Legit question: how are you supposed to tell which god is the "real god" out of all the gorillion gods that humanity worship?
inb4 epin bedora memes.
>>73163126
the one you believe in is the real one
ffs are you that unfaithful and or degenerate? saged reported kill yourself
>>73163126
You don't. Jesus is the real one.
>>73163126
It's a legit question so I won't fedora meme you.
If you look at the similarities in mythology throughout the world. You'll notice a certain pattern
>Flood Myth
In Greek Mythology
In Chinese Mythology
In Native American Mythology
In African Mythology
The story is always at least similar, that the Gods and/or God sends a flood and a righteous man builds an ark with his family.
This story is even told by the Sumerians, the most ancient civilization recorded.
>>73163126
2,999 forms of human idealism,
Only one true absolute all encompassing totality of being.
Geeee Ricky, I guess there's just no way to discern…
>>73163126
You're too old for a v-neck, Ricky.
>there have been thousands of theories about why people get sick, so far only the germ theory actually is true
>the others are silly made-up nonsense.
There's this thing called faith
>>73163278
Did you know the Sumerians recorded the procession of the equinox as precisely as we see it today, yet we can only tell because we have the tech to look back thousands of years. How could the Sumerians unless they've been around for 2,000 years prior to their records know of this procession?
>>73163126
what if its like meme magic, kek exists because we will it into existence?!
>>73163126
You don't need religion to believe in a higher power dip shit.
>>73163126
I guess it's part of having faith boy
>>73163328
Germ theory had been proved by science.
>>73163126
Don't try and decpher, know. You are the mover and that which is moved. You and everything around you, all the stuff and emptiness, is god. Welcome to divinity.
>3000 gods
>not different manifestations of one being
I too remember having a child's conception of God.
>>73163126
in the middle ages it was accepted science that babies grew from fish in the mother's womb, but your science is the real science...so smart and enlightened
>>73163408
In islam we actually have similar to this, look up "scientific miracles in the Quran".
In reality it's more of scholars stretching the meaning of verses to match with recent scientific discovers.
i think i have become a meme magician
>see somebody i hate eating a bowl of cereal
>resist the urge to dump it on him
>sit down
>3 minutes later
>he spills it on himself
>mfw
>>73163328
Are you honestly trying to use science and fact as an reason to justify the existance of deities?
Or are you being ironic?
>>73163408
Leviticus 13:45
covering ones nose & mouth when sick gives support to the idea that they knew about germ theory back then.
>>73163383
I don't know, maybe they've had records from 2,000 years prior?
>>73163408
Boy they sure do play around with them verses as time progresses to make it match science don't they.
http://biblehub.com/isaiah/40-22.htm
>>73163383
what's equinox?
>>73163408
Nice cherry picking, Bible suggests the Earth is flat though, see http://www.answering-christianity.com/earth_flat.htm. One true religion is Ásatrú you degenerate.
>>73163383
>>73163740
Both of these are possible.
>>73163408
The "Science Then" column is full fucking retard.
>>73163126
study and compare them? most people don't do this. most gods are superpowered humans/animals. abrahamic religions basically say god is the creator of the universe/unlike anything you can imagine.
>ricky gervais
>the guy who makes "jokes" about donating corpses to gay rapists with aids, and asks what you would do if you woke up after being donated
>and sells phone lines or whatever
>a good source of information for anything
>>73163408
FTFY
>mfw filename
I don't honestly really care 2bh, been an atheist for so long I stopped giving a shit about deities a long time ago.
But some of them are certified bullshit.
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>>73163403
>>73163668
>meme magic
holy shit it all makes sense now
>>73163820
>there were ice giants but some old guy with one eye killed them :^)
>UH THE ONE EYE IS SYMBOLIC OF A BLACK HOLE AND IT MEANS IT JUST CONTAINED DARK MATTER
it's a primitive and mostly incorrect form of science/philosophy/theorizing
>>73163278
>the story is even told by the sumerians
that's because they invented it and passed it down to other generations and civilizations. with the deluge they also had myths of kings reigning for over 10,000 years. the children of adam were said to have lived for ~1000 years. do you believe that as well?
