ExLisper 99 points 3 years ago

The "belief" we're in a simulation is more like a interesting idea than something people organize their lives around. Is it possible? Yes. Am I going to praise the great programmer every Sunday? No.

The belief in God in most cases is not just belief in some general higher power but a very specific deity with weird morality, silly mythology and bunch of scam artists behind it.

I think there's a higher power...
Ok...
that got mad at us for eating fruits but then impregnated a lady with itself and pissed us off so that we murdered him and he could say he's not mad anymore.
... WTF?

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5wim 12 points 3 years ago

I more or less agree, but you keep using "believe" when you ought to use "belief." Just FYI.

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ExLisper 2 points 3 years ago

Ups, thanks. Totally missed that.

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RIPandTERROR 10 points 3 years ago

Could an all powerful, loving God be real? Sure. Why not?

Could a powerful, all loving God be real? Yeah, seems realistic. In many ways, I am a God to an ant.

Could an all powerful all loving God be real?

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha no.

God is either inept, indifferent, or a straight up ass. None of those items are something I care to worship, even at the threat of the eternal damnation.

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Lifebandit666 3 points 3 years ago

By their own book, the bad guy thought the stupid naked people should have a bit of an education and the good guy punished them for trying to improve their knowledge base. Serpents rule!

I was taught in school that the real battle in the universe is between chaos and order. They gave it a fancy name, Entropy, but that was the gist.

So Chaos is God and Order is Satan. Live all hunter gathering under God or just go to the Supermarket under Satan, and spend the rest of your time doing other things, like making art or scientific theories.

Even now the Church is against progress. Don't let them Gays get married for fucks sake, the world will explode.

Hail Satan.

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PilferJynx 1 point 3 years ago

God is a programmer. That explains a lot actually. I guess he's still working out the bugs (features)

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RIP_Cheems 0 points 3 years ago

Maybe the rapture is actual just the update to reality.

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rwhitisissle -3 points 3 years ago

This argument conflates belief with religious practice. The core similarity of both beliefs is that the universe is intelligently designed. And you can believe in the idea of a God without participating in any kind of formal religious practice. That "most" religious belief is wrapped up in a particular religious tradition is ancillary.

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royalbarnacle 7 points 3 years ago

Religion's weakest argument is the claim that the world was intelligently designed. When it so clearly isn't.

Simulation theory doesn't claim someone designed all this. They built a simulator where all this evolution and history happened, like emergent gameplay on steroids. It's not the same kind of "design" we're talking about.

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myxi 1 point 3 years ago

The core similarity of both beliefs is that the universe is intelligently designed

The hypothesis of simulation does not address intelligence. Intelligence abstractly is something that exists inside the simulation, it may value nothing outside the simulation. You thesis is lacking evidence.

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