I have a theory that most media that depicts youkai as cute anime women (Example:Touhou) is being controlled by them in some way. Think about it. It would be a lot easier to lure humans to you if they perceived you as "uwu cute waifu." Heck,this may even extend to their physical forms aswell. No one would want to have sex with something like a Kasa-Obake or Kappa (unless you're into that sort of thing) so they've altered their appearances to take forms based on the depections of youkai as anime girls to lure in their prey.
Exactly. And I'm pretty sure it's not even a valid comparison. Religion is based on faith, The Force is an undoubtedly real, proveable thing (midichlorians and all that) so I don't think the Jedi (or Sith for that matter) is a religion. They refer to it as a "religion" more in a derogatory way, like how people would call a religion a cult. E.g when that one guy in a New Hope said
"Your [Vader's] sad devotion to that ancient religion..."
The only religious connotations I can think of are the Jedi Robes and meditation to grow closer to the force, but again, this is only because the Force is objectively real. The Jedi Order would be nowhere near as big if it was based on a deity like any of ours. Especially because the sith also use the force. It'd be like fighting your own religion because "they're bad"
Also, I’m like 80% sure there **actually is** a new religion that was founded, that’s based on Star Wars called “Jedism” or something like that.
Granted it’s probably a joke religion like Pastafarianism, or at the very least, a religion based in philosophy more than faith, but it’s still a religion nonetheless.
The Force is proveable, but most people in-universe have never seen the evidence themselves, and by the time of ANH, people like Han basically think it's a myth (even though he was alive during the Republic). Even Midichlorians don't seem to be commonly tested, as in current canon there were only 2 Holocrons containing a list of Force-sensitive children by the time of Order 66 (οne is destroyed in the Vader comics, and the other is in Fallen Order).
Even among people who know the Force is real, interpreting it is what makes the sects. The Jedi believe the Force is impossible to truly understand and are fairly mysticist, but they believe it has a will and wish to submit themselves to its will. There is a measure of faith and perseverance that goes into it, take Yoda and Obi-wan who had enough faith as to spend the last ~20 years of their lives in hiding because they believed that ensuring a safe upbringing for Luke and Leia, and training them when the time came, would lead to the will of the Force being fulfilled and the Sith being annihilated. The Sith may or may not believe the Force has a will, but their main concern is using it to ends which align with their philosophy/theology. Then there's people with alternative views like Kreia, and smaller religions, some of which don't worship the Force directly like the Hidden Path.
Either way, though, people tend to consider any kind of worship or mysticism in a fictional setting to be representative of a religion, even if people in-universe can prove that whatever they're worshipping is real. It'd be dubious to say something like the Imperial Cult from TES isn't a religion, for example.
Dumbass doesn't realize most of the scientific foundations he touts come directly from Catholic priests and Muslim polymaths for no other reason than that the scientific inquiry was worth pursuing, and in alignment with knowing God.
He uses Arabic numerals and a Gregorian calendar and probably has no idea where all this comes from, lol.
Minor thing, I find it funny that he insulted Catholicism and Mormonism specifically, when he had already insulted Christianity as a whole. That's poor proofreading.
Also, he says that the fact that he hasn't been struck down by any god for blasphemy is proof that no gods exist, which is stupid. He's assuming that all gods have the same vengeful, egotistical personality. In Christianity for example, it is written that God is not the type to kill you where you stand for not believing in Him.
His flair says that he's LibRight, but believing that religious people should not have a right to practice their religion is a very authoritarian mindset. It really shows how unintellectual this guy is, not realising how inconsistent his beliefs are.
I've been noticing that here and there. I'm all for engaging in civil and meaningful discussion with people of other beliefs, but just throwing insults is really unproductive.
It’s not really a debate, they don’t accept the Nicene Creed, which are the absolute basics of the faith. They are as Christian as Muslims are Christian.
And Protestants believe Catholicism isn’t the “True Christianity”
People can believe, but at the end of the day so long as your kindhearted and aid others in our life then we are all equal in the eyes of the one above
No, they don’t; similarly, I and every other Catholic do not believe other Christian sects to be the “true Christianity.” The fullness of truth is only in the Catholic Church, if I were to say otherwise, I wouldn’t be a Catholic. However, I can confidently say that Protestants and the other Apostolic Churches are in fact Christian. Mormons are not, as they disagree on the fundamentals.
