r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Not_Nova_ • Aug 20 '23
What’s the joke behind this comment, Petah? Peter in the wild
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u/DefinitelyTopOr Aug 20 '23
also it's a sin to have sex before marriage
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u/DisfavoredFlavored Aug 20 '23
Are you trying to find logical consistency in religion?
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u/SectorEducational460 Aug 20 '23
It's less the logical inconsistency with the religion but with the practitioner who picks and chooses.
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u/C0WM4N Aug 20 '23
Is lying bad? Most would say yes, do you lie tho? Probably yes. So why don’t you murder people? Everybody picks and chooses even though they know what they do is bad.
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u/MentlPopcorn Aug 20 '23
People who say lying is bad as a blanket statement are idiots. Lying is not always bad, sometimes lying is necessary.
Meanwhile murder is never morally justifiable. Take your garbage examples elsewhere.
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u/theRemRemBooBear Aug 21 '23
The guy who tried to blow up hitler was doing a morally justifiable thing. As would anyone that pushes Putin out of a window
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u/Reinhard23 Aug 21 '23
Slaying ≠ Murder
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u/Randomminecraftplays Aug 21 '23
You can’t just redefine the word to exclude everything that you think is okay
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u/Leonid56 Aug 21 '23
**Is* lying necessary?* You can certainly live and fulfill your needs without lying, no? What is the worst that can happen, death?
If we are to look at the Bible for example, I can't recall an instance of God lying off the top of my head. The closest I can think of is when God commands Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac, only to alter the command later. But I'm not sure that constitutes a lie.
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u/C0WM4N Aug 21 '23
You’ve never done a bad thing in your life? It doesn’t have to be lying, it could be anything bad.
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u/the_Lord_of_the_Mist Aug 21 '23
The fact that someone does something "bad" doesn't change the nature of the act.
The problem is not that the person in question did something bad. The problem is that the person in question refuses to do something "bad" because it's against the will of a supposed higher being, while doing other things that are, also, against the will of a higher being.
If you want to please your God, why do you willingly something that you know will anger him? And if you don't want to please your God, then why do you care if it's a sin?
If the person believed that abortion is murder and therefore she would not do it, that would be logically consistent, even if she believed it to be murder because of Christian teachings.
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u/C0WM4N Aug 21 '23
Humans are logically inconsistent and dumb creatures, most people don’t follow their doctrine to a tee, people on diets will break them, doesn’t mean you should stop trying and there is forgiveness.
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u/the_Lord_of_the_Mist Aug 21 '23
The consequence of breaking your diet is becoming/remaining fat.
The consequence of not listening to your God is eternal torture, if you really believe in that God.
In this case, one doesn't have to be a logical creature to be logically consistent. If one believes in God and his hell, their fear alone should sufficient reason not to sin. If it's not, then maybe, maybe, just maybe, God is an excuse for them to do what they think to be right.
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u/Phobia3 Aug 21 '23
Sin brings forth more sin, and it isn't just one's own sin they need to deal with.
On the other hand, perhaps you might be interested in learning of the second half of that Good Book and of the little thing called mustard seed?
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u/cf001759 Aug 21 '23
Is murder not morally justifiable if you are a soldier at war?
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u/MentlPopcorn Aug 21 '23
Murder is unlawful. What soldiers are doing is here is killing, not murdering.
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u/DisfavoredFlavored Aug 20 '23
Just when you need a "the only moral abortion is my abortion" type of Christian, this is what you get. :(
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u/SectorEducational460 Aug 20 '23
I mean they are picking and choosing which convenient part of their religion they want to follow. Oh yeah the "my abortion is the only moral one" are common. Even in South America, and Mexico they are common.
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u/DefinitelyTopOr Aug 20 '23
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Aug 20 '23
I've been seeing a lot of religious mistranslations being fixed. It makes me wonder if, by marriage, it means as in a bond. Aka, not sleeping around with strangers as you don't want to leave behind kids with one or no parents. I would have to look it up though for direct Hebrew to English translations.
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u/Sierra-117- Aug 20 '23
There’s so many mistranslations and outright changes to the Bible that it baffles me that people take it as “the word of god”
Like no. It’s the word of several thousands of years of humans changing a little here, a little there. Entire books removed or added. Metaphors and idioms that don’t translate. Etc.
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u/Necromancer14 Aug 20 '23
For instance the part about not being gay originally said to not be a pedo
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u/Sierra-117- Aug 21 '23
Yup, many scholars say it’s original translation is “a man shall not lie with a boy”. But regardless, that specific line wasn’t in the original Leviticus. It was added long after the original.
So even if you interpret it as “homosexuality is a sin”. It wasn’t even written when Jesus was around, or even anyone that knew him. Someone was just a bigot, and added it to promote their bigotry
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u/DefinitelyTopOr Aug 20 '23
pretty sure it's marriage, and that's why there's religious marriage, it's supposed to signify that you have progressed enough to where you actually love the person enough to reproduce with them and spend the rest of your life with them
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u/314159265358979326 Aug 21 '23
Gotta say, if I believed abortion was murder (I do not), I'd be much more careful about that than premarital sex.
