• quarrk [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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    In the linked video, his final message states that he converted due to the cost-benefit ratio and also to satisfy his Christian friends.

    • KoboldKomrade [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Lol, I grew up Christian. There was a fairly common belief that people that did this were not true believers and that god would see through their lie. (Not that all death bed conversions were invalid to be clear, just ones done for the reason of living unchristian, then still getting the reward, while still not believing.)

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        god would see through their lie

        Yeah if you’re doing it for social pressure that makes sense but if you’re like “maybe there’s an off chance this omniscient God thing is real” it seems fairly pointless

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            You certainly can militantly oppose belief in the supernatural. Atheism doesn’t mean indifference, it describes a lack of belief in any god. How strongly one feels about atheism isn’t contained within the word atheism.

            Anyway it’s splitting hairs because anti-theism is good and correct

            • The prefix A is indifference and the prefix anti is opposition. And if yall cant even care to be literate enough to articulate the position you think you hold, maybe rethink what you think you know. Its like the difference between asocial and antisocial. It makes no sense to say you are militantly asocial. No sense. But what do i expect? Westerners can’t read. Like western religions are pretty awful, but westerners act like they know everything while famously knowing nothing.

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      Slimy worm till the end. Huh.

      Sounds like it was pure social pressure. Otherwise he would have just cited the basardized version of Descartes’ argument religious people keep vomiting out.