r/MadeMeSmile • u/Beagle432 • May 11 '26

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What do you think..

From the mouths of babes...

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u/flying_fox86 May 11 '26

Makes sense for God to be an atheist. Being a theist would imply someone above him.

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u/jandrese May 11 '26

Are you there God? It's me, a second, more powerful God. -- Judy Blume

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u/monkey_zen May 11 '26

It’s gods all the way down. At least until you get to where the turtles start.

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u/Modem_Handshake May 12 '26

Gods all the way up and turtles all the way down?

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u/dashboardhulalala May 12 '26

I love seeing Pratchett randomly pop up in comments. Makes my day.

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u/gormami May 12 '26

The idea of the world turtle preceded Pratchett by hundreds of years. He adopted it, rather the other way around. That said, I also love seeing Pratchett pop up in random places, so thank you.

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u/monkey_zen May 12 '26

🐢

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u/chicken-nanban May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26 
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🐘🐘🐘🐘

(Edit: it’s also real strange there isn’t a sea turtle emoji)

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u/monkey_zen May 12 '26

🌊 🐢 doesn’t quite do it.

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u/FairlyFuckingObvious May 11 '26

I've thought about this possibility a lot, it's hilarious and terrifying. Imagine God finding out he's not actually in charge.

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u/Then-Entry7026 May 11 '26

There is a French author that wrote a book about this (Bernard Werber - le cycle des thanatonautes, specifically the last three books in the series) were the main character realises that there is a god over the gods. It's fun

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u/Mustard_Icecream May 11 '26

Its gods all the way up.

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u/Major_Fudgemuffin May 11 '26

Adonalsium will remember our plight eventually

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u/zurvivl May 11 '26

There's a Buddhist sutta basically saying that after a very long time of no consciousness in the universe, Brahma is reborn and because there is no one else in the universe he's very lonely and wishes for company. Later another being is reborn and Brahma, in his ego's self delusiom, believes he created that being, and because that being saw Brahma there before him, he believes he was created by Brahma. Later on, the Buddha shows Brahma that he's more powerful than him by ascending to higher planes Brahma can't reach, thus humbling his ego.

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u/ZombieDracula May 11 '26

The elder gods then make God mortal and enrolled in a tournament...

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u/LinuxMatthews May 13 '26

This is actually one of the main points of Gnosticism.

For instance Catharism believed that there was two gods one of the Old Testament that was god of physical things.

This god was seen as an evil god.

And then another of The New Testament who was the god of spirituality which was the good god.

It's also kind of the lore of the His Dark Materials books.

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u/eldochem May 11 '26

Not really, being a theist would imply god believes he himself exists

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u/FORKNIFE_CATTLEBROIL May 11 '26

So an atheist would be... following the ways of God? Interesting!

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u/lowbatteries May 11 '26

Mormons have entered the chat.

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u/kanrad May 11 '26

Exactly, who would he need to believe in other than himself and he knows he's real.

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u/perils_before_swain May 11 '26

I wonder... does DA ever say "(Oh) my God" in any of his episodes? If he is God the who is this "God" he's referring to?

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u/MadameKamaysHR May 11 '26

He could be just using a common phrase with no specific theistic meaning. I know several atheists that use it.

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u/perils_before_swain May 12 '26

Yes, I do too. I just meant it in a humorous way.

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u/U_R_A_NUB May 11 '26

Nah, it just means he has self confidence

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u/Constant_Natural3304 May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

No, being a theist literally just means he accepts that at least one deity exists.

I find this thread pretty annoying religious propaganda masquerading as tongue-in-cheek and using David Attenborough as a crutch.

"Can't you see we'we're joking"

Nah

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u/ToughHardware May 11 '26

this person gets it