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[–] Tin@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago (23 children)

I'm Buddhist, and it's always struck me as odd that so many religious people require their text to be literally true.

If it were to be definitively proven that the person called Jesus Christ never existed as a historical person on earth, the various Christian churches and organizations would stop at nothing to attempt to discredit this. They would be furious.

On the other hand, if it were definitively proven that Siddartha Gautama, the person who will be called the Buddha, never existed as a historical person on earth, most Buddhists would find it interesting, probably even humorous, and would go on happily practicing Buddhism.

[–] hexonxonx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago

I went to Catholic school (in Canada) and was taught (by priests and nuns) that Christianity probably started as a mushroom cult, Jesus probably didn't exist but was a composite of various wandering prophets/lunatics wandering around about that time (apparently it's been a popular way for idle young men to pick up chicks for centuries), etc... The bible was taught as a (very flawed) historical document and not the literal "word of god" as it was decades before. Even services were performed as comforting archaic rituals rather than stodgy religious services. This was consistent across schools, and even the one that was the seat of a cardinal was no different.

The Catholic religion gets a lot of flack (and deservedly so!), but at least they recognize it's basically just ritualistic bullshit (in Canada at least). Looking back, I think they are just happy to have people in their weird shroomless mushroom cult.

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[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 67 points 5 days ago (11 children)

I’d rather have Spider-Man as a guide for my morals than that genocidal freak they call God.

[–] zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You could do a lot worse than Peter. "With great power, there must come great responsibility" is an adage to live by.

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[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 55 points 5 days ago (13 children)

Actually there are many books of Spiderman which means there's more proof for Spiderman than there is for God.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And New York City is real, so that means Spiderman is real (this is literally the logic that some Christians use to defend the Bible)

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Also, there are now more Ikea catalogs published than the Bible, making Ikea the superior religion.

Since Ikea a famous for their meatballs, a part of the holy dish and body of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, our Holy Noodle is more real than the Christian god, or any other god.

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[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 71 points 6 days ago (5 children)

I love the one downvote. Like they're actually upset thier magic book isn't real.

[–] Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 72 points 6 days ago

Yeah, Spiderman fans can be that way.

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 26 points 6 days ago (2 children)

that's just Scott. he's a dick

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Lol that's the bot that downvotes everything. its not even an actual person.

You can expect to get random 1-5 bot downvotes per comment, its part of being an Open Source platform

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[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Isn't Allah and God the same god?

[–] Blubber28@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Pretty much, but their believers get very upset if you tell them that

[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well the Christians do, in my experience the Muslims are like "yeah, duh".

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago

They even have the exact same stories in them, I tried educating a Christian on that but they don't want to know about it.

[–] sunglocto@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yes

In arabic allah literally means god

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Cthulhu definitely exists. He calls to me in my dreams.

Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

At least cite Amazing Fantasy #15, heretic.

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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 29 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Proof that for every two Jewish people there are at least three opinions

[–] Lembot_0002@lemm.ee 17 points 6 days ago (4 children)

What, so Cthulhu isn't real? But I hear his voice. Who else could command me to torture and eat all those stupid noisy kids?

[–] Nikelui@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Shub-Niggurath, the All-Mother. Cthulhu does not have interest in pesky kids.

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[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (11 children)
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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

I have a book that proves Megatron overcame oppression and led the Decepticons to Freedom!

[–] josefo@leminal.space 6 points 5 days ago (3 children)

How hard would it actually be to write a sacred book from the ground up, following the same structure? I'm thinking in writing a cryptic book that could easily be interpreted in a lot of ways, but still feel like a real thing, and make another book series that cite it. Like Tolkien did with Elvish, but a book instead of a language.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 4 days ago
[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (3 children)
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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 4 days ago

The only difference between a religion and a cult, is the number of cultists.

[–] FLOOF@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago

To be fair, any text is terrible proof.

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