• Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The kid spread religion online. God killed him for it. Pope makes him a saint. God facepalms and says “How many more kids do I have to kill to show you that you should stop wasting time in church and just be a good person”.

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      4 months ago

      Then that god stops existing because there’s no evidence for a god which acts like that

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        There’s no evidence for God period, so your “because” doesn’t support your statement. Of course you also don’t seem to understand basic logic. The lack of evidence never “proves” anything. The presence of evidence “may” prove things.

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          There is no evidence for the god you believe in, you are correct.

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                Interesting. None of that is evidence that God exists. Without a doubt, someone going by the name Jesus (or something like it lost in translation) existed. And a religion was founded based on him. Lots of things happened. People wrote down a lot of things. But those people all had a bias. The vast majority were trying to build a religion. So without a doubt, they embellished and picked the “witness” accounts that supported what they wanted to say.

                As for the 3 famous figures mentioned at the start. The same is true. Historians often say that we don’t know the real truth, just what was written.

                As for the new testament. It was created by commitee. They hand picked stories and such that created the picture they wanted to present. And plenty of religious historians have pointed out that Christianity borrowed concepts and stories that worked well from previous religions.

                So all that proves is that a human being going by the name Jesus existed and had a very influential life. It proves nothing of God.

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    if a bishop watched me code I could be the first programmer saint. There are times only god knows how my software works. Or not, in case cursing disqualifies candidates.

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    Candidates for sainthood require two distinct miracles attributed to them: Acutis was first beatified in 2020 after a Brazilian boy with a pancreatic defect was cured, following his mother’s prayers to Acutis to help her son. The second miracle involves the reported healing of a Costa Rican girl who suffered a serious head injury after falling off her bike in Florence: her mother prayed for the girl’s recovery at Acutis’ tomb in Assisi, and her daughter made a full recovery.

    Quite, uh, remarkable “miracles”.

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      I feel like maybe Acurtis 360 no scoped that girl off the bike, then came back in as a healer and brought her back to full health.

      …kind of cheating.

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      According to Carlin’s theory, 4 prayers to Joe Pesci (PBUH) should suffice for sainthood.

      Joe Pesci: patron saint of smashing things with a baseball bat.

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        Nah, basically, the logic is that since he allegedly healed her, that he is apparently alive in heaven and no longer in purgatory. Thus becoming a saint as his salvation has been “proven”

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          A blind study should be performed for a proper empirical proof. Sample size of two is not going to cut it either. Pump those numbers up to reach statistical significance.

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    I knew religion was a joke. Anyone who still refuses to admit it is a total moron

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      Except there are still 1.4 BILLION catholics in the world, and that’s just catholicism.

      We may not like it, we may not get anything from it, but we should very much be concerned with what happens in the world of organized religion and what it’s representing because 3/4 of the world still believe in some kind of religion.

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    I don’t know anything about the dead guy. Is this deserved recognition or a shameless attention grab by a no longer relevant institution?

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    God, the Prime Mover, has existed even before the beginning. When God thought “Let there be light” is when that tiny little particle exploded and it became the Big Bang that we are all familiar with. Of course, I could be wrong, but I have faith in it.

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    How is this strange? It was going to happen eventually and it will continue to happen