Comment on Jobless, isolated, fed misogynistic porn… where is the love for Britain’s lost boys?

Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Illecors@lemmy.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Which one?

  My current top two are:

  • the one killed said boys in Ukraine
  • the other one killing said boys in Gaza

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  • Aux@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The one which kills everyone, obviously! Why half measures?

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Last I checked it’s humans killing boys in Ukraine and Gaza.

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    • Illecors@lemmy.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What’s the point of all mighty gods if they can’t be bothered to stop misery. If they do exist - they’re assholes.

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      • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Except He will

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• SleafordMod@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What evidence is there that proves God’s existence?

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What convinced me was the New Testament - Basically, Jesus was a quite well recorded figure, and within a short period of time a narrative appeared about Him claiming to be God, doing miracles and then literally dying and physically rising from the dead. It rapidly started a movement of hundreds of people who were convinced that they saw Him alive, and many were willing to die for that fact if they didn’t actually die themselves. There is a lot of archaeological evidence for this early Church, and I have very good reasons to believe that the Gospels of Matthew and John were eyewitness accounts and the likes of Luke and Mark were compiled by eyewitness accounts from that time and location. Basically, the New Testament was written in the first century about a Guy Who’s existence and crucifixion is undeniable, written about His teachings, miracles and claims to be God, then His tomb was found empty and they claim they saw Him physically resurrected. It started a movement shortly after with the same narrative that hasn’t changed, unlike other legends.

    Good videos on it that can explain it better than me:

    youtu.be/vQKxoBpV2NE

    youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1mr9ZTZb3TUDsgjzdyFz8…

    youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1mr9ZTZb3TW70EEo4e2on…

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    • Indoril@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The naivety of it all is fascinating.

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      • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Nativity*

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    • SleafordMod@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Fair enough. I don’t think I’m convinced of God’s existence myself. But I think freedom of belief is important - we should be free to believe or not believe in God, because I don’t think anybody knows the answer for certain.

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    • MouldyCat@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Don’t you think the Jesus story would be a terrible way for an omnipotent being to send an important message that’s vital for everyone to hear? Just creating a normal human and plonking them in some desert backwater - who looks and sounds just like any other human. The only difference is he hears voices in his head, and can pull off some pretty mediocre magic tricks.

      Seems way more likely that Jesus was just another mentally ill person and anyone who thought they saw him after he was dead was simply mistaken.

      If all it takes is an appealing story to convince you that something with literally no evidence is true and you should devote your life to it, there are many other stories like that, check out the Baghavad Gita for instance. Some really wonderful characters and truly fantastic events - not to mention absolutely mind-blowing magic, all of it completely true (apparently).

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      • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        No, not really.

        Hindus see Jesus as another god, but Jesus claimed to be the only way to the Father, so Hinduism is pretty incompatible with the Jesus narrative

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• zarathustra0@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve been told that free markets are just as good.

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Let’s worship a politician instead!

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    • deadcatbounce@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There’s far too many people that do that to random idiots already.

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• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A lot of those boys turn to god, only to become even more misogynistic, and now they have the irrationality of religion in their arsenal. No need for logical arguments anymore, just scream “god said so” until you get what you wanted, also they become much harder to convince that their ways are the wrong ones.

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• deadcatbounce@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah.

  With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion. - Steven Weinberg

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Without religion, there is no definition of evil

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    • deadcatbounce@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I have a dictionary that says otherwise.

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      • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Which is?

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