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

There's never ever, ever, ever, ever been a show like it

[–] Hydra_Fk@reddthat.com 31 points 10 months ago (13 children)

If you had any sense you wouldn't claim to be part of an organized religion that shielded people who raped kids. They shouldn't shield people who are killing kids and committing genocide. These are pretty easy judgements for me and even Bob sees it.

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If you had any sense you wouldn't claim to be part of an organized religion

there FTFY

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Do you not even notice the irony in your reply? At all?

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You also shouldn’t claim to be a part of .

[–] Hydra_Fk@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If I don't pay taxes, they kill me. Can you tell me the same about religion?

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean yeah many religions have extreme sects that will enforce harsh consequences for not participating.

[–] Hydra_Fk@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ok so specifically if I choose not identify as a catholic, go to church, support or to give money to the Catholic church will anything happen to me inside the United States in 2024? And My follow up question does this mean I cannot or do not still believe in the same "God"?

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Ah so you get to the important part: if you go to a sane Catholic Church in the United States, choose to identify as catholic or not, choose to donate or otherwise support the church or not, choose to believe in “the same God” or not, nothing will happen to you.

Similarly, said church won’t be responsible for the previously mentioned horrible things.

Also similarly, if you refuse to pay taxes in the U.S., the absolute worst that will happen to you is you spend some time in jail, but unless you are someone like Al Capone it won’t go that far. You certainly won’t be killed.

The overall point is, extrapolating the most extreme minority of an inhomogeneous group to make assumptions about every individual in the group is a strawman fallacy of an argument.

[–] Hydra_Fk@reddthat.com 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In jail my life would be to essential over. Like this conversation with you. You have to draw the line somewhere. If I could exist as I wished without giving my taxes to a government that uses them to drop bombs on kids i would make that choice. I also would vote for whoever promises to not do that. You know doing the bare minimum. Like not covering up for, expelling from my organization, and prosecuting pedophilles. But whatever makes you feel better about supporting kid fuckers.

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Most people engage in religion in ways that doesn’t have anything to do with the horrible things the worst people who practice that religion do.

My local church flies a pride flag. If you want to support getting bad priests out of church, make sure that the church you attend, donate to, and volunteer for represents your values. You know, doing the bare minimum. But whatever makes you feel better about supporting the military industrial complex.

[–] Hydra_Fk@reddthat.com 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't dress up in special clothes and attend meetings where I praise and pass a collection plate for the military complex. I didn't join the military or volunteer to even serve them soup. If I could opt out of any and all support for them I would if there was a choice. But your so brainwashed you think you don't have a choice to not go to church lol. That's what it comes down to. You have a choice with your religion. You do not have choice in your "country". I understand in some countries you don't have a choice. But in the USA if you are choosing to support that type of religious organization your a coward and a coconspirator. This is your whole argument "My denomination of the KKK is a good one, we barely do any racism. " lol

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But your so brainwashed you think you don't have a choice to not go to church lol.

You’re so brainwashed you think this is what 100% of religion looks like. I choose to go to my church and I know my church does not support and will not stand for priests committing crimes.

"My denomination of the KKK is a good one, we barely do any racism. "

This argument is assuming religion is fundamentally organized about hurting children, which is, of course, ridiculous. This is a textbook strawman argument.

The fallacy doesn’t have to do with whether or not people have a choice in participating, it’s taking the absolute most extreme worst subset of a group and using that to represent the entire group, despite there being a huge variety and that subset really being only representative of a tiny fraction.

That’s why I’m equating it to the idea that all Americans are war mongers. It’s a closely related train of thought to racism and sexism as well.

[–] Hydra_Fk@reddthat.com 0 points 10 months ago

It's cool man your church is one of the good ones, lol. Don't worry God is gonna forgive all those sins anyway just be you and Hitler and all those baby rapist priests chilling in heaven.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I think the point is that a person being a member of a religion which has some other members who have committed horrible acts whilst hiding behind their religion, shouldn't lead to others immediately presuming that said person agrees with those actions or at least covers up for those who did those actions.

In doing so you're playing right into the hands of the assholes - such as Zionists and Pedophile Catholic Priests - committing those actions whilst hiding behind their religion.

Now, when people do voice or demonstrate their agreement with those actions or cover up the above mentioned people committing horrible acts, then, absolutely, judge away, and quite independently of their religion even: for example you can find plenty of apologists for the Zionist Genocide and mass murder of children who aren't Jewish.

PS: Mind you, I share many other people's opinion of the tendency for evil in organized religion, but still, fair is fair and painting everybody with the same brush just because they belong to the same religion as some assholes isn't fair, what's fair is to judge those people by their words and their actions, and if those words and actions include covering up for and even supporting the assholes within their religion, THEN it's fair to consider such people as also assholes.

[–] Hydra_Fk@reddthat.com 0 points 10 months ago

Sure bro however you wanna rational your support. Everyone is evil why try to change.

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[–] jjagaimo@lemmy.ca 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

True. At the same time, I've seen some outspoken Zionists suddenly get very upset when people remember who they are.

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

ITT: People doing literally the same thing the meme is about

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

So many people in this thread proving the point.

[–] WillySpreadum@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

“Progressive Catholic” talk about an oxymoron, emphasis on the moron…

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