Ive invited Jehovas into my house ones, they never returned after i asked if i can celebrate making new friends with cakes and hot cocoa. I think their lactose intolerant... Can tell about how it went with the christians that came by later ;)
The indoctrinated feel threatened by those who do not believe, because their existence risks introducing uncomfortable doubt in the minds of believers.
You shouldn't. The reason they send people door to door isn't really to recruit but so they are rudely rejected. They then believe the outside world is evil and retreat further into the cult. Being nice might help someone question things
Wasn't it Mark Twain who said (to paraphrase) he's got no problems with Christ, it's his followers he takes issue with? If not, I believe it's in line with his feelings regarding the organized religion.
I upset a Fundamentalist when I told him I believed an atheist can get into heaven. He objected. I asked him if he believed God was all merciful & he said yes. I asked then how could a merciful God send someone, who did good all their life, be sent to hell just for not believing. He had no answer.
Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder (heaven) of them that diligently seek him.
All powerful deity designed the Atheist specifically making them in a way that they wouldn't believe in them and punishes them for being who they made. Lol
All powerful. All knowing. Means it knew the "choices" and the decisions before they'd make them. Nothing happens without God's allowance including non belief.
I won't speak on all atheist but me personally i view religion is as real as Santa and the tooth fairy. It's not really something you choose it's just something you realize about yourself
I have no respect for those that follow the God of Abraham. I'm just waiting for whichever one finally kills the other two off so we can deal with what's left.
Jews, Christians and Islam all follow the same Abrahamic god. So by saying you don't believe in the Abrahamic god, you catch all 3 religions in one shot.
Double standards never stop making me laugh. I have a condition that makes me laugh in uncomfortable situations. Then people get upset, and then I laugh some more. That never helps the situation. But at least I learned; I can take a punch, and give them right back.🤣
If someone cites their religion as a reason why they are a "moral" and "good" person, then I submit that they are neither. Truly good and moral people do not need a religion to make them that way.
This is what my entire family that I have since cut off did to me, and had nothing to respond with when I told them I’d rather go to hell than spend eternity with people like them.
Isn't this the truth? Christianity has become like Islam where you can't question it or speak ill of it. Oh, wait, it's always been that way. It's just more 'out' than before.
I agree with you on this. I'm an atheist witch. I get to hear it all. When I first told my family, my one non-religious sister was okay with it. Then she joined a church. After she did, I was subjected to her constant preaching. I went no contact with her. Non-Christians are 2nd class citizens here.
that's not what I'm saying, but getting into someone's post talking to other religious people about their religion is not the right place for it, and I see that a lot, literally every open post I hold my breath when entering the comments section bc I know what I will find inside
I get it. But I have seen atheists in discussion on a post that an atheist started and I also hold my breath when entering because I know there are going to be religious people posting about atheists going to hell or other apologetic stuff. Seems both sides contribute to this problem. Yes?
I used to be the silent atheist. Then the religious decided to get together and do a region wide boycott of my employer thys costing me my career. I have actually have customers tell my employers they will no longer do business if they employ a trans woman.
You write "getting into someone's post talking to other religious people about their religion is not the right place for it," can you not see the hypocrisy in that given where you posted it?
Has it never occurred to you why some atheists may say that god does not exist? Could it be that no god and there have been a shitload of them, has ever shown itself to be true.
If that's not what you see, then you are either blind, or believe that xtians are right to enact violence and stochastic terrorism on any that don't believe as they do.
Religion, thy name is *always* about hypocrisy, and double standards, and protecting abuse & corruption in your ranks. And you wonder why multitudes are leaving? 🤔
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Now I want to rewatch it.
Works wonders.
One might even say... Miraculous.
Jesus isn't a person.
At best, Jesus is an idea.
Too bad their parents left them with such a gaping hole for a soul, but I can't fix it on a Tuesday afternoon just because they rang my doorbell.
Also: Fuck Jesus. I just don't GAF.
You telling me that if I’m nice to a JW, they’ll go “ah shit, I’m in a cult.. thank you, savior..”?
whoops I'm in a cult, guess it's good I found out early so I can go do something with my life
Religion is parasitic, I won't come near it with a 10 foot pole and anyone spewing their "gospel" can fuck all the way off 😒
I'm fine with a "god bless you/your heart" (which often is meant rudely...) but calling others sinners etc is so provoking to me.
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Can't have it both ways. 🤷🏿♂️
With God one can be so gullible as to believe not just a fraction of this bullshit - but the whole heaping steaming pile
They are actively resisting Project 2025.
They need our support now more than ever.
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Show their real teeth. If they have none they are a money mill.
"Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself"
... because it seems many "believers" are very much intent on insisting their neighbors be treated vastly different to themselves.
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They made me and then they bitch.
OK, same difference.