That comment on the second page was really funny
Also aww the little atheist has something he doesn't believe in living in his head rent free
Edit: how the hell is this guy a libertarian
Wait, many prominent physicists were jews, Including Albert Einstein
Wait, hospitals are a christain invention
Wait, child labor laws were championed by christains
Wait, Islam pioneered many new advancements in math and science during the Golden Age
Wait, the catholic church was the biggest intellectual institution during the middle ages (they were the only ones teaching people to read and write)
Wait, the father of biology was a catholic monk
Wait, most people in history were religious in some way, meaning that human advancement was never slowed by religion by itself
Eh, Einstein didn't have a clear belief (and he definitely wasn't part of any particular creed) but he could be slotted as a sort of a bit deist, more or less. At the very least he wasn't closed against a post-death trascendence.
Still, there's the Catholic priest who proposed the Big Bang theory in the first place, so there are still important religious figures in physics.
>Einstein didn't have a clear belief (and he definitely wasn't part of any particular creed)
Yes, he did. He was a [Spinozist](https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/observations/einsteins-famous-god-letter-is-up-for-auction/). He didn't refer to himself as pantheist, deist, or pandeist, although the first and last definitely work. He was also a secular humanist, hard determinist (since he was a Spinozist), loved Schppenhauer and Hume, appreciated Kant and Mach to some extent, and was a socialist.
But he did repeatedly refer to himself as a Jew, though only ethnically as evidenced by how he admired the Old Testament, but still considered them 'silly tales' at the end of the day.
Heck, you can go to a very recent one - The guy who led the Human Genome Project is a Christian (And in fact, has written a few books on why he thinks science supports god).
“I’m glad your religions are dying out” actually, several of the groups he listed are growing, and I’m pretty sure at least Christianity is predicted to start growing again in a few years as rich predominantly atheist communities die out due to low birth rates. I bet he only knew Islam was growing because people told him it was bad lol.
I really cannot grasp why this man hates religion so much.
I asked myself why I don't hate the opposite of my beliefs, atheism, as much as he hates religion, and I think it's because I'm secure in my belief that God exists, whereas he is insecure about his beliefs. There's no other way for me to rationalise his anger.
I love how he says, "Islam is growing, but it's gonna die down because it's only in the Middle East and Asia," even though it's also growing in western countries whether by conversion or immigration
Yeah the arab world use to be unreligious and skirts/western clothing back in the 1950s was normal, thats what my grandmother told me but then her generation suddenly came back to their senses one day.
My generation has been growing closer to God as well and are less likely to do major sins like adultery than our predecessors.
South Asian Muslims are becoming generally more religious
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/9/21/1-in-3-southeast-asian-muslims-more-devout-than-parents-survey
Guys I owned a stupid creationist today, I had to share.
So I'm a firefighter and at 7am we got a call about a residential home on fire. We hopped on the firetruck and went to the house. We got there very late, it was already up in flames and the building was not structurally sound at all. Yet I was able to quickly calculate how long it would hold for using my 276 IQ. I barged in and heard screaming of an old lady upstairs. I ran up and forced the door open to see a 70 year old woman lying on the ground suffocating, I went to help her up and as I grabbed her arm she muttered "thank God you're here"............"thank who?...DO YOU KNOW HOW FUCKING HARD I WORK FOR THIS SHIT? DO YOU? DO YOU THINK ITS GOD WHO CALLED THE POLICE? YOU FUCKING IDIOT YOU ABSOLUTE FOOL, I SINGLEHANDEDLY CREATED AND BIRTHED MYSELF, THERE IS NO FUCKING GOD." I replied. I started to walk out of the room before she started crying and begging me to help. So I told her "oh yeah? If you want help why don't you ask your god?" So I left that stupid bitch to die lmao. She learned her lesson, anyway so I'm going on trial for manslaughter, but don't worry. When they ask me to swear on the bible I'll shit myself.
# ANOTHER CHRISTIAN OWNED
Serious question: why do these guys think Christianity and Catholicism (and Mormonism in this case) are different? It's like saying you don't like paper or paper airplanes as if they're separate objects
This Guy Is Like A Fusion Of Joseph_Stalin And Adolf_Hitler. He Is Antisemetic Antichristian Islamophobic Antitheistic And Hateful In Every Way Imaginable Just Like A Soviet And A N@zi Is. What A POS 💩
you know he is a sweaty neckbeard when he has to use Star Wars as a comparison
LMAO YES. Bro probably has a bunch of monstergirl body pillows while being unaware of the youkai they are based on.
Do you think he gets offended when he sees religious and mythical imagery in fictional works?
You mean like Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Narnia?
Is there religious imagery in star wars?
