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[–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 36 points 6 days ago

Ah yes the all powerful all knowing god thwarted by an atom he created. Guess we have the answer to the “could got create a stone heavy he couldn’t lift” paradox

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 30 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Why is God being invoked in ANY discussion of governmental policy? God is totally irrelevant to any government policy.

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Welcome to America.

Sadly.

[–] jve@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

God is totally irrelevant to any government policy.

I mean, only if you follow legal precedent.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 13 points 6 days ago

It's 2025 and people still belive in the magic sky daddy like it's 1825. Absolutely insane.

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 11 points 6 days ago

You know what disconnects you from God? Greed. Too much money. That's what disconnects you from God. You cannot serve both God and Mammon. The Bible never mentioned fluoride.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

“Fluoride disconnects one from God,” a listener with the username “Peter & Melissa BioHacking Stem Cells” wrote during one call. As part of his agenda, Kennedy has directed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to review the use of fluoride supplementation in water supplies.

Ok, yep, this is the kind of insane, nutjob "Christianity" I grew up in and around.

These actual lunatic people just make up their minds that... something they don't like, for reasons that they know are nonsense, it just gives them an 'ick' for some reason... yep, its just haram now, its demons, because God told me personally when I prayed about it one day.

This is American Christianity, a gigantic ego trip for mentally ill people, and you're an anti-religious bigot if you criticize their anti-logic, their fever dreams.

Oh how I wish that all 100 million Americans who believe Trump is part of God's plan just actually had been raptured, I am so beyond tired of dealing with these people's aggressive and hateful delusions.

EDIT:

it is very funny to me that a year ago, on lemmy, i had liberal boomers tut-tuting at me when I would say things like "no, you don't get it, roughly one third of America fundamentally thinks democracy is stupid and would prefer a theocracy with American state propoganda characteristics", and then back that up with statistics.

Pshaw! What a ludicrous notion! The idea that you could suggest-

shhhhh its time to retire now, liberal boomer, retire from having agressively delusional opinions, shhhhh no you don't get to actually retire, no, your house isn't worth what you think it is, no, your investments aren't going to be enough, shhhh its ok, your mindless self indulgence didn't work out so well, just like we all told you it wouldn't, shhhhh, its time for bed.

[–] DamienGramatacus@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

What about testosterone and anabolic steroid injections Bobby?

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

This is why aliens don't stop to communicate with us. They see what kind of trash we're producing as a species and letting rise to the top of our social structures and they just move on to the next solar system.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Or maybe nobody ever makes it to interstellar travel. They always end up destroying themselves first, like we're currently busy doing.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is probably it. I'm sure greed is a thing with all sentient beings and greed always leads to destruction.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It's highly suspicious that we can't see ANY evidence of an interstellar civilization considering how far we can see. Over 13 billion years, and nobody in visible range is flying big ships around or anything? I've no doubt intelligent life is out there, but SOMETHING seems to be keeping all of it from doing a Star Trek.

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Douglas Adams was right about the hyperspace bypass, it just goes around us rather than through our system. Earth is the galactic equivalent of a shitty racist map dot town in Arkansas

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I'd say having parts of your brain being eaten by a worm has a higher chance of being disconnected from God at about a 1000000000000:1 ratio. The fluoride isn't the problem.

Hell, I wouldn't surprised if the fluoride harms the worm in his head and therefore it forces him to say "FlUoRiDe BaD!".

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 days ago

I misread that as 'Florida' the first time around and thought "Hell of a claim, but it makes sense..."

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Fluoride Disconnects One from God

OK, but at least one's teeth are strong and healthy.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 5 points 6 days ago

If you look at these religious nuts, being disconnected from them seems like an advertising.

He declares a jihad against fluorine.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

“It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids, without the knowledge of the individual, certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.”

[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 days ago

Checkmate, atheists.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Or, in other words, something disconnected him from reality.

[–] Meowie_Gamer@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

[insert that one gif of kirby falling off a cliff]

[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

His "god" is what I call universal-evil, from what I can see.

His war against evidence-based-medicine pleases demons, not angels, I'm certain.

& his gaslighting is just "icing on the cake", isn't it?


We have to compete-against evil more-effectively, or we lose the world, & this isn't sinking-in:

people are still believing that social-assertion is the "means" of making everything work.

Making our lives & our projects/businesses/communities/etc work right is far more effective, than mere social-assertion.

"politics" has brainwashed people into believing that collective-opinion is "god".

Universe's Natural Selection couldn't care less about one's established social-assertion, & humankind's going to be mown-down if humankind won't understand that, this century..

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[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

If this is a call to stop fluoride to be in water, sure that might be fine. But if this fuck is banning toothpaste?

Yeah I've got pretty soft teeth, I always make sure my toothpaste has floride in it.

But like I hope this isn't about pineal glands disconnecting from God or whatever. I wish these people would just take psychedelics and leave us alone.

[–] SlothMama@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Ouch my Pineal Gland

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 points 6 days ago

Guess people with well water are shit out of luck.

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 114 points 1 week ago (17 children)

IF there is a chemical that "disconnects" you from GOD, then there must ALSO be a chemical that "connects" you to GOD.

LSD?

[–] ronigami@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is the exact kind of logically incoherent but necessary argument we need to come up with

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

Instead of RESISTING their bullshit you need to ELPLORE their bullshit and serve some of it back to them.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Replace the fluoride in the water with lsd. Fuck it let the country go down in a blaze of interesting

[–] thebeardedpotato@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Dude LSD in the water supply would be better than whatever the fuck is going on in this world right now

[–] Zink@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago

Can we start with something fun and light, like adding THC into those chemtrails?

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[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 91 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’ve always enjoyed how God is simultaneously portrayed as all-powerful and all-knowing, yet extremely fragile and petty. There’s the “wrong” kind of relationship, heavy metal, now fluoride, and the list goes on.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 11 points 6 days ago

That reminds me of the fascist playbook, where the enemy is both strong and weak.

Maybe we should just call it the "lying to control others" playbook.

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 77 points 1 week ago (9 children)

So whenever you see someone with a lot of teeth missing and the ones still there yellow and brown, you know they are connected to God. All people in heaven have bad teeth. Wait a minute... Is England heaven?

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