>>73163126
the one you believe in rather the one you are told to believe in
can fedoras please stop conflating faith with religion? these sort of threads don't go anywhere past the shit flinging stage because of your intellectual dishonesty
>>73163856
>he upset my belief in an imaginary friend
did God create the parasites that burrow into a starving African babies eyes too?
>>73163126
or maybe some gods/god have many different names, Ricky is a twat
>>73164085
yes? and it's possible to stop that from happening with medicine/doctors/technology
>still not understanding why bad things happen
a symptom of being young. you can't appreciate good things without anything bad happening, you'll just take it for granted and want more and more for selfish reasons.
[spoiler]instead of using science, technology, supercomputers, etc. to bring people back from the dead and become immortal[/spoiler]
>>73164007
You got that from how Marvel depicts the Notes Gods, to be fair.
>>73164238
I'm sure the dead raped little girls at the hands of the likes of the Moors murderers who begged for Gods help before having their vagina smashed and throat slit are very appreciative now.
Dummy.
Threads about god will have over 300 posts from mostly americans.
Threads about politics not involving trump will get around 10 before being archived.
When did you realise americans are the cancer??
>>73163403
Here's the thing:
Kek is the meme god.
But as we all know, all religions are just memes.
Therefore, Kek is the ultimate, true deity, god of gods.
>>73163126
I've got a lot of love for Ricky Gervais, this badass picture here first set me off on questioning my Christian upbringing.
Atheist for 6 years, AMA
>>73164667
How hardcore christian was your parents?
Also, what did they say when they found out you'd been hiding a fedora in the sockdrawer "for a friend"?
>>73164369
>we shouldn't have free will because some people do bad things
mental gymnastics, but this is /pol/ so that's not surprising
>>73164807
>How hardcore christian was your parents?
Dad is the type to either just ignore or politely nod when I talk about atheism, mum is the type to start screaming.
>found out you'd been hiding a fedora in the sockdrawer
When I told them I was an atheist and no longer going to church mum wanted to kick me out but dad just made me start paying rent
>>73163126
Men love to come up with idols and that is why there are "3000 gods". Their sole purpose is to make man fall away from God. Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life.
>>73164477
Niggerica is full of retards with underage minds and, of course nigs, poos, muds, chinks and spics.
Do you really come here for the discussion of politics?
I come here for the keks, that's all
>>73163126
Humanity since it came into existence has been coming up with different concepts of gods, yet you still deny the existence of divine. Why are you an atheist? Maybe you should pick one god instead?
>>73163668
Ive had a power like this with music since I was a kid.
>listening to shuffle on mp3 player.
>think of a perfect song for the moment.
>click the next button a few times.
>song i was thinking of plays.
>playlist is in the 2500 region.
>1/2500 chance of this happening and if still works.
It happens so often that im starting to think my thoughts are affecting an electronic device.
>>73163278
or maybe all the "myths" contain a story about a great flood, because there was actually a great flood
>>73164015
>They invented it
The Sumerians traveled all the way to North America within the span of 50 years and told them about it?
>>73165057
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>>>73163278 (You)
>or maybe all the "myths" contain a story about a great flood, because there was actually a great flood
Yes that was what I was getting at.
>>73164997
>Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life.
isn't it idolatry to believe that crosses/statues of jesus have magical powers like most christians do?
>>73165057
i'll put my money on there was a great flood at some point in earths history
>>73164667
very funny
>>73163369
Faith is dishonesty and bullshit. It's laughed out of any serious discussion.
>>73164939
No I never said that, I question Gods so called power and loving nature because of such events.
Lets hope the little girl accepted Jesus otherwise she will be burning in eternal hell fire, and if her dad cant take the pain of what happens and commits suicide he will be sent into the fires for infinite gnashing and torture of teeth too.
>>73164939
Free will can exist without bad things happening.
