In a sense, especially in theocratic countries, religion is just a tool for charlatans to control other people in all daily aspects of their lives, while rebranding it as "Christianity" or "Islam". All religious leaders must do is say, "If you let us and our 'holy book' dictate every part of your lives, you can enjoy heaven forever!" It is the most intelligent and unethical tactic! submitted by /u/Halt1363 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Received an email from the church that's tied to our kid's school and couldn't help but to laugh. So you're telling me after decades of dedication, worship and tithing ... God/Jesus' cybersecurity team didn't immediately step-in and protect their servants (or at least offer the parishioners a year of Experian Identity Protection or free gift cards)? I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy seeing them freak-out. It's a nice reality check when you find even your holy leaders are ? susceptible to the same forces as the rest of us regular Joes. "Our church has been hacked. This has resulted in emai ..read more

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I haven't been able to get past page ten of the bible so for those of you who are familiar, is this true? I always heard it was discriminatory but could also see people misinterpreting it to suit their agenda. Also I'd like some verses from the bible, I want to be able to respond when I hear this argument. submitted by /u/Choppybitz [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Me F23 and her F22 have been dating for almost a year. Never loved somebody harder, and we have a great bond and healthy relationship outside of her family and religion. But her parents are Baptist / Born Again Christian and la la la. She was homeschooled and brought up so isolated that she has only ventured out into the real world the past 2 years. She still believes partially that this is wrong and she could go to hell. And she doesn’t want to disappoint her parents who believe in the same thing. So we ended things tonight and it may be forever. And it’s all because of a fucking fairy tale ..read more

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I was having a conversation with my Dad when visiting him the other day, where we were talking about the Palestinian genocide. I'm a history buff whereas he's a Judeo-Christian history buff. So, on this point, we were both incredibly educated when it came to discussing the history of Israeli colonization on Palestinian land. As we talked about it, I was baffled in how he actually knew the history of their colonization and the horrible acts by the state of Israel but continued hand-waving all of those criticisms away. I continued cornering him on those points, comparing this genocide to the ge ..read more

Hi I’m (22m) ex christian orthodox now atheist living with my ultra religious christian orthodox family. Mind you we have the best possible relationship outside of religion. Anyways me and my father had a big fight over religion, and he is the one who brought it up i didn’t. He told me to my face “to the evil force that’s trying to take you away, just know that by you being an atheist my faith only gets stronger every time” I told him it’s all fantasies and imaginations that people invented and that a person is either good or bad there is NO evil force (satan) trying to take someone away from ..read more

Hi, first time here, just watched the interview and wanted to say "Hi" submitted by /u/Dough_Nutello [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

I am not saying well-written as in, which religion is best based on goodness or which religion has the most kind/good gods. I mean in proper sense of fiction. With all the good and the evil. Don't treat the Religion like a way-of-life and assess it all as a piece-of-fiction. Which one do you think is the most well-written? submitted by /u/FOETUShygRAPplER [visit reddit] [comments ..read more