As i get older i find myself drifting back into reddit style fedora tipping atheism. sick of having to pretend people's religious beliefs aren't stupid.
I want to ask the religious people I know… “y’all don’t really believe this stuff and you’re just in it as a social club, right?” I had an evangelical coworker telling me how his investment strategy comes from Ecclesiastes and that the Bible is a great guide to value investing.
Jesus would have loved the stock market. He was constantly preaching about how to properly evaluate securities prices.
The fact that so many Christians are almost the opposite of Jesus tells you they don't really believe it
Grew up in the church, was very into it in HS and early college in the early 00s (basically the worst time in life to be into it). Wife played a youtube video for the kids this morning of the story of Jesus to explain why we celebrate Easter. It's been so long since I really read/listened to it that I forgot how insane it all sounds at face value.
Grew up in lutheran church, confirmation, etc. Something about it just doesn’t feel right. Never has. I mean I do enjoy a good sermon now and then but most of it feels off
Mentioned to my dad that it would be super shitty if the day for Passover lined up once with Easter because it would be super shitty if everyone's first borns die but God's kid comes waltzing back through the door a couple days later. A couple minutes later he said he didnt do a good job with my religious education
catholic holidays are still the prompts we use for family get-togethers, but there's nothing religious about them at this point.
My family is very unreligious and basically all atheists (except for my uncle’s pre-teens who go to Catholic private school and recite bible verses, much to my uncles chagrin). Every Easter we have a big family hike up a mountain and a big 50-60 person potluck afterwards. The tradition started because my great uncle and grandfather were raised in a catholic household and rebelled. So they decided that hiking a mountain and getting stoned at the top was their “He is risen”
I don't believe that to be the case on here Only one that I know for a fact believes homosexuality is immoral.
My oldest son loves church and is very religious at a young age of 13. I don’t mind it as I want my children to believe whatever they feel, but it’s not an easy conversation for me as a dad when he brings it up to me…. It’s not my thing, but it’s also something I’m not ready to really get into or show my opposition to with him.
I’m not saying all Bammers are homophobes. I’m saying that all Bammers who are homophobes blame Jesus for making them hate gay people.
If we could just get Christianity to end their hostility toward women and the LGBTQ+ community as well as the concept of Hell. It could help more people and continue to serve as an outlet for the elderly to have more connections as they age. Unfortunately that will never happen so we have to remain hostile ourselves to those that want to force their supernatural beliefs into government.
“I read a millennia old novel and now I believe there’s an invisible, undetectable omnipotent force that talks to me and I have to obey it” like come on any other book and you’d send this person to the looney bin and instead these people get to run the country
Like a lot of you, I grew up with evangelical fundamentalist parents that were Southern Baptist. That's really tainted my view of sect of Christianity that I really can't get over and I always cringe if I talk to someone who says they're Christian, like do you actually believe that Jesus walked and performed miracles 2000 years ago? Do you believe he died on the cross and vanished from the cave after 3 days? My wife grew up going sometimes to a Unitarian church and takes her and my daughter to one on most Sundays, even that I refrain from and that's the most milquetoast sect you could be a part of.
UU is something I’ve been wanting to check out. Seems pretty open minded in learning about religion in general. This actually sounds pretty dope:
They learn about other religious holidays. My wife basically goes to have a sense of community which is perfectly valid, it's still odd because basically they still teach about Jesus even though I bet most don't think he ever was a supernatural miracle performing person.
Not religious, but I do love holidays centered around a big meal. If I have to listen to some prayers that don't mean much to me, so be it. Abrahamic holiday and cuisine tier list: Muslim Jewish Christian
This ranking is only accurate if you’re considering Christian cuisine to be basic Anglo stuff. Cuban Catholic Christmas with lechon, congri, yuca, cassava bread, etc., fucking owns.
Grew up in a Christian household mostly b/c of my mom, she grew up in rural KS there was no other way. My dad bought in but mostly for appearance sake. I went to a catholic school from preschool through 4th grade* until my parents divorced and then went to public school 5th-college. Having to go to mass every Friday, kneel for most of it, and then not even get the cracker and juice was highly annoying, just got the tap on the head from the priest. Family went to a university Christian church on Sundays and did Sunday school, forced to do vacation bible school in the summer too when younger. 5th grade made me realized how sheltered I was before that. Going through a divorce probably accelerated my disbelief in all of it. Spoiler: * later on I found out my aunts/uncles paid for my catholic school tuition because their kids went to the school and they would've felt bad that I didn't have the same opportunity as them. All that changed once my parents divorced - they didn't have the same level of pity on me I guess. Very Christian of them My mom and step-dad still go to church weekly and my mom does jail ministry to help ladies get back on their feet but I can tell she's getting taken advantage of but she tries to see the good in people. I've kept a certain arms-length distance from my mom because of the religion piece, maybe I should look past it but it's hard to do. When we visit around the holidays we all go to Sunday service, maybe at some point I'll tell her I don't believe in any of this shit but I don't have the heart to tell her. The biggest confusion I have is how behavior is religiously motivated. Like, you can't just be a good person b/c that's the right thing to do? You have to do it because a book told you to?