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ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Reminds me of being a pastor’s son at ~5 and asking the Sunday School teacher if Satan could be saved, since God wants everyone saved. I was sincere–it troubled me that there was a creature that was without hope. Now I understand I should be happy that fucker is burning eternally. He should’ve never messed with God! That’s just normal adult stuff! You live and learn!

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AquaTofana@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Holy shit, I’m not religious at all, but 5 year old u/potoooooooo is the CUTEST fucking thing.

Ugh, children really are innocent/wholesome, and its the adults around them that inject poisonous ass ideas into their minds.

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prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Lucifer never even actually kills anyone in the Bible, whereas Yahweh commits literal genocide on multiple occasions.

It should also be noted that the serpent never even told Eve that she should eat the fruit, just that she COULD.

Side note that always puzzled me… 1) why would God create a tree that has fruit that teaches you the difference between good and evil? 2) why would Jesus put this tree in the garden in the first place? 3) why would you ever think that the people who have no concept of right and wrong (before eating the fruit) are going to be able to resist it? And finally, 4) WHY IS KNOWING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOOD AND BAD A BAD THING??M

It’s all just so fucking idiotic that it hurts my brain.

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- dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  If we believe that the various Satans (in the original Hebrew, literally “adversary,” and rendered without the definite article so there are probably multiples of them) are in fact one and the same with the Devil (singular), this link-up doesn’t even occur until the Book of Revelation which is firmly a new testament thing and wholly unsupported by any of the old testament or ancient Hebrew sources from which it’s derived. Making all the assumptions required on basis that this is so, then whoever he was killed a lot of people in Revelation. But not until then.
  
  In old Hebrew tradition, the Satans are sort of the prosecuting attorneys for god. They work for him in order to tempt the faith and righteousness of various people. Several mortal people are also given the moniker of “Satans” when they’re working against the interests of god or various other individuals.
  
  Meanwhile, the notion that Lucifer is also one and the same with the Devil or any kind of Satan is a much later interpolation made when the church(es) of the era wanted to insert a bogeyman into their religion and they needed a justification for it, some time in the AD 200s. Lucifer is identified as the king of Babylon, a mortal, when he has attracted god’s ire in his sole appearance in Isaiah 14. The situation has become so warped that his name was finally removed in the New International Version of the bible and he’s simply referred to as the “morning star, son of the dawn.” (Isaiah 14:12, if you want to go have a look.)
  
  Modern pontificates will also insist that the king of Tyre in Ezekiel 28 is also somehow the Devil, which is dubious. Even if he were, and god were speaking allegorically for precisely half of his rant as we are thus demanded to believe, god smokes him at the end of the passage anyway so it’s a moot point.
  
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  - prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Maybe.
    
    On the other hand, there’s no actual evidence that any of this is real in any way. So there’s that…
    
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    dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Oh, one other point of order on that as well: Obviously even if it’s not all bullshit (spoiler: it’s all bullshit), Revelation is supposed to be a prophecy of the end of times which obviously hasn’t happened yet. I’m pretty sure we would have noticed if it did, what with the sounding of the seven trumpets, the worldwide earthquake, the 200 million horsemen slaying a third of mankind, etc.
    
    So even if it’s all somehow inerrantly true, the Devil hasn’t killed anyone yet.
    
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- ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The biggest one for me was, “Why doesn’t he want them to know they’re naked?”
  
  He gets all pissy because Satan ruins his perverted, non-consensual peep-fest and decides to curse literally everything for all time. Fucking gross.
  
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  - prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah. He loves you so much. But also, if you don’t do exactly as he says, you will literally burn in a lake of fire for all eternity. Why? Because a couple people ate some fruit that I tempted them with and, let’s be real, always knew they were going to eat anyway.
    
    That’s an abusive relationship if I’ve ever seen one.
    
    Don’t even get me started on how stupid it is that he had to send himself to earth, as his son, to die painfully, in order to save humanity? Like what dude? Do you not literally make the rules?
    
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    ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Also weirdly into the importance of being willing to sacrifice your children as an act of heroism (literally both Abraham and Jesus, plus the plagues, David, etc…).
    
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survirtual@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Buddhism has a more Christian example of Christ-like behavior concerning a “living being Satan”. That is to say, if “living being Jesus” was real, he would be a Bodhisattva, perhaps akin to Kṣitigarbha.

In the story, Bodhisattva Kṣitigarbha vowed:

“Until the hells are empty, I will not become a Buddha.

Only when all sentient beings are saved will I attain enlightenment.”

