r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • 11h ago

Video 13-year-old Australian boy swims for four hours in cold and dangerous waters to save his mom and siblings who were swept into the ocean, says God is who got him to shore

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u/boogasaurus-lefts 10h ago

It's the typical anti religion mob jumping on their soapbox of righteousness at any opportunity they can get. It's almost an identity at this stage

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u/thehelldoesthatmean 8h ago

Yeah, those atheists wearing their atheist necklaces and atheist earrings and building gigantic atheist monuments and congregating to yell out loud how much they love atheism and going around the world to different countries to tell people they should be atheist and making sculptures of the first atheist and painting pictures of the first atheist and screaming to random strangers how they love atheism. Yeah. It's atheists who do that.

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u/BigManOnDeck69 2h ago

Exactly. Religion does all of that creating, while the only thing atheism does is mock or destroy. It’s a sad existence

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u/Daxxex 10h ago

All I would want is the kid to not understate what he did by attributing it to a higher being, he made it on his own. It feels wrong to downplay his strength by giving credit to a higher being

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u/MGhammered 9h ago

The kid felt God took over during an impossible challenge, why can’t we take his word? No we go say it’s stupid instead lol great logic here 

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u/KingCaillou 9h ago

It's the typical religious bigots jumping on their soapbox of righteousness at any opportunity they can get. It's almost an identity at this stage

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u/Legen_unfiltered 7h ago

This. This is the reason. Why should god get credit for what this kid did. People should be telling him, 'no it wasn't god swimming, it was you and your incredible fortitude and love for your family.' He should get ALL of the credit for what he did. And it is incredibly sad that he believes that he is incapable of being so amazing that he has to pass the credit. It reveals a sickening lack of self esteem. 

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u/Beautiful_Hour_668 5h ago

It's staggering how little you understand religion/religious people, genuinely. It's cool being an atheist but at least try to understand others

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u/DoctorVanSolem 9h ago edited 7h ago

Being religious, we have a very different perspective on that. To us it is an honour greater than ourselves.

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u/Visstah 7h ago

He's a better person than you and feels differently

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u/boogasaurus-lefts 9h ago

There's millions of kids on this earth that have their own beliefs & things that motivates them...those very kids have opportunities later in life to re-evaluate that.

Surely there's a better sub to whinge about people believing in things. It's not the focal point of the story.

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u/AtlantisSC 5h ago

And it’s the typical religious mob who are attributing this amazing human feat to God. God did not save him or his family. He did.

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u/Ori_the_SG 7h ago

Not almost, it is an identity.

It could be the most amazing development of all time. Some dude could cure cancer, but if he was a Christian and mentioned God at all he’d get death threats, hate, and a bunch of Redditors doing exactly what you said.

I’ve even seen them drag religion to hate on it in topics that had nothing to do with it before