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This is the official Lemmy for the r/ReligiousCringe***** subreddit. This is a community about poking fun at the religious fundamentalist's who take their religion a little bit too far. Here you will find religious content that is so outrageous and so cringeworthy that even someone who is mildly religious will cringe.
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All posts must contain religious cringe. All posts must be made from a religious person or must be showcasing some kind of religious bigotry. The only exception to this is rule 2
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Material about religious bigots made by non-bigots is only allowed from Friday-Sunday EST. In an effort to keep this community on the topic of religious cringe and bigotry we have decide to limit stuff like atheist memes to only the weekends.
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No Proselytizing. Proselytizing is defined as trying to convert someone to a particular religion or certain world view. Doing so will get you banned.
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The technique used by many propagandists is to make a claim, then when someone says "that doesn't seem right..." immediately demand proof. See you can make any claim you want, then require others to prove you wrong, and then declare victory when they don't bother. The more of an ass you are, the less likely someone will want to make an effort to continue the conversation, so the propagandist will always "win" the conversation. Of course by "win" I mean the propagandist convinces everyone they're an insufferable asshole that's not worth talking to.
"God does not exist" is a claim. Declaring that your claim is unprovable, while also trying to demanding others to prove you wrong is a particularly malignant form of this technique. You're declaring that you're not required to prove your claim, while demanding others to prove you wrong.
Religion is about metaphysical concepts that are neither provable nor disprovable. Atheism is all about promoting fallacies, being insufferable assholes towards people that have different beliefs, and therefore "winning" the conversation.
Actually, "God does not exist" is not a claim. "God exists" is a claim, though. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot and my other comment for clarity on this