Anon blames Atheism for being a pos
Anon ruins christmas
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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GarboDog@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Very anon of him, tbf
GarboDog@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
To their credit, they’re well aware they were being a turd.
Bahnd@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I get it, I too had an angsty teenage atheist phase (minus the abuse and arson), took a while and the folks just stopped trying to get me up for church. This is why most religions have a “coming of age” event where you are recognized as an adult and choose to stay with the group. I would guess most parents dont know how to react when their kid makes that decision for themselves before then…
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
chocolate doesnt grow on trees
bruh
Technus@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I was gonna say, it literally does lmao
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Raw ingredients aren’t the final product. Cows don’t produce cheese.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I just pictured milking string cheese out of an udder, and so you have to suffer too.
CarstenBoll@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
If you shake the cow before milking it does!
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It doesn’t. This is what grows on trees.
Ariselas@piefed.ca 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
He’s now a big cringe retard, as proven by his telling of the story.
BeUnique@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Anon learns the hard way that for most families, Christmas has nothing to do with Christianity especially when kids are involved.
wrinkledoo@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Of course there’s also the group that are probably intelligent enough to understand that other people think differently to them, but don’t care because they are narcissists.
Which is how you get conservatives.
IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 3 weeks ago
he must be frightened to think about cocoa trees!
or genetically modifying trees to grow whatever you want!!! 😱😱😱😱
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Man you should be charging reddit rent to be living in your head like this. Greentext is 4chan.
ButteredBread@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
replace the choco with cocoa lol
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Still waiting on my sausage tree
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
That’s not atheism, that’s nihilism which is different.
Atheists don’t believe in God, largely because religion doesn’t really answer any of the big questions. No particular mode of behaviour is required of an atheist. You certainly don’t need to go around being destructive of quasi religious icons (Christmas trees aren’t even related to Christianity it’s a corporate thing).
Nihilism is just the people who are having a midlife crisis, or are just play acting at depression in order to get attention. It’s not a philosophical position. It’s just been whiny.
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s more like an offshoot of being raised religious and realizing none of it adds up but it still is a part of your worldview so it’s easy to swing from one extreme to the other.
If god isn’t real nothing matters so you can do what you want. Then the consequences of reality hit and you realize that just because god isn’t real doesn’t mean the consequences aren’t.
VeryBlandUsername@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Atheists are just the other side of the coin from religion, they KNOW there is no god and nothing you say matters. They can’t prove it, but they have absolute faith and will fight you every step of the way because their dogma demands it.
Agnostics are more the chill ones. They know they can’t prove if there is or isn’t, they just know religion isn’t for them.
cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Christmas trees are actually an older pagan thing that happens in several cultures, but the practice is pretty close to an old Saturnalia tradition.
webp@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Anon the grinch
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
science doesn’t allow chocolate to grow on trees
SMRT
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Everyone knows it’s chocolate is produced in a lab as a result of a complicated chemical reaction and is definitely not a real occurring natural organic product that grows from a plant.
I mean yeah it’s not a tree, but still.
cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
The definition of 'tree’is very timey-wimey
Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
“You know what I hate the most about religion? Its the way they try to shove their beliefs down your throat!”
cholesterol@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That dad? Albert Einstein.
FavouriteShapes@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
science doesnt allow chocolate to be grown on trees
Not with that attitude it doesnt. Give us a few hundred years and we’ll have them growing it fully formed, with caramel inside.
cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Cocoa beans are actually roots.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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
ButteredBread@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
So the dad is gay and the kid is not his kid?? ARE BOTH THE DAD AND KID MADE OF CARDBOAR… gay cardboard? well ig beating gay cardboard up is better than beating real people and kids up…? Or is the kid just adopted? I- WHEN CAN YOU EVEN CALL YOUR KID FAKE- AND THE PARENT FAKE‽‽‽ Also wouldn’t just making them pay/work for it be more civilized? Maybe idk give them a bad job or uhh give them a punishment too if you’re mad.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
“Child abuse is cool if my kid doesn’t like me forcing my religion upon them”.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Good job! Great misinterpretation!
EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app 3 weeks ago
It sounds like anonny learned a valuable lesson that day
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
clifmo@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
A belief system made me do it. Yea, sure it did bud
Signtist@bookwyr.me 3 weeks ago
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.
superduperpirate@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Anon forgot that having an asshole doesn’t mean you should regularly act like one.
GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
You really should educate yourself a little bit more to get to the baseline level.
Oh, nevermind, you’re one of those feel-good nonsense wafflers.
cynar@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks 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.
charokol@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Did you burn down your family‘s Christmas tree too?
SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
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 3 weeks 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.