• merde alors@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    but scarecrows are used to protect the harvest from birds.

    what’s the logic here? They’re using hellish imagery to chase us away from what God protects, which is?

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      1 year ago

      I’ll explain the logic as I understand it, but that’s it. I was posting for the rule and this was in my memes folder. I’ve had many religion debates and find that no one is ever satisfied on either side and everyone ends up with hard feelings. I’m not here to piss people off. That’s not my nature.

      The logic used by the author of the meme is that god doesn’t exist and that it is a made up concept to get people to behave.

      Humans want crows to behave a certain way so they made scarecrows.

      Humans want other people to behave a certain way so they made god. The meme suggests that the god concept is a behavior modifier. There are no crops.

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        1 year ago

        Though one could argue that there are crops. Religions, churches make a lot of money after all, often with no taxes.

      • merde alors@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        iirc it was the zarathustrians that invented heaven/hell, which looks more like carrot and stick than a scarecrow (if we really need to make an analogy)

        i don’t have problems with gods being inventions, but i think the scarecrow image doesn’t correspond and “the logic of the meme” does not compute