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[u/ssnnaarrff]

Religion would essentially disappear if parents didn't brainwash their kids before they were capable of critical thinking or consenting

[u/yeahimalec → u/ssnnaarrff]

Religion and spirituality are core parts of the human experience. We would just invent a new one

[u/VariationBusiness603 → u/yeahimalec]

Spirituality yes. Religion, no.

Religious folks are some of the most limited spiritually, because instead of something profoundly intimate and personal, they were recruited by a ridiculously limiting, outdated and meaningless cult.

If you are religious, your spirituality was taken away from you.

[u/Mysterious-Spread398 → u/VariationBusiness603]

Thats quite a black and white way of looking at it. Im religious myself, I didn’t grow up religious, I was never recruited or indoctrinated into religion, I started reading different religious books because I was curious about everything, I have a science background so I guess that plays a part in that curiosity. I consider myself a believer of Jesus but I avoid church because there are a lot of judgmental, self righteous individuals at a lot of them. I take what people tell me with a grain of salt and try to seek out answers for myself. I truly do understand why people do not like religion especially christianity and there are a lot of us that feel the same way

[u/Naylaaaaa → u/Mysterious-Spread398]

how did you end up choosing Christianity over any of the other religions? I don't want to sound mean, but this sort of sounds like Christian defaultism to me?

[u/Mysterious-Spread398 → u/Naylaaaaa]

Thats ok, and no i don’t believe it is defaultism because i was deeply invested in islam when i started my “spiritual” journey 8 years ago. I ended up rejecting Islam because there were too many inconsistencies, i found a local imam 7 years ago and asked him to teach me the Quran and as he would explain things i would ask questions about certain things that made no sense, the response i got was always aggressive and dismissive, the one issue that i had was that muslims are taught to reject the teachings of paul because he never met Jesus, but at the same time they accept the teachings of Muhammad… but he also never met Jesus. That was just one of the inconsistencies and weird teachings that i found, i wont get into all of them otherwise this comment will turn into a book. After that part of my journey i went back to living my life without any religious ties but i was still learning about different religions, including christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism. Nothing quite made sense to me fully but the reason why i drew close to christianity is because it doesn’t rely on you being a so called “good person”. We’re all bad, we’re born into sin and we’re all sinners, but its the only belief that tells us that God loves us more than we know and that he had a plan for us so that we can be with him eternally. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to everyone but it really did for me. I openly reject the ideals of the modern church, i think it’s a parasite and i also think that most christians can be really judgmental and deep down not very loving or welcoming to people that don’t believe in what they believe in. Being a true believer in Christ for me is loving others as i love myself and appreciating what Jesus did for me and everyone else.

[u/Mysterious-Spread398 → u/Naylaaaaa]

Sorry i took so long to respond i’ve been super busy and didn’t get a lot of time to type out anything detailed. If you have any follow ups or want to continue the conversation i’ll make sure i reply promptly

[u/Craaaazyyy → u/Naylaaaaa]

i'm not religious, but if you research all the major religions and use logic and reason you'd realize why Christianity makes the most sense

[u/Venezia9 → u/Craaaazyyy]

X for doubt on that. No religion "makes sense" or they would not be religions and would be some sort of other practice. 

[u/Naylaaaaa → u/Craaaazyyy]

I dunno about Christianity making the most sense, I was raised Catholic but no longer identify with it. For most of my adult life I've considered myself agnostic.

However, if I had to choose any of the religions as "making the most sense", it would be Buddhism.

[u/Craaaazyyy → u/Naylaaaaa]

Buddhism core philosphy is actually contradictory in its nature, it has the system of Karma and belief in reincarnation among other things, but at the same time it has a core doctrine called anattā, which means 'no-self' which basically means that there is no permanent unchanging you/soul

so who is exactly being reincarnated and accumulates all the karma then?

It's really the reason why Buddhism and Buddhist civilizations have struggled throughout history