Current Events > How is believing in Zeus any different than believing in God?

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SilvosForever
10/08/21 6:14:38 PM
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Christians explain why YOUR religion is the ONLY correct one.

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David1988
10/08/21 6:15:50 PM
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I thought religion was based on faith, that you couldnt prove your beliefs are right even if you wanted to by definition of what religion entails

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EmetSelch
10/08/21 6:16:01 PM
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Well, there was this one time a statue of the virgin Mary squirted breast milk into the mouth of a priest and they made him into a saint.
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Blue_Inigo
10/08/21 6:17:01 PM
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Edgy

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Southernfatman
10/08/21 6:17:01 PM
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Learning about extinct religions from the past made me start questioning religion as a whole and probably started me on my path to being a nonbeliever.

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Damn_Underscore
10/08/21 6:17:14 PM
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BignutzisBack
10/08/21 6:19:01 PM
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Blue_Inigo posted...
Edgy

Yep, TC is on his baby's first religion argument

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SilvosForever
10/08/21 6:19:06 PM
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David1988 posted...
I thought religion was based on faith, that you couldnt prove your beliefs are right even if you wanted to by definition of what religion entails

So you're saying people are basing most of their day to day lives as well as their moral compasses and personal politics on something that has no real proof?

Sounds like a line of reasoning that could validate any action against any group at any time.

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deoxxys
10/08/21 6:21:42 PM
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I'm not really here to argue but it sounds silly too pick Greek gods versus Christianity.

For one thing most historians will actually agree a lot of the people in the Bible actually existed.

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SilvosForever
10/08/21 6:22:26 PM
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deoxxys posted...
I'm not really here to argue but it sounds silly too pick Greek gods versus Christianity.

For one thing most historians will actually agree a lot of the people in the Bible actually existed.

So you write some fiction and blend it with some actual historical figures and call it all real.

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Wii_Shaker
10/08/21 6:24:33 PM
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Multiple gods with flaws makes way more sense to me than one god that's supposedly perfect, even though it's all bullshit anyway.

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MorbidFaithless
10/08/21 6:25:36 PM
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Literally zero difference but somehow it's okay

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Southernfatman
10/08/21 6:25:48 PM
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People just throw out the "edgy/angst/euphoric/fedora" card because they have nothing else.

Wii_Shaker posted...
Multiple gods with flaws makes way more sense to me than one god that's supposedly perfect, even though it's all bullshit anyway.

And many of those gods being outright petty, jealous, and malicious makes more sense too than a supposed all loving god.

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Prestoff
10/08/21 6:31:39 PM
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It's just the concensus, more people in this day of age believe in the Abrahamic God than they do of the Greek Gods. It's just how it is, Christianity was a lot more aggressive in converting than the Greeks were.

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Background_Guy
10/08/21 6:36:32 PM
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You won't get any counterarguments because there aren't any
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TheRadiant
10/08/21 6:37:08 PM
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Background_Guy posted...
You won't get any counterarguments because there aren't any
I don't think as many people care as TC believes

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WaterLink
10/08/21 6:38:42 PM
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SilvosForever posted...
So you write some fiction and blend it with some actual historical figures and call it all real.

Worked for scientology.

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Damn_Underscore
10/08/21 6:39:28 PM
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TC is talking to fundies.

Not every religious person is a fundie. And TC is acting like a fundie himself.

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Spiderman23JII
10/08/21 6:41:14 PM
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Christians worship Zeus too they just don't know it

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_HayleyWilliams
10/08/21 6:41:46 PM
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Because the people who believe in it say it's different because they feel it is.

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Rathinor
10/08/21 6:42:01 PM
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How's this edgy? If anything God is LESS believable than Zeus. An omnipotent being that can literally end the universe with a thought? At least the Greeks made their main characters slightly fallible.
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pegusus123456
10/08/21 6:43:42 PM
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Christians don't have to live in fear that Yahweh will come down, turn into a swan, and fuck their wives and sons.

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ModLogic
10/08/21 6:44:21 PM
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Southernfatman posted...
than a supposed all loving god.
wasnt the old god too much of an asshole so they retconned him in the new testament?

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monkmith
10/08/21 6:47:12 PM
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Rathinor posted...
How's this edgy? If anything God is LESS believable than Zeus. An omnipotent being that can literally end the universe with a thought? At least the Greeks made their main characters slightly fallible.
slightly fallible? the greeks engineered their gods to be monsters. they raped/murdered/terrorized humans for shits and giggles, and humans were supposed to keep that in mind and not follow by example because it might draw their attention.

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divot1338
10/08/21 6:49:50 PM
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I worship the Sky Turtle because he carries the entire world on his back.


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Southernfatman
10/08/21 6:49:53 PM
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Rathinor posted...
How's this edgy? If anything God is LESS believable than Zeus. An omnipotent being that can literally end the universe with a thought? At least the Greeks made their main characters slightly fallible.


It isn't. Many Christians don't like having their faith challenged so they write off anyone who does so as some angry teenager.

ModLogic posted...
wasnt the old god too much of an asshole so they retconned him in the new testament?

Pretty much. The thing is all you hear from most Christians today is that he loves us all sooooo much, which is downright offensive to me given everything going on now and past history.

