Sounds like Atheism, like all belief systems, empowered an asshole with self-righteous validation. Even if you bet on the right horse, it doesn’t mean everything you do is automatically justified; empathy is a higher order law.
Anon ruins christmas
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Signtist@bookwyr.me 1 day ago
superduperpirate@lemmy.world 1 day ago
empathy is a higher order law.
Anon forgot that having an asshole doesn’t mean you should regularly act like one.
GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 15 hours ago
Atheism isn’t really a belief system by itself. It can refer to a lot of things, including positive atheism (the claim that there is not/cannot be a god/supernatural entity), negative atheism (the lack of belief in a deity due to lack of evidence), the absence of religion and many other things. Militant atheism, on the other hand, definitely counts and is susceptible to all the failings you mentioned.
edible_funk@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
It’s not called militant atheism, you’re describing anti-theism. I’ve never heard of atheism claiming definitively that there are no deities or higher powers either, just that since there’s no evidence the claims aren’t worth consideration and can be dismissed as nonsense.
ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
Atheism, like all belief systems
You really should educate yourself a little bit more to get to the baseline level.
Even if you bet on the right horse, it doesn’t mean everything you do is automatically justified; empathy is a higher order law.
Oh, nevermind, you’re one of those feel-good nonsense wafflers.
cynar@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Atheism is as much a belief as bald is a haircut. Technically slightly different, but makes sense to throw into the same box.
Learning that being right doesn’t make you not an arsehole is a lesson too many of us had to learn the hard way.
The satanic temple’s 7th tenet sums it up quite well.
Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.
charokol@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Did you burn down your family‘s Christmas tree too?
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
I used to be big on atheism but I do think it is also a belief system now. I realized that when a christian friend asked me “if we witnessed something that is indisputably an act of God, would you still believe he doesn’t exist ?”
So, anyway, I say I’m agnostic and that I really dislike organized religion now.
SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 hours ago
Even if you bet on the right horse
As if there were any other way to hold any kind of opinion about what could be beyond the bounds of reality as we know it, but to just bet on shit we don’t know the first thing about. It’s all just bets. Nobody knows and everyone is pretending that not only are they right but their rightness is of a superior quality than the claimed rightness of others. They’re still all just blind morons betting on horse races that are fixed by minds far closer to the truth and I control of it than they.
j5y7@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
The people standing in the park trying to tease out which horse is fastest from previous observations has the advantage over anyone just going with their feelings.
They especially have the advantage over the people standing outside who are pretending there are magical centaurs in the park that grant wishes if you’re not gay.
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
science doesn’t allow chocolate to grow on trees
SMRT
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 day ago
chocolate doesnt grow on trees
bruh
Technus@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I was gonna say, it literally does lmao
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
This had me thinking of why the english language uses cocoa. Obviously it is cacao, most other languages use the real name as well. One of those “too hard to pronounce” situations?
StillAlive@piefed.world 23 hours ago
Raw ingredients aren’t the final product. Cows don’t produce cheese.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
I just pictured milking string cheese out of an udder, and so you have to suffer too.
CarstenBoll@feddit.dk 23 hours ago
If you shake the cow before milking it does!
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
It doesn’t. This is what grows on trees.
BeUnique@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
Anon learns the hard way that for most families, Christmas has nothing to do with Christianity especially when kids are involved.
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Yeah that period of time, where you believe nothing matters, so consequences don’t matter, until you realize that just because it doesn’t matter in the long run, it still sucks and you still have to deal with it, is one of the more challenging aspects of childhood atheism.
wrinkledoo@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
What’s annoying about religious people discussing atheism is that they invariably assume atheists also have religious thinking. Like I must go to atheist church every Sunday to convince myself there’s no god. It betrays either a lack of empathy or a lack of honesty.
Nah, I tended my garden, had some coffee, and going to have some tacos later. I only think about religion when it’s brought up, usually when I see a billboard telling me my life is worthless and magic daddy is gonna have me for barbeque after I die.
iocase@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
It betrays a lack of theory of mind, likely indicating they’re below a fuzzy sort of threshold below which you don’t have the cognitive bandwidth to imagine a perspective beyond your own.
Ariselas@piefed.ca 1 day ago
Great thing about atheism Anon, no one made ha do that shit but you, and you get to take full responsibility for your actions without the cop-out of “demonic possession”. Take that beating with pride knowing that you posses radical freedom.
mirshafie@europe.pub 18 hours ago
He’s now a big cringe retard, as proven by his telling of the story.
FavouriteShapes@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
“I have removed the chocolate from the tree. Science doesn’t allow chocolate to grow on trees”
Anon science’d so hard he because a superstitious nutcase (many such cases). This is completely zealot brained.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
This is basivi when somebody tries to be an atheist in a dogmatic, religious way.
Being atheist, at least to me, means that you don’t care about any of that crap, you just try to be a nice person and let others be
I’m “militant” enough to wish that all religions would be prohibited as they’re nothing but tools for control, but I won’t beat someone over the head for believing in fairytales
Gregers@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Seems like atheist in predominantly religious societies tend to behave a bit different, and I can understand that teenagers would want to make a big deal out of it.
My parents were atheists, and so have I been my entire life. But we still celebrated Christmas because it was nice and a tradition. We didn’t go to church or do any religious stuff during Christmas, but ate a traditional Christmas meal, had a Christmas tree, presents and what not.
Religion was just not a topic at all, unless religious people did stupid stuff in the name of religion
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
I’m “militant” enough to wish that all religions would be prohibited as they’re nothing but tools for control, but I won’t beat someone over the head for believing in fairytales
I agree. Hate religion, not the practitioner. Unless that particular believer is a dick.
Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
“You know what I hate the most about religion? Its the way they try to shove their beliefs down your throat!”
IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 22 hours ago
he must be frightened to think about cocoa trees!
or genetically modifying trees to grow whatever you want!!! 😱😱😱😱
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
This is the best part lmao. This guy not knowing chocolate’s main and defining ingredient does actually grow on trees is peak reddit atheist
CovfefeKills@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Man you should be charging reddit rent to be living in your head like this. Greentext is 4chan.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
Still waiting on my sausage tree
myrrh@ttrpg.network 15 hours ago
webp@mander.xyz 20 hours ago
Anon the grinch
cholesterol@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
That dad? Albert Einstein.
clifmo@programming.dev 11 hours ago
A belief system made me do it. Yea, sure it did bud
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
That may be the one time when a (gay and fake) parent beating the shit out of their (fake and gay) kid is justified
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
“Child abuse is cool if my kid doesn’t like me forcing my religion upon them”.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Good job! Great misinterpretation!
EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app 1 day ago
It sounds like anonny learned a valuable lesson that day
GarboDog@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Anon blames Atheism for being a pos
Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 19 hours ago
Very anon of him, tbf
GarboDog@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
That’s very true, we never believed in Christmas/religion but never spoiled/ruined it for others, it was their enjoyment.
Granted when we have a kid, we don’t think we’ll be telling them that “Santa is just a famous character of Christmas, and some people have fun believing he’s real, so don’t ruin their fun either” or something like that. Still have plenty of years to think of how to word it better lol :P