Ecclesiastes 9:5 says dead is dead, directly contradicting everything about any afterlives or heaven. Christians pick and choose which parts to follow because they have to, it’s literally impossible to follow the entire thing.
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
It also goes on to say go have fun and live your life. That does not some compatible with the strict puritan Christianity most seem to follow.
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
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Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
Even funnier when they never took any religious studies class or anything.
I hate gatekeeping too but “it’s up to interpretation” used to imply they know fundamentals of philosophy and have the necessary historic context knowledge to form opinions.
Hell, at some point they would have to learn latin or hebrew just to not have their arguments ignored instantly.
Meanwhile these people make fun of college philosophy lectures and only know history about WW2 and how germany could have “won” according to that one 4chan user.
If they heard anyone speaking hebrew they would call the police because “it sounded Arab.”
“Persist” is a funny word to use when you’re talking about human history on an evolutionary level, seeing as how we’ve evolved very little from our conception in Africa only a few hundred thousand years ago, practically the blink of an eye on the evolutionary scale. Even if religion has been around from the beginning of our species, it hasn’t really “persisted” very long at all.
As far as religion’s “use” in an evolutionary sense, the only thing that evolution selects for is more babies. If you have more babies than your peers, you’re more evolutionarily “fit,” it’s that simple. You could then say that religions that encourage their members to have more children are useful, but again, that’s only if you think the most important thing in the life of a human is for them to have more babies. Most people would say other things are more important when it comes to human life, which would make evolution useless as a metric to determine the “use” of religion.
I didn’t know most people are flat earthers. Do you have a source for that? There’s no real evolutionary pressure for or against a flat earth, it looks flat, for the vast majority of human existence people barely traveled beyond their birth place, or knew how to read.
OTOH, religious people far outnumber logical people, so … why? You got something better than “hur dur” to explain that?
People not following any particular religion get laid at roughly the same rates as followers of religion. So there would be no evolutionary pressure involved there.
I like how dickheads pick and choose which parts of the old testament to follow and which bits of the new to ignore as suits their bigotry and hate
Ecclesiastes 9:5 says dead is dead, directly contradicting everything about any afterlives or heaven. Christians pick and choose which parts to follow because they have to, it’s literally impossible to follow the entire thing.
It also goes on to say go have fun and live your life. That does not some compatible with the strict puritan Christianity most seem to follow.
Yeah,
It’s almost all though it’s all bullshit or something… 🤔
Even funnier when they never took any religious studies class or anything.
I hate gatekeeping too but “it’s up to interpretation” used to imply they know fundamentals of philosophy and have the necessary historic context knowledge to form opinions.
Hell, at some point they would have to learn latin or hebrew just to not have their arguments ignored instantly.
Meanwhile these people make fun of college philosophy lectures and only know history about WW2 and how germany could have “won” according to that one 4chan user.
If they heard anyone speaking hebrew they would call the police because “it sounded Arab.”
This reminds of a similar pet peeve - people who hate on the humanities but worship pseudo-scientific economic ideology (aka capitalist religion).
Those people need a philosophy class more than most.
Well, why else do you think religions persist? Evolutionary pressure has selected it because it’s useful.
“Persist” is a funny word to use when you’re talking about human history on an evolutionary level, seeing as how we’ve evolved very little from our conception in Africa only a few hundred thousand years ago, practically the blink of an eye on the evolutionary scale. Even if religion has been around from the beginning of our species, it hasn’t really “persisted” very long at all.
As far as religion’s “use” in an evolutionary sense, the only thing that evolution selects for is more babies. If you have more babies than your peers, you’re more evolutionarily “fit,” it’s that simple. You could then say that religions that encourage their members to have more children are useful, but again, that’s only if you think the most important thing in the life of a human is for them to have more babies. Most people would say other things are more important when it comes to human life, which would make evolution useless as a metric to determine the “use” of religion.
Well why do you think flat earthism persists? hur dur evolution!!!
I didn’t know most people are flat earthers. Do you have a source for that? There’s no real evolutionary pressure for or against a flat earth, it looks flat, for the vast majority of human existence people barely traveled beyond their birth place, or knew how to read.
OTOH, religious people far outnumber logical people, so … why? You got something better than “hur dur” to explain that?
People not following any particular religion get laid at roughly the same rates as followers of religion. So there would be no evolutionary pressure involved there.
It was, but we’ve outgrown it
The mark of civilisation is to be better than our base nature
Religion has had its day. Now it’s all about power and money (it pretty much always was, but I’m trying to be generous)