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Smashingpmkns
10/08/21 6:50:57 PM
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It's very different tbh. The Abrahamic god is fucking lame compared to Greek gods and the fact that people decided to believe in the Abrahamic god instead of actual cool gods just shows how lame we are as a species.
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DogOfPeace
10/08/21 6:51:27 PM
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Lokison
10/08/21 6:51:36 PM
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*coughs in Norse Pagan*

Uhhh

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DogOfPeace
10/08/21 6:54:01 PM
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SilvosForever posted...
Christians explain why YOUR religion is the ONLY correct one.

what about the Muslim religion? The Hindu gods? Buddhism? Zoroastrianism?

why must you single out Christianity?

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_HayleyWilliams
10/08/21 6:54:48 PM
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DogOfPeace posted...
what about the Muslim religion? The Hindu gods? Buddhism? Zoroastrianism?

why must you single out Christianity?
Ok. Why Hindusim?

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EmbraceOfDeath
10/08/21 6:55:46 PM
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Southernfatman posted...
People just throw out the "edgy/angst/euphoric/fedora" card because they have nothing else.
100%. And if the religious people weren't insecure about their beliefs then they wouldn't have such a reflexive defensive reaction.

And the early Christians were absolutely the edgy ones regarding Christianity and the religions that came before it. Claiming that the gods who were worshipped for centuries well before Christianity was established were the fake ones and only Christians knew the REAL truth.

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monkmith
10/08/21 6:55:53 PM
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Lokison posted...
*coughs in Norse Pagan*

Uhhh
most of that is contaminated by christian influences anyway, hard to say one way or another what they believed.

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The Catgirl Fondler
10/08/21 6:58:28 PM
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If I had to believe in one mythical pantheon, it would be Egyptian.

https://i.imgur.com/gKilYJF.jpg

Dat Bastet.
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Gamerguymass
10/08/21 7:01:16 PM
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deoxxys posted...
For one thing most historians will actually agree a lot of the people in the Bible actually existed.

Thats not true at all. Not even in the slightest. We literally only have proof that one person from the Bible actually existed. Pontius Pilate. And he was nothing at like he was described as being in the Bible.

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BilalPowell
10/08/21 7:01:32 PM
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Monotheists believe in God not gods.

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MushroomMuncher
10/08/21 7:06:16 PM
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Southernfatman posted...
People just throw out the "edgy/angst/euphoric/fedora" card because they have nothing else.
Isn't that what atheists have? Nothing? They have no reason to really care about anything but pretend they do so they don't look like an edgelord

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_HayleyWilliams
10/08/21 7:12:06 PM
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MushroomMuncher posted...
Isn't that what atheists have? Nothing? They have no reason to really care about anything but pretend they do so they don't look like an edgelord
It's pretty fucked up if you need faith that something you can't sense will reward you when you die to care about things. I'm an atheist and I care about everything, sometimes to a mentally harmful degree.

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divot1338
10/08/21 7:13:44 PM
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MushroomMuncher posted...
Isn't that what atheists have? Nothing? They have no reason to really care about anything but pretend they do so they don't look like an edgelord
Nihilists believe in nothing. Atheists just dont believe in God.

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Prestoff
10/08/21 7:15:49 PM
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The Catgirl Fondler posted...
If I had to believe in one mythical pantheon, it would be Egyptian.

https://i.imgur.com/gKilYJF.jpg

Dat BASStet.



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MushroomMuncher
10/08/21 7:17:21 PM
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DuranOfForcena posted...
so either you have god for a reason to care about things or you have no reason to care about things, that's it, those are the only two options on the matter in your mind?
Its not just the belief in God, its everything else.
divot1338 posted...
Nihilists believe in nothing. Atheists just dont believe in God.
Aren't those two viewpoints basically saying the same thing? Or pretty close to it?
Fact of the matter is, if someone becomes an atheist, the probability of them also garnering nihilistic views also comes with it. You can find plenty of atheists that aren't nihilistic. But good fucking luck finding any Nihilists who also aren't atheists.

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_HayleyWilliams
10/08/21 7:19:43 PM
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MushroomMuncher posted...
Fact of the matter is, if someone becomes an atheist, the probability of them also garnering nihilistic views also comes with it. You can find plenty of atheists that aren't nihilistic. But good fucking luck finding any Nihilists who also aren't atheists.
This logic contradicts itself. You say atheists are typically nihilists and then say plenty of atheists are not nihilists, but all nihilists are atheists.

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MushroomMuncher
10/08/21 7:20:43 PM
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_HayleyWilliams posted...
This logic contradicts itself. You say atheists are typically nihilists and then say plenty of atheists are not nihilists, but all nihilists are atheists.
Here's a better way to put it; One of those is flying very close to the sun. And the other IS the sun.

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Southernfatman
10/08/21 7:21:31 PM
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Nihilists? Fuck me. I mean say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism dude. At least it's an ethos.

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_HayleyWilliams
10/08/21 7:22:54 PM
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MushroomMuncher posted...
Here's a better way to put it; One of those is flying very close to the sun. And the other IS the sun.
People that believe in nothing not believing in God doesn't place not believing in God close to believing in nothing. Unless you are arguing that God is more something that anything else.

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ssk9716757
10/08/21 7:23:26 PM
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bc zeus isnt real and the christian god is

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pegusus123456
10/08/21 7:23:47 PM
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Imagine posting something this fucking dumb lmao

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_HayleyWilliams
10/08/21 7:24:19 PM
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ssk9716757 posted...
bc zeus isnt real and the christian god is
Do you have the proof to back that up?

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