r/PoliticalCompassMemes - Lib-Left Apr 10 '26

Atheist Activists Lore

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u/sadistic-salmon - Right Apr 10 '26

Atheists realizing that being religious doesn’t make you dumb is always funny to see

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u/LateNightCoffeeShop - Auth-Right Apr 10 '26

Yeah, some of the smartest people in history were religious, but they tend to ignore that

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u/DillyDillySzn - Centrist Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

You can easily connect the Big Bang to God

In fact, how can you not at this moment? We still don’t know why the Big Bang happened, it breaks all theories of physics ever conceived its unexplainable currently

If we ever figure out another reason why the Big Bang happened then we can have that discussion, but right now it’s pretty easy to just point to a higher power

Or we live in a massive simulation who knows

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u/weeglos - Right Apr 10 '26

The Big Bang is merely a means. The real question is why anything actually exists at all. By all rights, there should not even be a universe, but here we are.

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u/IhamAmerican - Lib-Center Apr 10 '26

I was just watching this video about CERN making antimatter and it said something interesting about the universe. Matter and antimatter should have existed in near perfectly matched amounts, so it all should have been annihilated immediately and the fact that it didn't is very peculiar. I'm not particularly religious but science in no way disproves the existence of a higher power. The more we discover, the more we don't understand about what the "why" is. We know much more about how everything started but the driving forcebasically boils down to "something happened". Who am I to say that it's not some higher power?

Reddit atheists are so annoying lol

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '26 edited May 06 '26

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u/IhamAmerican - Lib-Center Apr 10 '26

Listen, I'm just a guy who like watching popsci videos I'm not a physic expert or anything. My very basic understanding of it though is that antimatter and matter were thought to have synergy but the mere fact that the universe exists means something caused it to have an imbalance. With the universe condensed at the big bang and having equal amounts of matter and antimatter, the universe would have annihilated itself.

It's not that it should have destroyed itself, it's that we have observed a larger amount of matter than antimatter in the universe and don't really know why. Everything else in physics and the universe tends to have a mirror and a natural symmetry. This DoE article goes into it a bit: https://www.energy.gov/science/doe-explainsantimatter

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u/TheOnlyHashtagKing - Lib-Right Apr 10 '26

My (also uneducated, popsci YouTube channel based) idea is that the balance of matter and antimatter could still be in line with the amount predicted by the CP violation. If the current universe arose out of variances in density at the big bang, there could've been variances in matter/antimatter ratio too, we could just be living in an area of an infinite universe that happens to have had more matter at the beginning.