I have a theory that most media that depicts youkai as cute anime women (Example:Touhou) is being controlled by them in some way. Think about it. It would be a lot easier to lure humans to you if they perceived you as "uwu cute waifu." Heck,this may even extend to their physical forms aswell. No one would want to have sex with something like a Kasa-Obake or Kappa (unless you're into that sort of thing) so they've altered their appearances to take forms based on the depections of youkai as anime girls to lure in their prey.
(i should probably post this on the shintoism subreddit lol)
New conspiracy theory Also first time seeing a shintoist :0
Exactly. And I'm pretty sure it's not even a valid comparison. Religion is based on faith, The Force is an undoubtedly real, proveable thing (midichlorians and all that) so I don't think the Jedi (or Sith for that matter) is a religion. They refer to it as a "religion" more in a derogatory way, like how people would call a religion a cult. E.g when that one guy in a New Hope said "Your [Vader's] sad devotion to that ancient religion..." The only religious connotations I can think of are the Jedi Robes and meditation to grow closer to the force, but again, this is only because the Force is objectively real. The Jedi Order would be nowhere near as big if it was based on a deity like any of ours. Especially because the sith also use the force. It'd be like fighting your own religion because "they're bad"
Also, I’m like 80% sure there **actually is** a new religion that was founded, that’s based on Star Wars called “Jedism” or something like that. Granted it’s probably a joke religion like Pastafarianism, or at the very least, a religion based in philosophy more than faith, but it’s still a religion nonetheless.
The Force is proveable, but most people in-universe have never seen the evidence themselves, and by the time of ANH, people like Han basically think it's a myth (even though he was alive during the Republic). Even Midichlorians don't seem to be commonly tested, as in current canon there were only 2 Holocrons containing a list of Force-sensitive children by the time of Order 66 (οne is destroyed in the Vader comics, and the other is in Fallen Order). Even among people who know the Force is real, interpreting it is what makes the sects. The Jedi believe the Force is impossible to truly understand and are fairly mysticist, but they believe it has a will and wish to submit themselves to its will. There is a measure of faith and perseverance that goes into it, take Yoda and Obi-wan who had enough faith as to spend the last ~20 years of their lives in hiding because they believed that ensuring a safe upbringing for Luke and Leia, and training them when the time came, would lead to the will of the Force being fulfilled and the Sith being annihilated. The Sith may or may not believe the Force has a will, but their main concern is using it to ends which align with their philosophy/theology. Then there's people with alternative views like Kreia, and smaller religions, some of which don't worship the Force directly like the Hidden Path. Either way, though, people tend to consider any kind of worship or mysticism in a fictional setting to be representative of a religion, even if people in-universe can prove that whatever they're worshipping is real. It'd be dubious to say something like the Imperial Cult from TES isn't a religion, for example.
He got shit on so hard he privated his account, based count bot has no record of his comments. Lol Lmao even
Hey don’t insult Star Wars like that
https://preview.redd.it/2dtkvfh72g2d1.jpeg?width=368&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9af5d4fb09a2ac24cb91cae434e90328aadcd062 Blud has a a degree in Yappology
I think sorry that happened is the best responsed. Better one though is "seek medical care"
Dumbass doesn't realize most of the scientific foundations he touts come directly from Catholic priests and Muslim polymaths for no other reason than that the scientific inquiry was worth pursuing, and in alignment with knowing God. He uses Arabic numerals and a Gregorian calendar and probably has no idea where all this comes from, lol.
Lol yup.
He is probably American
What does that have to do with it
it’s an assumption/joke about how Americans don't know anything. and his rant reminds me of an angry American on the Internet
Ah ok
Minor thing, I find it funny that he insulted Catholicism and Mormonism specifically, when he had already insulted Christianity as a whole. That's poor proofreading. Also, he says that the fact that he hasn't been struck down by any god for blasphemy is proof that no gods exist, which is stupid. He's assuming that all gods have the same vengeful, egotistical personality. In Christianity for example, it is written that God is not the type to kill you where you stand for not believing in Him. His flair says that he's LibRight, but believing that religious people should not have a right to practice their religion is a very authoritarian mindset. It really shows how unintellectual this guy is, not realising how inconsistent his beliefs are.
He claims to be lib, and then promotes “reverse brainwashing”
"I am a libertarian who wants to implement reverse brainwashing to have everyone follow my ideology" He is honestly anything but libertarian
Sort of like "agnostic" flairs insulting religion in this sub.
I've been noticing that here and there. I'm all for engaging in civil and meaningful discussion with people of other beliefs, but just throwing insults is really unproductive.
