Angry_Autist (he/him)

Some ideologies deserve to be ended

Reddit probably inserts an evercookie into your browser.

Best way to evade a lifeban is to :

1. Install a new browser, give it a very different user agent string. Reinstalling the old browser doesn’t always work as it is a FUCKING PERSISTENT evercookie

2. reboot your router, get a new IP address

3. wait 24 hours

4. Create new account

Congrats, reddit now has no idea you are the person they banned 2 days ago

DO NOT LOG IN TO ANY OF YOUR OLD ACCOUNTS EVER AGAIN (even unbanned ones) or you WILL be banned

This is from 3 years of intense personal experience

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If you aren’t a Christian, then the label heathen is accurate in dictionaries already older than this country so yes, you are a heathen. Or Apostate, I dunno but from your lack of nuance I doubt it.

I’m sorry that not every church lives up to the cartoonishly evil supposition that lives in your skull

It doesn’t though. They still have to provide charitable services. You are being deliberately dense and obstinate and life is too short to waste on people like you

the day they killed i.reddit I knew it was only a matter of time

It’s like how all the public 3rd spaces got killed as a sacrifice to the automotive industry, now all of our digital 3rd spaces are being sacrificed to big tech

I hate everything about how the world is going

Not true and I actively worked at a church that provided food outreach to anyone that came to their doors, and considered anyone suggested by a church member for financial relief (there has to be some limits, the funds are not infinite)

Sure not every church does, but I’ll tell you this that any church that only provides services for their members is ignoring some of Jesus’s most important teachings and I will never support such an organization

You cannot discount all the good because of the bad, it creates a false image of their contribution to the cohesiveness of this country and I am telling you RIGHT NOW that if you want ANY hope of the U.S. coming out of this even SLIGHTLY then you will need to sit beside progressive theists because we ALL have a common enemy and your marginalization is going to hamper that (I don’t just mean you, I mean ALL heathens)

On the contrary, I’ve seen the shape of your arguments hundreds of times and spoken many of them myself in my ignorant and heady days of youth

You saying ‘all I said is churches should pay taxes’ is you saying that you want to bar some of the most established charities in the U.S. from benefiting from the same programs that any other charity can participate in based on your dislike of their ideology and that IS bigoted af, the literal definition of it.

I bet you don’t bitch about the Satanic Churchs’ various tax exempt churches, because their ideals of heathen sacrilege appeal to you, and you are so far up your own ass you don’t see how that makes you a hypocrite.

Sure churches do a hell of a lot of damage, I’m not denying that and I personally dance for joy for every corrupt and disgusting church leader jailed and wish that everyone would STOP protecting them. This isn’t exclusive to churches. THIS HAPPENS in EVERY place that power shields people from criticism. There are more per capita child molesters in Hollywood than in the Vatican and you KNOW this to be true

I don’t want ANY abuser protected, but you are deluded if you think this is exclusively or even mostly a church thing. It is an abuser thing, and abusers actively seek out power and because capitalism it has become normalized to ignore their foul deeds

If you want to remove the financial disclosure exemption for churches, and tax those who refuse to comply? SURE I’m ALL for that. I fully support that

But insisting that all churches are corrupt money laundering operations because of the rancid actions of the few is disingenuous and fueled by antitheist bigotry

They are gutting the DM system and finding out it is a lot more embedded than expected.

Also they are finding new ways to fuck with old.reddit that not even RES mitigates

And yet many churches do choose to file their financial disclosure forms, for transparency sake

And I fully support removing that exemption, I don’t want to protect corrupt churches like you assume I do

Yes because they keep killing us and it hasn’t stopped

Only if you assume neanderthals were less evolved, they weren’t. And we have concrete proof of neanderthal gene inclusion

The thing is, from everything we’ve gathered from their grave rites and diets, Neanderthals weren’t any less evolved than cro-magnon, but they certainly were a hell of a lot less vicious and sadistic

Which is probably why they lost

And why sociopaths continue to attack us to this day. That angry ape cro-mag blood driving their tiny non-introspective minds into a killing frenzy

If anything, the world would probably be a hell of a lot more peaceful and less exploited if the cro-mags didn’t win

Another day steeping in the rancid boil of evergrowing fascism while also being unable to explain to all the people in my life who helped bring this all about just how bad it’s going to get, while simultaneously watching my online circles shrink due to mod abuse (not here) and legitimately deceitful actors

Add a side of job insecurity coupled with the current economy and my industry’s exceptional downturn and basically I am self-medicating and mass distracting just so I can get through another shift of work to pay for another month just to earn the right to pay for another month

I want to lie down forever and shout in the streets and just disappear and just burn everything down and it’s all so exhausting and no one really cares or engages anymore

Is any of this even worth saving? And as bad as it is now, how much worse will it get?

I can’t pretend the world isn’t burning and I am out of my mind over why almost no one else feels the same

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People like you are eager to throw the baby out with the bathwater and that shows how little nuance you allow and just how broad that brush you use to paint over everything is

You say ‘is often times’, and then declare it all to be truly not public, you say ‘if everyone can’t be helped it’s not public’, why are you so fuckdamn eager to discount every good deed based on your gut feeling of the incidence of self-serving intent? It’s basically pathologic to think that way about such a large, ununified patchwork of fuzzy boundaried sects as somehow all being corrupt and self-serving.

The simple fact is churches across the nation do more charity work than you can even imagine but you won’t ever bother learning that nuance b/c the ‘god hates fags’ sign wavers have convinced you that that’s what ALL Christians are like

And that’s pretty bigoted of you

Oh son, you really have no clue who you are talking to.

1. Was an atheist and eventually an anti-theist for a decade and a half. Sam Harris was my favorite ‘horseman’. The moment I got out from under my conservative catholic family’s thumb

2. Realized I was an idiot and atheism is untenable, gave my heart to Christ and volunteered for more than a decade at a free drug rehab mission helping men recover from addiction and get back on their feet

So basically, there is no atheism argument you can bring that I haven’t already worn to death (but please feel free to try, I am quite eager on this point and have boundless energy to reply), and I have direct hands-on experience with how effective church charity can be when handled ethically

Sure I agree there are tons of churches that are rotten to the core, and I have no issue with any of them losing their tax exempt status at all. In fact, I kind of am even more angry at duplicitous false Christians than I am about you heathens and YES I make it a point to call them out even more often than I do your ilk. Yes I said ‘ilk’, deal with it.

I have seen brilliant and kind people dedicate their lives to a much humbler life of service than they could have taken in the private sector because they burned with the desire to help their fellow man, and I WILL NOT stand silent while people like you smear their good deeds with your implications that all church charity is self-serving

Incorrect, churches were historically the first service hubs in most communities, and many continue to do so

Food outreach, emergency economic relief, free childcare services, and more

Look I get you enjoy being an edgy little atheist but that doesn’t give you the right to ignore the massive amount of good churches do every day in communities across the world.

Ok, I am all for removing that exception, many churches already file their financial disclosure for transparency purposes, and I don’t like the idea of this loophole being used for greed.

I have no issue removing the tax status of churches that violate the political clause, and also fully support ending the financial disclosure exemption for churches.

So good to be in agreement!

edit: fucking lemmy, I concede every point and still get downvoted. This is why you will fail