The only good god is a non-existent god

Debunking the world's largest cult and supporter of fascism Catholics please come and be mad your religion doesn't make any sense Other Christians also get mad

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Behold: What happens to you if you drink these Christianity-themed energy drinks.

Makes you hallucinate a helpful-sounding voice that could be Jesus until you realize it's actually the voice of that one stoner friend-of-a-friend you haven't seen in three years. The voice does not impart any actual wisdom or anything even remotely resembling any language. Also completely destroys one of your kidneys.

Immediately trade bodies with a megapastor about to be arrested for fraud or a youth pastor/priest about to be arrested for sexual assault of a minor.

A single sip causes extremely painful death that feels like it lasts for billions of years. Meanwhile, your body is hijacked by a bioengineered parasite the Catholic Church has been secretly creating for centuries. The parasite quickly devours and replaces your entire nervous system, and once it has completed this task, it becomes a perfect doppelganger, except it's more Catholic than you were. Your family and friends will react positively to the change and never know it's not you. You can barely sense what's going on through the haze of pain, but cannot act, because God loves you.

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Behold: The Bible is not a reliable source. Quit pretending it is.

Things you're going to have to prove before you can use the Bible as a source:

That the god described in it exists.

That said god told someone directly (Not "inspired") to write that shit down.

What parts of the Bible are supposed to be historical and what parts aren't.

That the historical parts actually happened.

That the books of the Bible were intended to be collected in the way they are now from the beginning.

What the correct interpretation of everything is.

Before then, I'm going to assume it's as accurate as a comic book.

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Behold: "Just call our critics 'child murderers' and call it a day" is the pro-life credo

Chance the person who originally posted this is all in for the death penalty, cops/ICE killing people for no reason, and running over protesters: 100%. Conservatives see violence as the only legitimate form of power, and death as the greatest form of that power. They may try to act like it, but the pro-life movement is not separate from the rest of conservatism.

Chance this person is also against anything that will actually reduce the number of abortions, like universal basic income, free childcare, universal healthcare, openly available contraceptives, and sex education: Greater than 100%. How are they going to justify their fake abortion clinics where no one knows how to use the ultrasound if people don't get accidentally pregnant?

Chance this person opposes vaccines: The last "March for Life" was actually the March for Measles.

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what is your name bro? (or sis/or something else). ur posts are very interesting btw

You first.

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Were there signs? I mean, I did bulldoze all the churches in Simcity 2000 because I thought they kept taking residential space from the houses. This is actually true, because the church de-zones the area under it, meaning it does steal space that could be used for housing.

Look at that fucking monster. It's like a big pointy pimple. And there's fucking three of them in this shot. Imagine living somewhere with three megachurches in eyeshot. Literal fucking hell.

And when you do bulldoze them, you get a warning message (Which for some reason I can't find anywhere) but it seems to do nothing if you just click it away. They don't even mention it in the randomly generated newspaper stories.

Somebody go tell the Sims to do church like the early Christians did: by just going to someone's house or hanging around in sewers or catacombs and having the most boring party ever. No one wants to see their bullshit, especially when the housing market's this awful.

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Catholics be like "Protestant churches are so ugly and boring. Your worship space should reflect the beauty of the divine."

And I'm like "We should bulldoze every church and replace it with housing. Or farmland. Anything that isn't a prison, coal plant, data center, or any other religious building."

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i think you are an ex-christian. are you? what did you make leave christianity, if yes

What gave it away? Was it the fact that I keep talking about my experiences in the Catholic Church and how astoundingly disappointing they all were, and that I now believe all religion is a plague on humanity that should be eradicated for our own sake?

Initially, it was just the fact that I was promised so much in Catholic school. There would be so much joy and happiness, they said. That "walking with Jesus" would be wonderful and enlightening. That there was a big guy in the sky who was everyone's dad and that he loved everyone and wanted what was best for us.

I didn't feel any of those things. When I was lonely and sad and full of undiagnosed mental disorders, I didn't feel the promised "God's hand" on my shoulder. The counselor just told me to "open up" which is a hard thing to do when you're socially anxious. So I just sort of stopped believing in the god I was told about. He clearly wasn't present in my life.

Then, one of my high school religion teachers (In Catholic school, "religion class" just means "Catholicism class") said that the Eucharist, the bread and wine they give out at mass, is literally the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ, their savior. This was somehow kept from me for nearly ten years. When I heard that, I decided to just not be Catholic anymore.

