You are the bigot. I am defending reality from your death cult.

So I am a bigot simply for being a Christian? Way to make a word lose it’s meaning…

Yes, there is. You accept claims without evidence.

No, I don’t. There is substantial historical documentarg evidence which gives reason to believe that the Apostles believed what they saw.

Citation needed

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2012/12/18/global-religious-landscape-exec/

Only 16% of global population is religiously unaffiliated according to this study. There’s also a possible percentage of them who aren’t complete Atheists.

Yes there is, you selfish moron. There is only one truth. “Supernatural” means not real.

Citation needed.

You support the same death cult that ruined my life and is killing more people every day.

No, your parents and these Stowe people ruined your life. They just so happened to use Christianity as an excuse for abuse. In the same way, many religious positions, including atheism, have been used as an excuse for abuse. Many people don’t do that. I am sure many people who suffered under communist anti religious campaigns may view atheism as a death cult.

Yahweh is a death god. He solves problems of his own making with needless violence.

Punishing evil isn’t “needless violence”.

Christians worship a zombie savior, drink his blood, eat his flesh. Belief in an afterlife devalues our real lives. My parents think they are going to heaven when they die. They don’t care when human life is lost, they pretend the dead are better off that way.

If the afterlife is real, then yes, this “real” life is of less value. With the rest, I don’t see how this is a problem. I, too, can uncharitably frame atheists as “people who don’t believe there is a solid difference between right and wrong, and believe you can do whatever you like in this life to anybody because nothing matters and we’re all going to be blown up by the sun”. You can frame any ideology in such a manner. It’s not constructive, and such a framing doesn’t prove or disprove that ideology, my framing doesn’t disprove atheism or their arguments.

The least you can do is stop spreading this cancer.

I am going to spread it further. I have helped bring a few of God’s children to Him and hopefully will help bring a good few more, if God wills it.

Don’t make assumptions. Ask questions. Kids are dying for this.

You said you only believed because you didn’t want to go to hell, but didn’t really believe before then.

There is no standard, no way to verify.

It’s literally in the Bible. Examples of God’s love and patience are visible in the Old Testament and examples of God’s wrath and justice are visible in the New Testament.

Dumb fuck: “do what I say or suffer” IS NOT LOVE. God is not patient in the bible, he’s impulsive, cruel, and really fucking stupid. “I made man bad. I flood world. Oops, man still bad. Oh well.” What an idiot.

If God had the same amount of patience as the most patient man on earth, He’d have destroyed man to begin with and tried again. You and I wouldn’t be here.

Fuck you for choosing death. There is blood on your hands, murderer.

In the few interactions we have had, you have actively defended a death cult. This behavior harms you, me, and everyone else. I consider it a sign of dangerous unintelligence when someone pretends that magic is real, a staggering lack of reading comprehension to fail to recognize the bible as fiction.

This just comes off as bigotry. Plain and simple. There’s nothing unintelligent with being religious or the lack thereof it. Yes, I, like the majority of humanity, believe in the supernatural. There’s nothing wrong with that.

If you’re referring to your specific upbringing within a family in the Southern United States within a Baptist denomination as the “death cult”, then no, I am not defending that. It sounds like they didn’t even teach you anything about “believe or you’ll perish” but didn’t give you anything to believe in.

Specifically, I believed in a loving god, but my parents embodied the cruel and violent tyrant of the old testament.

This is a misconception. Jesus in the New Testament talks about hell and warns of impending doom, in addition to Revelation (more than the old testament). While the Old Testament also demonstrates God’s patience and love, teaches you to love your neighbour, etc.

Except they’re not Nazis. Hexbear’ians at least know how to be funny tankies

Nah, it’s caused by selfish dipshits like you.

My friends are dead because you love this baseless, abusive bullshit more than real life.

You don’t know me, yet you make these accusations against me. Why?

I read your song a while ago. If I may- what did John Stowe and Christine do? It appears you also say that your parents physically abused you as an infant. This is not okay. You also said they worshipped a different god to the bible?

The basic aspects of the universe that God created can be observed and explored. He didn’t need to convey it in written scripture, which is the only way a redemption story could have been preserved.

Once again, it appears your argument fell apart but you’re trying to claim victory anyway

backwards book encouraging people to join a literal death cult.

The god who chose to make us suffer? Nah, fuck that guy.

Seems to be a heart issue ragher than a head issue. Basically all human suffering is a product of human activity anyway and the rejection of God, God doesn’t inflict suffering on us. Suffering is caused by the lack of goodness. But God does promise us the end of all suffering anyway. He will punish all wickedness and exalt the humble and meek. All one must do is accept Jesus Christ as their personal saviour, and let Him transform them. He will have eternal life.

Except we know that it was written by people, indeed as scripture itself says it is. St Paul wrote that letter to Timothy, the Gospel of Matthew was written by Matthew, etc. Personality traits of the writers are present, such as St Luke who was a doctor having a few medical influences on his work. Matthew was Jewish and explains Jewish prophecy, and St John focuses on Christology, demonstrates a rivalry with St Peter and also shows his dislike for Judas Iscariot. St Paul laments his past.

Read your quote again.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

What is scripture useful for teaching, reproof and correcting in what? Righteousness, and to equip for good work. St Paul clealry states it’s an authority on Morality. Scripture is not useful for taxonomy, the exact political positions of figures at the time, or for determining the age of the earth. Scripture is for equipping yourself to live a God honouring life and it tells the Gospel message of Christ’s Virgin birth, Ministry and teaching, His suffering of death, His resurrection and ascension, and that He will return in glory to judge both the living and the dead; that His Kingdom will have no end. In light of that we can be equipped for every good work and know how to honour God. While there are some useful historical nuggets in The Bible (Nehemiah documents the earliest known usage of passports) it’s not a taxonomy, geology, astronomy or biology book.

Hexbear users are the funniest people on the platform

In the post- as if it’s second thought. It should be the main link.

God didn’t write the Bible. You’re thinking of Islam and the Qur’an.

In the body? It’s a UK comm on a UK instance aimed at users in the UK. Most users are browsing from the UK, likely without a VPN. Why not do the decent thing and make the “alternative video” link the main one?

Secondly, Imgur blocks VPNs. You basically can only access it with a residential IP.

Of course non-UK users are welcome here, but at least show some consideration to the fact we cannot access the main links that you are posting. Also for the instance and comm moderators, for all they know you could be posting links to illegal content. We have no way of telling.

It’s quite important if someone is posting something intended for UK viewers using a platform that UK viewers cannot access, even with a VPN (imgur blocks vpn access)

Can you stop using imgur? It’s blocked in the UK

That means 200 officers taken off the capital’s streets, where they could have been tackling the crimes that matter most to Londoners.

How self aware can you be

In Northern Ireland, apparently expressing support for proscribed groups doesn’t usually get you arrested because it’s not worth the hassle.

Imagine using Imgur to upload to a UK sub

They sold Pokémon Go?

And morocco will pay for it

I use British English in variables for the word “colour”. It’s actually kind of useful because I can tell when it’s my own variable and when I’m interacting with something else.

Are there any car brands which don’t do things like this

It’s easier just recommending the distro rather than Linux in general.

I know someone who was starting to dislike windows, I sent them the Linux mint site. Had a much more positive interaction compared to when I had just previously said “what about using Linux?”

I actually think this is a similar way to push the fediverse. Just recommend a good instance instead of trying to sell them on federated technology. The federated technology will show them content and “how does this actually work” could be a conversation for later.