born and raised irreligious
argued with some middle school christian girls about how the bible is unrealistic and has contradictions and how evolution is true (they didnt believe in evolution at the time)
at this point i see most religions as a mix of good and bad
the important good being a sense of community and sometimes decent morals / philosophy on living
bad being dogmatic shit, unnecessarily boring rituals, division and particular feuds between particular religions
it’s w/e
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i mean from the irreligious / generally empiricist-minded perspective that ive pretty much always had, it’s been obvious that none of the religions could be correct on creation myths or beliefs of the afterlife
but those things just form a small contribution to the net effect of being religious
and like
idk people who say stuff like “religion causes [bad stuff]” or generalizations about religion bother me in the sense that i feel like a lot of it’s just inextricably linked to a lot of other cultural contextual factors and religion isnt necessarily like a keystone that holds the bad stuff linked to religion together
well maybe it is a keystone but then it starts to feel inevitable in the way most things feel inevitable so commenting on large systems starts to make me feel impotent so i try to not invest myself in such discussions
That sums up my experience exactly.
alhamdulilah
Best religion
0 voters
just taken from demographic lists on wikipedia
Animism lmao
Buddhism is good as long as you’re teaching the right things. Temples nice and gives a sense of community. Teach a kid to meditate and it’ll pay off or something.
have any of you watched wild wild country
wish they just picked a better location lmao
voted judaism btw
same.
My girlfriend’s family are lay buddhists, but to them that only matters for funerals.
nope but Im going to look it up
No Church of the Sub-Genius? No church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster? What about the Jedi religion that is legit on British census polls?
soz
I believe that all religions are like different paths up a mountain. Some paths are easier for some people, and some paths are harder. But they all go to the same place. The top of the mountain.
Drops mike.
I was raised atheist/agnostic. didn’t go to church until I stayed with my aunt and uncle for a week when I was 8. Both my parents were raised religiously and my extended family is pretty religious but both of them basically dropped it when they hit college and didn’t believe in organized religion.
My mom especially has a lot of ‘Christian’ morals that she tought my brother and I growing up though. It just wasn’t packaged with shit like heaven/hell and more think about the other people around you and how you want to be treated.
I preferred this over a religion personally but I can see how having the activities would have been cool as a kid.
Idk if I ever thought I was suprior growing up as a kid because of religion but I def blamed a lot of ignorance in middle/high school because of it
My mother was a pretty heavy Catholic and determined to raise “renaissance men”, so I got soaked in the Jesus broth pretty hard. Grew up with a strong sense of moral principles, though that overextended into no drugs, no masturbating, and no sex before marriage.
Then it started peeling off. Started masturbating… realised Jesus is bullshit… started living the sex, drugs, and rock and roll life.
Still have the principles though.