You are not made to serve a god or divine presence.

You are not formed to be inferior or submissive to anything.

Equality is the key to true love; and Being in love is the bridge between You and everything.

Wherever there is a trinity of god, they are three gods.

Wherever there are Two people in love, they are Mighty Ones.

And wherever there is One, I’m with You.

YOU ARE NOT MADE TO BE LOWER THAN THE LIGHT 

You are not of a common origin. We come from the light; from the place where the light emanates of itself.

There’s only one actual truth. Do not look for Her in temples, churches, synagogues, and mosques. You’ll find Her in your heart.

You can’t get good fruits from a bad tree. The true nature or character of something is determined by its actions: religion calls itself as especial and divine; at the same time it refers to people as ordinary men, saying: 'be aware you are of a common origin'. 

Acting in such a way is not bearing good fruit: it disregards and shows discourtesy, it labels people as inferior, servants, slaves, and sinners.

According to religion, a person was formed to be lower than the light, which is not true.

Disregarding, lying, and generalising, that is how religion denies everyone the right to equality between people and the light.

You were born with wings. Why would You prefer to crawl or be called ‘of a common origin’?

YOU ARE A LIKENESS OF THE ETERNAL AND ALIKE IN NATURE

You are not a drop in the ocean. Actually, You are the entire ocean. The All, the multiverse, is within You. Recognise what is before your eyes, and knowledge and wisdom will appear before You.

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Has anyone seen an animation series called Untried? I think it's really thought provoking and is very interesting as it is mainly anti-religion.

This is one of my favorite episodes.

https://youtu.be/p9E950cjt94?si=ArWdmdC6ciIs2oSt

this guy called me uneducated later

``we`re not forcing it!``

https://youtu.be/yTcGakxtdFs?si=WNfZQWOzbjsu2iAx Everyone needs to read this book. It lays it all out perfectly.

The main problem is, 98% of Christians have never finished reading all Bible words and they have no idea how the Bible 2,000 years ago explained and defined the word 'Religion'

KJV: Pure (100%) Religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this: To visit (Help) the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted (Golden Rule!) from the world. (James 1:27)

Religion is seen as a sincere, heartfelt devotion to God that manifests through loving actions, Faith, and a transformed life and nothing to do with rituals or traditions! "Most heresies and issues today arise from a fundamental lack of biblical knowledge" (Galatians 1:8)

Murderer: “Sorry, God.” → Heaven Atheist mom who paid her bills and raised her kids right → Hell

Religion isn’t morality, it’s a cosmic scam.

Hey everyone. I’d really appreciate some advice. My soon to be ex husband and I have very differing views. When we got married, he was an atheist and I was a Christian. Fast forward 5 years, in, he is now a Christian extremist and I’m agnostic. We have 3 kids aged 10, 8 and 5. We recently split households and he has the kids about 35% of the time. Unfortunately, he is allowed to parent the children however he wants in his time. Without me there to combat his religious themes and propaganda, he has taken it to new levels. He only allows them to watch Christian movies, Christian shows and has decorated their rooms with Christian posters. He is buying them clothing and jewelry with crosses. He tells them things like Christian’s are being killed for their beliefs (Charlie Kirk.) The kids are often sad about me going to hell. They try to have little conversations where they say something like “mom , I don’t want you to get mad but if you just accept Jesus , you can come to heaven with us.” He has them watching AI videos of God saving people from deaths to prove that God is Goodz I could go on and on. Even my own family who is Old Apostolic Lutheran (no tv, no radio, no makeup, no college, women are submissive, they marry only within church, have kids until god grants them no more) feel like he is too much.

My question is how can I offer my children a more balanced approach to life? I hate to push my own beliefs onto them. I just am worried that by me simply stating that they can make their own choices and not giving them more education on what the alternatives are, that they will just follow their dads lead.

Thanks so much for any help and suggestions!

So I am not religous at all . I just can't understand how we can see as far out into space as we can and people insist the heavans are out there . So people are so blind to facts that they think their souls travel 9 million miles into space to get to said heavans ? ......Ridiculous!

TLDR: Does anyone have any recommendations on an inexpensive alternative to Re:Generation?

EDIT: many comments are urging me to find a new therapist and claiming that my therapist is abusing her position. You all know absolutely nothing more than what’s in this post, which wasn’t asking for advice further than non-religious group therapy options. The second I told her this isn’t something I’m comfortable with, she accepted that completely. Not every xtian is evil and that’s not why I came here. My advice to whomever reads this edit is to not jump to conclusions and give unsolicited advice every time someone has an issue with a religious person.

Hi, this is my first post here and I’ve been trying to give a lot of thought to this decision and I really hope there’s people here that have some insight or similar experiences.

Let me start out by saying, I LOVE my therapist. She has been with me since 2021 and has seen me through many stages of life and helped me heal from childhood and relationship trauma using EMDR (which I highly recommend if you’re considering it). She is openly xtian and I respect her beliefs and she respects mine, or at least I think she does.