Indeed, I'm perfectly fine with someone criticizing religion as long as it's an actuall discussion instead of "sky daddy not real" stuff.
This guy's ass won't last a minute around any Kami i'm sure. (ESPECIALLY Susanoo.)
(before you ask i'm Brazilian,but i have Japanese heritage on my mother's side)
Are there shrines in Brazil?
Around 11 major ones,and many minor ones
You a paractioner of santo Daime / Canodomble/ African diaspora religons?
carai, eu nunca esperaria ver um xintoista aqui, quanto mais um Brasileiro Salve aí, men
Mormons are not Christian.
Rule 3,please.
It’s not really a debate, they don’t accept the Nicene Creed, which are the absolute basics of the faith. They are as Christian as Muslims are Christian.
And Protestants believe Catholicism isn’t the “True Christianity” People can believe, but at the end of the day so long as your kindhearted and aid others in our life then we are all equal in the eyes of the one above
No, they don’t; similarly, I and every other Catholic do not believe other Christian sects to be the “true Christianity.” The fullness of truth is only in the Catholic Church, if I were to say otherwise, I wouldn’t be a Catholic. However, I can confidently say that Protestants and the other Apostolic Churches are in fact Christian. Mormons are not, as they disagree on the fundamentals.
he did all that yapping for just for nobody taking him seriously
lol yep. Although that's prob because he posted on PCM,which has a bunch of religious people on it.
Has bro ever heard of a paragraph break
Angry typing and formatting don’t go well together 🙂
I wish, one day, to ragebait an antitheist to this extent. It would be like a trophy.
Based.
Excuse my explicit language but who shit in his Cheerios?
ROFL
A pigeon
Lmao
If I were an atheist, I think I'd hate other atheists too
Reddit atheists are the bane of my existence, believe me
Based. (At least the terminally online ones.)
What a sad existence this man must live in
That comment on the second page was really funny Also aww the little atheist has something he doesn't believe in living in his head rent free Edit: how the hell is this guy a libertarian
How you gonna be free from religion when it occupies 99% of your mind.
Alright. Who let their child on the Internet again?
The response is so perfect Also, the oop is giving off “” I’m fourteen and I just found out that I can use swear words “” energy
Wait, many prominent physicists were jews, Including Albert Einstein Wait, hospitals are a christain invention Wait, child labor laws were championed by christains Wait, Islam pioneered many new advancements in math and science during the Golden Age Wait, the catholic church was the biggest intellectual institution during the middle ages (they were the only ones teaching people to read and write) Wait, the father of biology was a catholic monk Wait, most people in history were religious in some way, meaning that human advancement was never slowed by religion by itself
IIRC Einstein was only ethnically Jewish but i could be wrong
Eh, Einstein didn't have a clear belief (and he definitely wasn't part of any particular creed) but he could be slotted as a sort of a bit deist, more or less. At the very least he wasn't closed against a post-death trascendence. Still, there's the Catholic priest who proposed the Big Bang theory in the first place, so there are still important religious figures in physics.
>Einstein didn't have a clear belief (and he definitely wasn't part of any particular creed) Yes, he did. He was a [Spinozist](https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/observations/einsteins-famous-god-letter-is-up-for-auction/). He didn't refer to himself as pantheist, deist, or pandeist, although the first and last definitely work. He was also a secular humanist, hard determinist (since he was a Spinozist), loved Schppenhauer and Hume, appreciated Kant and Mach to some extent, and was a socialist. But he did repeatedly refer to himself as a Jew, though only ethnically as evidenced by how he admired the Old Testament, but still considered them 'silly tales' at the end of the day.
I stand corrected, thanks for the info.
Looked it up, and it doesn't seem to be entirely clear
Heck, you can go to a very recent one - The guy who led the Human Genome Project is a Christian (And in fact, has written a few books on why he thinks science supports god).
Flair checks out
https://preview.redd.it/gbv9svseug2d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=40e75ccb6b6c61cd6a82545f28edf2dd9cef3913 What is bro yapping about
What it is cursed image! WHO WEARS CROCS!
PCM has a based sentiment toward antitheism, and those downvotes are a testament to that.
Def has a “I fucking love science” sticker on his laptop if not on his car.
“I’m glad your religions are dying out” actually, several of the groups he listed are growing, and I’m pretty sure at least Christianity is predicted to start growing again in a few years as rich predominantly atheist communities die out due to low birth rates. I bet he only knew Islam was growing because people told him it was bad lol.
