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Religion aside… Can I steal this sentence?
Religion won’t save you. It doesn’t fix your problems. Your life is yours to live. Don’t let fear bind you.
For some people, it is life saving and fixes their problems. Religion isn’t some amorphous concept the way a god is. It’s a man made system of beliefs, customs, rituals, community, and principles. Some people need that kind of structure and support in their life to keep living.
It’s easy to ask someone to leave if you already have a support network that isn’t contingent on your religion. That’s not the case for people who’s family and friends who are just as trapped in it.
Religious people can be terrible because people can be terrible and religion is an enabler. You don’t have to abandon all beliefs to start living more ethically.
I’m not religious, I just don’t think that atheism always makes someone a better person. Some people need to be religious to be their best selves, and that’s okay.
I hate to admit you’ve got a point. I’m just projecting. I struggled leaving an entire life of indoctrination behind. Prayers kept happening even after I quit because it was my coping mechanism. I feel like some people are trapped in an unhealthy cycle of escapism. It’s almost like a drug. You could go back to your comment and replace the word religion with addiction and it wouldn’t be so different. Being religious really can be shackling.
I would want to be included for excluding white supremacists.
Come in, come in… and let me tell you about just how unlikely it is that there were a bunch of white dudes in Jerusalem 2000 years ago named Mathew, John, Luke, Peter, Simon, and Thomas… also do unto others, kindness to the poor… basically you’re gonna fucking hate this shit but come in.
Is this a joke? Please tell me you’re not that dense. Those names have different iterations across different languages. Michael in Russian is Mikhael. Matthew in Spanish is Mateo. Peter in Spanish is Pablo. Names that are derived from meaning in its original language don’t stay the same across languages.
If that’s the only reason someone is including you, run.
Churches have been cozy with white supremacists for a long time.
Doesn’t really matter, if a group is founded on hate… hate is all it will produce. Even if it’s people deemed “deserving”, it is consuming and horrible and drains any joy out of life.
Excluding hate groups (like white supremacists) isn’t founded on hate, it’s founded on love for the marginalized groups that are the victims of hate.
Exactly tolerance only for the tolerant.
Based and Christpilled
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Edit: I just looked at the sub! The statement makes no sense whatsoever, though it is very funny that this inclusion does not extend to christian right wing parties and their stances to say migration (despite the fact that every first world country lacks workers and to the fact that only an insignitifactly small minority turns to crime after migrating), to transfolk (despite the scientific heaps of evidence of them not playing dressup) to other religions (despite their claims being just as true as yours: their books also claim that they are the right religion)…
What
The statement on the post? For the reasons I think so that I wrote doen?
You do realize that christianity is not a monolith, right? And that different people can have different thoughts on it?
You’re right, there are groups of christians who use their faith a bludgen to beat anyone they don’t like (or more accurately, are irrationally scared of) out of their lives. That doesn’t mean that’s how it has to be, nor that it is the only way to be christian. Feeding that mythos by refusing to accept that progressive christianity can exist is only harmful… and exclusionary.
But we not talking about disissivly small groups of extremeism? Main political parties with millions/hundreds if millions of voters! Say republican(us), tories, Fidesz (hungary), Republicans (france), brothers of italy… all explicitly Christian, all if which provably make their countries worse whenever they get elected
And having different perspectives is not a good thing for you! Morality is very very very straightforward! Say trolly problem, there is an obviously less worse choice to make every singular time! Alas your moral compass that app shows different directions to different people, largely seperated by distance… hmmm, whatever made these dilemmas! He had the rail laid, the people tied, the trains started
Sounds like a brilliant church.
Partly for the banging signs, but mainly for showing the rugby whenever Wales are playing. 11/10 venue A++++ would visit again
