Just when I thought there were no redeeming qualities of the church.
I mean, I still don’t, but it’s nice to see a story like this instead of the endless stream of pedophile, predator, and conman stories about the church.
‘The church’ isn’t the monolith most atheist lemmings think it is. There are more than a dozen denominations and a whole spectrum of political leanings within each one.
I’m not religious, just tired of blanket statements like this that make it hard for us to be taken seriously. Theists are humans and humans come in all sorts of fucked up. Religion just brings out the worst in them. That doesn’t strip it’s significance to believers. For many, it’s what keeps them going in hard times.
Unitarian universalists are a good example of how being religious doesn’t mean you need to be a nut job, a predator, or passively support one. If you’re goal is to deradicalize, you are much more likely to convince a religious person to be more tolerant than to throw away religion altogether.
I read the first sentence and stopped. You’re a fucking moron. I came here to support this rad man and saw you remind me why I don’t like religious people.
You must be illiterate because I said I’m not religious. I don’t believe in a god.
It’s wild how much dogmatic atheists like you share with religious people. You’re so busy debating the existence of a god that you forget that the existence of religion does not hinge on that.
Telling people ‘god fake now stop religion’ will not magically stop them from imposing their religious fundamentalist views. Let’s take it a step further and pretend that god exists. Do you think that justifies most religions today? I’d argue that most atheists don’t really give a shit if god exists, they give a shit if religion does because that has far more tangible impact in the real world than some ambiguous entity who either doesn’t care or can’t do anything about human suffering.
Just when I thought there were no redeeming qualities of the church.
I mean, I still don’t, but it’s nice to see a story like this instead of the endless stream of pedophile, predator, and conman stories about the church.
‘The church’ isn’t the monolith most atheist lemmings think it is. There are more than a dozen denominations and a whole spectrum of political leanings within each one.
I’m not religious, just tired of blanket statements like this that make it hard for us to be taken seriously. Theists are humans and humans come in all sorts of fucked up. Religion just brings out the worst in them. That doesn’t strip it’s significance to believers. For many, it’s what keeps them going in hard times.
Unitarian universalists are a good example of how being religious doesn’t mean you need to be a nut job, a predator, or passively support one. If you’re goal is to deradicalize, you are much more likely to convince a religious person to be more tolerant than to throw away religion altogether.
I read the first sentence and stopped. You’re a fucking moron. I came here to support this rad man and saw you remind me why I don’t like religious people.
You must be illiterate because I said I’m not religious. I don’t believe in a god.
It’s wild how much dogmatic atheists like you share with religious people. You’re so busy debating the existence of a god that you forget that the existence of religion does not hinge on that.
Telling people ‘god fake now stop religion’ will not magically stop them from imposing their religious fundamentalist views. Let’s take it a step further and pretend that god exists. Do you think that justifies most religions today? I’d argue that most atheists don’t really give a shit if god exists, they give a shit if religion does because that has far more tangible impact in the real world than some ambiguous entity who either doesn’t care or can’t do anything about human suffering.
You should read the rest. You might learn something.
Christians aren’t necessarily bad people. When they do good it’s just in the name of yahweh when it should be in the name of life.