4d ago

Score one for atheism!

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Soo what is the message here? Atheists are incel neckbeard basement dwellers and god is as real as one of their mother?
Edit: Oh wait I misread the comic in the most funny way! I read it as "my mum god" as if he stopped believing in his mum as a deity. Tired brain plays weird tricks.
- Soo what is the message here?
  That proselytizing about atheism without considering the needs and character of your audience can be just as bad as religion doing the same.
  Love is more important than being right, and the son in the comic very clearly didn't show any. As soon as he proved his point, he left to go celebrate with his friends rather than spend time with his mother. He failed to show her that just because there is no big sky god doesn't mean that is no love.
  
  Not shown is the mother hatefully oppressing others due to her religion.
  Religion can be both helpful to those that follow it while also causing those same people to do or support horrific things in its name.
  
  Not shown is the mother hatefully oppressing others due to her religion.
  Yes. Exactly. "Not shown". That's not part of this comic. You've brought it in all on your own. You've missed the point of the comic if that's what you're focused on. Everybody here knows that religion can harm people. That's not the point of this comic. The point is that the way the son character went about his goals was exactly as destructive as the way that religion does. It was a warning to ensure that your discussion include love for the people behind the discussion, and not just hate for them for being wrong.
  
  It was a warning to ensure that your discussion include love for the people behind the discussion, and not just hate for them for being wrong.
  I think I've gone over twenty years with this being the exact thing that bothers me and have never been able to articulate it as well as you just did in one sentence.
- It's about atheists who make atheism their whole personality.
  
  In other words, “anti-theists” instead of just atheists.
  Most people whose personalities revolves around being anti-something are insufferable. It’s far better to be for something than against something.
  Like, I grew up Mormon, and left when I grew old enough to think for myself. Among my friends who also left the church, there are two major categories: the “post-mormons” and the “anti-mormons”. The anti-mormons are miserable to be around while the rest of us decided we’d rather build our lives around what we love, not what we hate.
  
  Probably a better description/label tbh
  If anything then, the post is depicting antitheists, not just atheists
  
  This 100%, craft beer drinkers can be just as insufferable when they get someone to "enjoy" a sour for the first time
- That no matter how righteous you believe you are, there are ramifications to your actions with religion. It's very easy to understand and be comfortable with those beliefs, but with others you are quite literally messing with their identities who they are.
  My family is deeply religious. I personally don't care if they believe in God or not. I focus on individual teachings, that gay people aren't evil, that they can be religious and believe contradictory things to what others believe, that it's all deeply personal
  
  There’s also ramifications to ruining one’s religious beliefs, as this comic shows.
  If you’re going to completely and utterly destroy someone’s entire outlook on life (and afterlife or whatever), I’d argue that you have a moral responsibility to help them transition and be there for them. Not be a total asshole like the dude in the comic.
  
  A good addition, I agree. I know my mother draws her strength from the church. Without it I'm sure she would be depressed at home. It would require someone showing her how to be self reliant and grabbing satisfaction from that to get her going again
- Faces of Atheism was considered pretty cringe, and for the most part it was (as would have any "faces of x" group been on Reddit), but the idea behind it wasn't made in isolation.
- Your typing here says you're still tired.
- The message is it’s fucking funny to think about this situation.

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