If you walk past a homeless person and you choose to give him either 1 or 5 $, which is the evil choice?
And what sock did you put on first this morning? Which sock is the bad choice?
>inb4 but taking away our possibility to do evil is aking away our free will.
Nope.
Can you do a unassisted one-legged jump across the english channel?
No?
Why is that? Is it because you free will to do so is being withheld by a supernatural force, or is it because it's just a physical impossibility?
Your ebility to jump across the english channel is obviously not a violation of your free will. It's simply that humans is unable to make such a jump.
And if god wasn't such a faggot, he'd be able to create a world where our free will to do evil was the same as our free will to jump the channel. Simply impossible.
>>73163126
I think /pol/ is relatively red-pilled sometimes, until I see the number of religi-woo-woos in threads like this.
There's no immortal sky-father, you fucking autists. Turn your back on reality and advertise your blithe stupidity with grade-school memes as much as you like.
It won't change a thing.
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>>73163383
So what you guys are saying is that the ancient Sumerian religion is the right one and all the others just borrowed garbled echoes of it? Got it. Praise Inanna!
>>73165213
Atheist put a lot of faith in things they don't really understand and that they could never verify or experience for themselves.
you dont
>>73165213
you are desperately dependent on faith, whether you acknowledge it or not.
I'll give you an example: you have unshakable faith in the law of induction. That is, you have faith that since 2+2=4 last time you checked, it will be 4 next time you try as well. Can you justify this belief without resorting to pure, blind faith?
>>73163126
Except the Bible doesn't say other Gods don't exist.
It simply states that all the other Gods are false Gods and shouldn't be worshiped.
>>73163126
>>73163126
There is only one God. His name doesn't matter. Most religions will admit God has many faces, many voices. Each religion hears the voice and sees the face they choose.
>>73165066
the mayans weren't thriving until 4000 years after the sumerians, plenty of time for some wetbacks to get lost and wander into central america.
>>73165057
sounds pretty reasonable
>>73165374
the red pill is recognizing that everything comes full circle.
first, the red pill was atheism. Then, the REAL red pill was theism.
There's always one more level than you think.
>>73165366
that's actually pretty spot on
>>73165608
Most religions are false. Any religion that denies Jesus Christ is the Son, that He died on the cross for our salvation and that He rose to Heaven and will return is a false religion - just like Islam.
>>73165366
I can't believe babbies still think the world would be better off without evil.
You really want everyone to just sit around and be happy and make art and fuck each other all day?
Sounds really shitty imo.
Not being sarcastic here. I'm honestly bewildered that people think a world without hatred, bigotry, or evil would be preferable to our own.
Here's a thought: what if god tried making a world like that first, but it sucked so much that he destroyed it?
And then he made a world where only bad things happened, but that sucked too, so he destroyed it again? (Maybe with a flood?)
And then he made something in the middle, and so far, so good?
>>73166037
>>73165466
That's not faith, that's logic and reasonable expectations. Also, we're discussing faith in the religious definition which is as I stated.
Try again.
>>73165466
just calling things with the wrong name doesnt make your retarded argument right man.
Just say you want to believe in a god, nothing wrong with it, unlike the fedoras says. Just dont do such mental gymnastics to justify it, because in that case it looks like you're insecure about it
>>73166225
lol. How does it feel to be so blind to your own axioms?
When you say "logic," you're referring to a bunch of arbitrary rules that people worked a long time ago. They do a pretty good job of making sense of the world, but they're still arbitrary.
"Faith in the religious definition" is no different than any other type of faith: a belief not grounded in reason. Clearly, reason can't be grounded in itself. So reason is a form of faith!
>>73166037
>You really want everyone to just sit around and be happy and make art and fuck each other all day?
Because you sit in a comfy home where nothing happens anyways.
Do you think your opinion was shared by something like the holocaust jews?
>Here's a thought: what if god tried making a world like that first, but it sucked so much that he destroyed it?
Sucked?
What would a god mean by a world "that sucks"?
