• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    They just didn’t evolve to consume so much sugar.

    Bro, eating oranges puts our tooth enamel in a weakened state. If we were designed, it was by an idiot.

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        It’s not the sugar, but the acid that our teeth can’t handle.

        The fact that healthy foods can’t be consumed without a risk of harm is not an intelligent design.

        I mean, even apples (i.e. “Garden of Eden”) can promote the growth of plaque!

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            If an all-knowing creator didn’t want humans to eat fruit from a specific tree, he shouldn’t have grown that tree in the only garden he had humans in.

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                1 month ago

                Oh, right. The obedience only matters if you have to make yourself do it. It doesn’t count if it’s natural and painless and costs you nothing. Can’t believe I forgot about that?

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                  It doesn’t seem you believe in much. Be at peace with your natural choices. There will always be a cost

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                    I have a ton I believe in.

                    I believe in being kind, I believe in helping others, I believe in the hardworking men and women in medicine. There’s so many things I believe in that it would take forever to list it all.

                    I also believe that telling other people sanctimonious things like “Be at peace with your natural choices. There will always be a cost” is not only off-putting and self-aggrandizing, but exactly the kind of crap the Bible tells you not to do.

                    I’ll leave you with some advice my favorite nun gave me when I was 12. No one left alive hasn’t heard the message of Jesus Christ. There’s no one left. So proselytizing the way the Bible commands you to do is almost impossible. Since you can reasonably assume most people who aren’t Christian have reason not to be, the best way to reach them isn’t by being a holier-than-thou preacher, it’s by living the light of the word and showing non-Christians what that means. “Live by example, what Christ has done for you.”

                    Because one of the other things I believe, is that genuine Christians, who follow their book, are some of the best people on Earth. But for every one of them, with a kind heart and forgiving words and judge-not-lest-ye-be-judged stamped on their lips, there’s about three hundred assholes saying vaguely judgemental shit on the internet and to one another behind closed doors. The “cost” of which only serves to help close those hearts and minds further to any positive message the Bible encourages you to spread.

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          1 month ago

          Oranges don’t exist naturally, was the point I was making. Theyre a hybrid, derived at least partly from pomelo.

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            You are right, it’s just that in Spanish a “pomelo” is a grapefruit, and I was unaware of the whole rabbit hole that is the hybridwtion of the pomelo, mandarin, citrus and all that. I deleted my old comment because I was just confused.

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              No worries, I don’t know all the details and looking more deeply, it looks to be more complicated than I was remembering too.