Showerthoughts

31186 readers

1053 users here now

A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts: 1

Rules

All posts must be showerthoughts
The entire showerthought must be in the title
No politics
- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
- If you feel strongly that you want politics back, please volunteer as a mod.
Posts must be original/unique
Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.

Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report the message goes away and you never worry about it.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

vatlark

forkball

Thekingoflorda

238

Even if god exists religion can't possibly be the way to god (self.showerthoughts)

submitted 8 months ago by bi_tux to c/showerthoughts

175 comments fedilink hide all child comments

So I thought about this in the shower amd it makes sense to me, like praying and stuff never worked for most people I know, so a direkt link to god gotta be unlikely. That made me conclude that religion is probably fake, no matter if there's a god or not. Also people speaking to the same god being given a different set of rules sounds stupid, so at least most religions must be fake.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] frog_brawler 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Can an atheist pray to god to ask for the enlightenment of his/her/its believers?

[+] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

[deleted]

[–] frog_brawler 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That’s right.

[+] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

[deleted]

[–] frog_brawler 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So god never answers the prayers of atheists… sounds pointless.

Predestination - sounds like you’re talking about god’s plan… why pray then? If it’s already in a plan, it’ll happen. If it’s not in the plan, it won’t.

If god doesn’t allow his children to slip away, how do you explain the actual verifiable existence of atheists and people that formerly had religion?

[+] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

[deleted]

[–] frog_brawler 4 points 8 months ago

Why would you worship a God that casts aside so many people and condemns them to hell? Sounds more like a Devil.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Well of course God won’t answer a prayer that would negatively affect one of his true followers.

...I’m not God, so I have made peace with the fact I will never understand that.

Could you share what makes you so confident in the first quote, despite what you say in the second quote? How can you know God would not or has not answered any prayers that negatively affected a true follower, and how can one define whether God has negatively affected a true follower when one cannot intimately know God's true intentions?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Well of course God won’t answer a prayer that would negatively affect one of his true followers.

No true Scotsman fallacy. Any time anyone can show someone praying for a negative thing against a follower you'll simply say that they weren't a "true follower".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

What a bunch of horseshit. Your God is a monster.

[–] Mr_Fish -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well you can, but that doesn't mean God will do it. You're asking a father, who loves his children, to remove their choice in the matter and force them away, despite him knowing it's better for them to stay.

[–] frog_brawler 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If God never answers the prayers of non-followers; he’s really not convincing anyone new that he exists.

[–] Mr_Fish 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

When did I say that? I just said that specific prayer will never be answered

[–] frog_brawler 1 points 8 months ago

Maybe it would; I don’t think you get to decide.