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  • Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.nettoAtheist Memes@lemmy.worldInconceivable!
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    2 days ago

    What’s your point? That religion is flawed? Then, yes, I agree, that was what I was trying to convey in my original comment.

    The exclusivity is a product of man trying to control others. Just look at early Christianity, which was non-hierarchical and gender-equal. It was only later that it was turned into the power structure of Catholicism.


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    2 days ago

    What if their reported experiences are just delusions?

    If people across time and space who have sought the answer to the question “What is the nature of the universe and what is the meaning of life” all came to the same delusion, then fuck it, let’s all be delusional together because it’s apparently inherent to human nature.



  • Absolutely, people who achieve enlightenment interpret the experience through the lens of their own culture. Buddhism is that truth seen through the lens of Buddha’s Hinduism, Christianity (minus anything Paul wrote) is that truth seen through the lens of Jesus’s Jew upbringing.

    There’s even people who have achieved it nowadays that interpret life as a sort of video game.





  • Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.nettoAtheism@lemmy.worldSpiritual battery
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    7 days ago

    That’s not canonical to Jesus.

    Anything written by Paul is suspect. Dude just showed up after Jesus died and started writing letters like he was some sort of authority. He’s the source of many of the problematic parts of Christianity, like that and original sin.

    Some Muslim scholars think he was deliberately trying to weaken Christianity on behalf of Judaism. Thomas Jefferson called him “The First Corruptor of the doctrines of Jesus”









  • Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.nettoAtheist Memes@lemmy.worldBased
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    10 days ago

    The god they believe in would tell them to sell their belongings and use all their worldly power to help the poor, but I guess they know better.

    Also just look at Clarence Thomas’s expression, that’s a man that’s never known a shred of happiness in his life.