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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Even if god exists religion can't possibly be the way to god (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by bi_tux@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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So I thought about this in the shower amd it makes sense to me, like praying and stuff never worked for most people I know, so a direkt link to god gotta be unlikely. That made me conclude that religion is probably fake, no matter if there's a god or not. Also people speaking to the same god being given a different set of rules sounds stupid, so at least most religions must be fake.

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[–] outsideno1877@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yeah their is always things that we won’t know so why make up answers rather then just admitting to not knowing something that is basic humility.

Also i didn’t attribute god to that directly i attributed faith to that which is its only purpose which is why i think its entirely bad. You can replace god with alien overlord and it works the same way. Or even a vision from the future.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The question back is what harm is it to you that I attribute the creation of the universe to a giant spaghetti Monster? What harm is it to you that I attribute the vast unknowns of the ocean to Cthulhu?

The flaws you mention come from organization which I am very clearly distancing from. Faith can exist without religion and organization. Religion cannot exist without faith.

The sooner we decouple these two things the quicker we can move forward as a species IMHO

[–] outsideno1877@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Sure until you start attributing other things to it and basing your life voting and other things on it. Plus i think its inherently harmful to believe things without reason since i think their is inherent value in only believing what we have reason to believe is true. Plus this kinda thinking is what keeps us in the stone age if we assume we know the answer we don’t progress but then we discovered stuff like lightning wasn’t from roman gods and life improved from that knowledge.