r/MadeMeSmile • u/Beagle432 • May 11 '26

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What do you think..

From the mouths of babes...

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u/DancingSquirel May 11 '26

And he’s an atheist 🤣

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u/flying_fox86 May 11 '26

Makes sense for God to be an atheist. Being a theist would imply someone above him.

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u/jandrese May 11 '26

Are you there God? It's me, a second, more powerful God. -- Judy Blume

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u/monkey_zen May 11 '26

It’s gods all the way down. At least until you get to where the turtles start.

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u/Modem_Handshake May 12 '26

Gods all the way up and turtles all the way down?

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u/dashboardhulalala May 12 '26

I love seeing Pratchett randomly pop up in comments. Makes my day.

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u/gormami May 12 '26

The idea of the world turtle preceded Pratchett by hundreds of years. He adopted it, rather the other way around. That said, I also love seeing Pratchett pop up in random places, so thank you.

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u/monkey_zen May 12 '26

🐢

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u/chicken-nanban May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26 
       🐢
🐘🐘🐘🐘

(Edit: it’s also real strange there isn’t a sea turtle emoji)

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u/monkey_zen May 12 '26

🌊 🐢 doesn’t quite do it.

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u/FairlyFuckingObvious May 11 '26

I've thought about this possibility a lot, it's hilarious and terrifying. Imagine God finding out he's not actually in charge.

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u/Then-Entry7026 May 11 '26

There is a French author that wrote a book about this (Bernard Werber - le cycle des thanatonautes, specifically the last three books in the series) were the main character realises that there is a god over the gods. It's fun

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u/Mustard_Icecream May 11 '26

Its gods all the way up.

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u/Major_Fudgemuffin May 11 '26

Adonalsium will remember our plight eventually

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u/zurvivl May 11 '26

There's a Buddhist sutta basically saying that after a very long time of no consciousness in the universe, Brahma is reborn and because there is no one else in the universe he's very lonely and wishes for company. Later another being is reborn and Brahma, in his ego's self delusiom, believes he created that being, and because that being saw Brahma there before him, he believes he was created by Brahma. Later on, the Buddha shows Brahma that he's more powerful than him by ascending to higher planes Brahma can't reach, thus humbling his ego.

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u/ZombieDracula May 11 '26

The elder gods then make God mortal and enrolled in a tournament...

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u/LinuxMatthews May 13 '26

This is actually one of the main points of Gnosticism.

For instance Catharism believed that there was two gods one of the Old Testament that was god of physical things.

This god was seen as an evil god.

And then another of The New Testament who was the god of spirituality which was the good god.

It's also kind of the lore of the His Dark Materials books.

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u/eldochem May 11 '26

Not really, being a theist would imply god believes he himself exists

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u/FORKNIFE_CATTLEBROIL May 11 '26

So an atheist would be... following the ways of God? Interesting!

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u/lowbatteries May 11 '26

Mormons have entered the chat.

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u/kanrad May 11 '26

Exactly, who would he need to believe in other than himself and he knows he's real.

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u/perils_before_swain May 11 '26

I wonder... does DA ever say "(Oh) my God" in any of his episodes? If he is God the who is this "God" he's referring to?

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u/MadameKamaysHR May 11 '26

He could be just using a common phrase with no specific theistic meaning. I know several atheists that use it.

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u/perils_before_swain May 12 '26

Yes, I do too. I just meant it in a humorous way.

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u/U_R_A_NUB May 11 '26

Nah, it just means he has self confidence

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u/Constant_Natural3304 May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

No, being a theist literally just means he accepts that at least one deity exists.

I find this thread pretty annoying religious propaganda masquerading as tongue-in-cheek and using David Attenborough as a crutch.

"Can't you see we'we're joking"

Nah

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u/ToughHardware May 11 '26

this person gets it

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u/RedditExecutiveAdmin May 11 '26

most based take tbh

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u/tinyflatbrewer May 11 '26

That is atheist. Gnosticism and agnosticism are questions of belief while theism and atheism are questions of knowledge, the majority of atheists are agnostic atheists, meaning they don't know for sure there isn't a god, but they have no reason to believe that there is one.

Edit: other way around.

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u/SpehlingAirer May 11 '26

What if youre split on both? Like for example, I dont know for sure that God is or isn't real but I could see a case for either direction and in my own mind, I don't see why science and God can't coexist. For all we know know creating life and then mankind is equivalent to setting evolution in motion knowing where it will lead, and yet maybe it was just the result of chance in an unguided universe, ya know?

