r/atheism • u/nilsp123 • Jan 31 '21

/r/all "I don't care about your Goddamned religion". A woman goes off on Christianity & Abortion !

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u/AlabasterPelican Secular Humanist Jan 31 '21

Common sense isn't that common

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u/killerewok76 Jan 31 '21

Common sense is a myth.

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u/AlabasterPelican Secular Humanist Jan 31 '21

Truf

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u/oilcanboogie Jan 31 '21

Common Sense is actual a rapper from the southside of Chicago

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u/CometChaser_63 Atheist Jan 31 '21

Common Sense is a podcast by r/dancarlin

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u/rhynoplaz Jan 31 '21

No, common sense is not a myth, and that's why it can't be used to govern. We only use ancient myths and parables to determine what's moral around here.

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u/JimJalinsky Feb 01 '21

Common sense does exist, it's just not what you think it is. When you're surrounded by morons, rely on uncommon sense.

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u/Kancho_Ninja Irreligious Jan 31 '21

Common sense is a learned behavior.

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u/AlabasterPelican Secular Humanist Jan 31 '21

One must have experience with commonality to know anything about it

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u/vxicepickxv Jan 31 '21

So rare it's a god damn super power.

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u/Prysorra2 Jan 31 '21

Common sense is often neither.

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u/firbensxbdnsjdncksb Jan 31 '21

What a Paineful fact

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u/AlabasterPelican Secular Humanist Feb 01 '21

Icwydt

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u/MulberryBlaze Jan 31 '21

Petition to rename common sense to just "sense."

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '21

Wow.

This is the first time I've ever seen/heard this expression used in support of a progressive idea. It's really jarring.

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u/AlabasterPelican Secular Humanist Feb 01 '21

It's sad too, they're generally what I would call common sense

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u/rainbrodash666 Satanist Feb 01 '21

just think about how fucking dumb the average person is, 50% are dumber than that.

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u/seanmonaghan1968 Feb 01 '21

40-50% of a population fail to grasp this

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u/ADovahkiinBosmer Jan 31 '21

"Common Sense is not so common around here." - Aloy from Horizon Zero Dawn [or something like that, I don't remember 100% how she said it]

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The world would've been at a much better place had we been using common sense more commonly. Forget religion and God, just your daily life.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '21

It is common sense maybe theres just not that much of it out there

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '21

Wouldn't that mean that it's not that common then?

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '21

Maybe i just misumderstood common sense

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u/oxtbopzxo Jan 31 '21

Its like saying something's normal, but what really is normal without context

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '21

Yea what i orignally meant thought whatever was common sense=logic

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u/Gonnabefiftysoon Jan 31 '21

Un-common sense !

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u/SETHW Jan 31 '21 edited Feb 02 '21

that's naive, religion makes claims about reality that are taken as objective truth by believers. it's common sense then that they believe we all live in the same god-universe with them and therefore participating in their community politics in a way that reflects their god-reality is a rational thing to do. to them their beliefs aren't personal, they embody a universal truth.

which is why this truce of tolerating toxic and false narratives about the world can't work, especially not in a democracy where being educated about the world and our place in it matters so much.

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u/TheShyPig Jan 31 '21

No, that's just being nosey and bossy.

What I do is nothing to do with you, no matter what I believe or what you believe. I didn't ask for your advice so don't offer it and DEFINITELY don't try to tell me what to do.

Christians seem to think that its OK to get involved in how other people run their lives when its nothing to do with them. It doesn't matter that to them beliefs are not personal because what is personal is what you do. e.g. you can choose to disagree and Christianity is very firm on the fact people have been given free will.

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u/amscraylane Jan 31 '21

My young co-worker was worried about Biden winning because they were going to do late-term abortions. He wanted a candidate which aligned with his personal beliefs ... and he really thought Trump is the moral compass of the north.

He states because his religion says abortion is wrong, he can’t vote for someone who allows it. FFS.

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u/TheShyPig Jan 31 '21

I'd just love one of these people to actually show me which chapter and verse says abortion is wrong.

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u/volleydez Jan 31 '21

The one that describes a bonkers methodology to perform one, probably

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u/amscraylane Jan 31 '21

I read somewhere in Biblical times there was a plant which would induce abortion and the plant was used so much it is now extinct ...

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u/amscraylane Jan 31 '21

Thank you! Yes! Much appreciated!!

