@bjneitzel@maddenifico@Martina It is not. The shared struggle of humanity is how we learned these things. Society and civilization predate Christianity and most practiced modern religions.
@Curious39643915@maddenifico This is just being human. Christians do this too. It is why we have so many different denominations of Christianity. The same with all other religions. We construct our morals and ethics based on societal standing and the struggle to fit into them.
@gosuprime022@Awk20000 Buddy, you didn't pay attention during Gundam Wing did you?
Stfo of the Gundam fandom, you couldn't understand it if you bathed in its message.
@brigidoconnor@ShitpostGate If the being is an omnipotent God with the ability to bend the universe to its will, then yeah it kind of does. The universe is made to its knowledge and understanding, not ours.
@DrFisura@ShitpostGate Because without dogma, it doesn't make sense. I am not a Christian, I do not believe that the Bible is written perfectly. Only through belief does it make sense to you because it HAS to, your dogma forces it.
@Scrunthropious@Retrocaus @SolarisLightSc3 @ShitpostGate Just sit with this thought for a while and reread Genesis with it in mind as you read the words as they are translated and interpreted.
@Scrunthropious@Retrocaus @SolarisLightSc3 @ShitpostGate But you're not. You're buying into the dogma of the religion. There is no verse in the book to claim there was no free will, or that free will was even given. There is no mention of free will at all because it is a far more modern concept. You are reading free will into the Bible
@Scrunthropious@Retrocaus @SolarisLightSc3 @ShitpostGate If free will did not exist in the garden of eden, then there could not have been free will gained by a "trick". You've been fooled. I'm sorry.
@Retrocaus@Scrunthropious @SolarisLightSc3 @ShitpostGate But he already knows you will disobey. There is no choice. Everything is determined by this omnipotent being. If I say tomorrow will come because I know it will, and then it happens, I did not give the day the chance to not come. It's an illusion of choice.
@rickjduncan @jeepgirl9272 @CalltoActivism Running a landscape business, turned into a painting business, turned into a scrapping business where you are the only employee is not "exponential" businesses.
@TommyTe11s@tulpapilled There is nothing that prevents an atheist from understanding these things. Many sects of Buddhism are considered atheistic in practice. You can find mysticism in the world without believing in a higher power. Buddha actually encouraged it.