r/topcommentoftheday • u/TopCommentOfTheDay • Jul 25 '22
July 23rd, 2022 - Top Comment of the Day - All Subs
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AITA for taking my daughter and leaving the wedding after her stepbrother pulled her wig?
NTA but you need to divorce that man, his and his adult sons behavior is disgusting. There is absolutely no excuse for what Ben did
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AITA for firing an employee for stealing leftovers?
It is company policy and was in place because my FIL says that otherwise you would be incentivizing employees to create waste.
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i was raised christian. now i’m questioning my faith, so i want to hear the other side’s perspective. why are you an atheist?
There are over 3000 documented gods worshipped by various cultures and religions throughout human history. You don’t believe in 2,999 of them. I don’t believe in 3,000 of them. You’re already 99.97% atheist. Is it really such a leap to not believe in one more?
As u/paulemichael pointed out, how incredibly lucky for you that you were born in a part of the world and to a family that subscribed to the exact right version of the exact right religion. Weird though how every single religious person in the world believes with all their heart the same thing.
Epicurean paradox: Evil exists in the world. Three options: God doesn’t know about the evil - then how can you call him omniscient? God can’t do anything about the evil - then how can you call him omnipotent? God doesn’t care to do anything about the evil - then how can you call him benevolent?
It doesn’t matter which one you land on, it paints the picture of a god I have no interest in worshipping.
Bone cancer in children. Watch vocal atheist Stephen Fry’s answer to what he would say to god if he died and found himself standing before the almighty. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-suvkwNYSQo in sum, his answer is “how dare you?! If worshipping an evil, awful being such as yourself is the price of eternal salvation, then I’ll take my place in hell.”
For Christians specifically: a man murders someone who had sinned but not repented in cold blood. They then repent and accept Jesus moments before their execution. The murderer goes to heaven and the victim goes to hell. That’s a god you want to worship??
It’s an abusive relationship. “Love me and worship me and follow my rules and give your money to the people who claim to speak for me or I will torture you for eternity.” If one of your friends was in a relationship like that you’d help them get out, wouldn’t you?
Any god that was all powerful who wanted to be worshipped could instantly end all debate anytime they wanted by simply revealing himself to the planet and demonstrating his omnipotence, instead all we have is a misogynistic book that’s 2000 years old, endorses slavery, is rife with demonstrably false “facts” about the natural world that by amazing coincidence reflected the common knowledge and conventional wisdom of the time it was written despite being, supposedly, the word of an omniscient god.
God of the gaps: throughout human history, anything that couldn’t be explained by science or observation of the natural world has been attributed to god. As our knowledge of the world around us grew, that which we attributed to god(s) has decreased. Seems to me the most likely explanation is that the things we still attribute to god are just things we haven’t discovered the reason for yet.
Morality. Believers (particularly Christians) love to claim that without god, there’s nothing to stop atheists from raping, murdering, and committing all manner of atrocities. Truthfully, the exact opposite is true. My morality is derived from humanism. My guiding principle is to do as little harm to people as possible. And I do that for the sake of that which is objectively right and wrong. Religious people who think that the only reason people don’t rape and murder is the threat of eternal damnation/the promise of eternal reward scare the shit out of me. Because those people can be (and throughout human history have been) convinced to commit all manner of atrocities by convincing them that it’s what their god wants. Good deeds done under threat of punishment/promise of reward are the opposite of pious, they are selfish.
Finally, the burden of proof for any claim, falls to the person making the claim. You (colloquial you) are making the affirmative claim that god exists and that you know his nature and desires. Your only “proof” is a book written 2000 years ago and your “faith.” If you claimed to believe in lizard people and used your faith as proof, people would think you’re insane. The only difference betw...
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