It is a vow to never abandon any being regardless of their state.

I like that idea. Boundless love and compassion doesn’t stop at the bounds of some hell. It is boundless. It has boundless time, so it will spend an eternity reaching out to even cyclic hells.

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- ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Nice. I like 99% of what I’ve encountered from Buddhism.
  
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  - UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Like so much else, the religion in theory strays from the religion in practice
    
    U Rarzar works for the Ma Ba Tha (Association for the Protection of Race and Religion), a Buddhist organization comprised of both monks and laity. The organization is well-known for its social welfare programs and its advocacy of Buddhism. It is also known for its persecution of the Rohingya Muslims. Buddhist organizations such as the Ma Ba Tha have circulated pamphlets and flyers espousing the dangers of Islam and the imminent Muslim threat. U Rarzar is in charge of the organization’s bi-weekly magazine. In his mind, Muslims, no matter their ethnicity, are a threat to Buddhists. According to U Rarzar, “Muslims and ISIS are the same. It is just the difference of a name."
    
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    ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I said 99% for precisely that reason. Because I haven’t encountered much of it, but know it exists. Now I read another article, so let’s say like 94% now.
    
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- njordomir@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’m a Buddatheist who grew up with both cultural Catholicism and later Christian Evangelicism.
  
  I like how this hints at the nature of the self. If I leave someone behind am I not also leaving myself behind?
  
  For me, ethical acts are those that increase the freedom of the self and others. We all suffer. That’s a fact of life. If we dissolve our concept of the self and acknowledge our link to others and the world itself we can see ourselves more as threads going through human experience. If we are kind to ourselves and “others”, we have a better chance at reducing that suffering.
  
  Imagine the time a stranger forgot their wallet and you paid for their coffee. A version of that experience could still exist in that person’s mind long after you die. It could get blended with other experiences and reinterpreted. It could be told as a story to a friend who was inspired by the act. The cascading effects of that person being properly caffeinated on that day could have world changing effects. In a similar way, I carry the shared experiences of my own ancestors and even strangers who have shared their stories with me. They are still alive as a small part of me because my true self is humanity or even some animating life force of the universe or something like that and the name that people call me just refers to the limited perspective and incomplete view I have of existence. Essentially I see existence as blinders limiting my perspective like a race horse, but the true self is a satellite view of the track. When I act, I do so based not only on my experience, but the collective experience of every perspective and experience that has been conveyed to me in every way, but I am still one human body, in physical space, subject to time. I hope that when I die, those blinders will be lifted and I’ll exist as pure conscious perception of everything that ever was is and will be. Able to see through anyone’s eyes, in any time. To feel any and every feeling felt my an animal or human. To view the entirety of existence as a completed masterpiece from outside time itself.
  
  You can probably see why I like the Buddhists.
  
  I find that when you acknowledge the interconnection of things compassion becomes easier.
  
  I hope that people rediscover that within themselves and others.
  
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  - drhodl@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I will join the first religion that allows me to re-unite with my beloved cat, after I die. Stupid christianity tells me that my animals don’t have souls, when in fact, they are far better beings than most humans.
    
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  - BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    I find that when you acknowledge the interconnection of things compassion becomes easier.
    
    A universal truth.
    
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- scala@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Of course! Because heaven and hell are made up and facts don’t matter!
  
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  - survirtual@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s an interesting take.
    
    Let’s confine the statement to the bounds of a materialist’s reality for a moment and see how it holds up.
    
    A child somewhere in the world just had their arms blown off withnessing their mother and father evaporating before their eyes. In the mind of this child, is it in: a) normal Earth life b) heavenly Earth life c) hellish Earth life
    
    A woman somewhere just discovered their partner has been cheating on them with just about everything that moves, and they have HIV. She has always been loyal for all the many years they’ve been together. In the mind of this woman, is she in: a) normal Earth life b) heavenly Earth life c) hellish Earth life
    
    A soldier somewhere just fired on a little kid they mistook for an enemy. They go to sleep that night haunted by what they’ve done, finally realizing they are the bad guys and everything they are is a lie. They’ve done unspeakable horrors to so many innocent people, and it is all rising to awareness. Is this solder’s mind in: a) normal Earth life b) heavenly Earth life c) hellish Earth life
    
    Heaven and hell are manifested here in Earth within the hearts of all beings.
    
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    JoeTheSane@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You’re talking about two different things. They were talking about heaven and hell as real, physical places that you go to after you die. You are using heaven and hell as metaphors for the real things that happen in life.
    
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