madmaurice,
@madmaurice@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

“Satellites block God’s ability to watch us”

The omniscient, omnipotent god is defeated by a piece of space trash? What a rip-off.

Coskii,
@Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Same God that ‘decided’ a year shouldn’t land on a whole day. Threw in that .25 for shits and giggles.

sighofannoyance,
@sighofannoyance@lemmy.world avatar

actually… .256363004 days or 6 h 9 min 9.76 s

Coskii,
@Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Such intelligent design.

DragonTypeWyvern,

If you accept the Biblical proof of God you do also have to accept that he’s a huge asshole.

afraid_of_zombies,

Why does God need a LOS?

Jungle,

Are you sure you are listening on the right wave band? God has moved to the 2.3GHz L-band allocated for DAB.

RufusFirefly,
@RufusFirefly@lemmy.world avatar

I always knew Arthur C Clarke was an agent of Satan, especially after the disappointment that was 3001: The Final Odyssey.

jtk,
@jtk@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

If prayers were detectable, interceptable, and alterable, there’d be entire branches of science dedicated to them.

afraid_of_zombies,

There would also be another branch that claims to be a superset and thus better. Looking at you Biology, being all smug over zoology and botany.

WindowsEnjoyer,

There are! I did my research!

afraid_of_zombies,

Ok guys who told them? Fess up.

Jeanschyso,

I did the research. It is satire. They wished everyone a Merry Eaglemas this week.

This is a funny one.

voidMainVoid,

I wonder why atheists do this when there’s so much real Christian stuff to laugh at.

basxto,
@basxto@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

That’s probably rage baiting to some degree. It annoys both sides. But sadly it can start new conspiracy theories.

FerbFletcher,

This is either (1) satire, (2) trolling, or (3) someone who has no real grasp of Christianity. Or some combination of the above.

eltrain123,

(3) …Christianity or basic foundational education…

nickwitha_k,

Exactly. Everyone knows that Jesus navigates based his position relative to the the absolute position of celestial bodies. That and there is no way that a simple, unarmored satelite would make it past his point-defense batteries and compromise his re-entry trajectory.

UnderpantsWeevil,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

(4) Protestants doing an unholy amalgamation of Catholic spirituality and Rational Scientific Inquiry to reach absurdist conclusions at their intersection.

FerbFletcher,

My take is that this qualifies as having no real grasp of Christianity. But I wouldn’t argue hard against this being a separate option

CyberDine,

(5) Cheap propaganda to further destabilize American institutions and hegemony

chriscz,

If this works then whomever is being convinced, should be convinced, as it clarifies where the idiocy-non-idiocy line is.

sighofannoyance,
@sighofannoyance@lemmy.world avatar

(7) The war on xmas!

blind3rdeye,

Nar man. It isn’t all about idiocy. Not everyone has your level of education; and even aside from that, people tend to grab bits and pieces of ideas that support what they already believe.

So if someone believes in god and the power of pray etc. but they feel that life still isn’t going there way - they might see some value in this ‘reason’. And even if this evil satellite thing is still implausible, a person might take bits of the idea to make their own version about something / someone else blocking prays. It could be 4G radiation, or vaccine microchips, or some other boogieman crap. It all feeds into a persons broader ‘understanding’ of how things could be even if they don’t take in the whole idea.

You and I are basically immune to this particular post. It just looks like total garbage immediately. But it is incorrect and dangerous to think that only ‘idiots’ can be conned or tricked. All it takes is for someone to post ideas on the boundaries of what you understand, with a taste of what you want to hear. That’s what hooks people in. For smart and educated people, that boundary of understanding can be pretty far in - but it still exists, and that’s where the manipulation can still get them.

chriscz,

Yeah, I hear you, but this is a person that is unconscious, I mean if they’re using the internet to post stuff, have they even thought or tried to understand one iota of what the hell is going on?

I’ve met some smart people that make these reasoning errors because they want to believe that phenomena just cannot be complex. Not even I’m excluded from these errors, I’m also just human.

I can sympathize with uneducated people and them grasping for fictitious enemies because they lack control of and in their own lives.

What makes things even worse is that this is supposed a pastor, and he’s using his authority to spread this bullcrap.

I’m not immune to this type of misinformed and irrational thinking, but I think my confusion results from more sophisticated material in many cases, that being said I still hold irrational ideas around conspiracies, but I don’t hold them as gospel, merely as possibiliry.

Unfortunately even us educated people might not be spared when generative AI begins to rewrite our history in each of our 5 senses and leaves us no way to look back in time to find the ground truth.

niktemadur,

If there’s something the internet has confirmed since its’ inception, is that humanity is both incredibly clever and incredibly stupid, in equal measure, beyond what I ever imagined was possible, beyond what I could conceive.

AbsoluteChicagoDog,

It’s clearly a joke. But it’s not that much more ridiculous than what many Christians actually believe. That’s the joke.

HiddenLayer5, (edited )
@HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml avatar

God’s some real weak mofo if he can be defeated by satellites.

chriscz,

Hooman r haz stronkest tec

norgur,
@norgur@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

God: Almighty being that just blinked everything into existence in a.week Also God: me am no completent enourgh to strip theses sattrilghts

sveske_juice, (edited )

Tf is an artificial satellite?

JPJones,

Probably man-made as opposed to farm grown.

Bitflip,

That’s no moon

arekkusu,

an artificial satellite is an orbiting object that is man-made, as opposed to natural satellites such as moons and asteroids

capital,

Ok everyone stop upvoting and downvoting. We’ve reached the perfect score.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5a9f2f69-3e08-4916-8bb6-6619c799a760.jpeg

ieightpi,

It isn’t a coincidence that’s lemmy is keeping the upvote number at the “mark of the beast”.

wafflez,

So much for all powerful

niktemadur,

The all-powerful all-knowing Creator Of The Universe… needs little old ladies to at least once a week open up their pocketbooks and make a check out to The Creator, through His official human regional managers, because The Creator Of The Universe… does not have direct access to the Federal Reserve or any of the banks, and even with a constant stream of revenue from little old ladies AND a privileged tax status, He ALWAYS seems to be bitching and whining about how He. Needs. More. Money! I guess?

Fog0555,

First off, if Satellites give us more Evel Knievel that’s a major win and we should launch more.

Secondly, they’re entirely right that too many satellites are a problem, they just missed the mark as to why. It’s space debris we should be worried about preventing future spacecraft.

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