I love how the bible basically implied that knowing “what’s right and what’s wrong” is apparently forbidden.
Which also reflects on how religious people who blindly follow their faith without questioning it, because questioning is said to be wrong.
Also because questioning it would mean people would leave once they realize all the morally wrong things being preached.
Thankfully, some people still stopped to question.
Questioning what you know shouldn’t be forbidden.
still mad that the pastor didn't answer my question about baptism mediums. like does baptism work in Dr. Pepper? Does it work in piss? Does it work in lava? What do you mean "I'm not taking it seriously" if this is a real thing then I should be able to do it in Dr. Pepper.
The thing is - in order for me to trust you as a religious person, I need to know that you support apostates of your faith. ALL apostates of your faith.
The ones who left because they faced spiritual abuse, the ones who left because they didn’t think the religion was true, and the ones who left because they simply didn’t like it. The ones who are open and angry about their religious abuse. The ones who still participate in cultural events and the ones who completely cut contact with the faith. The ones who left because their community was sexist, racist, homophobic, or transphobic. The ones who converted to a different religion and the ones who decided they would just rather assimilate and the ones who don’t give you a reason.
And when your reaction to an apostate, ESPECIALLY ones who left because of abuse and conservative communities, is stuff like “well, the people who hurt you weren’t REAL [X]s”, or “well, actually if you interpret this religion the RIGHT way (by joining MY community) then it’s totally not bigoted at all -” or “well you can’t let your bad experience taint a whole religion” or “you shouldn’t talk about your bad experience because it gives the rest of us a bad name” or “then I guess you never REALLY had faith” or “the idea that you can leave a faith in a meaningful way is a Western colonialist ideal” or “if you leave this faith then you are committing voluntary cultural genocide” - the last two of which are real things I saw real people say recently - then it’s very obvious you care more about protecting your religion and its power over its adherents than about caring for the individual people within it.
Nobody owes it to you to stay in your religion. And if you can’t 100%, wholeheartedly respect that, then I’m not going to trust you or your opinions about religion.
Oddly enough, certain groups of women do find it beautiful when a man says it to them. Wonder why.
25 years in prison is far from long enough. What would be the right punishment for this man? Tell me your thoughts.
My least favorite kind of reply to posts with valid criticism of organized religion is "Don't say "religion" when you mean Christianity!!" like...
it's really weird having a first dog be blind and then getting a second who can see...like how was I supposed to be prepared for this.
this creature can perceive when I put the treats up on the high shelf. or when I hide stuff behind my back. I can't fool her!! she's always watching me and she shouldn't have this much knowledge!!!
I walk around at night and I shine my flash light directly into her eyes and I'll just be standing there staring at her weird blue orbs for like 5 seconds until I realize it's probably extremely annoying to her, because she has eyes!! I'll turn on the light in the room and she gruffs and grumbles like ?? oh right!! light wakes you up!! the fuck??
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