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Picture of the Andromeda Galaxy, with an arrow pointing towards earth. The text for the arrow reads: “YOU ARE HERE”. And the bottom text reads: “AND GOD IS EXTREMELY CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT YOU DO WITH YOUR PEE PEE!”

thank you @adhd_traco@piefed.social

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Setting aside the ins and outs of religious-based sexual morality, the galaxy being very big does not negate the consequences of your behaviors on your immediate neighbors, your peers, or your descendants.

    Epstein was still a bad dude, despite the vastness of the universe.

    • itsprobablyfine@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      The point is if there is a god the dude has bigger concerns. I agree morality exists, but it is an entirely human construct. We’re on our own, there’s no sign that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. So don’t be a dick, but do whatever you want with your own dick so long as it doesn’t impose on others.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 months ago

        The point is if there is a god the dude has bigger concerns.

        The clock-maker is not concerned exclusively with the largest gears.

        We’re on our own, there’s no sign that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

        “God doesn’t care about small things” is the antithesis of Biblical teaching. Both the Old and the New Testaments go through great pains to convey how the most humble individuals in the most basic circumstances still receive Divine Attention.

        If you’re arguing with a Christian on these terms, you’re queuing yourself up for an ass kicking. They’ve got much better poetry than a grainy photo of a galaxy that isn’t even the Milky Way, btw.

        • itsprobablyfine@sh.itjust.works
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          10 months ago

          Mate I’m not arguing with a Christian. And I’ve been one, trust me they ain’t got any poetry that compares with the awe inspired by the existence of galaxies. And lol at certain animals on a particular planet doing particular things with their genitals be vital gears in the machine. On this planet alone there are (and have been) so many different forms of sexual reproduction that the idea that the human way is somehow more important than any of them is laughable. The clockmaker has made an incomprehensible number of gear types. What you do with your dick isn’t going to impact the time in anyway. The clock ticks on regardless.

          Side note. The absolute incomprehensible scale of the universe is part of what helped me see through the cult bullshit I grew up in. Hearing the poetry of Carl Sagan spoke more to me than any patriarch. Just because you’re not inspired by the Cosmos doesn’t mean others aren’t either

  • HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I genuinely don’t see how religious zealots could possibly believe half the shit they believe unless they truly think space is fake and only the solar system, specifically Earth, exists and matters.

    • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
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      10 months ago

      What religion are you talking about? Because in most of them the God figure cares a great deal about what we do.

      • Reza Hosseinzadeh@programming.devEnglish
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        10 months ago

        The religion tells us what does God say about our living. God says the right way to live is this; the way is best for US and God does not need us to live in the way.

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          10 months ago

          A lot of the early stigmas and taboos about diet, clothing, and hygiene emerged from ritualized practices intended to prevent disease and promote human health. The lack of understanding meant the ritual divorced itself from the real best practices over time. But prohibitions on eating shellfish and chopping off the foreskin of your dick and keeping menstruating women out of the house were ultimately primitive efforts at avoiding food poisoning, curbing the spread of STIs, and managing the bloody mess of periodic period flow.

        • 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          10 months ago

          You’re totally right. We should be stoning women to death that show their ankles in public. The whores.

  • NannerBanner@literature.cafe
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    10 months ago

    Me: doing my thing

    God, visibly sweating and white-knuckling his desk as he watches on the computer monitor: No, no! Stop! Don’t stretch it like that! I didn’t design the desmosomes to last under that kind of pressure! Oh goooooood, stoooooop! Not the ammo box!