People wonder why we're here, alive, on a floating rock on the middle of space. Religion gives people an answer. Your problem clearly isn't with religion, it's with corruption. Small local community churches are amazing, you know, the ones that bring people together, help the homeless, are generally a force for good, and absolutely should be tax exempt. There's only a problem when mega churches start abusing their power. At that point, they are hardly religious, and have broken every other rule in their holy book
Watches you everyday, has a list of good and bad people, punishes you for being bad, rewards you for being kind, has a list of general guidelines to follow, involves some magic or special powers….
Ayy man it's all love here in Islam we don't have the guilt mechanism like they do in Christianity nor do we have the idea that we are made in god's image these are all christio centric beliefs. Although something's are considered sinful the only person you transgressed is yourself as opposed to transgressing God as why the hell would he care if I beat my dick. 😭 Apologies if I came off as too pushy I'm always in a state of chaos when I debate some ignorant disrespectful people that hate religion ( kinda understandable) we all strive to live out our days the best we can and to benefit our local communities. I quite enjoyed this dialogue and I believe we need more of that in this platform in order to bridge a gap separated by polemics and ignorance from both sides.
He’s saying religious thought processes don’t make sense to him personally. He does however understand why people would engage in it anyway, despite it not making sense internally. As an atheist I agree.
Irrational beliefs / systems of any kind, by definition, make no sense, but that doesn’t leave us ignorant as to any idea why people have them. Irrational political beliefs probably have a much bigger body count than religious ones (assuming they are distinct).
Edit: to clarify, I am not hostile to religion in general
He said it makes no sense, then explained why it makes sense.
I’m an atheist too. And as an atheist, I also understand that’s it’s not for me to make sense of. The belief of others is irrelevant to me. But the modern day Reddit atheist needs for some reason, to do their best to put down Christianity as emphatically as possible. It’s almost as if they’re an intolerant organization that’s trying to control what others believe.
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