Anonymous #2 2w

why does this offend you?

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Anonymous OP 2w

because it’s ignorant. empty, utterly meaningless words that do nothing for anyone.

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Anonymous #2 2w

i'm sorry you feel that way. “Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.” ‭‭James‬ ‭5‬:‭16‬

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Anonymous OP 2w

that book was written by hundreds of people over the course of thousands of years. it means nothing to me because it’s meaningless. I’m sorry that you were tricked into believing in magic and witchcraft.

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Anonymous #2 2w

I hope that one day you are less miserable.

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Anonymous #4 2w

we’re having this conversation on phones made by human slaves. my misery isn’t the point.

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Anonymous #2 2w

You’re definitely one of those people who think no one is allowed to be happy

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Anonymous #4 2w

you literally believe in wizards and ghosts

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Anonymous #2 2w

And what do you believe in?

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Anonymous #4 2w

things that aren’t supernatural

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Anonymous #2 2w

Like?

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Anonymous #4 2w

what do you mean “like”? what is it you think I need a “belief” for?

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Anonymous #2 2w

Surely you have some sort of belief for the beginning of everything whether scientific or religious?

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Anonymous #4 2w

no? I don’t, and I don’t feel the need to. and that doesn’t impact my ability to have moral principles or emotional stability.

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Anonymous #2 2w

So you just have 0 thoughts or opinions about anything at all times? Sounds like your life is so much better than a religious persons or an atheist with thoughts

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Anonymous #4 2w

accepting that there’s no satisfying explanation for the origin of the universe isn’t the same as “having 0 thoughts”. science has barely scratched the surface of those questions and the answers provided by religions are about as valid as harry potter.

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Anonymous #2 2w

If you do not believe then you are saying ultimately you and your conscience all it is a mix and combination of chemical reactions. There is no morals and the is no objective truths. There is so much against that belief, rejoice in the love of the Lord and His creation, “You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb.”Psalms‬ ‭139‬:‭13‬

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Anonymous OP 2w

the fact that you need to believe in wizards and magic torture dimensions to have any sense of morality and treat people kindly simply because you want to make life better for other human beings says wayyyyyy more about you than anything else

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Anonymous #2 2w

the “objective truth” is that we’re all experiencing life together on the same planet, and we should all do what we can to make life better for other people. none of that requires believing in fairy tales.

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Anonymous #2 2w

that statement itself is a faith claim, not a neutral fact. You’re trusting that (1) human life has intrinsic value, (2) ‘making life better’ is objectively good, and (3) we ought to care about strangers we’ll never meet. Those convictions didn’t come from studying planets or chemistry they came from somewhere else.

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Anonymous OP 2w

Christianity says they came from the character of a personal God who made every person in His image (Genesis 1:26-27) and who so loved the world that He gave His only Son (John 3:16). That’s why rape is evil, why sacrificing babies for ‘progress’ is monstrous, and why random acts of kindness to strangers make any sense at all. Without a transcendent Lawgiver, “better” just collapses into “whatever the strong say it is this decade.”

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Anonymous #2 2w

The “fairy tales” you speak of are the things that have allowed morals to progress throughout millennia

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Anonymous OP 2w

yeah they come from human social psychology. sorry you literally didn’t take enough classes in college to learn where human benevolence comes from. just say you don’t know what you don’t know and move on

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Anonymous #4 2w

objectively incorrect. morals have existed independent of spiritual beliefs throughout the entirety of human history. once again, please learn about what you’re talking about before opening your mouth.

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Anonymous OP 2w

it’s honestly so sad and pathetic that you need an external superpower to make treating other people kindly worth it or meaningful 😭 so in the absence of god, you would just, what? be an evil person? so wildly hypocritical and half-baked logic that it’s not even funny

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Anonymous OP 2w

“that statement itself is a faith claim, not a neutral fact”………..no, it’s a neutral fact. sorry if that simple truth makes your entire belief system less relevant, but it is the truth. I don’t need god to develop a sense of objective morality and believe in the intrinsic value of human life, and neither do you.

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Anonymous #6 2w

if she was quoting harry potter, would you be saying the same thing, cause that’s literally what this is

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Anonymous #2 2w

Not once did I say morals can’t exist independently of religion. I said religion has allowed morality to progress, which in hindsight a better sentence would be that religion has influenced morality to be the way that it is today

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Anonymous #2 2w

So before telling someone to learn before opening there mouth, you should learn to read

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Anonymous #4 2w

everything from religion to psychology to reality tv to 9/11 has influenced morality to be the way that it is today. it doesn’t mean we need all of those things.

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Anonymous #2 2w

yeah i would, because my point was why are we being negative on a positive post? it’s not like they said something unkind or negative

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Anonymous #6 2w

I really wonder if she had addressed her post to a different character from the fantasy novel she’s referencing, like Satan or Judas, would you still be defending it

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Anonymous #2 2w

or, “Dear Professor Dumbledore, I give praise to your works on this earth”

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