If there is a god that gives a fuck about humans, this god is a total dick that lets us suffer for either his pleasure or his neglect of us. Definatly not someone I'm willing to go to church once a week for.
And for the rest of that bottom segment argument you had there:
What is that other than pure speculation? You are just making shit up on the fly because you'd imagine it would make up a nice explonation, didn't you? There is nothing to suggest any past earths that came and went.
>>73163638
everytime the science thing in the quran, show us nigger and makke us laugh
>>73165057
yea but then wouldn't that leave some kind of indelible mark? and how big was this flood? if it was enough to cover all land on earth than wouldnt that require more water than what is already on the earth? where did this water come from?
>>73163126
If you aren't a brit expat, I have to ask;
Will you be killed depending on the answer you pick?
>>73163126
There is no way, which is why I frown on religions playing the moral superiority card (though I do not doubt some religions and modalities are better than others). Even the vague spirituality I posess is tainted by abrahamic belief systems, because its what I grew up with.
I don't begrudge religion, but it doesn't have the right to be as self important as it is.
>>73163706
there was even quaratine, and the people not so long ago died of black death while this all could have been prevented by reading levicitus
>>73163126
Im gonna prove god and tell this guy to eat shit
Hillary is god
>>73163126
If you look at the biggest religious groups, your belief must be founded in a desert to be respected.
>>73166400
if you're not insecure about your beliefs, your beliefs aren't interesting enough.
>>73166431
you're right, I got carried away at the end there. I'm not even remotely Christian, it was just a fun idea.
>If there is a god that gives a fuck about humans, this god is a total dick that lets us suffer
Don't take it so personally. It's just a game. It's just a ride. And the whole reason it's fun is that we think it's real. We think it's deadly serious, but it's all just a joke.
When we suffer, god is suffering too. But god knows that there can be no happiness without suffering.
Pantheism is the true red pill.
>>73166683
very this
>>73166683
true aryan
>>73166522
Its stupid anyway, water "washing away" filth is an almost universal metaphor. That's all it is, but literalists are retards.
aryan hillary
>>73166703
how much aryan?
>>73166710
THIS
>>73166703
10?
>>73166724
full master blood race
>>73166730
THIS
>>73166751
More full blooded than drumpf kek
>>73166690
some level of uncertanty is an inherent part of a belief, by definition.
but trying to justify your belief by bringing others down and trying to equate science to it is just mental gymnastics
>>73166751
>this
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>>73166766
only true master race aryan alphas will vote for hillary
>>73166781
agreed
>>73166809
Dont you think true aryans vote for hillary?
There has only ever been one God.
The others were idols, usually demons.
>>73166809
who /votin4hillary/ here??
>>73166838
yes probably
>>73163126
Christianity doesn't preach that other gods are not real, just that they are not God.
By and large in Christian theology pagan gods are considered demonic entities.
>>73166848
ARYANS
>>73166838
THIS
>>73163126
Maybe all the gods are real and with their unique brand of dickery, made themselves out to be the big cheese to anyone who hadnt been claimed by another god or pantheon yet.
>>73166881
>this
>>73166769
I'm not trying to convince anyone to adopt my beliefs, m8. I just want them to admit that their beliefs are as arbitrary as mine.
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>>73166885
she looks like hitler female right?
>>73166918
YES
getting real comfy waiting for donald drumpf to get btfo before he starts ww3
>>73166958
agreed
>>73166918
a better hitler
A R Y A N
H I L L A R Y
>>73166972
she is better than taylor swift
>>73165057
Perhaps this one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis
>>73166848
US is going to get fucked either way, no matter what you vote.
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You were saying?
>>73163126
You're not supposed to compare. You're supposed to accept whatever religion you're born into. If you were smart l enough to compare, you wouldn't even be religious. So just accept your faith.
thats a bit weird, innit?
There have been 108billion people with their own self-evident beliefs. Who's is correct?
>>73163126
best response so far has been "faith"
christfags not even trying anymore
>>73165030
Your thoughts affect the simulation we live in
HILLARY
Remember: many """"Christians"""" on /pol/ are people who convince themselves they aren't atheist in order to be counter to reddit.
