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MarlenaWatches
"Ooouur God is an awsome God he reeeeignnns..."
bigasspervypanda
Literally the doctrine of the Westboro baptists fuckers
STEVIERAYK
God is a noise people make when they stop thinking.
STEVIERAYK
See.
MyNameIsGuyIncognito
Pretty sure this dude can also be quoted with "war doesn't determine who is right, only who is left"
madcatii
I thought this was Moff Tarkin.
Thanshin
In this century, only ignorant people believe in gods.
VesuvianPrime
Wilfully ignorant, at that
OmenJones
If god exists, it is cruel. All the more reason to bring more kindness to the world.
OwlFarm
Did he ever find his teapot?
DukeDarkwood
It's somewhere between here and Mars.
SamuraiChemist
Well, we can't prove he didn't.
bigez1988
Larry David is usually funnier
PerfectManhattanUp
And many good men believe in the gods made by cruel men and convince themselves that the evils that god required are good
MicrosoftWizard7
I have a feeling that if you feel it's ok for god to be cruel to the nonbelievers, it makes it easy to stomach doing the same.
DefinitelyaHumanNotanAlien
I mean, yeah, but only the religious ones.
pudaheh
Funny enough, the same thing applies to economists.
YouDumbBastard
I bet he gets paid by the word.
haroldbeldon
So is Bert and Ernie actually Bertrand and Ernest?
chillpigeon
Bert could be short for lots of names: Robert, Gilbert, Hubert, Albert, Umberto, etc
HillOfBeans
Sister Bertrille
BaronVonBirdman
I hope so
WilliamWeird
To their respective parents, but you can be casual with them
brighterthanyou
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RedBosephus
this maybe explains the behavior of a lot of catholic priests and nuns who mistreated me when growing up in the 60's
Lexgeddon
Don't know why you're being downvoted. Corporal punishment is damned popular in Catholic educational settings, and well-documented.
30Blok
I don't have a Russell quote but I have this one : "just putting it out there "
Axiomatic13
Just wait till you get to Nietzsche.
frozencloud
"I think what god meant to say was"
florpglorp
Is trump considered a god?
Seanhithere
I’ve wanted to read him but haven’t had the chance to yet. Any recommendations?
PastureofMuppets
His (auto?)Biography with his letters is a good view of him and his era overall, and may suggest which of his u want to read.
WonderfunkJones
Care for some tea?
Irishda
Because gods reflect a society's values. There's a reason the two early Christian groups in America were Quakers and Puritans
RufusPimperton
The Quakers are perfect examples of road to hell is good intentions: kind people who developed the cruelest prison ever.
MrFnortner
Cruel men created cruel gods. Humans made their gods in their own image.
pr3viso
I've been meaning to talk to you about your car's expired warranty
VaultGirl69
Thanks random image with no source that may not be factual!
electricgoldfish
He wrote an essay called "Why I am not a Christian", so it's entirely possible.
potatoardvarkhybrid
it's bertrand russell. athiest dude. there is more chance of him having said that than trump speaking in logical and intelligent form.
ezekiel9247
And what of the cruel atheist regimes of history? The French Committee of Public Safety. The Soviets. Communist China.
ezekiel9247
Religion doesn't cause, nor justify, cruelty. People will wear WHATEVER as their fig-leaf excuse. Philosophy, religion, club membership.
bekkayya
Religion causes magical thinking. Magical thinking leads to suffering. The cruelty or greed of men is ancillary.
ezekiel9247
Religion does not cause magical thinking. Numerous religions explicitly reject it (Abrahamic and Buddhist texts both do).
ezekiel9247
Lazy people are the cause of magical thinking. They choose not to do the hard work of actual self-evaluation, repentance, and restitution.
bekkayya
Belief in the unreal fundamentally opens the road to any other fundamentally unjustified beliefs.
thinkstopthink
potatoardvarkhybrid
Our god is a loving god and if you don't believe that then we will kill you
graehall
God is love! Petty rapey enslaving genocidal love!
