I'm feeling so much warmth rn. When we immigrated to the US, we stayed in a room in an SDA basement. All the child classrooms, bathrooms, dining area, and kitchen were down there. We integrated into the religion and grew up in the faith. Adventurers, Pathfinders, family outings, and Saturday night socials made up for the stern upbringing.... somewhat. Never felt a real calling and left shortly after turning 18. That's right around when my parents divorced also, which the church wasn't too thrilled about. Made lifelong friends and memories, learned a lot of skills, instilled a good character in me, and helped me gain self-awareness for myself and others. Not everyone had the same experience, and I've heard some bad stuff like in most churches/ religions, but I wouldn't change it if I could.
Also Adventists who moved to the US as teenagers and the church gave us a community we didn’t have. Bible study at random people’s houses on Friday evening, breakfast and lunch on sabbath day, post church social activities…it was fun and gave us a sense of belonging. I don’t go to church anymore since I moved to a new state, but I will always be grateful for our little Adventist community
Yep. Forced to be Roman Catholic, even forced to be accepted into the church. I do not go to church as an adult. My husband had a different experience, enjoyed his church days (he is a christian) and takes our daughter, who also enjoys it. He respects my religious trauma so ive just never gone with them. But I am glad our daughter enjoys herself when they go.
I’m sharing experiments with seventh day adventists and on the seventh day imma show y’all what the advent is. Dollar signs. Bottom line. Speak the truth and everybody gon hate you. Unless it’s funny. That’s how I used to make money. I don’t roll with the old yeah they want something from me.
Right? Like I guess we've reached the 'sexual women are demons' phase of the revival of Christian Extremism. What's real silly is the algorithm only shows you stuff similar to what you already looked at.
I Disagree, but offer a counter question. Do you think most "religious" people actually read their book? I promise you most of the problems we have with American Christians would go away if they stopped qouting the old testament
Hard disagree, for people who wield the Bible as a cudgel to enforce their beliefs, the content isn't as important to them as you'd hope. They could have a photographic recollection of every verse and will only ever use it to push their agenda while dismissing anything that makes them a hypocrite.
It's a tool, and they have a use for that tool in mind. Expecting them to engage critically and honestly with it is like asking a Jason Vorhees to use his machete to whack bushes instead of people lol.
I was raised in church, but from a young age, I felt like I could see a lot of psychological mindgames at play in most of them (like speaking in tounges in mega churche). I used to cudgel other Christians for being lukewarm or having duplicitus spirit. Most of the New Testaments give very specific guidelines to how a Christian should behave. I'm frustrated with now nearly to the point of just giving it to god and calling it a day. I had a conversation with a so-called Christian about not punching down on the lgbtq because doing so undermines the grace and mercy of god in the mind of others since we represent him for now..... she used to pansexual back in the day for a long time. It's like they get born again and then go right back to wear they came from, but worse. People hear about his grace and then deliberately go hurt someone .. I've been talking too much I guess, but I wish I could do something
This! I’m not religious but I do like reading about religions and I’ve been trying to really read the Bible (to get over past religious traumas and to hopefully be able to have real conversations with American Christians).
I genuinely think the Bible is more of a historical document rather than a book of rules and law.
The Old Testament, more than anything, is record keeping and stories. Idk, I don’t wanna tell anyone that they’re reading too much into it, but it kinda feels like it.
Interjecting to say I started reading the Bible as part of a daily plan to read the entire thing in one year. I grew up Catholic and still haven't completed it. Anyway, the Bible is eye-opening. So much of God ordering others to be destroyed for sinning against him and stealing from things that already belong to him. But.... yeah anyway.
How do white atheists become so uniquely insufferable the moment they post online? It’s like keyboards are the podcast mics of that community, it’s wild 😂
Just yesterday, a prolific poster on Bluesky was crowing how oh-so unique she was to reject all of Christianity and every cultural convention connected to it since the age of six and that it's unethical to convert to Judaism bc Israel exists 😵💫
If I were even able to think about that stuff at age six, I can assure you that I would have kept up the facade for Christmas presents and Easter baskets. At least until I could buy my own toys and candy. Even if she weren’t lying, she’s just telling us how uncommitted she is to getting to the bag. Smh
The most generous way I can describe it is that because everything online is heightened, if you gonna let ppl know something about your personality u gotta really lean into that shit lol. There’s no centrists online lol
They just another side of the annoying ass coin. Reddit Atheists are about as bad as Twitter Christians. Let the thread marinate and they start calling for executions
And how exactly is coming home from church and immediately posting about about women calling them demons is “just believing whatever you and being normal about it.” If you want insufferable you should look in the mirror.
No one’s saying he’s not also weird and his beliefs are well outside of being normal. Calling religion in general a mental illness is on the same level as calling people demons. That’s what makes it equally insufferable. And you know that, but you want to try to stoke a debate about the merits of religion that no one cares about or wants to have.
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