Oh, funny thing, someone sent me an anon ask like this one and blamed me for not feeling anything while receiving any of the sacraments. I don't know how, but I guess I am somehow able to just completely block out an omnipotent god's presence. I'm like an X-Man or something. Guess that would make me the opposite of Nightcrawler.

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Behold: Why bother having healthy relationships at all when you could just have one big fucked up parasocial relationship with a guy who doesn't exist?

In pretty much any situation, you can replace the word "God" in statements like these with any other person and it will sound fucked up. Oh, you only trust one person? Sounds like a healthy relationship. Certainly you are not completely dependent on them and they are not abusing their power over you. Oh, you have zero recourse if they do abuse you? That sounds good. Oh, and they are the arbiter of all morality, deciding what is bad and good purely by fiat, with zero accountability? Yep, noting to worry about there. What's that? You say that if you wrong them, they will torture you forever, but it's okay because you would deserve it? My, isn't that just adorable. And your favorite song is "Beautiful Things" by Benson Boone? Why, of course it is!

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I've noticed something strange about how Christians talk about poverty, and it's that they will never call it that. It's always "money troubles" or "financial issues". Seems kind of odd for a religion whose main figure told people to "help the poor", right?

Well, no, not really. Christianity, in the US at least, is interwoven with capitalism, but if you look at the Catechism of the Catholic Church, you will see references to "Those with more giving to those with less". And the Bible says "the poor will always be with us." So Christianity sees wealth disparity as natural, and in no place is this more clear than in Christianity's eternal war with socialism and communism. They do not want the system to improve or change because by their own admission, if things get too good, people will not turn to them for help.

So they tiptoe around the issue. They'll never say "God will help you because your greedy boss fired you so he could buy another yacht." Instead, they'll make it seem like poverty is just "bad luck." Like no one's at fault. Like it's perfectly natural that a minor accident can bankrupt you. When you excuse the actions of a system or act like there's no other way things can be, you support that system. When you treat an artificial system as "natural", you are attempting to negate any criticism of it.

I've come up with a term, "charity target." It means something that a person sees only as a means to improve their own moral standing. Those in poverty are charity targets in Christianity. They're nothing more than an infinite source of good karma points, because Christian morality isn't any more advanced that Fallout 3's. Helping people get out of poverty would cut off that stream of validation, so Christians can't ever talk about even the mildest structural reforms. The goal of Christianity is getting to Heaven, after all. The world is evil and bad and going to be destroyed anyway, so what's the point of making anything better? Might as well milk everything and everyone for the points needed to buy that ticket to hang out with the sick fuck who designed all this shit for eternity.

Christianity isn't bad because people are "abusing" it. It's bad because it systemically justifies evil because of how it is on a fundamental level. "Good" Christians are just those who do much less of it. It is, ironically, irredeemable.

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Day 152: "Sacrament" is Greek for "Massive Disappointment"

250. How are the sacraments of the Church divided?

"The sacraments are divided into: the sacraments of Christian initiation (Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Eucharist); the sacraments of healing (Penance and Anointing of the Sick); and the sacraments at the service of communion and mission (Holy Orders and Matrimony). The sacraments touch all the important moments of Christian life. All of the sacraments are ordered to the Holy Eucharist "as to their end" (Saint Thomas Aquinas)."

I love how they quote shit in these. It's like "this" (Moby Dick). See how much more important that sentence becomes? No? Because that's stupid? How dare you. Those four words from a dead guy who hates women are the best four words ever written.

And here we have Magical Rituals That Don't Work, Magical Rituals That Do Nothing, and Fake Magic Rituals. Very important distinctions. They're all part of the circle of Things Christianity Does To Control You.

251. How is Christian initiation brought about? "Christian initiation is accomplished by means of the sacraments which establish the foundations of Christian life. The faithful born anew by Baptism are strengthened by Confirmation and are then nourished by the Eucharist."

The Jesus wafer is literally made of styrofoam. That's about as non-nutritious as possible. They say the wafer has to have gluten in it because they hate people with celiac disease, but there's no fucking way that thing has anything in it other than air and some petroleum by-products. Jesus is strangely unsubstantial. You'd think the one miracle that supposedly happens in front of people would have a flashier result, but nope. Crappy fake bread. And it has the worst texture. It's somehow fucking sharp until your spit turns it into a flavorless sludge.

