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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Hurt me instead of her”

That's kind of the entire message of Jesus: He volunteered to be hurt instead of us.

Now, the whole notion of God hurting us or Jesus is kinda fucked and I'm a devout Last Thursdayist, but the sentiment is the same.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, me too. Existential crisis incoming.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the core message of Last Thursdayism is that since we can't know, we shouldn't worry about it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You do you. I’m freaking out. It can’t be stopped now. Pray for me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

May Bob guide you to your slack

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I’ve used this argument unironically with creationists without realizing it was a thing. “If God is omnipotent, why couldn’t God create something that didn’t exist a moment ago but then comes into existence with billions of years of history.”

It’s just an attempt to at least get them to acknowledge science while still leaving room for faith, since carbon dating isn’t really up for debate and cosmology offers more than enough convincing evidence against a young universe, just to name two examples.

Anyway I thought I was being creative and original… guess not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm an Adamsian Last Thursdayist of the Subgenius, which synthesizes The Hitchhiker's Guide and the Church of the Subgenius into something resembling a theology.

If I'm going to believe in something made up, I'll make up something fun.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me and a few buddies tried writing a "Not So Holy-ish Boble" in grades 7-9, it quickly became a one-upsmanship contest to see who could write the gayest thing you've ever read. There were characters such as Adam the Ant, a three-foot tall anthropomorphic ant with a ten-foot long penis, and Elliot the Otter, who was not only a literal otter, but also figurative. He was based on a real guy we knew, who loved it, but was not actually an otter himself (more of a twunk). Where's Bob in all this? Very much involved in every activity, he was basically a super horny pansexual Jesus who would use his powers to incite orgies. I think it ended with a cumshot from Adam, so hard that it blasted the whole crew into space so they could convert other worlds. I was supposed to write the "Revelations" final chapter, but by then the group had converted to some other weird thing that the (very hot) new girl in school brought with her, and interest had waned.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Get this script to Seth Rogen and A24, they’ll make it a movie. Call it Sausage Fest 2- The Slappening.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought you’d play Bob. But there has to be a giant spider.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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