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I am not an atheist, I genuinely believe that God exists and he is evil, like a toddler who fries little ants with a lens.

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[โ€“] Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

God is unreasonable and scary when you are a Christian, at least for me when I grew up. You're basically told he can read your mind so you pretend he's a great guy, but to me an evil God is just Christianity.

[โ€“] daddyjones@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

How does it help to pretend anything if he can read your mind?

[โ€“] Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl 6 points 7 months ago

You have to learn to fool yourself and to not ask such questions

[โ€“] BallsandBayonets@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

He can only read surface level thoughts. Any deeper and we'd be able to tell, proving his existence, which would make faith irrelevant and lead him to disappear in a puff of logic.

[โ€“] revlayle@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Nah, he disappeared in a puff of logic because of the babel fish.

[โ€“] Kase@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

How would we be able to tell?

[โ€“] gaifux@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Yo man this is like, deep thinking bro