This is just utterly fucking deranged. Back in the day before modern medicine/vaccines where almost every family had a kid that didn't make it to their teenage years was that God's plan as well?
My mom grew up religious, her 3 kids all got the CCD nonsense and confirmed and church bs. She started going again every week 5-6 years ago she says for her granddaughters. Even has a pew in living room but think that was more neighbor giving it away Anyways, haven’t paid attention to her stances and she’s not pushy but we took my nieces horseback riding in some bumfuck town and see a huge Jesus loves you sign and she says welcome to Trump country Brief 1-2 minute conversation and says she hasn’t been to church in years. Proud of you mom.
For even the weird christian people I grew up with and have known, I can't ever recall seeing a pew in anyone's house.
If God existed and his plan involves having a teenager explode the heads and bodies of 20 little kids with a military-grade rifle then fuck him. He doesn’t deserve our prayers/love/respect. And anyone that would still willingly follow a entity capable of that is as psychotic as their god.
My atheist father took an old pew from a church in Stockton and refinished it and it was in our house when I was growing up. He's now in Portland, and it's a bench by the front door for putting shoes on
I assume Gunners is describing a padded kneeler and not an entire pew in ones living room You are probably in the top 0.1% of devout Catholics to have any type of kneeler/altar in your home
I attend mass at a liberal, mostly chudless, Catholic parish, although I wouldn’t consider myself very religious. It mostly answers unanswerable questions for me that would otherwise drive me fucking crazy. Generally can’t stand religious people, it’s not the hypocrisy, it’s the certainty.
The thing that bothers me the most about a lot of religious people is how they use certain bible versus to justify things they already want to believe and ignore the things they don’t like. Basically ok I hate this thing now let’s find the part of the book that makes me feel righteous about being a shithead to other humans.
We had two pews in our house, not for religious purposes, but for similar functional purposes. One ended up as the spot for clean laundry and one had other random things on it. Would serve as overflow seating during the holidays, poor saps who got relegated from the couch and recliners.
Kid survives cancer, it’s a miracle and divine intervention. School of kids get shot up, it’s God allowing free will. If he’s real, then he seems like a dick.
Dunno where to put this… My crazy religious evangelical coworker recently reconnected with a college roommate. Him: He owns a Bigfoot museum in California. I just stared in disbelief as he’s telling me about his encounters and close calls. It’s hard to take that stuff seriously. Me: holding-it-in-meme.jpg
The Deconstructionist podcast is really interesting to hear perspectives from Christians who are still Christians but have acknowledged the failings of American Christianity and the Bible. Started at the beginning and am only 5 eps in but really enjoying it because they have frankly spoken about all sorts of my own complaints so far. Would definitely recommend with the context that one host is still a practicing pastor of a nondenominational Christian church. More like philosophy class than church thus far.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I hate these poll options. It asks if you’re religious and all of the answers are about if you believe in God. Believing in God does not equal being religious. Religion is a construct of man, not of God.
I’ve always found it really disrespectful when people talk about theology and insist on referring to “God” in the singular. Monotheism is a very new religious idea in human history and that language alienates everyone in the world who practices polytheistic religions.
On this Easter, I reflect how often I’ve heard ppl make jokes in my life about the “silly” and “unrealistic” stories and tenets of other religions. But then Americans spend all day celebrating a guy literally coming back from the dead 2000ish years ago. And then that guy, with the power to come back from the dead, just ghosted civilization until some lady sees him in his grilled cheese
I’m not religious but my wife is. Made us go to our annual church service today (so she isn’t that religious) the entire time I wish I had this Spoiler
Recently read “What is the Bible” by Rob Bell. really really good if you are into context and origins of the Bible without being dry
I learned about the origins of Christianity from reading snow crash. Never read the Bible but assume snow crash is accurate for no reason