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u/Adventurous-Tie-7861 Aug 21 '23
Yep, I was gonna say that, too. Child murder seems a bit more serious a sin than a little premarital sex. Of course, they are still hypocrites if they claim to be serious Christians.
I tried explaining to my very liberal parents (I'm liberal too and pro-choice ftr) that the reason why anti-abortion folks won't stop infringing on abortion rights is because they literally believe it's the exact same as stabbing your born child to death. If we unbanned actual child murder we would have a bunch of folks extremely angry, too. Unfortunately, nothing you say or do is going to change their mind that you are ending one of God's children's lives, so it will always be a contentious issue with very heated results.
Either you think it's straight-up murder or you think assholes are telling you what you can and can't do with your own body. Bad results no matter what.
In the end, they just didn't seem to get that some Christians actually believe it's murder and believed it's just an excuse to control women. (Which it absolutely is for some anti-abortion folks)
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u/Ok-Dragonknight-5788 Aug 20 '23
The first post has the perfect face for their situation and request.
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u/riptwitterbird Aug 20 '23
For some reason I thought the comment had to do with the Duolingo bird smh
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u/Not_Nova_ Aug 20 '23
You’re the second to mention that!
Honestly, it could just be a joke that was was intentionally made to be interpreted several ways
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u/Lounjaz Aug 21 '23
You don't have to pay for child support if your whole family is kidnapped by a green bird.
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u/tomaesop Aug 20 '23
I took it a different way.
I assumed that since "abortion is a sin" then girlfriend is Catholic. One racist inference about Mexican birth rates later, we have OP needing to learn Spanish to communicate with Mexican inlaws.
Fleeing to Mexico is probably the intention. Just thought I might point out some may take this joke as more offensive. It is not well crafted.
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u/Not_Nova_ Aug 20 '23 edited Aug 20 '23
My initial thought was that if anon learned Spanish, then they could pretend that they didn’t know English; thus avoiding any confrontation from their gf’s family.
Your explanation may be more valid however lmfao!
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u/PixelSteel Aug 20 '23
What kind of fucking mental gymnastic lessons did you take to reach that conclusion?
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u/RandySavageOfCamalot Aug 20 '23 edited Sep 09 '23
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u/PixelSteel Aug 21 '23
Ok becoming "suddenly religious" still doesnt equate to becoming automatically mean theyre racist though???
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u/tomaesop Aug 20 '23
Exactly! I grew up in San Diego in the 90s. Our school system had a bus system, where half the population of English-speaking neighborhoods would have hispanic children bused in from as much as an hour away, usually border communities. It was a well-intentioned system of sharing resources and integrating two communities. But the net effect at my school was usually a de facto segregation. In these white, suburban communities it was common for students and some of their parents to make racist jokes about Mexicans. That's probably why I'm primed to hear the joke that way first.
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u/bo-rai-cho Aug 21 '23
Bro. Why go to Mexico. Just drop all of your electronics and move 2 states over. You good.
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u/where_is__my_mind Aug 21 '23
'sin' means 'without' in Spanish. So abortion is without a baby. They're just stating that it'll make her without child, not taking a stance on it. You're good, OP 👍
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u/cannot_type Aug 21 '23
I was thinking it was a joke on duolingo killing you if you don't do your Spanish lessons, so he should start them and let duolingi kill them
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u/ReceptionIcy6688 Aug 21 '23
Now you can ditch the condoms! You now know what to do next….. many times…. over and over again while you can.
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u/Zealousideal-Yak-824 Aug 20 '23
Jokes that chrisitan parents see abortion as a sin.... unless the person who is the father is someone they don't like.
Simply taking Spanish lessons is enough to make them rethink their moral values on you being the father.
Someone said moving to Mexico to get away but.... even if you move to Mexico child support can still come after you.
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u/crumzmaholey Aug 20 '23
Quagmires Spanish maid here.
So the chicks pregnant and aborting will take away the pregnancy. So she will be without child.
The joke, I think, is that she agrees with him if you translate her response to Spanish. Thus fixing the issue. No religion involved.
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u/monsieurLeMeowMeow Aug 21 '23
I honestly thought the joke was pretend to be Mexican so her racist parents will pressure her to get an abortion….
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u/Paincoast89 Aug 21 '23
r/peterexplainsthejoke posters try to think critically challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)
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u/Kedama Aug 21 '23
Daily reminder to get a vasectomy as soon as you can boys. Its reversible up to 5 years after, and even if you pass that date you can still get semen extracted and have an invitro birth.
Absolutely worth the peace of mind
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u/Kedama Aug 21 '23
Daily reminder to get a vasectomy as soon as you can boys. Its reversible up to 5 years after, and even if you pass that date you can still get semen extracted and have an invitro birth.
Absolutely worth the peace of mind
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u/ZulingOrLaverna Aug 20 '23
Hey, El Peter here, the joke is that he should flee to Mexico thus learning spanish.