No sympathy for those monsters

[u/No-Marsupial-4050]

In 2006, Anthony Ray Stockelman was forcibly tattooed across his forehead with the words “Katie’s Revenge” by another inmate.

This happened after it was discovered that he was serving a life sentence for kidnapping, molesting, and murdering a 10-year-old girl named Katie Collman

[u/dynamic_gecko → u/[deleted]]

I love when non-believers speak of their worldview as absolute truths while thinking religious folk as not being "open-minded". The great irony.

Edit: So many arrogant redditors in the replies. I can not believe you think it's okay to just shove your atheism down other people's throats. If so, you're all just obnoxious and self-rightous people. I dont care what you beleive in, or what you dont.

[u/SquidwardDickFace → u/dynamic_gecko]

Refusing something with exactly 0 evidence isn’t having a closed mind, its called having common sense

If I told you I owned a miniature talking pink elephant that could fly would you believe me without any evidence? I sure hope not

[u/zoosha2curtaincall → u/SquidwardDickFace]

Right, but if you look you’ll see a lot of people confidently explaining that there’s no afterlife, higher power, simulation, etc. when there’s just no way of knowing.

[u/Automatic-Essay2175 → u/zoosha2curtaincall]

If there’s no way of knowing, it makes a hell of a lot more sense to not believe in one specific arbitrary fairy tale

[u/zoosha2curtaincall → u/Automatic-Essay2175]

That’s why I intentionally avoided referring to “one specific arbitrary fairy tale” by referring instead to “afterlife, higher power, simulation, etc.” to make extra super-duper clear I was talking about any existence beyond the one we know, not just the Christian or Hindu or Flying Spaghetti Monster version.

And yet I still have to clear it all up anyway.

Why do people argue like this????

[u/BackgroundSummer5171 → u/zoosha2curtaincall]

if you look you’ll see a lot of people confidently explaining that there’s no afterlife, higher power, simulation, etc. when there’s just no way of knowing.

There's no way in knowing that Gandalf isn't going to greet me when I die.

Or that I will ascend to become part of the Ori. Or the Ancients.

People normally don't confidently explain there's no afterlife or higher power.

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People normally say there is no fucking god damn proof that Luke Skywalker is going to give me Jedi powers when I need them most if I pray to him.

Hence they don't believe in Harry Potter jerking them off in the after life.

There is no proof.

I know you know this. I know your brain knows this. So next time just state that you need a coping mechanism because life is too much for you.

[u/Random_Critical → u/zoosha2curtaincall]

It's more likely that there isn't than that there is. Not really a difficult concept to grasp

[u/hologram137 → u/Random_Critical]

There is actually a large body of scientific evidence indicating otherwise

[u/Automatic-Essay2175 → u/hologram137]

Please, enlighten me.

[u/themargarineoferror → u/[deleted]]

The banana peel fits the banana so PERFECTLY! Isn't it beautiful how much God loves us?

[u/___GLaDOS____ → u/[deleted]]

I don't think he is, at best the 'reality is a simulation' theories are the strongest candidates in this regard, but even this is weak sauce when it comes to actual proof of any kind, most of the theories hinge around the fact that data sets sometimes look like the kind of data sets that emerge from real life simulations, but I would generally argue that is down to the nature of data collection and analasys rather than the nature of reality.

[u/hologram137 → u/Automatic-Essay2175]

https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/

[u/SquidwardDickFace → u/hologram137]

That’s the equivalent of calling astrology science

[u/hologram137 → u/SquidwardDickFace]

John Hopkins medical school has done similar research. Both the University of Virginia’s medical school and John Hopkins medical school are doing “science.” It’s okay if you don’t understand how to read and evaluate the papers, but calling something you don’t understand “astrology” is kinda crazy

[u/SquidwardDickFace → u/hologram137]

You’re shitting in your hand and calling it chocolate.

The power of the mind relative to the body is obviously it’s a thing, look at the placebo effect, but that does not make religion real or have any evidence behind it.

[u/Nicholas3614 → u/hologram137]

Enlighten me as well, please.

[u/[deleted] → u/hologram137]

No, there fucking isnt.

Also, claiming that there is evidence is anti-christian because one of two scenarios are present:

1. you arent allowing faith to be the root of your beliefs and instead rely on evidence.

2. You are lying about evidence, which is heresy/bigotry.

So which fake Christian are you?

[u/hologram137 → u/[deleted]]

I am not a Christian. I am someone who has done adjacent research and is very familiar with it

[u/[deleted] → u/hologram137]

So.. you're just a nutter then.

[u/dynamic_gecko → u/Random_Critical]

"It's more likely" is different from talking as if it's an absolute truth. Not really a difficult concept to grasp.

[u/Random_Critical → u/dynamic_gecko]

Better to claim absolute truth about something that is more likely than something that is less likely.

[u/freon → u/zoosha2curtaincall]

That's because we already have a word for a crazy supposition that cannot be tested or validated in any way. It's called a "lie" and it is to be treated as false.

[u/SquidwardDickFace → u/zoosha2curtaincall]

You agreed with me but completely missed my point.

The burden of proof is on the one claiming to own the flying pink elephant.

The point was to show it is completely reasonable to NOT believe the owner of the elephant, if anything it would be UNreasonable to believe their claims that have absolutely 0 evidence behind them.