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Screenshot of a Tumblr post titled "Why Did God Create Atheists?" retelling a Chassidic story in which a Master says atheists teach true compassion, because they help others out of an inner sense of morality, not religious command. The Master says to imagine there is no God who can help, and say "I will help you." Replies from razairazerci, naamahdarling and obsessedwithamedot praise it.

Why God Created Atheists: A Tumblr Parable

A Tumblr post retells a Chassidic parable about atheists teaching true compassion, with delighted replies. It's the kind of wholesome text-post Xennials passed around early social media.

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Screenshot of a Tumblr post titled "Why Did God Create Atheists?" retelling a Chassidic story in which a Master says atheists teach true compassion, because they help others out of an inner sense of morality, not religious command. The Master says to imagine there is no God who can help, and say "I will help you." Replies from razairazerci, naamahdarling and obsessedwithamedot praise it.

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Owl comic on blue: a 'cry for help' is really someone asking for a stick to fight with, like a marine behind enemy lines. Ends: "All I'm doing is handing out sticks. You're the one staying alive." Black serif text on a white background: "Sometimes you get what you want. Other times, you get a lesson in patience, timing, alignment, empathy, compassion, faith, perseverance, resilience, humility, trust, meaning, awareness, resistance, purpose, clarity, grief, beauty and life. Either way, you win." Credited below: "brianna wiest". Four-panel hand-drawn comic of a blue fox and a teal fox on a brown sailing ship. Panel 1: calm sea. Caption: "LIFE IS A SHIP RUNNING ON HOPE". Panel 2: a big wave tips the ship. "YOU CAN MANAGE IT ALONE, BUT IT'S EASIER TOGETHER." Panel 3: "NOBODY CAN HOPE FOR TWO INDEFINITELY". Panel 4: "BUT YOU CAN TAKE TURNS GIVING UP". Side credit: instagram: @green_fox_blue_fox, twitter: @foxes_in_love, tumblr:… A blurry, purple-tinted photo looking through a dark stone archway at a brick alley with another arch beyond. Overlaid text reads: "SOME PEOPLE NEVER GO crazy; WHAT HORRIBLE LIVES THEY MUST LEAD." Small credit text reads "BUKOWSKI". A script watermark in the top right reads "Ardi graphis". Wide, cinematic film still of a tan, weathered wall with vertical lines. A feathered arrow is lodged in the wall beside rough stone-like chunks, with a thin cord trailing down to a small ornate object. A long dark shadow falls across the wall. No text is visible. Plain light pink-gray background with centered black text: "Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you." Below, the attribution: "L. R. Knost".

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