What faith looks like

TheIvoryNun · 6 months

Credit where credit is due, this was created by fellow redditor jerfoo

dementedsnake · 6 months

I know it's a repost, but I still prefer this greatly to the standard memes.

humanshakeweight · 6 months

Yeah, but that's an old testament box...

TooMuchTony · 6 months

This is by far the most accurate representation of faith logic i've ever seen. Thank you.

ThomasHunter · 6 months

THE PUZZLE IS JUST A TRICK OF SATAN TO FOOL YOU

Praise the box!

keeblur · 6 months

Even if they had all the pieces, God put Winnie the Pooh there!

BattleHamster · 6 months

I drew the duck blue because I had never seen a blue duck before, and to be honest with you I just wanted to see a blue duck

entopan · 6 months

I like a little cuteness, mixed in with my logic!

BewareOfTheTripe · 6 months

You just don't get it do you.

The box shows you what matters, which is the duck.

It's in that last piece you haven't found. Also that last piece shows a whole torn into a painting of Winnie the Pooh and Tiger.

So it's really just a duck and a painting around that duck put there to fool people who don't trust the box.

wasting_internet · 6 months

fundie bunnies are much more tolerable than fundie humans

heartjaedong · 6 months

The Winnie the Poo puzzle was planted there by jews and atheists to test your faith.

matthewkol186 · 6 months

Ehhhh, there's definitely not enough persecution and wrongful decapitation in here. Work on that.

trixter21992251 · 6 months

~~Never gets old~~

Not old so far to me =)

BucouBoy · 6 months

I'm a firm believer in God but I do like this

ChemicalSerenity · 6 months

The old lady was wrong. Apparently it's ducks all the way down.

rawrslagithor · 6 months

The faith bunny was so irritating I wanted to kick it.

And this saddens me, because it's so cute.

deejayalemus · 6 months

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Shiny92 · 6 months

Repost from 6 months ago! damn I'm on reddit too much...

Shurebis · 6 months

I will upvote every repost of this picture everytime.

People have to see this.

tommyboynet · 6 months

Having dated a lazy christian for two years now, i've realised faith is this: "Ok, ok. You've proven your point. I can see that it's probably Winnie The Pooh...but you know what? I don't get Winnie The Pooh and I don't know how I can possibly live my life happily if this really is Winnie The Pooh. All I've been told since I was born is that it's a duck. I don't have the strength or courage to go on living my life with this new Winnie The Pooh idea...and you know what? you believe that it's Winnie The Pooh and you're miserable and depressing. I think I'm just going to have fun pretending it's a duck with my friends"

toodrunktofuck · 6 months

I never would have thought something original like this would come up in this subreddit. Then I was delighted. Then I learned it was a repost.

drdoom52 · 6 months

Worth noting, the religion bunny was saying "it says this" so there's no need to figure it out for ourselves. This applies to science, don't go by the book alone, figure it out for yourself. This is the method by which our society learns.

trex88 · 6 months

bro i don't know what you are smoking but that pic right there with winnie the pooh and shit is defs a duck.

TheAstroChemist · 6 months

This is an outstanding analogy.

metharian · 6 months

The argument that God can not be disproved is redundant. This is because for something to be even valid by scientific method, it first needs to be either provable or disprovable. If it can not be disproved then it already fails scientific method

boothin · 6 months

Wait, it is a duck

Crinklepouch · 6 months

fixed

wizardhowell · 6 months

I love how the reason this is amusing and original to me was that it was done using sylvanian families.

NiPlusUltra · 6 months

Well faith comes in several different forms. Claiming this is a representation of them all is blatantly ignorant. But at least it's not another facebook screenshot.

carver1976 · 6 months

(Believer nodding) "Yep, that's exactly right. Why is that funny?"

meowmeowenchantemoi · 6 months

Except faith isn't so damn cute.

The_Geb · 6 months

What ~~faith~~ fundamentalism looks like

FTFY

Liberal Catholic here and my faith in a God doesn't detract from the badass awesomeness that is science. It's not an either or equation.

tango127 · 6 months

I'm an atheist but this bothers me. Saying that this is what faith looks like is just kind of mean. Most who believe in any religion of any sort or simply have faith in something are usually stronger because they believe in something. I have faith in the people in my life but I wouldn't go around saying how great they are even if it's obvious they're horrible people. The content of the analogy is relevant if you say "What fundamentalists look like" but faith in general is too broad. It's like saying, "anyone who goes with their gut is a stubborn imbecile."

pauldh · 6 months

In other news, OP paid for 25 puzzle pieces, but only got 24...

haleym · 6 months

Last piece in place: "Nope, still a duck. It's hiding behind Piglet. Also, how would Pooh and Tigger know how to swim if there wasn't a duck there to show them how? Checkmate!"

pjquinn76 · 6 months

In my head these bunnies had the robotic voices of the xtranormal.com animation rabbits. Am I the only one?

R3Dirkulous · 6 months

Only problem is only not even a billionth of our galaxy puzzle has been put together.

niffer5150 · 6 months

upvote for use of calico critters.

BambooGuy · 6 months

I think this would be more of a product of dogma than faith. One can have faith and still be able to consider other possibilities. Those who stick strictly to dogma, however, cannot.

recursionr · 6 months

Thank you.

arCyn1c · 6 months

I can't stop thinking about bunnies now. :\

derpette11 · 6 months

thats so true!!!

Chuggo · 6 months

It's perfect because it's not "in your face" but very subtle. I love this so much. Thank you.

paulflorez · 6 months

If the puzzle was infinitely large then it might be accurate, but that puzzle is clearly finite.

