Comment on Anon finds a hidden message in Shrek

some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why isn’t it plausible

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Virgin Birth? Walked on Water? Caused a demon to leave a person’s body and go out into a bunch of feral hogs that he then sent over the side of a cliff with a few words? Raised a guy from the dead? Raised himself from the dead? Caused his followers to speak every language by touching them with ghost powers?

    I would consider all of these events individually implausible, just for starters.

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    • kaprap@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh maybe my DnD deities weren’t crazy enough

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      • Glytch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah the deep lore for a lot of real-world religions is WILD

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I would consider all of these events individually implausible, just for starters.

      If they were plausible, then there wouldn’t be a religion surrounding the guy.

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      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Religious figures can, and do, exist without the need for “miracles”. Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha), Confucius, and Socrates are all venerated for their philosophy rather than any particular supernatural aspects of their existence. Even in Christianity, the back half of The Gospels are just letters distributed among the apostles focused on building up the Catholic Church as an institution. The miraculous Jesus was something religious scholars had to lobby as canonical for centuries before it was officially recognized. And the Gnostic movement - the really whoo-whoo side of Christianity that hinged on some even more esoteric beliefs - never maintained the kind of following that the more secularized “Jesus is a philosopher king we should emulate” attitude of subsequent Christian groups.

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You’re joking, surely.

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No? It’s a bit silly to claim miracles don’t happen because they aren’t physically possible. That’s what makes then so miraculous

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      • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If something isnt physically possible then it won’t happen.

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  • trslim@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Its just not

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