For example, you put yourself through university by studying hard and working full time. Then someone says, you should thank god for giving you the strength. Like wtf do you mean, I busted my ass day in and day out but I’m supposed to thank god for it?

  • Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    I’m annoyed by anyone with a personality that consists of exactly one thing and one thing only, even more so when the one thing they picked for their personality is a tradition of extravagant bullshit that has been ruining lives for millenia

  • Zink@programming.dev
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    4 months ago

    Yeah it’s annoying.

    But fairy tale creatures aside, recognizing and being grateful for any good luck, attributes, or privilege you might have is good for you and your empathy for others.

            • bstix@feddit.dk
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              4 months ago

              It’s wild to think about how in our lifetime there’s been these people who went straight from tribal to modern life.

              It’s interesting for sure. The more I think about it, the more sense it makes.

              At least Prince Philip showed up and gave them things they’d never seen before, unlike the priests who are like " you gotta believe this 2000 year old book I’ve read, just trust me bro."

              It also makes me think about how modern people are still offering all of their valuables to random billionaires or choosing their leaders by popularity instead of skill.

              Modern humans are still tribal.

  • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    I’ve been told the same thing, they said god gave me my strength, but realistically if this “god” did give me anything, it would be my weaknesses and hostile social environment, where I was forced to find my own strengths that a god couldn’t give unless they wanted me to face some sort of mythological nepotism.

  • chilldrivenspade@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorEnglish
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    4 months ago

    they can wishfully think themselves into anything as long as it makes them better than other people and they can play victim

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      “Could kill you but didn’t” is kinda valid, but clearly implicate that the entity in question is, mildly speaking, not good.

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 months ago

    The overall purpose of religion is to propagate itself like a mind virus. Institutional velocity.

    I wouldn’t care at all if these people were able to keep their delusions to themselves. As a whole, past and present, these people have proven themselves incapable of doing so.

    Paradox of tolerance.

  • BlueÆther@no.lastname.nz
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    4 months ago

    I like to us a phrase based around “All hail the deity on the mantle”

    Designed to trigger the most religious

  • LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I find it extremely offensive and presumptuous when a religious person tries to use God talk with me. When somebody tells me to praise Jesus or thank the Lord I feel the same level of discomfort that I’d imagine they would feel if I said hail Satan or let Satan guide us or whatever. I don’t consent to having any of those intentions towards me and it’s very selfish and narrow minded that they assume everyone would agree to those things they say.

    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      Yeah, all those in-your-face atheists with their ad-covered buildings every few blocks and their national holidays and their billboards telling you how to live and their going door to door to tell you how to live. That definitely happens all the time with…atheists.

  • happydoors@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I grew up culturally Christian and surrounded by soft-references to Christian stuff all the time. I try to see past whatever the literal thing they are saying and see the metaphor they are trying to express. People can have limited vocabulary and grow up in bubbles of their family, church, whatever. I try to give them Grace and just move on. Ultimately, they are trying to communicate a good thing with you. As long as they don’t start evangelizing or guilting, that’s different.

  • Bristlecone@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    So fucking irritated my dude. I know in their minds they’re doing it out of a sense of trying to help other souls to find the correct path, in theory. But when you look at it from a secular point of view it literally just feels like them asserting their worldview constantly in the most smug possible way, like get fucked fr. Humans just don’t know how to stop themselves from convincing everyone around them of whatever fairytale horse shit they desperately need for themselves to not fear death. I don’t mind them believing whatever the hell they want, I just wish they would shut their ass about it. If it’s the truth thing everyone on Earth has the same access to it and I don’t need somebody constantly reminding me that what’s true is true. Things that are true don’t need to be constantly repeated

      • Bristlecone@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        I do appreciate your lofty conveyance of these concepts and your insight on historical context. I suppose I just tend to put sociopathy on all strangers these days. I’m not necessarily saying it’s like an imperative to spread their religion, more like people generally tend to not mature or grow in their lives, but rather to justify their own behavior to themselves instead. It’s relatively common, because of this, that people are subconsciously using religion to justify their own antisocial behaviors instead of improving themselves. And that inherent narcissism is the actual reason people will inject religion into every conversation and try and push it on to those around them. Maybe I’m cynical, though, and applying my anecdotal experience to more of the population than it actually fits with