Stupid things religious people say

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Ditto. Since sin is a violation of divine law, atheists can’t sin.

Boru

Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful -- just stupid.)
Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

I'm good with that.

Boru

[no one]

I brought a nun home, I sinned all over her face. Twice.

[Foxaèr]

Married Mormon couple insist ‘life has never been better’ despite husband coming out as gay
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/08/ma...band-wife/

[Astreja]

For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged...

How is this a problem? If I judge some action to be undesirable, and then do it myself, I would expect to be judged by the same standard that I used.

[zwanzig]

"My experience with that is too personal and sacred to reveal."

You know it won't hold up if you challenge it or scrutinize it, you mean.

[Duty]

My (now ex) girlfriend remarked to me last month, knowing full well about my recent brush with the Grim Reaper "Your days are numbered..by GOD!"
I replied "Well, I suppose I can stop taking my medications then, if God's in charge..."

One was not amused. So much so that I "went through to the other side" and laughed to myself about it many times.

Also, long time no see AF, salute! 

[zwanzig]

On one of my rp forums, there's a topic right now, "Do you believe in ghosts?" One gal gave a huge list of experiences she's had, most of them vague or "I can't talk about that/I'm going to keep this private for reasons". Then she ends her post with this

"When people say they don't believe in ghosts, I feel a bit bad they never experienced anything that would make them believe. I don't mean religiously, but just knowing something is out there can be eye opening."

I feel bad for people who say they believe in ghosts based on experiences they've had because their standard for being convinced of something is so low and it can be harmful for them to go through life like that.

[Foxaèr]

Had a coworker who believed in that ghost nonsense.

If a call light went off in a room that was empty, to her it was a ghost instead of the faulty wiring it actually was. If something near her fell to the floor, it just had to be a ghost instead of physics and gravity. She was constantly taking pictures with her phone and asking us if we saw the same weird shadows she did.

[zwanzig]

Had a coworker who believed in that ghost nonsense.

If a call light went off in a room that was empty, to her it was a ghost instead of the faulty wiring it actually was. If something near her fell to the floor, it just had to be a ghost instead of physics and gravity. She was constantly taking pictures with her phone and asking us if we saw the same weird shadows she did.

I used to be really into it about 4 or 5 years ago. Played with a Ouija board in a graveyard, played solo hide and seek at 3 a.m., took pictures anytime I felt a "spooky" feeling. I used to watch videos and compilations of ghost encounters too. Then you learn about emotional priming, the ideomotor effect, how lighting affects lenses and cameras, and that a good chunk of spooky content online is faked or put out there as an ARG or party game/story for edgy teenage sleepovers. -__-

I feel embarrassed that I used to think that stuff was real but at least I can genuinely say that I attempted those things with a believer mindset. I never had an experience of anything that couldn't be explained by my primed fear response or gravity or an old house doing what old creaky houses do.

Once I started learning more about the early cameras and the obscura, it kinda blows your mind to realize light behaves in strange and cool ways. We don't have explanations for everything ever, but the stuff science does know really makes the world and its natural rules and behaviors so much cooler than I realized. I took so much for granted and had a very boxed in definition of science. So, when people talk about seeing things, I wonder how educated they are, if they were like me, pre-learning some of this stuff.

[Foxaèr]

I came to understand her notions derived from her upbringing and her heritage. She is Asian, and her father would always tell her wild tales that to the rational mind just seems unreal. She actually believed her father visited another dimension.