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[–] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A Christian is someone who believes in the Bible. An atheist is someone who has read the Bible.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sounds about right. Its a stupid book with great ideas on how to be good to each other mostly.

[–] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

The problem is that you already have to be a good person to recognize the good parts from the bad.

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A quote from Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago

You know what? I think I got it! So no nailing anyone to other things! That would make me happy for sure!

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Hell no. He’s an Evangelical.

So he’s having Grok write his sermons now too.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

The verses in the Bible are made-up too.