Is one of these murderous religious people in the room with us right now?
Way to completely miss the point of the comic. Tearing down someone out of a vain desire to be “right” helps no one. Fight people who use any belief to justify being shitty to others. Go read some Vonnegut and learn to leave people who get goodness out of shit alone.
Edit: The comment originally was about religious people being murderous. My first edit was to add an additional thought. This dude’s edited now to change the core of his argument from “murder” to “opression”.
Fight people who use any belief to justify being shitty to others.
Yes, fight religion. Fight it with logic, science and facts. Otherwise you’ll get people like RFK jr, and a whole bunch of sick and potentially dead children. Or you might end up like the middle east, dead in the name of god.
Sharing your beliefs with family is pretty common. Would you not want your relatives to reflect the way you see the world?
Just because it’s going against the generational direction doesn’t make it somehow wrong.
Nor is making a relative upset necessarily wrong.
Now, freed from the expectations, worldview, and belief systems of a religion, she is able to choose her own way of living?
I don’t really see how this is a negative. Religion gives easy, comforting, often bullshit answers to difficult questions. Who are you supposed to be? What’s the right thing to do? How should you treat others? What happens after I die?
Now, freed from the expectations, worldview, and belief systems of a religion, she is able to choose her own way of living?
In the same way that throwing a child into the ocean is “free to learn how to swim”, sure. You can’t go to all this work to convince someone you are right, and then as soon as they start listening and agreeing with you, abandon them to despair. If you want to help someone see the world more clearly, you also have to show them how to handle this new world, especially if it’s your own family you’re trying to help.
On their own journey, I’d be wary of introducing my own biases.
I feel that easily could’ve been excluded from the comic either for the author’s narrative, or simply to keep it a 3 panel.
Could also just be alone time to process.
There’s a difference between religion and faith. Faith is belief in a higher power. Religion is an institution that exploits faith to opress people. This neckbeard atheist didn’t thwart religion, he just destroyed his mom’s faith. I have my doubts that his mom was doing a lot of oppressing.
I get it. Never grew much hair on my neck but I went through an edgy Internet atheist phase. I saw myself as a champion of science and rationality, leading poor deluded people to the light.
I got better, but it took time.
The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.
The last panel is ambiguous about whether the woman is having an emotional breakdown and lying on the ground in tears, or if she was killed by her son and was crying as she died. Both would work as someone being “convinced” their religion is wrong, as being dead would “convince” you about god.
Honestly I initially interpreted the comic as a joke about the dichotomy of how the son would feel good about it but it’s a lot of emotional processing for the mother.
I didn’t realize neckbeard atheists oppressed so many people compared to religion, thanks to the author for opening my eyes
Is one of these murderous religious people in the room with us right now?
Way to completely miss the point of the comic. Tearing down someone out of a vain desire to be “right” helps no one. Fight people who use any belief to justify being shitty to others. Go read some Vonnegut and learn to leave people who get goodness out of shit alone.
Edit: The comment originally was about religious people being murderous. My first edit was to add an additional thought. This dude’s edited now to change the core of his argument from “murder” to “opression”.
No they’re just ruling some of the most powerful and genocidal despotic countries in human history.
Yes, fight religion. Fight it with logic, science and facts. Otherwise you’ll get people like RFK jr, and a whole bunch of sick and potentially dead children. Or you might end up like the middle east, dead in the name of god.
Sharing your beliefs with family is pretty common. Would you not want your relatives to reflect the way you see the world?
Just because it’s going against the generational direction doesn’t make it somehow wrong.
Nor is making a relative upset necessarily wrong.
Now, freed from the expectations, worldview, and belief systems of a religion, she is able to choose her own way of living?
I don’t really see how this is a negative. Religion gives easy, comforting, often bullshit answers to difficult questions. Who are you supposed to be? What’s the right thing to do? How should you treat others? What happens after I die?
In the same way that throwing a child into the ocean is “free to learn how to swim”, sure. You can’t go to all this work to convince someone you are right, and then as soon as they start listening and agreeing with you, abandon them to despair. If you want to help someone see the world more clearly, you also have to show them how to handle this new world, especially if it’s your own family you’re trying to help.
I do agree that abandonment is cringe.
On their own journey, I’d be wary of introducing my own biases.
I feel that easily could’ve been excluded from the comic either for the author’s narrative, or simply to keep it a 3 panel. Could also just be alone time to process.
Actually yes religious justifications for violence are fairly common, the comic is stupid
Totally random question chud: how do you feel about support for drug addicts?
There’s a difference between religion and faith. Faith is belief in a higher power. Religion is an institution that exploits faith to opress people. This neckbeard atheist didn’t thwart religion, he just destroyed his mom’s faith. I have my doubts that his mom was doing a lot of oppressing.
Sorry you were downvoted for pointing out hypocrisy.
I get it. Never grew much hair on my neck but I went through an edgy Internet atheist phase. I saw myself as a champion of science and rationality, leading poor deluded people to the light.
I got better, but it took time.
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The last panel is ambiguous about whether the woman is having an emotional breakdown and lying on the ground in tears, or if she was killed by her son and was crying as she died. Both would work as someone being “convinced” their religion is wrong, as being dead would “convince” you about god.
I think it’s the former, but i see the latter.
Honestly I initially interpreted the comic as a joke about the dichotomy of how the son would feel good about it but it’s a lot of emotional processing for the mother.
The last panel isn’t ambiguous. She’s emotionally shattered because her fantasy was destroyed.
Genocide is worse than murder but murder is still bad
Where did murder come into this?
It didn’t. I’m using an analogy to show that criticising atheists like this does not mean I support religion. Quite the contrary, in fact.
Gotcha