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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
God is love just don't ask for the receipts
He's all powerful except for whenever
How many Jesus, the Living Embodiment of YHWH, does it take to change a lightbulb
βI was gonna save those kids from a school shooting, but I was busy giving birth defects to African kidsβ
God works in mysterious ways
Theologically, the answer is that God the creator gave us the world and free will. We built this rolling disaster of corruption and self destruction by handing control of the world over to evil people.
The more practical answer is that people using God to advance evil agendas have drowned out honest discussions of spirituality and religion, especially in the online world.
The theological answer doesn't hold up. We have a god that's supposedly all knowing, all powerful, and all good (complete absence of evil), yet he turns around and creates a world full of evil. So he either isn't aware that evil is happening, is powerless to stop it, or is himself evil.
If there is a god, the Christian presentation of it is at the very least dishonest about the core pillars of what that god is - and if it can't even describe its own god honestly, I certainly don't trust the rest of the mythology.
The theological answer, by its own text, a lie.
Yes, this is basically the Riddle of Epicurus.
If God is willing to prevent evil, but not able, He is not omnipotent. If He is able, but not willing, He is malevolent. If He is both able and willing, then whence comes evil? If He is neither able nor willing, why call Him God?
I like to put it this way: Omniscient, Omnipotent, Benevolent - Choose any two. The evidence around us is ample proof that God cannot have all three properties.
Or heβs just a sadist
He's a narcissistic, petulant child, which actually makes sense that he created man in his image considering the history of the church.
TIL: Don't help others because it impedes their free will.
It's the conservative Christian way!
Not at all. Jesus was all about people helping other people. God interfering in the affairs of man would impede their free will, but people helping people would be them exercising their free will.
That doesn't make sense.
If i choose to murder someone i am impeding their free will.
If god chooses to save someone from murder, then it impedes the free will of the murderer.
Why is only one of those a problem?
It's like the difference between the government punishing you for free speech and a Lemmy mod banning you.
In your example the outcomes are different. What if the only difference was the actor who stopped the murder, would that still make a difference?
Eg: if i trip a murderer so they can't kill the victim, vs if god causes a murderer to trip. Ia one of those violating free will and a other one not?
https://www.etymonline.com/word/eso-
eso- word-forming element meaning" within," from Greek eso "within" (see esoteric).
https://www.etymonline.com/word/exo-
exo- word-forming element in words of Greek origin meaning "outer, outside, outer part," used from mid-19c. in scientific words (such as exoskeleton), from Greek exΕ (adv.) "outside," related to ex (prep.) "out of" (see ex-).
Because people think it's exoteric rather than esoteric. And one thing people hate is walking through the hell inside to get to heaven.
π΅ I was gonna come back again, but I got high
π΅ I was gonna save all of mankind but I got high
π΅ Now their faith's a joke and I know why
π΅ Because I got high, because I got high because I got high
Buddy Christ was one Kevin Smithβs best creations.
I had a paladin on WoW named Buddychrist, way back in vanilla.
Iirc I only got to level 15 or so before someone reported the name. I got a 2 day ban and a mandatory name change on that character.
Giving random players a buff macro'd together with /thumbsup never got old!
Damn, -that- was too spicy for WoW?
Guess they don't fuck around with religious puns despite having two classes that are heavily religion inspired. π€·ββοΈ
He just works in 'mysterious ways' my child...
runs and hides
Dude's got both mommy and daddy issues
Think about this: If he was real, heaven is real and he's up there having a good time; why would he come back to this shithole where humans tortured and killed him once before?
When he returns he's supposed to basically be hulk Jesus.
I'm replying regardless of what I do or don't believe just to engage with the premise.
If Jesus is the son of God and Heaven exists, he might do it to help us. He went through it once to help us. This time at least he'd know what he was getting himself into. If we are using the Buddy Christ universe from Dogma, the first time he only learned of what was to happen shortly before it did and those years were a struggle for him and went undocumented. Now he would have 2000 years to prepare for it. Regardless, if your torture and murder could makes lives better and save the souls of millions or billions, you might consider it. We're told he did once. The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.
Jesus was alright dude, his dad was a prick tho.