>>73167235
>Remember: many """"Atheist"""" on /pol/ are people who convince themselves they aren't Theists in order to be counter to reddit.
>>73163278 #
All ancient civilizations existed by river systems, without exception, as they all needed the water for agriculture, which is what let them achieve civilization in the first place. And all river systems flood on occasion, sometimes destroying the adjacent societies, destroying their "world". And so, yes, the catastrophes became part of their ancient oral stories, their folklore. But there is nothing mystical about any of this.
>>73166522
massive floods have happened historically, look at the north sea and doggerland. That happened within the span of human existence due to rising sea levels, and submerged a pretty huge mass of land.
Bearing in mind that "the world" for these people was pretty much todays middle eastern region [spoiler]probably a little more developed though[/spoiler]
>>73166037
How can Christianity be wrong with art this good?
>>73163126
> be practicing christian
> see a document in TV about buddhist monks
> wow that shit looks intriguing
> do a personal research about them
> tfw they do real miracles with their bodies
> power of Qi and self-control
> realize this is the real deal
> think of all the other religions and their claims n shit with 0 proof just millions of believers who prove exatly opposite than the religion claims to be
> but buddhism isn't a religion
Nope, it's above religion.
>>73165030
>two songs that are exactly the same but named differently on a random playlist
>one plays directly after another
explain this atheists
>>73163126
Its like he isn't even aware of the definition of God.
There can by definition be only one God who is truly omnipotent, omniscient, etc, for if there were any others, then they would both cease to be those things.
There can be thousands of supremely powerful beings imagined up or (if you believe in this sort of thing) "out there" in astral realms or something, and they might as well be gods without a capital.
But there can be only one God.
>>73163126
Has this dude done anything of note since the British office like 15 yeara ago?
He's a washed up actor, wjo made a name for himself playing a bumbling nitwit.
Why would anyone take his advice on anything, he shills for cell phone plans, lmao.
>>73167235
I wish I was a Christian. I just can't force myself to believe all the nonsense that goes with it.
Being an atheist just makes you come off as an edge lord.
I would say most people see various religious groups as having different interpretations of the same entity we call God
>>73167841
Just be protestant. It's a sect of Christianity for people who don't believe in Christianity.
>>73168097
I think you mean non-denominational. Protestants have a litany of their own weird shit. Just ask the Calvinists.
>>73163408
Atoms are not invisible, if they were, you couldn't see anything.
>>73163126
>"ANTISEMITE !"
>Ricky Gervais looks down and apologizes
>>73163126
People realized this long before dickeen yurface came along
>>73167425
R A R E
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>>73163126
I honestly have to say that it is Yahweh.
Out of all of the religions of the world, the Abrahamic religions have produced the most religious artifacts and produced the most detailed canon.
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>>73111545
reddit hillary shills out, we know your mission here and you should understand bernfags already tried this and we still support trump, we like you even less, what makes you think you're different
>>73169917
I dunno.
I think the tolkein universe could definitely give the abrahamic faiths a run for their money. Especially if we consider any one of them discounting the others.
If we take into acount the continuity and self-consistency in the source material. The Tolkein universe will blow any of the Abrahamic faiths out of the water many times over.
>>73163126
Because there is no God but Trump and Milo is his prophet.
>>73163126
>Over 3,000 dicks have gotten AIDS from your husbando's asshole, but yours won't. Yours is real.
>>73163820
Or as it was called here. Wodenism. Stay strong brother
>>73163126
You don't, G-d is the only true one.
>>73166522
Try the black sea you dumb cunt, or the great lakes.
>>73163408
The greeks knew the earth was round before the bible was a thing you moron.
>>73163126
You can start by tossing out the polytheistic religions as a pantheon of Gods doesn't make metaphysical sense; only an uncreated, eternal, first-mover does.
After that it gets harder. You have to look at the moral, theological, and historical aspects of the remaining monotheistic religions and see which makes the most sense.
