NO atheist thinks your imaginary god is a threat. It's the ideological identity based in a god-concept in the heads of millions of people that are a threat to human well being, to peace, and possibly to all of humankind itself.
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No, no, it's a threat.
A Bad End awaits those who displease the being described as infinitely merciful, thus a threat. A weird, sadistic, self-contradicting threat.
But simply uttering the threat does not make it a credible threat.
Like those movies where the guy puts his hand in his pocket and pretends he's pointing a gun at someone? It's an empty threat, but it remains a threat being offered.
Atheists just find no reason to accept the possibility of the gun.
Or the pocket.
And we want to see the bullets. Or at least a box the bullets miggt have come out of....
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Trigger warning - post contains discussion of hypothetical Pearly Gates and Higher Being.
May provoke irrational fear.
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Zeus doesn't like uneducated, boot-licking, ass-kissing, morons with a slave mentality. Lucky for you he's not in charge of who gets to go to the Elysian Fields--he's got better things to do.
Mind you, if theists worshipped Zeus instead of Jehovah and Jesus, we atheists would probably think differently of you. In fact I'd like to see the cult of Dionysus make a comeback.
Nope. That's a pretty desperate stretch.
As an aside, this business of comparing religions is actually what led to my pre-teen epiphany that it's all the same kind of make-believe.
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Yep, thst is surely how it works. Three people whose favorite books say you should kill Zeus' worshippers exactly BECAUSE they worship Zeus, they get the good seats in the afterlife, because at least they were theists... Unlike an atheist who doesn't think religion is a good reason to take any life.
Yep. Yep. Yepper. We would be the ones screwed, you'd be welcome. Sure thing.
Zeus is such a forgiving character in all his stories, not one to hold a grudge or hate someone by association with, say, Numbers 33:51.
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Well, technically (the bible says) people who (hypothetically) find themselves at the
(totally unthreatening and allegorical) Pearly Gates, are judged (ostensibly) according
to their SIN not their honestly mistaken doctrines and dogma.
(totally unthreatening and allegorical) Pearly Gates, are judged (ostensibly) according
to their SIN not their honestly mistaken doctrines and dogma.
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Oh, right, that's why my Mormon, Baptist, and Catholic relatives have all always maintained that no one is going to be punished for worshiping tghe wrong god, or the right god in the wrong way.
But, Lion, i WAS talking about how scripture tells the reader to treat the followers of other traditions, not how you think god should treat them at judgment.
After all, the cartoon is not about Jehovah, or Allah, being received by Zeus. Try not to derail too much.
But, Lion, i WAS talking about how scripture tells the reader to treat the followers of other traditions, not how you think god should treat them at judgment.
After all, the cartoon is not about Jehovah, or Allah, being received by Zeus. Try not to derail too much.
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Zeus would likely not give a shit what the Bible says because, in this case that Zeus is THE god., the Bible would be clearly proven to be nothing but a fantasy.
If anything Jesus would be a copy-cat of Dionysus since Dionysus preceded Jesus by more than a thousand years.
Who gives a shit?
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There was no flood. Melchizasek is another myth from about 800 BCE, being generous. Barley bread and barley beer were the Osirian equivalent of the Gospels bread and wine, predating the gospels by thousands of years.
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That's plainly bullshit.
This nonsense about bread and wine routines is just bizarre. Are you trying to pre-empt some argument that Jesus is a copy of Dionysus? I only brought up Dionysus because he's the god of booze.
Christian mythology shares themes with plenty of ancient folklores and religions; they're all derivative. It's one of the biggest clues that it's all just made up.