love how the bible literally says public displays of faith and prayer is wrong yet people who’ve never read the bible will claim otherwise.
Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
For what it’s worth, that’s not an especially relevant passage here, as it’s less to do with being open about your faith and moreso about intent. For example, those who would go to the synagogue to pray or who would give alms to make themselves feel better and appear righteous. The Bible is crystal clear that you should be openly expressing your faith to others should the intent be to spread the religion. Mark 16:15–16, for example, reads (NIV):
He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned."
Probably more relevant for your case are the passages along the lines of: “Look, give it the old college try, but if they aren’t willing to listen, don’t be a bitch about it; just move on.” For example:
“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
If the home is deserving, let your peace rest on it; if it is not, let your peace return to you. If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet. Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.
Etc.
It’s the Bible, so even that passage is contradicted in another book.
It’s the intent that matters here, not all public displays of faith go against the teachings of Jesus. But yeah, someone doing it just to draw attention is wrong.
My religion says to love and have compassion unconditionally, full stop
I don’t care.
More honest:
My religion says I can’t do that.
I don’t care.
My religion says you can’t do that.
I don’t care.
That’s unfortunately not how it works. The religious very often use their religion as an excuse to control other peoples’ lives.
Indeed, all fun and games until they kidnap you from the streets because their religious laws prohibit the way you dress.
That’s definitely how it works. Fuck their god and fuck them too. They can worship who or whatever the hell they want but the minute they try to shove it down everyone’s throat that’s when it’s a problem…
I don’t care
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you lose your freedom. Be sure to remain meek when they come to shackle you, it’ll be fine I’m sure.
Just because I don’t care what you have to say doesn’t mean I won’t fight you if you try to enact the dumb bullshit your fairy tales tell you
Take a breath.
I’m going to vote for the guy who shares my religious values, and he’s going to make the thing you’re doing illegal
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Even the top part is not innocuous when it’s vaccines they say they “can’t” do.
innocuous
I see what you did there.
tbf religion as a whole is such an insane concept that trying to imput any time of logic to it is also insane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf7Or7AYXxc
GOAT position.
idk I think people shouldn’t be able to sell their children into marriages at 14 years old just because they don’t share my beliefs that that’s horrible. Meanwhile they think that an abortion harms a child in a way that outweighs b the mother’s right to decide whether or not her body gets used as life support and I don’t. I think whether or not it’s important to meddle in other’s private and family lives is actually a fairly complicated question.
Whufs this from?
what if my religion says you can’t do that but so does the law because they share their core moral system?
I don’t need religion to tell me murder is wrong. And that’s a dangerous line of thinking there as I’ve heard so many fundamentalists say “well how do you know what’s wrong and right without religion?!”
Are you talking about murder? Because if anything legal morality is far better than most religious when it comes to killing people. And that’s even with capital punishment still practiced.
A law isn’t necessarily bad just because religion might agree with it. Murder is wrong, and religion agrees with that. We can’t allow murder, simply because it violates a religious code. That’s taking a worthy concept - purging religious influence from government - and turning it into the same incoherent dogma which describes much of religion.
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They keyword when it comes to any religion is fundamentalism.
No, the key word is Religion. It’s all fundamentalism, just different intensities.
Not really. Secularism is fine in all regards.
I wouldn’t consider Secularism to be a religion, it’s more of a default position. If you don’t believe in religion, you are Secular by default.
Unless someone has co-opted the word Secular as their own little religion, the way some political parties have stolen the word Independent. If you are in a political party, you are not independent. Some see the absence of religion to be a religion itself.
I don’t agree. I am secular, not Secular.
Yeah people love policing what others do :3. I’d return the favour but I can’t think of any good rules in my religion to throw at them, when the situation comes up lol
Given they’re all made up… at this point we’re better off making up a religion that enforces actually good behaviour like taking vaccines and not bothering people with different sexualities/gender identities/etc.
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