• Hairyblue@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    As an atheist I get asked this. Like I would have no reason to live if there wasn’t a god. I live my best life and enjoy all the good things life has to offer. And seafood with friends are one of the good things. Shrimp is a very good thing.😁

      • Psythik@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        It’s rather easy to live without God. Just live the same way you currently do, except stop reading the Bible, praying, and going to church. It’s not hard. I did it.

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          1 year ago

          Under a Roman Christian theology, the lord isn’t just some guy. He’s the personification of the quality of existence in the universe.

          Look at it this way: imagine if the colour purple walked up to you and said hi. He’s every purple crayon, every purple flower, every purple tee shirt. He is purpleness itself. If you shot him dead with a gun, all the purple in the universe would disappear and there would be one less colour.

          Now imagine someone shot Existence dead with a gun. Nothing would exist anymore. To most Christians, this is precisely what they imagine a world without the lord would look like. They are baffled by the idea that atheists think they live in such a world.

          Personally, I prefer the original polytheistic interpretation of Judaism, and I think Roman adoption of Christianity is the single worst thing to ever happen to the world.

    • BitSound@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Do you know I’ve been sitting here thinking to myself: that if I didn’t believe in life, if I lost faith in the woman I love, lost faith in the order of things, were convinced in fact that everything is a disorderly, damnable, and perhaps devil-ridden chaos, if I were struck by every horror of man’s disillusionment – still I should want to live. Having once tasted of the cup, I would not turn away from it till I had drained it!

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