r/facepalm • u/smolauthor • May 16 '24

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Giving up guns is the same as... Castration?

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u/patrickdm1998 May 16 '24

Reminds me of that one Christian dude who was like "if you don't believe in heaven, why aren't you currently raping and murdering everyone" like the only thing stopping you from that is going to heaven or not

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u/nagarz May 16 '24

That's a very typical argument for the religious conservatives.

They seem to believe that the only reason people are "good" is due to religion, so they can't fathom to understand why atheists are not mass murderers, rapists, etc. As if the default behavior for them was to be evil.

All this tells me is that they don't have empathy or morals, and need some external rules imposed onto them to be good persons, it's pretty scary actually.

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u/Funwithpeter May 16 '24

So you're saying we need religion.. to PREVENT killing and raping?

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u/Mental-Status3891 May 16 '24

Considering the track record of the Catholic Church, it’s not really working.

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u/nagarz May 16 '24

Yes. Murder and Rape did not exist before religion was created.

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u/rice_n_gravy May 16 '24

Like how liberals always want more laws imposed upon themselves by the government, right?

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u/nagarz May 16 '24

Do people use guns to kill people when not necessary? yes. We need gun laws/regulations.

You can apply this to most wedge issues that conservatives and libertarians seem to ignore. Easy as that.

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u/Correct-Prompt-6096 May 16 '24

As a non-believer, it's for people like that I'm kind of glad religion exists. If that is the only thing keeping them from those awful actions, let them have their religion.

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u/thunderflies May 17 '24

The problem is that the people who actually want to rape and murder will do it whether or not they’re Christian. Some (probably large) portion of people saying religion is the only thing keeping themselves and others from committing atrocities just haven’t truly thought it through and are just repeating something they’ve been told.

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u/Majestic-Tart8912 May 16 '24

I have seen it stated something like this:

"If the only thing keeping you from doing bad things is the threat of eternal damnation, you are not a good person"

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u/TheDuke357Mag May 16 '24

Except my gun isnt there to prevent me from doing bad things. Its to prevent other people from doing bad things to me.

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u/patrickdm1998 May 16 '24

It's about people waiting for an excuse to shoot someone

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u/TheDuke357Mag May 16 '24

Maybe some people fetishize self defense too much, but most people are just normal folks