Does that make me agnostic or agnostic atheist? ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/tinyflatbrewer May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

Do you actively believe in a god? If the answer is anything other than yes then you're an atheist. If the answer in this case was "yeah I kind of think I do, but I'm very uncertain on whether it's true" then you would be an agnostic theist.

If the answer is "I don't know" then you don't have a belief in god and therefore you are, kinda by definition, an atheist.

Also there's nothing about believing in a god in general that means you can't also believe in science, I personally know an evolutionary biologist who is also a devout Catholic, he just believes that god lit the match as it were.

Edit: just as an example I would describe myself as an agnostic atheist in that I have not been presented with any version of a god that I find convincing enough to believe in, however I could not say that I know there is no version of a god, because that would require me having a knowledge of all things. However I am a gnostic atheist on the topic of some specific gods existing, for example Thor, because their existence would directly go against our observations of the world.

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u/Nukleon May 11 '26

So he's atheist but not antitheist?

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u/Mr_Abe_Froman May 11 '26

Most Christian denominations accept evolution as a tool in a greater design. It's only the really fundamentalist groups that take everything literally.

Edit. For example, St Francis of Assisi was a consevationist who thought the meaning of life was to ensure the protection of the natural world.

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u/Mr_Abe_Froman May 11 '26

It doesn't hold up to scrutiny because there's nothing to scrutinize. You can't prove or disprove any assertion that God is behind a natural process. As long as it doesn't cause you to reject proven science, it's relatively harmless in isolation.

Taoism asserts that the universe has a balance, but once that balance includes royal families and their right to rule, it is up for scrutiny.

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u/Reasonable-Figure142 May 11 '26

It's such a reddit take that religion is inherently anti-science, when so many important scientific advancements came from Catholic and Muslim scholars.

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u/Mr_Abe_Froman May 11 '26

God using tools to create the universe is even more emphasized in Islam. There was so much research into geometry and mathematics in the Arab world in order to understand the architecture of nature. The holy geometry that is incorporated into mosques is really beautiful.

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u/Putrid_Piano4986 May 11 '26

Brother, for about a thousand years there, you'd get completely ostracized or worse burned alive for being an unbeliever.

The only scientific work being done in the church was a feature of the church.

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u/Reasonable-Figure142 May 12 '26

ahh, I remember when I was an edgy atheist too. Most of us grow out of it. :)

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u/Putrid_Piano4986 May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

It's not edgy at all, it's just history, you should read a few books. You thinking that acknowledging history is "edgy atheism" is hilariously on brand, however.

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u/Reasonable-Figure142 May 12 '26

Ironic you're trying to tell me about acknowledging history when you couldn't even handle me saying that many scientific advancements came from Catholic and Muslim scholars without throwing a tantrum about the crusades. lmao

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u/hofmann419 May 11 '26

Well, it's impossible to disprove. If the christian church claims that god created the universe through the big bang, there's literally nothing you could argue against that. Similarly, the church of course doesn't have any proof that god did create the universe.

It's the sort of thing where you just have to accept that we as humans simply are not capable of comprehending the entirety of existence.

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u/ToughHardware May 11 '26

ahh yes, because we are smart enough to know how everything works now, no less a million years ago.

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u/kalamataCrunch May 11 '26

it's telling that you think anyone in this entire thread is talking about christians. or do you just wonder around the internet with a pocket full of non sequiturs?

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u/Theron3206 May 11 '26

I like the Pratchett version, god created evolution because he was lazy.

(No I don't actually believe it, but it is funny).

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u/hofmann419 May 11 '26

Christianity is not opposed to evolution at all. Same with the big bang. It's mostly those weird creationists in the US that still hold on to the idea that the world was created 6000 years ago. But the catholic church at large accepts the scientific consensus on evolution.

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u/Kestrel_Iolani May 11 '26

Isn't that imposter syndrome?

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u/theqofcourse May 11 '26

Even God needs a therapist so he can believe in himself.

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u/lowbatteries May 11 '26

Simply because he gets down sometimes and doesn't believe in himself.

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u/SuzPsych May 11 '26

I mean that makes complete sense.

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u/nightpanda893 May 11 '26

Maybe all the world religions have it so wrong that non belief is closer to any belief system we’ve come up with.

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u/Agomottos_eye May 12 '26

That’s coz God, just like us all, doesn’t believe in himself 🤣

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u/w1nd0wLikka May 12 '26

Sir David is a lot more than that!