What went wrong?
>>318486
The power of God is directly related to the amount of people who believe in him.
It's like the Gods of the warp in 40k.
>>318515
Or like the lady of the lake in Merlin.
Or fairies in neverland.
It's actually kind of true with religion. Look at how much power and influence the Catholic Church used to have. They were literally more powerful because so many people believed
is this like a fetish? arguing about god?
>>318529
The entire town of Sodom had a fetish for angels apparently
>>318486
People got better at spotting bullshit, the Internet is probably the final nail in the coffin for organized religion
There is a correlation!
>>318571
They just wanted to know them.
>>318486
Isn't curing a major disease more impressive than walking on water or causing a local plague?
>>319118
Curing disease seems like something mortals are perfectly capable of doing though
>>319121
Frankly humans can accomplish everything in the graph right now, except for creating an entire universe.
>>318486
I think you forgot turning bread into the corpse of his son who is also himself
>>318486
We filled in too many gaps.
>>318486
What can't we do that God has done other than supposedly creating the universe?
people misunderstanding the idea of god and dogmatism gave it a bad image, people started rejecting god but stil dont understand the point of the idea of god desu .
>>318515
Didn't Christianity reach its peak population around 1890? Why didn't God do shit then?
>>320207
Because all the world powers were christain. Today the non christains are working in sweatshops. God did show his power after all.
>>319304
Don't worry, god will smite the oil companies for trying to become god by causing global warming and flooding the world, just like he did with the Tower of Babel.
God changed his methods the moments Jesus was born into this world and ascended into heaven. The old ways of doing things was no longer necessary. Miracles have still happened for over two thousand years and have been recorded by the Catholic and Orthodox Church.
>>318486
I don't know where you're getting your data from but there are more miracles in post- crucifixion Catholic and Orthodox tradition than there are in the entire Bible, and some of them are about as large in scale as Old Testament miracles. Look through the history of Catholic tradition, including 20th century Catholic tradition, and you'll see Mary turning the tides of battles,the sun dancing across the sky, diseases being cured on a large scale, etc. etc. I think that this argument actually gives Protestants something to think about, but according to Catholics and Orthodox, who make up the majority of Christianity, what that graph suggests just isn't true.
>>320207
No. This is so wrong I think it's bait.
not sure how you can read revelation and think he's not the same god
>>318515
but no one believed in god before he made the universe
>>320226
>mfw Babel curse might have been gradual jst like language mutation and evolution
>>320597
>mfw Christian's revisionist interpretation of the bible is spearheaded by science
You do realize that the toast meme was a Christian autist right? Atheist Autists are sperging out over what Christian Autists do. The key factor here isn't atheism or christianity, it's autism.
It doesn't matter what they believe, autists will always be pieces of shit about it. In a few decades, 95% of autists will be aborted at birth like Down Syndrome, and everyone else will be better off for it. The remaining 5% will be Christian. Funny, isn't it.
>>318515
clearly the one true god then is Nurgle. Welcome the Plague-Father's embrace /hist/orians
>>322231
>In a few decades, 95% of autists will be aborted at birth like Down Syndrome, and everyone else will be better off for it. The remaining 5% will be Christian
Does not compute
>>322231
Face pareidolia has nothing to do with autism.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945214000288
There's a difference between being capable of doing something, and having to do it constantly. God's progressively used a lighter and lighter touch on humanity as more and more of our fate has become self-determined.
>>322514
I want to feel his loving, festering embrace. Nurglettes are top tier qt's also.
>>322649
>making up excuses
God never did anything.
>>318515
>>318486
Latest miracle: people still believe in him
>>318515
Man, that shit is so khornate
>>320372
>there are more miracles in post- crucifixion Catholic and Orthodox tradition than there are in the entire Bible,
>putting in a fake 1600 miracle to make it look like a slope
ayy lmao
>>322622
I feel like this phenomenon is more common among religious folk, just from personal experience though
>>327516
>fake miracle
That's redundant
>>322622
Actually, it has a vague connection:
Autists are actually super bad at seeing and reading human faces.
>>327046
He's right, but not about the scale really. In both the Catholic and Orthodox traditions God was RIDICULOUSLY busy post crucifixion, the obsession with saintly hood and miracles was fucking real.
The most impressive supposed miracles are all in the Old Testament though, obviously, but the quantity and regularity at which they occurred increased massively with Christianity.
>>327046
google search incorruptible bodies of saints like Padre pio, instead of shitposting
>>329506
>Padre Pio
Known con artist. Next
>>329506
>incorruptible bodies
They're just mummies, anon
>>329517
Fuck you are mentally retarded.
>>329540
>The founder of Milan's Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, friar, physician and psychologist Agostino Gemelli, met Padre Pio once, for a few minutes, and was unable to examine his stigmata.[33] According to Agostino Gemelli, Padre Pio was "an ignorant and self-mutilating psychopath who exploited people's credulity." [34] Gemelli speculated that Padre Pio kept his wounds open with carbolic acid. As a result, Padre Pio was required to wrap the wounds in cloth. For many years, he wore fingerless gloves that concealed his wounds. According to believers, the bleeding continued for some 50 years until the wounds closed within hours of his death.[32]
>>318486
Christianity
>>329557
What point are you trying to make here, retard?
