Baptized Catholic, family converted to strict Christianity after that then early adulthood I considered myself agnostic.
Now I’d say agnostic Christian but that’s contradictory. Maybe spiritual? Idk
I don’t go to church and do things like that as why I say that.
I don’t like force what I believe in on other people. Common sense says that is not my place and also rude. I don’t wish to convert people. I’m not on a mission to ‘shove it down throats’
It’s the little things that show me God is looking out for me. I’ve got my own set of things im dealing with as everyone else does too.
But finding my vape (I lose it a lot) and then getting an urge to make my bed and suddenly finding it ?
That’s a miracle. Little things like that. Needing extra and then being bored decided to go through my old purses and found 100 dollars?
Those things are HUGE to me. Relieve so much stress. And they seldom happen. I’m thankful for a lot.
I’m grateful for those moments.
It’s odd to imagine a culture where you’d feel the need to say this
I’d guess about 30% of the people where I live are religious, how do I know? I don’t. Religion is like politics, you keep your opinions to yourselves, and neither are mentioned in polite conversation
Christians believe their stuff, don’t bother anyone and don’t push their beliefs on others. Most I’ve ever seen is a couple standing next to a pile of free religious magazines, but not stopping people or holding signs, just standing there
That’s just one more reason why we consider the yanks to be fucking barbarians 😅
IRL very much the case that religion is heavily pushed and forced. If a person said this on a street corner I would roll my eyes and think they are playing the victim card, because they would be.
The Internet can be the opposite, this is heavily dependent on the site of course. Lemmy is pretty evangelically atheist, so to me saying “there is nothing wrong with having faith” is worth saying.
You can look though my messages. Just saying religion isn’t inherently a bad thing in a world news community got negative feedback.
I understand the frustration of having to deal with invasive religion daily, both personally and legislatively. There is so much bullshit that people following a religion have and will continue to cause for everyone, even those who follow the same god.
If you use frustration to be evangelically against an ideology, you can start to cross the threshold of hypocrisy.
Thanks for your input
I was just about to post something like this, but you said it better than I would have.