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>Any advice on how to handle all this?
Go to church.
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Using r/Atheism is actually the only sin God can't forgive. I think that's in the bible somewhere.
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That faggot is going to hell, full stop.
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@Hoss @Xenophon he's gotta "stay true to his ideals" even though he doesn't seem to actually have any idea what he should believe anyway
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His problem is that he's still thinking about himself. He's asking how to comfort his Christian mother but won't even get re-baptized for her. Who gives a shit, dude? You're dying, it's water, do you want to comfort your grieving mother or not?
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>How do I stop feeling like I'm going to hell when I die?
repent from your sins.
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Even in my edgy fedora-tipper Internet atheist phase I understood that sometimes shit's not about you and it's best to go through the motions to make others happy. I mean for fuck's sake, I knew it wasn't going to kill me to just kneel at grandpa's casket and close my eyes for a sec.
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@Hoss @Xenophon I think it's a pride thing. "I am right and doing anything to make people think I'm questioning my position looks like defeat"
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I'm also thinking the pride thing is what lead to him getting ostracized from his church in the first place more so than any other factor.
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the difference is, if I renounce Jesus, I'm renouncing something bigger than myself. If an atheist does it, it means nothing. If you are all there is, the value of your word is directly proportional to the amount of time you have left to life. If you have a day left and there is no God, you have no reason at all to follow the laws of men. Go commit crime if you want, what can happen to you?
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If I have a day left I'm going to act as if I am as the hand of God's will.
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@thatguyoverthere @Hoss @Xenophon He's a fag, of course it's a pride thing
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@poastoak @Xenophon @Hoss I mean pride the sin, not the social movement. Pride is pervasive and exists in all of us. Some struggle with it more than others, and when they do they probably don't recognize it as a problem with them (the pride tells them it's someone else who needs to adapt)