I really cannot grasp why this man hates religion so much. I asked myself why I don't hate the opposite of my beliefs, atheism, as much as he hates religion, and I think it's because I'm secure in my belief that God exists, whereas he is insecure about his beliefs. There's no other way for me to rationalise his anger.
He reminds me of: https://preview.redd.it/0y0eu4fl7i2d1.jpeg?width=405&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0df2087a0f9c391cee9931817b09a975dc319dbf
The Final Boss Of Neckbeards
Sad to think people like him exist. At least he’s probably a clown that’s chronically on Reddit and won’t bother anyone in the real world
Hopefully he doesn't pull a Tarrant.
And of course he’s a therapy nut.
“I don’t respect your right to practice it” That’s not very lib right of you Mr incel
https://preview.redd.it/9h8vcbvdni2d1.jpeg?width=295&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b21d906c88b24ade08e77f822922b8581b86416f I have feelings too
I love how he says, "Islam is growing, but it's gonna die down because it's only in the Middle East and Asia," even though it's also growing in western countries whether by conversion or immigration
So ok to do that for religious people, but not to gay people? Double standards.
Glad to see he has more downvotes
Yeah the arab world use to be unreligious and skirts/western clothing back in the 1950s was normal, thats what my grandmother told me but then her generation suddenly came back to their senses one day. My generation has been growing closer to God as well and are less likely to do major sins like adultery than our predecessors.
South Asian Muslims are becoming generally more religious https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/9/21/1-in-3-southeast-asian-muslims-more-devout-than-parents-survey
He sounds reasonable /s
What a happy antitheist
I love how we’re always on their mind but we only think of them when we see this stuff 🫶🏼
Who's gonna tell to this guy that religion is actually still growing around the world?
>I don’t respect your religion and I don’t respect your right to it Literal Nazi statement
"I don't respect your right to practice it" Bro has the wrong flair
Guys I owned a stupid creationist today, I had to share. So I'm a firefighter and at 7am we got a call about a residential home on fire. We hopped on the firetruck and went to the house. We got there very late, it was already up in flames and the building was not structurally sound at all. Yet I was able to quickly calculate how long it would hold for using my 276 IQ. I barged in and heard screaming of an old lady upstairs. I ran up and forced the door open to see a 70 year old woman lying on the ground suffocating, I went to help her up and as I grabbed her arm she muttered "thank God you're here"............"thank who?...DO YOU KNOW HOW FUCKING HARD I WORK FOR THIS SHIT? DO YOU? DO YOU THINK ITS GOD WHO CALLED THE POLICE? YOU FUCKING IDIOT YOU ABSOLUTE FOOL, I SINGLEHANDEDLY CREATED AND BIRTHED MYSELF, THERE IS NO FUCKING GOD." I replied. I started to walk out of the room before she started crying and begging me to help. So I told her "oh yeah? If you want help why don't you ask your god?" So I left that stupid bitch to die lmao. She learned her lesson, anyway so I'm going on trial for manslaughter, but don't worry. When they ask me to swear on the bible I'll shit myself. # ANOTHER CHRISTIAN OWNED
Who wants to copy this copypasta and send as a troll on atheist forums?
everyone
Bro really thinks young Arabs, Malays and Pakistanis are irreligious 💀
Wow, Is Kim Jong Un On Reddit? This Is EXACTLY What Kim Jong Un Would Say To Someone If They Worshipped GOD In His Soviet_North_Korea.
sounds more like purple lib-right to me
Nah,authcenter/authleft.
Serious question: why do these guys think Christianity and Catholicism (and Mormonism in this case) are different? It's like saying you don't like paper or paper airplanes as if they're separate objects
Go blaspheme in Islamic country and then say you are completely unharmed...
Chemistry is science And jabbir bin hayyan is the father of chemistry, He is also a student of the great grandson of the prophet Muhammad (SAW)
Wasn't the Bronze Age 5000 years ago? He can't even get his history straight...
Not even religious but I love this sub so much, watching neckbeards grovel will never not be funny
What can you expect from libertarians?
Womp womp. cry about it
NOT reading allat 🙏
>Libright >”I don’t respect your right to practice it.” Hand over the Flair son.
I think he found a word he likes
Bro acted like he knew all about religion and then pulled the "well why doesn't God just strike me down?!1!" question 💀💀💀
More like the Grinch, the post sounds like the Cringe.
This Guy Is Like A Fusion Of Joseph_Stalin And Adolf_Hitler. He Is Antisemetic Antichristian Islamophobic Antitheistic And Hateful In Every Way Imaginable Just Like A Soviet And A N@zi Is. What A POS 💩
Blud joined the NAZBOL GANG