VAham
The God question. “Do you believe in God? Yes. Do you believe in my God? No. *bang* Dead. My God has a bigger dick than your God.” —G.Carlin
TomatoesAreFruit413
Also 90% of Imgurians - “I’m not cruel but if you’re conservative, Christian, won’t get the vaccine, or disagree with me, well you can die.”
semioticmadness
Pretty sure most folks here don’t think the virus is a god.
ThrobbingThroatCoater
The soul of today’s Christian lives in the feted killing fields of the Old Testament. The New is convenient if polite guests are coming over
SoupForMyFamily
semioticmadness
He’s loving if you what he says and he told me what he says and I say he says to do what I say all the time always. Or I can kill you. <3
sorryiasked
You sound like one of them rabbit god guys, worship my duck god you heathen.
Perkunas687
I understood that reference dot gif
screwzog126
Which religion we talmbout here
screwzog126
Like. All of them?
symmetry7
Have you seen the Jim Jeffries take? https://youtu.be/vgk7MXWQOAM
iTakeQuotesOutOfContext
Not before we take away your rights, your healthcare, and your financial stability, of course. We’re assholes, but we are thorough.
kingkongkeom
You gotta have healthcare first to have it taken away!
wandermanspacebot
I’ve yet to hear of a god who isn’t cruel.
SerenityBrownCoatLover7
All God (gods) is, was a way to explain who or how things happened in the world around us.Lessons, hopes,examples of ideas like good & evil.
tentacularfleshscape
That and then political tools
FurtiveGlancer
Because it doesn't exist...
jimplaysgames10
BenderBendingRrodriguez
A lot of the norse gods were pretty chill. Especially my boy Freyr
hackmonkey
Our pasta, who art in a colander, draining be your noodles. Thy noodle come, Thy sauce be yum, on top some grated Parmesan.
SerenityBrownCoatLover7
This is great.
MicrosoftWizard7
For he is kind. My friends and I in highschool once beckoned his pastaness for a snow day, and lo, 2 hours later, it did snow. Praise be he.
VraedenHughes
May we all be touched by his noodly appendage.
NakamuraRain
Ramen
dogwithahumanface
Most polytheists with fallible gods didn't base their morality on them anyway. The gods were there to teach a lesson, not to be role models.
waifusouls
The gods were there because people genuinely believed that giving offerings these deities would endure a good harvest or calm the weather
waifusouls
Old pagan polytheism was transactional - it was a bargain between people and the gods
Irishda
There's quite a few. You're just thinking of the extreme interpretations
iusedtodream
All One God religion gods are dicks.
Irishda
See my previous statement
RazzleDazzle69
Anubis is probably the most chill god, despite his reputation in pop culture
iamspartan1262
Hades as well
highstream
Jesus was kind.
wandermanspacebot
But he wasn’t a god.
datphone777365
Though they agreed he was a facet of god and therefore just as cruel. Also knowing judas would betray and letting it happen seems cruel.
datphone777365
Thought*
iusedtodream
Hindu gods are pretty cool. Krishna is kind, Vishnu us sassy but kind, Ganesh is sleepy and kind, Arjuna is a war god and also prob gay.
emptymonty
Still imaginary.
datphone777365
Wait dont they also have other avatars that are often polar opposites?
Thorketil
This does not prevent many Hindus from persecuting and killing Muslims in their own country in the name of their faith.
iusedtodream
That wasn't the topic.
AdmiralBananaSplitter1
There are many gods and some are cruel.
florpglorp
I mean there has been immense bloodshed done by both sides in this case and the bloodshed goes back for a very long time.
Oooldfart
We had an exchange student from Pakistan in HS. This quiet polite girl answered a question regarding Hindus: "Oh, I would gladly kill one."
Oooldfart
We tried to wrap our minds around this. We had no understanding of deep seated racist hatred.
SerenePrincess013
Had a Hindu girl move into the area, when I was in middle school. 2 yrs later, we got our first Muslim student. I made the mistake of>>