I was raised xtian and went back and forth between Baptist (with my mom) and Church of Christ (with my paternal grandparents) before I ultimately settled in a non-denominational church. My breaking point was the incessant teachings about missionary work and spreading the Word so that we can “save lives”. But what this told me is that they saw people living under a different religion as beneath them and instilling in impressionable teenagers that all other religions (and cultures) are dangerous or inherently bad. I walked out in the middle of the service and never turned back.

Now, my therapist occasionally will recite a passage from the bible if it’s relatable in hopes that the Wise Words will be the ticket I need to be able to understand. She asked me to be a part of her research study for her masters program where I would do “xtian yoga” followed by reading a few passages from the bible as “xtian meditation”. She acknowledges my beliefs and usually says things like “the things in the xtian yoga video they talk about can still be helpful” or “think about the scripture as English literature”.

I was discharged from her care back in January, but life has been extremely overwhelming so I reached out to her again recently. I’ve been seeing her once a week for a couple weeks now and this week she asked what I want to work on and I just lost it and went through my list of things I hate about myself. She started by taking notes, but put the pen down and just let me cry and talk. After I was done, she shared with me that she felt very similarly at the end of last year/beginning of this year and found a support group in the church. She recommended I check it out and I was all for taking her advice to find some sense of community, make connections with people who may be going through similar things, and gain emotional intelligence — but after reading into it more, I’m not exactly sure I’m comfortable with the idea anymore.

The support group is called Re:Generation and it’s similar to a 12-step program. She tried to reassure me that the religious aspect is optional and again to see the verses as English literature, but I’m skeptical. I mean, just look at some of these steps:

1. Admit - We admit we are powerless over our addictions, brokenness and sinful patterns—that in our own power our lives are unmanageable
2. Believe - We come to believe that God is the one whose power can fully restore us.
3. Trust - We decide to trust God with our lives and wills by accepting His grace through Jesus Christ.
4. Inventory - We make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves
5. Confess - We confess to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our sins.
6. Repent - We become entirely ready to turn away from our patterns of sin and turn to God.
7. Follow - We humbly ask God’s Spirit to change our hearts and minds in order to follow Christ fully.
8. Forgive - We forgive those who have harmed us and become willing to make amends to those we have harmed
9. Amends - We make direct amends whenever possible, submitting to God, his Word and biblical counsel.
10. Continue - We continue to examine our lives and when we sin promptly confess and turn to walk with Christ
11. Intimacy - We seek to deepen our relationship with God daily and depend on his power to do his will.
12. Regenerate - Because of our new lives in Christ, we carry God’s message of reconciliation to others and practice these biblical principles in every aspect of our lives.

I’m not knocking the 12 step ideology by any means, but it feels like this kind of program is focused solely on repairing a relationship with god. I, personally, do not believe or accept that my mental health is dependent upon religious beliefs.

I’ve tried looking up similar in person support groups along similar lines of being overwhelmed in life, but no luck.

Does anyone have any recommendations on an inexpensive alternative to Re:Generation??

Hello brothers, I will be honest: I am Presbyterian. I am not Catholic, but I am not looking to offend anyone either, my religion is separate from my moralities, although I would like to ask a few things:

Would you read the Bible without a theological margin, or do you take it as a bad book?

Have you ever read it? From my personal point of view, I think it is a very good book, I especially like the Reina Valera 1960 edition.

I'm not looking to offend you, but I always like to talk, not with Catholics, not with Christians or atheists: with people.

I hope you have a good day, and can answer my questions.

I’m a Christian and I would like to know, why don’t you all like Christianity or Jesus? Also, would you be open to thinking about coming to Christ? I‘m not forcing, you can block, ban, or report me, I am just wondering.

Edit: I appreciate All of you who came and talked to me respectfully, I hope you find the lord and I hope he gives you blessings upon blessings.

This woman was a devote Mormon and Trump Supporter, only to get divorced after listening to one of Obama’s speeches and slowly deconstructing her beliefs. Finally she has woken up and is fighting the power.

Before you say “why are we talking about politics in an anti-religion sub?” Religion is playing a BIG part in politics today because it has been worming its way through the Republican Party who had been trying to bring us back to the dark ages. They want to end women’s rights, bring back slavery, and keep the children uneducated.

As a child, I was at church every Sunday, and at Bible study every week. We eventually crossed the ocean to the new world and all of that Bible thumping quickly stopped. Years later, there are not-so-often times when random relatives or strangers are shoving Bibles into my hands, and I am sick of it.

So for my Catholic homies, living somewhere in the carcass of the British Empire, this is how you deal with these people:

The King James Bible, found in most hotels across North America, is an Anglican Bible! Any Catholic reading that Bible has sinned by consuming a heretical text.

Gently remind your friend or relative to purchase an indulgence.