• deegeese@sopuli.xyz
    21·
    10 months ago

    I think they have weekly meetings in a big building, but when I see them online all they talk about is trans and abortions.

    • Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      I think OP likely misspoke, but I have met plenty of people who would fall into the worshipping the religion (or the Bible) category.

      The golden calf situation fascinates me because they didn’t call it a god, they said it was God. I think about the people and churches who make their own.

      • Bizarroland@kbin.social
        2·
        10 months ago

        I was told that at the time the mental concept of God was that of a calf, and the universe was in its stomach, so it wasn’t that weird that they made a golden representation of him.

      • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
        1·
        10 months ago

        I used to practice Christianity until high school. Then I figured I didn’t need to keep practicing anymore since I was already pretty good at it.

  • awwwyissss@lemm.ee
    8·
    10 months ago

    No. The world is much more enjoyable and generally better without those irrational and dangerous beliefs in my mind.

      • awwwyissss@lemm.ee
        1·
        10 months ago

        Same, I have nothing but good wishes for you, and I understand that most Christians do actually believe they’re making the world a better place.

        I hope some day you can open your mind and inspect your beliefs with unbiased reason, I don’t think you’ll regret it.

  • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
    6·
    10 months ago

    OP, I have perused your comment history and the following is a genuine question to you, and not sarcasm or an insult; I am legitimately curious what you think: do you think God made you born with autism as a punishment?

    • Bluetreefrog@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Had a couple of reports about this comment, but I can see how it might be intended to not breach rule 1 and the authors comment history seems untoxic. I’ll let it stand but it’s line ball.

    • VanHalbgott@lemmus.orgOPEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Nah, more like He constructed me differently than other people: everyone is born different.

  • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    You might say I might, loosely speaking. Definitely not one of the “big” groups though, though Jesus is a large part of my life template.

    Ever hear of the Mune Shinri?

  • lyth@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    10 months ago

    No, and for my one-minute abridged defense:

    • Gen 1-2 definitely didn’t happen and were written by two different groups with different religious views using two different creator-god names
    • Noah’s Ark definitely didn’t happen, and the story repeats itself all the time because it crushes together the Yahwist’s and Elohist’s writing in a manner especially suggestive of natural human authorship
    • New Testament claims that the human lineage is as young as is reported in Gen 2 (Luk 3:38) and has Jesus - presumably the same entity as God - suggest multiple times in two gospels that the great flood was a real event

    That’s about enough to deconvert already, and it keeps getting worse the deeper you take things

  • amio@kbin.social
    1·
    10 months ago

    I was “Christian”, at least nominally. Didn’t quite believe at 8 and not at all by 10, haven’t seen any reason to go back to religion since then. Rather the opposite…