Ah Ha! There is a God!

[erutxet]

I’m embarrassed by how typical my exclamations are of someone who has recently found their faith, but still, I have to share. I found God recently through Alcoholics Anonymous. He’s there. He always has been. If he wasn’t, why would people dedicate their lives to proving He’s a lie? Have you found any books on the denial of Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy? No. Because there is no fear there. There is fear when it comes to God.

The word GOD is a label, it only really stands for Good Orderly Direction or GOoDness as you understand it. It only refers to the spirit of the universe; God is the force that pushes the air out of your lungs and helps you shit. It’s that force.

Man, it’s all so clear now, I love walking in grace!

[Pezerocles]

@erutxet

I’m embarrassed by how typical my exclamations are of someone who has recently found their faith, but still, I have to share. I found God recently through Alcoholics Anonymous. He’s there. He always has been. If he wasn’t, why would people dedicate their lives to proving He’s a lie? Have you found any books on the denial of Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy?

People don’t get executed for believing or not believing or coming from the “right lineage of idolatrers of Santa Claus.”

That’s just for starters.

[erutxet]

For non-believers death is a big deal. For believers, it’s not. Original sin died with Jesus on the cross.

So I empathize with your grievance, but it doesn’t have any weight.

[Pezerocles]

We may agree that dying is of relative value…

But being sliced to pieces with what amounted to big machetes or being burned alive or, you know, shit like that, I have to respectuflly disagree.

Not to mention the fact that people who kill in holy Judaic and post-Judaic wars are convinced they are sending their enemies to their “hell.” For “eternity.”

[erutxet]

Water is still water, even if it’s ice, steam, or liquid. Death is the same, no matter how it’s served

[Pezerocles]

@erutxet

Water is still water, even if it’s ice, steam, or liquid. Death is the same, no matter how it’s served

How about torture?

[erutxet]

What about it?

[Pezerocles]

They do that too, the religious nuts.

[erutxet]

Well, so do non-religious people. Torture is just a cultural thing I would say, it’s quite fascinating to me actually…

[Pezerocles]

Mostly it’s the religious nuts, though. In fact, religious nuts have been directly involved 100% of the times that weren’t isolated psicopathic episodes.

[erutxet]

ah… you’ll have to show me some statistical data if you want me to believe you on all that!

[Pezerocles]

Don’t insult me.

Go read a history book.

ANY history book.

[erutxet]

Well … this might be a good time for you to recommend one to me.

[monkey_man]

@FilmSnob

Don’t insult me.

Go read a history book.

ANY history book.

Do you mean this history book.

Stalin followed the position adopted by Lenin that religion was an opiate that needed to be removed in order to construct the ideal communist society. His government promoted atheism through special atheistic education in schools, anti-religious propaganda, the antireligious work of public institutions (Society of the Godless), discriminatory laws, and a terror campaign against religious believers. By the late 1930s it had become dangerous to be publicly associated with religion.[88]

Stalin’s role in the fortunes of the Russian Orthodox Church is complex. Continuous persecution in the 1930s resulted in its near-extinction as a public institution: by 1939, active parishes numbered in the low hundreds (down from 54,000 in 1917), many churches had been leveled, and tens of thousands of priests, monks and nuns were persecuted and killed. Over 100,000 were shot during the purges of 1937–1938.[89] During World War II, the Church was allowed a revival as a patriotic organization, and thousands of parishes were reactivated until a further round of suppression during Khrushchev’s rule. The Russian Orthodox Church Synod’s recognition of the Soviet government and of Stalin personally led to a schism with the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.

Just days before Stalin’s death, certain religious sects were outlawed and persecuted. Many religions popular in the ethnic regions of the Soviet Union including the Roman Catholic Church (including the Eastern Catholic Churches), Baptists, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism, etc. underwent ordeals similar to the Orthodox churches in other parts: thousands of monks were persecuted, and hundreds of churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, sacred monuments, monasteries and other religious buildings were razed. Stalin had a different policy outside the Soviet Union, he supported the Communist Uyghur Muslim separatists under Ehmetjan Qasim in the Ili Rebellion against the Anti Communist Republic of China regime. He supplied weapons to the Uyghur Ili army and Red Army support against Chinese forces, and helped them establish the Second East Turkestan Republic of which Islam was the official state religion.

[monkey_man]

But wait… there is more on Stalin…

Calculating the number of victims
Before the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union, researchers who attempted to count the number of people killed under Stalin’s regime produced estimates ranging from 3 to 60 million.[91] After the Soviet Union dissolved, evidence from the Soviet archives also became available, containing official records of the execution of approximately 800,000 prisoners under Stalin for either political or criminal offenses, around 1.7 million deaths in the Gulags and some 390,000 deaths during kulak forced resettlement – with a total of about 3 million officially recorded victims in these categories.[92]

Isolated episode and so cannot be counted as part of your 100%.

[Pandora]

@erutxet

There is fear when it comes to God.

That is true. Belief in a god takes away man’s fear.

[Pezerocles]

@monkey man

@FilmSnob

Don’t insult me.

Go read a history book.

ANY history book.

Do you mean this history book.

Stalin followed the position adopted by Lenin that religion was an opiate that needed to be removed in order to construct the ideal communist society. His government promoted atheism through special atheistic education in schools, anti-religious propaganda, the antireligious work of public institutions (Society of the Godless), discriminatory laws, and a terror campaign against religious believers. By the late 1930s it had become dangerous to be publicly associated with religion.[88]

Stalin’s role in the fortunes of the Russian Orthodox Church is complex. Continuous persecution in the 1930s resulted in its near-extinction as a public institution: by 1939, active parishes numbered in the low hundreds (down from 54,000 in 1917), many churches had been leveled, and tens of thousands of priests, monks and nuns were persecuted and killed. Over 100,000 were shot during the purges of 1937–1938.[89] During World War II, the Church was allowed a revival as a patriotic organization, and thousands of parishes were reactivated until a further round of suppression during Khrushchev’s rule. The Russian Orthodox Church Synod’s recognition of the Soviet government and of Stalin personally led to a schism with the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.

Just days before Stalin’s death, certain religious sects were outlawed and persecuted. Many religions popular in the ethnic regions of the Soviet Union including the Roman Catholic Church (including the Eastern Catholic Churches), Baptists, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism, etc. underwent ordeals similar to the Orthodox churches in other parts: thousands of monks were persecuted, and hundreds of churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, sacred monuments, monasteries and other religious buildings were razed. Stalin had a different policy outside the Soviet Union, he supported the Communist Uyghur Muslim separatists under Ehmetjan Qasim in the Ili Rebellion against the Anti Communist Republic of China regime. He supplied weapons to the Uyghur Ili army and Red Army support against Chinese forces, and helped them establish the Second East Turkestan Republic of which Islam was the official state religion.

Yes!

Communism is a perfect example of how worshiping a supernatural deity always leads to genocide and other such pleasantries.

[erutxet]

Sometimes there are e coli outbreaks and the water gets contaminated. People die. But people won’t write off water due to few, several, many outbreaks because it’s a lifeline.

[Pezerocles]

And sometimes, we don’t drink the seawater, even when it means dehidrating to death. In the end, seawater will only make you die faster, and smart people know this.

[erutxet]

Death is always an option, no one can take away your right to annihilate yourself … but personally, I want to live, I’m enjoying this.