Post by @theneverfox@pawb.social

2026-11-06 08:54 UTC

I find the joke offensive because it’s not particularly clever and warps each belief system in a way that doesn’t capture the essence of the belief system. It’s neither an honest nor a satirical representation of each belief system, it’s just a bunch of people being bad drivers with some lazy rationales. It’s just not a good joke The atheist portion is consistent with all the others though. Atheism is definitionally a belief system, agnosticism can sometimes be a lack of a belief system, but atheism is a positive assertion on unknowable aspects of existence How can your assert a grad student named Kyle didn’t spark the big bang when playing with a physics sim in a higher information density layer of reality? It’s a matter of belief

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@echo@lemmy.today 2026-11-06 17:22

it’s just a bunch of people being bad drivers with some lazy rationales. It’s just not a good joke At least we agree on that much. atheism is a positive assertion on unknowable aspects of existence No, not at all. Atheism just means that a person doesn’t believe in any gods. I’m positive that I don’t believe in any of the current possible gods. I remain open to evidence of an undiscovered god. I’m not positive that there are no gods. How can your assert a grad student named Kyle didn’t spark the big bang I’m not the one making the assertion, so I have no obligation to prove or disprove it any way. If someone wants me to believe that is true, then they need to provide evidence. Otherwise, it’s just a fanciful claim indistinguishable from any child’s imaginary friend.

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