Ebl333 · 6 months

So the box means the science book and the duck means athiesm?

wiseguy430 · 6 months

I believe in evolution, science, you name it. I still believe in god. Faith is not the same thing as ignorance.

Other than that, it's clever.

caboosemoose · 6 months

Sylvanian Families FTW!

PlanningAHeist · 6 months

Dammit, I guess I'll return the piece I stole.

Arturnik · 6 months

It is kinda true, but on the other hand some people just need to believe in something, it makes them feel i dunno.. safe maybe (I guess?) therefore laughing at them, engaging in (and posting here) countless conversations on facebook, rage comics aint gonna change their beliefs, and is obviously not a way of a mature atheist. Just because they want to believe in something, doesn't mean they're dumb because they really think that god exists.. that's why we should respect their choice, and if they don't respect your uhm.. situation, show them that you don't need to follow commandments to be a "better" person, but STILL respect their religion

OldSchoolAfro · 6 months

That analogy is very accurate for atheism. Just imagine the actual puzzle is about 10,000 times bigger than what is shown so far, but the atheists assume they know the full picture by looking at that small piece because clearly they are intelligent enough to extrapolate the rest.

j0hnK · 6 months

This would make sense if someone could prove to me that God doesn't exist

[deleted] · 6 months

ITT: People can't distinguish between actual faith and blind faith.

[deleted] · 6 months

This... makes so much sense. If only I could post this on facebook without getting gangraped.

c2dj4boogie · 6 months

Similar, but really quite distinct. You can disprove literal aspects of the Bible, but eventually the argument will turn towards the possibility that an entity that could have created the universe exists.

This is where this metaphor fails.

It would be more relevant instead of trying to prove something is a "duck" that it was trying to prove that it "contains a duck", or even better, that the puzzle itself was created by a duck and the whole puzzle was all of existence and every possible degree of uncertainty that science can explore ...

.. which is hard to imagine as a single piece of an almost complete puzzle. People in previous centuries made this exact mistake as well - believing that science and logic was at its pinnacle, and that time and resources were the only limitation of an almost complete explanation.

OHeyReddit · 6 months

More representative specifically of the "god of the gaps" argument than of faith as a whole, but this is the first visual thing from /r/atheism I've enjoyed in a long while.

[deleted] · 6 months

I see two interpretations:

1) The creation myth of Genesis is contradicted by scientific research

2) The existence of God is contradicted by scientific research

I think most scientists would accept (1), but would have trouble accepting (2). So although I appreciate the jigsaw puzzle metaphor as a philosophical argument, I think the title of the link is misleading. The lesson I would take away is:

"If X is taken on faith and Y is proven beyond a reasonable doubt, and if 'X and Y' is impossible, then we must reject faith in X" [1].

The problem with trying to apply this method to "faith in X" where X is general is that you quickly run into problems like, "why should we have faith in X" where X is:

1) Propositional logic or first order logic 2) Set theory 3) Axiom of choice 4) Other minds

Editorializing, I would rename this "What scientific discovery looks like".

[1] The other option is to kill or exile everyone who believes in Y, see Irrational number.

theumpteenthgod · 6 months

Well "Faith is the denial of observations so that belief can be preserved." As. Mr. Minchin is wont to say.

arcainic · 6 months

what if bible thumpers are right, and atheism is the devil trying to lure us into eternal damnation with logic and reason? How ironic would that be? lololololololol. Pwned, if I end up in hell, I will say to the devil, goddamnnit you're good.

dougdragon · 6 months

I have both these puzzles.

porkfatty · 6 months

Can't one of these fucking things ever have all the words spelled correctly?

darbyann93 · 6 months

I Have this puzzle!

LabBitch · 6 months

I don't care how many times this is reposted; I will upvote it every time.

trash-80 · 6 months

This comic on critical reasoning is what should be taught to children before there is any mention of a "god" or "higher power".

plankster12 · 6 months

i would rage on the girl bunny. IT'S WINNIE THE POOH

trash-80 · 6 months

Whatever with this bullshit critical thinking stuff...I know in my heart that the missing piece is a picture of His Noodliness the FSM.

tdav07 · 6 months

I am free. Thank nobody. I am free!

stroganawful · 6 months

Winnie the Pooh: questioning faith since 1926.

IgnorantIconoclast · 6 months

Missed my favorite part:

"You know, you have a point. That doesn't look anything like what's on the box. I don't know who ever thought that box went with this puzzle in the first place. However, I do think someone made this puzzle and is taking great delight in our desire to put it together."

jacobcg · 6 months

this should be called "what religious faith looks like", cause i think that's what it's trying to make a point of... faith in itself is something that is really important in a happy life. even if it's just faith that your future, or even that your day is going to go well.

Twoblunts · 6 months

As a monotheist, I've always pictured god being somewhat like the cosmic entity Bender meets in the episode "Godfellas" of FUTURAMA.

ryguy2503 · 6 months

I remember my Aunt had those little bunny toys. I used to make them fight my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when I was over there. Of course the TMNT won.

crazychase443 · 6 months

atheist me showed this my super christian girlfriend, and she started crying >_<

thingsandsuch · 6 months

The funny thing is that jigsaw will have a box with the correct picture on it. Poor bunny was just looking at the wrong box.

Stratusshot · 6 months

Faith is believing in something that we can not always see, true faith is realizing it's not always going to work out the way we want it but still believing. That is faith. And following anything blindly or without question is not true faith. I have true faith.

username802 · 6 months

My sister had these toys when we were kids. What were they called? Also, this is well-made. Upvote for style points.

15rthughes · 6 months

perfect analogy.

frostywit · 6 months

I'll be stealing this for my FB wall, thank you

tvon · 6 months

r/atheism makes me want to punch a duck.


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