religious creationism is very much incompatible with scientific theories such as evolution, continental drift, radiometric dating, and a whole lot of space science that reckons with the fact that the earth (and surrounding universe) are very, very old. religious creationism posits that the earth was made in a few literal days and is now only a few thousand years old. this is solidly, demonstrably, not true. you cannot adhere to our current understanding of science while ignoring the evidence that the earth is very old.
Technically god could have just made the universe to make it look like its billions of years old, kinda like how game devs put lore in their games to give the illusion of their world being older than it actually is, which means that god could still technically exist. Its impossible to prove it though so most scientists just put a big question mark next to the existence of god and move on with their days
Im not a Christian btw I just find this stuff interesting
"god is not deceptive" mfs explaining why god made the universe look very old when he actually doesn't want you to think it's old or else he's gonna send you to drown in boiling shit for eternity!!!
i grew up in one of these churches. pyramid scams are rampant. my parents fell for the mineral miracle solution thing with the chlorium, and i heard of some idiots on the church being flatearthers. this is in chile btw, where no one even profits if you use MMS. they just getting bleached their insides for the love of the game
The only partly logical argument I see is that God chose your gender so changing it is saying that God was "wrong". The issue with this is:
If you're trans, you didn't change gender, you were that gender in the first place, and you're just allowing yourself to express yourself as what you feel on the inside
This argument can be applied to everything from wearing glasses to surgery correcting life altering birth defects (oh you were born without legs and are using prosthetics? You're saying God got your number of legs wrong)
I actually found one in a comment somewhere on the Internet. Somebody posted a Bible verse that said something along the lines of "Your body is your temple". An ultra Orthodox guy said that this means that being trans is a sin because you're "altering the body" (they were talking about medical transition I guess) and therefore you're "desecrating the temple". I replied that, given that that's something you'd want to do and it would make you happy, surely it implies that you're "taking care of the temple", in accordance with the Bible verse. I don't remember what they replied with but it wasn't a coherent counterargument.
It symbolises being obnoxiously performative and using Christianity as a shield to justify bigotry usually, regular everyday Christian people do no feel the need to announce their piety to random strangers
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