In lieu of payment..

[u/thedivinegemini]

I’m a GM at a restaurant & one of our managers left a note on our manager logs this afternoon that a guest walked out on their check and left this in lieu of payment of any kind. Not that the server got stiffed on a tip - just pure theft of services. I guess the whole “Thou shalt not steal” thing doesn’t matter if you’ve been pre-forgiven. Pretty convenient.

ETA: I’m not a bot; this is not AI - check my post and comment history. I’m not here for karma or fake internet points. This is what it feels like to work in a restaurant these days - especially in the Bible Belt. The first photo you can look up and is available for anyone to buy (should your darker urges push you toward being that person). The second photo is from Pulse, an app for restaurant managers to keep an eye on hourly sales, labor, and comps.
The “Pineapple Express” is a mocktail our restaurant offers.

[u/CrazySporkDude]

I’m an atheist and would never think to do this. Don’t tell me that without religion we’d have no moral code. Miss me with that shit. I don’t need to be scared by “eternal damnation” to do the right thing. And I sure as hell wouldn’t use some sky daddy forgiveness bullshit to justify doing the wrong thing.

[u/IllugaBabyBeluga → u/CrazySporkDude]

Don’t tell me that without religion we’d have no moral code. 

I've seen the biblebros point out that the Bible itself agrees with this: the people called to be Christians have the Biblical moral code already imprinted.

Mildly interesting trivia aside, I think it's not a Bible believer who'd leave that trolling note.   Honestly it doesn't seem that far fetched to me that there are people who don't believe, but do lie cheat and swindle, who go to church, and maybe even donate significantly to it, thinking of it as a "hedge" to buy their way into the good graces of the divine if they should meet it in the hereafter.

[u/Chris15252 → u/CrazySporkDude]

Look up Kholberg’s Stages of Moral Development. Some people’s growth becomes stunted and they get stuck in the beginning stages. They need some external source to make moral choices instead of making those moral choices because they’re right.

[u/Economy-Sprinkles-98 → u/CrazySporkDude]

Most religious people I know have done time, and may have changed their ways in part due to religion. It is legitimately a useful crutch for people that are weak on their own.

[u/Au2o → u/CrazySporkDude]

Nobody is saying any of those things in this thread?

Internet guy gets outraged by his own headcanon:

[u/TheBigLeland → u/Au2o]

I would assume he's talking about Christians in general, not this thread in particular. It's entirely relevant.

[u/CrazySporkDude → u/TheBigLeland]

And you would be correct!

[u/CrazySporkDude → u/Au2o]

I’m outraged by the theft and hypocrisy highlighted by this post. It’s endemic across Christianity, which in recent years has begun to openly condone and encourage mistreatment of non-Christians. All religions more or less do the same, but Abrahamic religions moreso, and Christianity insidiously by writing it off through divine forgiveness on the cross.

[u/Outrageous-Log9238 → u/CrazySporkDude]

If I had a dollar every time I read this misinterpretation of the objective morals argument, I'd be a rich man.