August 16th, 2019
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I am Hunter Solodam, the "man who broke the Catholic Church" according to my town priest. I have converted over 400 of my town's most devoted Catholics to atheism. Ask me anything!
August 16th, 2019
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furless
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LuciusDickusMaximus
It matters to me that people believe what I believe. I'm a perfectionist in that sense. My motto is "if he/she has not been converted, he/she has not met me yet." I don't claim to be the smartest human being ever, but on this issue, I might as well be.
As for nihilism, I think Ralph Waldo Emerson said it best when he addressed the people at Mines Point, Delaware: "We know nothing but ourselves, believe nothing but ourselves, and see nothing but ourselves."
furless
Doesn't your need to change others' beliefs belie your confidence in your own beliefs? As for Emerson, in what way are his words a compelling argument for believing nothing? How are they other than nonsense?
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LuciusDickusMaximus
Ah, the Trojan Horse attack. Clever. As per my last comment, nothing can belie my beliefs. They are right. If I didn't have 100% confidence in my beliefs, what would be the point of my existence? I have only myself and my experience, I cannot prove that anything else exists. Why would I take the risk that someone else, who could just be part of a simulation, could be "right?" What kind of subservient, unfulfilled life would that be? And that is what the Emerson quote tells me: I know nothing but what myself, therefore I trust nothing but myself.
furless
If your beliefs are correct then what is the point of your existence in any case? Doesn't your desperation in trying to convert others to your beliefs mean that you need the approval of others to prop up a worldview that you are in reality afraid is wrong?
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LuciusDickusMaximus
No, I don't think it means that. I think society is crumbling because religion used to be a teleological concept of a cookie-cutter progression through life as given, but the teaching of free will has stripped religion of its ends-based teaching but left the deranged moral code. Humans who subscribe to such beliefs live under a code with no idea why because nihilism and 'God' cannot coexist. If you release yourself from the concept of an all-powerful being, then we can begin to save society.
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SchlomoHarambe64
I men if you were that much of a big deal you'd go on IAMA not here.
I for one have no idea who you are and am a devout catholic in preprocess of converting my agnostic gf.
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LuciusDickusMaximus
Ok, then let's debate right now and loser has to convert.
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SchlomoHarambe64
kek, sure
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LuciusDickusMaximus
How can you uphold a church that has time and time defied the word of God, which is the foundation of the Church? The words of Jesus and the preceding prophets are the only source of divine guidance according to Christianity, yet corrupt humans have been adding laws for generations that are somehow as holy as the word of the lord? I mean, the Catholic church that exists today is majority a human creation, and even routine things like church are purely the makings of people with no foundation in scripture.
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SchlomoHarambe64
How can you uphold a church that has time and time defied the word of God, which is the foundation of the Church? I don't believe it has. It is the form of christianity following the word of Jesus most closely. Protestantism permits divorce against the direct word of God for example, or hold gay marriages in churches.
The words of Jesus and the preceding prophets are the only source of divine guidance according to Christianity, yet corrupt humans have been adding laws for generations that are somehow as holy as the word of the lord? Why would God never again talk to humans after Jesus's death? Saints exist and I believe in them.
I mean, the Catholic church that exists today is majority a human creation, and even routine things like church are purely the makings of people with no foundation in scripture. You are repeating yourself and I disagree.
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detroyer
These are trivially bad criticisms of Catholicism. In any case, it was already obvious from his post history that his claims here are not true.
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SchlomoHarambe64
Yep
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LuciusDickusMaximus
How can you disagree that weekly church is a human creation? I see it probably stems from your belief that saints are divine; that is my fundamental problem with Catholicism. There is no proof of the divine except apparently in the histories of some biased sources. Doesn't that seem very convenient? And if you claim to have personal experiences with the divine, how can you prove these to be more than experiences of cognitive dissonance or confirmation bias, in that you are looking for the extraordinary to prove your already firm belief? And doesn't the ridiculousness of many parts of the Bible cause you to doubt it in its entirety? If I were to believe in any form of Christianity, it would be Marcionism because the Old Testament is full of falsehoods.
Jesus is the only person I respect in the scripture. I see myself as a figure akin to him, as absurd as that may sound, but we both are heavily influential philosophers that have the power to convert millions. Who knows, many in 100 years, humans will be learning about me? I don't really care, though, because I will be swallowed by death, which I believe to be eternal emptiness and I will be existentially indifferent to the affairs of living things. Like I said, I don't claim to be the smartest person on earth, but I do think I am one of the most important human beings that will be remembered from this millenia.
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j4jackj
how fucking sure of thyself canst thou possibly be?
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Ralph327
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LuciusDickusMaximus
Logic and facts, my friend, logic and facts.
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ald4ker
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LuciusDickusMaximus
I don't have as big of a problem with it, to be honest. My reason for this is because I live in the West which is crumbling because of Catholicism, not Islam.
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j4jackj
agnostic atheists side with thy pastor.
get out of town.
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zaellis
You basically claim to be the smartest human being ever on this issue, being Religion. What gives you that sense of intelligence on this issue?
If there were a God, and you find that out after this life, what would your reaction be?
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LuciusDickusMaximus
Like I said in a different comment, I spent many years being open-minded, and now have settled on one firm belief. Why stray from that if I believe it to be true? If you knew something to be unalterably true but no one thought it, wouldn't you devote your life to converting everyone to your set of beliefs? If I were to meet God in the afterlife, I would undoubtedly be completely shocked as I consider the existence as impossible to a certainty. But I think any omnipotent figure would respect my dedication to a belief.
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gay-porn-account
Do you think people just get annoyed by you claiming to be so smart and trying to convert them to atheism and they just say “ok whatever I’m an atheist” or something in the lines of it just so you can stop bothering them?
Edit: this guy is full of shit, don’t believe him, he made several different AMAs claiming to be different people with different jobs
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zaellis
Hahah thanks for looking it up. u/gay-porn-account is a true hero, doing all the research we sometimes don't wanna do.
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detroyer
He apparently also has superhuman smell, is an intern for Ben Shapiro, and teaches the "history of sex" at a university. He also has different names in these stories (Mark Sandelo, professor Elsting, etc).
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LuciusDickusMaximus
I am a man of many talents, hence why I could break the Catholic Church.
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detroyer
You're not convincing anyone.
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