Confirmation is the biggest nothing ever to happen in my life. All that happens is some guy slathers some weird-smelling oil on your forehead (Which they call "chrism" because it sounds like something he'd prefer to smear on you) and he mumbles some words at you. Then you sit back down and wonder what the fuck you're doing with your life. You were promised a lot of "God's presence" and that he would be talking to you and you'd feel "joy" and shit but it's all just so empty. It feels emptier than the church you go to's vaulted ceilings.

Baptism should just be illegal. Forcing someone into an organization before they develop object permanence sounds like YA dystopia shit, but it's been normalized so hard that criticizing it gets you labeled as "annoying", which is 50x worse than being wrong.

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I know that Christianity keeps saying "God will totally provide, guys!" but I realize the prerequisite for getting anything from their god is having enough faith to not question when he doesn't provide, which is all the time because he doesn't exist.

In come the excuses. "Oh, he doesn't work on your timetable" and "God is faithful!" and "God works in mysterious ways." Still nothing comes. Then it turns into "Pray harder" or "You're asking with the wrong motivation." It's your fault this scam isn't working for you. Those at the top are laughing at you, still counting the money they stole from you.

And everyone says that's not a fair assessment. What is, then?

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Behold: tumblr will ban trans women without a second thought, but allow this shit.

See that flag, @staff? That's the Christian Nationalist Flag. One specifically designed to replace the US flag once they control everything. It is flown solely by bigots and dominionists. There's zero nuance in using it. It's practically the same as the "An Appeal to Heaven" flag. Why is this sign of planned domination allowed?

Maybe this Pride Month, tumblr should be banning the bigots instead. Just a thought.

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Pride is a riot. We're not going to stop Pride just because the government won't recognize it.

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Christians videos will be like "God has provably interceded (CLICK HERE FOR PROOF!) in people's lives literally trillions of times every day, and it's going to happen in your life, too! Here's PROOF from the Bible that God does miracles!"

...You're not going to get proof from, like, the miracles he did yesterday? Or last week? No? You're going right to the Suspicious Pile of Books Someone Tried to Stitch Together, Full of "History" No Other Culture Has Records Of. Right. Just giving up right there. Not even trying.

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Behold: "But I'm a bigot and bigots shouldn't have to change!"

I haven't really seen "I was born this way" used a reason for people being LBGTQ+ recently. We've rightly moved on to "I don't need to fucking justify my existence to you, bigot". But Christians are stuck in the past, so here they are, fighting against an argument that stopped being used 10 years ago at least.

Yeah, this is just "I don't need to change, YOU need to change!" And none of their "I'm not perfect" or "I'm still learning in my walk with Christ" are anything other than posturing. Bigots don't change. Bigots don't learn. Bigots believe they are better than everyone else, and any change is seen as weakness.

Oh, and "being born again" just means putting yourself under the control of Christianity, so this also doubles as a "The fact that other people exist threatens my entire worldview."

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hey @staff gonna stop nuking trans people now?

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Day 151: Modern Empires and Such

247. Why is the one Mystery of Christ celebrated by the Church according to various liturgical traditions?

"The answer is that the unfathomable richness of the mystery of Christ cannot be exhausted by any single liturgical tradition. From the very beginning, therefore, this richness found expression among various peoples and cultures in ways that are characterized by a wonderful diversity and complementarily."

Yes, this totally happened naturally. No one went around demanding other people follow their religion or face consequences. It's like they're saying "You can't call us bigots! Look how many different people we subjugated!" You know they're not doing anything good if they bring up complementarianism.

248. What is the criterion that assures unity in the midst of plurality? "It is fidelity to the Apostolic Tradition, that is, the communion of the faith and in the sacraments received from the apostles, a communion that is both signified and guaranteed by apostolic succession. The Church is Catholic and therefore can integrate into her unity all the authentic riches of cultures."

The Catholic Church is a monster that devours culture and replaces it with uniformity or corpses.

249. Is everything immutable in the liturgy?"In the liturgy, particularly in that of the sacraments, there are unchangeable elements because they are of divine institution. The Church is the faithful guardian of them. There are also, however, elements subject to change which the Church has the power and on occasion also the duty to adapt to the cultures of diverse peoples."

No, they can't change all the shit they made up. That would be a sign of weakness. I mean, I guess that said once that capybaras count as fish in terms of Lent, but that was only so they could get more of a foot in the door. You don't get to claim diversity if you're only use it for your own gain.