Imagine that you’re trying to shoot a baby
No I don’t think that I will.
It’s that “I’d commit murder if it wasn’t illegal” mentality. Like “O RLY!?”
In order to verify that this wasn’t a coincidence, I would need to repeat the experiment on multiple babies.
Verification is proof and proof denies faith.
That’s not how the magic sky man deal works.
Okay, that’s great Jesus, but I’m still going to need to poke you in the spear hole before I buy this Third Day Resurrection bullshit.
Brand new sentence.
Saint Thomas has lemmy? Fuck.
Poke… With what?
I figured you’d say you’d use your underpants weevil.
😏
I like the Tim Minchin line from Storm.
Science changes its position based on what’s observed. Faith is the denial of observed truth so that belief can be preserved.
If you’re shooting because you think there’s something to the rumor you heard, then that’s verification. So you lose.
If you’re shooting for some other reason, wtf? That should itself put you on the bad list.
What if you went back in time and the baby is Hitler?
Then you either allow someone more sane to do worse in the power vacuum, or you get killed by another time traveler trying to prevent that.
Jesus is fine with giving proof if you need it, he’ll just be disappointed you didn’t trust him bro.
He should have done a better job then.
We would also need to test this across various age ranges.
And use multiple crosses.
Make one yourself out of 2 sticks and a bit of rope. To rule out the possibility of the amulet just being magical and having nothing to do with any deity.
No, but I’d definitely put that necklace on anyway. Not like the baby knew anything about religion, but it still worked for him; should work for me, too.
Cast it into the fire! Destroy it!
No.
Isildooooor!!
you’re trying to shoot an indestructible christian baby
I really want to know why I would be trying to shoot said baby in the first place. Is it the antichrist? Am I being blackmailed? Is this some sick bet?
What do Christians think atheists spend their time doing?
Asking questions. The most vile of sins.
Plotting to murder babies obviously. Post-birth abortions are a thing according to Fox News…no /s
Shooting babies?
Satanic orgies, drugs, dancing and other fun stuff.
Funny how they keep relying on impossible hypotheticals.
Isn’t that, like, the whole book?
It’s mostly fanfic of previous theocratic writings and random ramblings
The funniest part is that this hypothetical really boils down to “What if we had any evidence that what we believe is true?” Well fucking duh, that’s literally our whole issue.
At least they kinda framed it as a scientific experiment with verifiable evidence! Utterly bunkers aside from that.
Needs a Christian to even come up with the idea to shoot at a baby…
They get weirdly intricate with their baby death fantasies
That depends, if I shoot the baby and they die immediately, as if they took a shotgun blast to the face, would you become an atheist?
I think I’d be convicted of assisted murder…
I mean… Why did the God not protect the baby anymore? Is the crucifix a required magic catalyst or something to get Gods protection? Do we have any known cases where the catalyst was not needed?
I think I’m closer to solving the riddle of Gods power…
Lack of object permanence. The baby stopped being a Christian when the crucifix was gone
Yeah and how do you know it’s not “the devil’s” necklace or some demon or god isn’t real and it’s all demons. With religious logic you have nothing real to stand on to test reality.
Why did the God not protect the baby anymore
The entire bible is about a Father who says “Look at what you made me do!”
On the other hand, the devil never really did anything bad.
What do you mean he didn’t do anything bad?!?!? He convinced some chick to steal an apple. That’s like in the top 3 worst things you can ever do.
She didn’t do anything bad. The apple didn’t belong to anyone.
The whole story is about God gaslighting them to believe that they should be punished for violating arbitrary rules.
wouldnt it be the anti-christ, since hes technically indestructible. jesus can be killed by normal humans.
He wasn’t wearing a crucifix
spoiler
Around his neck I mean
In roman Palestine, the crucifix wears you!
Ok you won
Nothing scarier that someone who believes in shit they can’t see that encourages them to be violent.
Maybe don’t shoot the baby?
Literally impossible without having Jesus in your hearts.
Instructions unclear, several latino men stuck inside me
While wearing the necklace, can the baby fly? Does it have sharp teeth and can lunge incredible distances with serious force? If they are leaving out this bit of information, it doesn’t help the argument whatsoever.
Next you say a baby is not allowed to lunge incredible distances or have sharp teeth?
If baby follows rules, baby don’t get shot.
Exactly. Be nice and the baby won’t hurt you.
What if baby try and steal from you via crypto scam?
What happens when the baby turns to red mist? Is that just “part of God’s plan”?
Okay, but no joke, if removing a crucifix suddenly allowed me to turn a previously indestructible baby into red mist, I think there might be a god and he might have had a plan or foresight into this whole boondoggle
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” - Arthur C. Clarke
You’re too eagerly jumping to conclusions.
What if the cross just emits a baby-shaped forcefield?
Just because the amulet of protection in the shape of a crucifix doesn’t mean it has anything to do with god. Wizards are mischievous.
Yeah, put that shit on before the fuzz arrives.
