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Lol

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Ricky Gervais on religion

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What’s the point of praying?

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Question for believers (#3):

What would it take for me to convince you that Bigfoot is real?

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Why would God?

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Question for believers (#2):

What happened to all those unfortunate souls that lived before Jesus?

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This whole concept that "we are all sinners" is just one more of the starting points of Christianity that seems nonsensical to me. If we were created by god, why did he make us so flawed if he is perfect? Ignoring that, he set up the "test" in the garden that led to "original sin." He must have known that we would fail that test, since he knows everything. What the hell is so bad about eating a particular fruit anyway? Any entity that would threaten people with eternal torture because they ate something that he put here and told them not to eat really is a sociopath. Then again, anybody who needs the fear of eternal damnation in hell to prevent them from killing people or doing any of the other things prohibited by the big book of myths is a sociopath. Fortunately, as you have said, it's all a myth designed to scare primitive people to keep them in line.

https://www.onfaith.co/onfaith/2015/07/08/10-questions-about-hell-from-an-atheist/37271 -SecularHumanist199

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I've heard many apologists claim that, since we are all sinners by nature, the demands of justice require us to suffer eternal torment as punishment for our sins. In other words, God doesn't send us to Hell -- we send ourselves there by sinning. What God does is provide us a way to escape this just punishment through the sacrifice made by his son, and it's entirely our choice whether to accept that sacrificial redemption or not. Except... If God is all-powerful and created the universe and all of its laws, isn't he the one who defined what the demands of justice require in the first place? Isn't he the one who decided that the punishment for any sort of sin whatsoever should be eternal torture? If we need to accept Jesus into our hearts to avoid eternal damnation, isn't that only because God set things up that way? Imagine a country ruled by an absolute dictator who has decided that any and all crimes should be punished by death, even minor ones like forgetting to cover your mouth when you sneeze. Would any sane person really say that people *choose* to be put to death when they don't cover their mouth during a sneeze? Or would they instead call out the dictator and his regime for the evil institution it is? And would it matter one whit if the dictator provided a loophole to avoid the death penalty if that loophole was only made known to a small subset of the population and described in contradictory ways with no way to verify whether the loophole really came from the Dictator in the first place?

https://www.onfaith.co/onfaith/2015/07/08/10-questions-about-hell-from-an-atheist/37271 -Barry Goldberg

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If theists are going to message me non-stop, they should at least have the decency to engage in actual conversation. “God did it” is not a compelling argument.

While I have your attention, I wish to talk about a little thing called “morality” and how you are moral without a god. Morality comes from within, it is as ingrained into us as our ability to think and reason. You don’t need a bible to tell you how to live, you can be just as moral, heck even more so, without it.

All you atheists who have shed the shackles of religion, I want you to know that you are a good person, you are not a sinner, you will not be going to a hell, and you are not evil for thinking for yourself. So go on, live your life doing what you love, we don’t live forever, but what we can do is make the most out of every moment. :)

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