>>318486
>What went wrong?
human rights
>>318486
kings didn't sure cancer, it cured scrofula. this is why god doesn't use his power faggot, because people don't even bother to learn his miracles anymore
>>329470
>Autists are actually super bad at seeing and reading human faces.
No they're not. Autism isn't one particular set of disabilities, moron. No two people's autism is the same.
>>320410
Nigger there are more christians in the USA now than there were worldwide a couple thousand years ago.
>>329564
Pio was a fraud, even the church knew. Then he became popular because the stupid masses wanted him to be a miracle worker, so the church slowly changed their stance to align with popular opinion
>>329603
yeah, he stopped helping his beloved children because people started coming up with more reasonable explanations.
seems believable to me
>>330121
So more than zero?
>>318515
Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
>>332062
Love that book, actually all of his books
>>319033
>what is Lanciano
>>329470
That would make them less likely to see faces in a piece of toast.
>>322231
>is an autist
>>329814
Autism isn't a catch-all. this is one trait that is common among this group. just because there are diverse forms of autism doesn't mean there aren't common traits they share
>>332892
So what are the common symptoms across all forms of autism?
>>333022
All autists have problems with oversensitive senses.
Please note that this is just a theoretical fact, and while all autists suffer from this, a lot of them don't ever notice it in their real lives, it has no implications to their lives. It is a truth, but for many, it's so weak that it's really difficult to distinguish from normally sensitive senses, especially if you also consider coping mechanisms.
So you may meet an autist, and he may tell you that he has no problems with oversensitive senses, but that would only be because his version of this problem is so weak he hasn't noticed it. He would still suffer from it, he just wouldn't know.
>>333396
>All autists have problems with oversensitive senses
This is not facial recognition
>>333417
>sight isn't a sense
>>334477
So every form of autism affects your vision?
>>334974
if that is a leading question then; are you actually retarded? who the fuck even came close to saying that? are you just shoving words into anyone's mouth in order to make your arguments come out?
sight is one of the senses you fucking turbotard, so autism can affect it, doesn't mean it always does, but sometimes you can get that result.
if that was a genuine question, and not a leading one, then; no, not all forms affect your vision
>>335030
oh, okay, so you are actually retarded. i get it now, my bad.
yeah, visual savants get thousands of images flooding their brain every time they look at something and the way they can act is their brain trying to handle this massive flood of information. savants are a good example of this. they can recreate images after seeing them once because they saw thousands of iterations of it, where as a normal brain would only see it a few times at a normal length glance and can't properly recreate it off the information sorted and stored. autism has a huge range of ways it can affect someone, not just visual inputs, but auditory savants exist as well, or mathematical savants. whoever wrote the comment "Autists are actually super bad at seeing and reading human faces" is just generalizing, or is just generally retarded (just like you)
>>335081
>whoever wrote the comment "Autists are actually super bad at seeing and reading human faces" is just generalizing, or is just generally retarded
Thought it was you, never mind
>>318486
Does it actually say anywhere in the Bible that God creates the universe? I thought it was just the world
>>337736
>sun and stars and moon
i think you can say that is the universe
>>332733
well tell us
>>337821
http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/4950729
Also if you want something more recent, Sokółka.
>>337896
topkek
>>319092
In the biblical sense?
>>337817
What about the other planets? What about stars we can't see?
>>340136
that is a pretty modern thing we know about and an omniscient being outside of time and space wouldn't know about something as advanced as that
oh man joking aside i would love to live in a fantasy world, with magic and shit fighting the dark forces with flaming sword. respawning by a frindly pray n shit.
>>341014
Ah, to be young again. I can definitely see the appeal of religion for very young children, but I can't believe how many people buy into the fairytale as adults. Oh well, scientology
>>319303
This
Maybe he got bored of us.
I mean, history repeats, so we always do the same shit, maybe it got dull to watch after the first couple thousand years.
Maybe he went and created another race on the other side of the galaxy to pass the time, and they're currently only in Roman era timeline-wise.
>>329506
Is Lenin a saint, then?
>>344246
Yes
>>344246
ДA, TOBAPИЩ.
>>344246
>questioning lenin's holyness
>2015
>>344246
The real question should be, is there any modern figure who is more saintly than VI Lenin
>>344345
no, but we came close
>>344367
He was well intentioned, poor execution
>>318529
I don't get it personally. I don't believe in God, and I think the arguments for his existence are kind of spurious, but it seems to be a pretty pointless thing to argue about these days.
>>344523
What do you mean "these days"? Christianity and Islam are on the rise, atheism as a part of the global population percentage is shrinking
>>344731
Provide a source, gentleman, just for clarity's sake
>>344936
Sure, it is the first graph on this page http://www.pewforum.org/2015/04/02/religious-projections-2010-2050/
>>344956
Ahh, I see, this is basically telling me that highly religious areas are going to have a raise of population, while areas such as europe are receding, dammit Africa!
>>345668
Yup, Nigeria will have more people in it than China by 2050