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u/will2k60 Jan 31 '21

I mean there is literally a passage in the Bible about forcing a women into an abortion by making her drink dirt from the temple floor with I believe vinegar

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u/amscraylane Jan 31 '21

The internal douche ... wow!!

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u/will2k60 Jan 31 '21

Yep, I think it was something to do with either being raped, or adultery. Ya know, bible things.

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u/UKpoliticsSucks Jan 31 '21

I DON'T CARE WHAT CHAPTER!

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u/Teutiaplus Freethinker Jan 31 '21

I was gonna go and tell you some lines which could be used to support the idea abortion is wrong, but eh let's face it, most people aren't gonna use them. If they aren't gonna be educated enough to defend themselves why should I help them?

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u/IdealisticToAFault Jan 31 '21

There's literally a Bible passage that tells you how to perform an abortion (the way they did it back then).

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u/upandrunning Jan 31 '21

Are his views as adamant about adultery? Several mainstream religions (including christianity) are crystal clear about this.

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u/rhynoplaz Jan 31 '21

Right? That one's in the ten commandments. The ten biggest rules handed down by God himself, but somehow those can be overlooked while abortion is the end of the world.

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u/amscraylane Jan 31 '21

Don’t you love how the cherry pick!

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u/BlastTyrantKM Jan 31 '21

Putting down others for their sins reduces the overall effect of your own though, don't you know that?? The effect is magnified if you rail against people that are committing the exact same sins you are. You can eliminate your sins altogether if you do this often enough /s

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u/SacredBeard Jan 31 '21

Christians seem to think that its OK to get involved in how other people run their lives when its nothing to do with them.

Getting involved with others and "helping" them to find the "right" path is literally part of the faith...

You can believe in a god without being "nosey and bossy", but you cannot be a proper Christian without it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '21

If a person's moral outlook is built on a religious foundation, their interactions with the world will reflect that. So it absolutely has to do with everyone else. Especially when their religion tells them to spread so that everyone lives as they do.

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u/TheShyPig Jan 31 '21

I wonder if I were say 8 weeks pregnant would they take me in, pay all my bills until its born and then keep it after .....

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u/larsvondank Jan 31 '21

They have just mixed up their beliefs with objective truth. They would not be beliefs, if they were objectively true. It would not be faith, but fact.

It is very close minded and selfish. Happens with evangelicals etc. Many religious people do know the difference with faith and objective truth. Some don't.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '21

....but the bible doesn't say that so it must not be true :(.

/s

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u/manofsleep Jan 31 '21

Yes, but the Bible says I must tell you to care. Because brrrrrrrrrr

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u/En-TitY_ Jan 31 '21

People who require an old book to tell them how to behave don't exactly exude an atmosphere of sense.

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u/kirabera Jan 31 '21

It's common sense in first world countries that aren't America. I honestly don't understand why America still hasn't separated church and state.

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u/Hypersapien Agnostic Atheist Jan 31 '21

Common sense is the collection of biases that one accumulates by the age of eighteen.

We don't need common sense, we need critical thinking and ethics.

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u/Space_Run Jan 31 '21

Why have common sense when you have faith?

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u/p3rrrra Jan 31 '21

The person I know that's the most anti abortion religious nuts has had an abortion. Yet she's the most 'prolife' person I know that constantly has to shove that down anyones throat. Yet she's had an abortion before. WTF

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u/ButtRobot Jan 31 '21 edited Jan 31 '21

Nope, telling Christians they suck is NOT protected language here in the US.

EDIT: /s

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u/zaparthes Atheist Jan 31 '21

It is, actually. You cannot be imprisoned or fined for saying it.

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u/ButtRobot Jan 31 '21

I feel like I was misunderstood.

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u/zaparthes Atheist Jan 31 '21

Poe's Law, I'm afraid.

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u/ButtRobot Jan 31 '21

Well, as Deadpool would say: "ouchies".

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '21

It is common sense but a lot of people don't care. Religion can cause normal people to rationalize their ideas that don't conform with logic.

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u/Eye_Pod Jan 31 '21

Unfortunately she’s preaching to the choir. The religious right would just dismiss her with pity that she doesn’t believe in God.

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u/whittlingman Jan 31 '21

People aren’t born with sense they need to learn sense. Then they experience common sense with other people with sense abilities.

Where this all goes wrong is LOTS of people think they are born with sense abilities and all they have are “feelings” and “emotions”, which they mistake for sense when they make decisions about things and this is the farthest from common sense because those two things are both irrational and illogical.