@acewizardnz Its really not much more batshit than any other religion idk why it gets singled out
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I try to be tolerant of other religions but Mormonism is so profoundly fake in such obvious ways that I genuinely do struggle to respect it at all.
Bruce North@BruceNorth46058
If we had the golden plates in a museum, and every expert in the world agreed Joseph translated the Book of Mormon correctly, would that "prove" The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is true? Would everyone be compelled to join the Church?
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@BlankEthan85350 @ApostolicZoom But when you add Moses’s cosmology and the fact that Jesus physically ascended into heaven in his body, it does seem like the tower was literally going to reach heaven
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@throwaway179181 @ApostolicZoom True, but I’m using an extreme example to show that not every part of the Bible is to be taken literally.
A simple reading of the Tower of Babel clearly shows it was a punishment for man’s hubris, his attempt to equal God.
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Reddit atheists display more wooden literalism in how they look at Scripture than the most dogmatic young earth creationist.
The Skeptic@TheSkepticWiz
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@AngloVarangian Even if there were an objective moral framework grounded in Christianity, the core claim of Christianity is that everybody in all history has and will break it. Ultimately it doesn’t even matter. A priest can rape a kid and an atheist can work a food kitchen, ideology aside
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reddit athiests still don't understand what Logoscentrism and John Chapter 1 means
Nicole The Grouch🖤🩶🤍💜@DLCDonut
I cant believe all modern morals started 2000 years ago in one region of the world and before that, and outside that one location, nobody thought murder was wrong
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@Blazmatic @ApostolicZoom Guess the Church Fathers were retarded
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@BlankEthan85350 @ApostolicZoom This is poetry, not describing a historical event like Genesis does
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@VincenzoStagi @AtheistTakes People are born atheist, it is the standard worldview
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@AtheistTakes Christians: I base my entire worldview on books written by men 2000 years ago.
Atheist: I base my entire worldview on the writings of random teenagers on the internet yesterday.
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@deusimpera @keyframechopper I just now woke up from a dream where the Blessed Virgin Mary told me that you, yes you, are retarded for not becoming Orthodox and that you are going to hell. Hopefully you can be baptized within the year
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@keyframechopper It’s been three years.
I saw Christ in a dream and started my conversion.
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Sorry for going off at Richard Dawkins today.
He's one of the reasons I was an atheist for most of my life, so this is very personal.
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@Soulful76_Leaf They do teach this what shithole school did you attend
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For the same reason schools don't teach about all the churches, icons and relics destroyed by the French Revolutionaries. Their disciples run our education.
vlad ☦︎@jvlad20
Why don’t schools teach about the Bolsheviks who killed millions of Orthodox Christians? Churches were destroyed, icons and relics smashed, priests executed and the faithful who resisted were tortured.
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@TDomhnaill There’s more eyewitness testimony for angels appearing to Joseph smith than for the Resurrection
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"What if Mormonism wasn't made-up, and instead it was real? Do you think more people would become Mormon?"
Bruce North@BruceNorth46058
If we had the golden plates in a museum, and every expert in the world agreed Joseph translated the Book of Mormon correctly, would that "prove" The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is true? Would everyone be compelled to join the Church?
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@NeophyteOne @nyssenizer That’s because you went to a shitty school. There are schools that teach this as thoroughly as you can teach history in high school
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@nyssenizer I didn’t learn about this in school
They made sure I knew about the Holocaust though
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@PaulK0985 @what_says2929 @KR3Wmatic I mean even a good amount of apologists, whose profession is to defend Christianity, will argue these stories are symbolic
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@throwaway179181 @what_says2929 @KR3Wmatic No you did not study any of those stories if you came to the conclusion they are not real.
You didn’t even study how old man is lol..why do you people just lie?
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@PaulK0985 @what_says2929 @KR3Wmatic Even most Christians today, at least in the U.S., concede that these stories were probably allegorical. I can’t imagine studying these stories and not coming to those conclusions
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@chronicly_based @DLCDonut Didn’t crusaders rape nuns in Constantinople during the crusades
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@throwaway179181 @DLCDonut For most of Christian History wars would be fought with honor, not mass rape and kidnappings like the Muslims. Dont group those pedophile freaks with Christianity, please and thank you.
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I cant believe all modern morals started 2000 years ago in one region of the world and before that, and outside that one location, nobody thought murder was wrong
horse dentist@equine__dentist
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@nyssenizer @ruckusofantioch @m966021 @BatuZerk Is the implication that the conquest of Canaan didn’t happen
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@what_says2929 @KR3Wmatic Most of the early stories of Genesis (Adam, Noah’s Ark, Tower of Babel, etc) along with hagiographies and miracle/relic stories
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@throwaway179181 @KR3Wmatic Which stories. My religion professor claimed there were no Hittites. A few years later a whole civilization was uncovered.
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@zogdefenderno12 @Un_spectre @TheSkepticWiz Call undermining Catholic dogma by placing your trust in secular authorities rather than in the divine apostolic traditions of the church held unwaveringly for almost 2k years a fallacy. It made me feel more secure when I did the same a few years ago, but it can’t last forever
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@zogdefenderno12 @Un_spectre @TheSkepticWiz Ultimately when you trust secular science and history above the authors of the scriptures and contemporaries/descendants of the apostles, it’s a slippery slope. I was there not too long ago myself. Good luck
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@zogdefenderno12 @Un_spectre @TheSkepticWiz He also tried doing the math to explain how all the animals fit on the boat. He read it as literally as it appears in scripture. Which is what we should expect from the tradition of the apostles
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