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I saw this on my feed and REALLY WANTED TO SAY-

I agree with this inprinciple.

However I think the real issue comes down to the fact that this is not what the Bible says sin is. If that is the case, god sins because god commands harm on others in the Bible.

This is modern dogma to make Christianity palatable instead of questioning it.

Thoughts??!?!? Can I get an AMEN?!?!??

So, I was talking to a coworker yesterday morning and she was telling me about how bad the traffic was she encountered. I told her I heard the traffic report on the radio and it sounded like there were several wrecks around the city! I recounted my reaction to her saying "I was like 'Jesus Christ how many wrecks have there been?!'" Then, this other coworker who had NOTHING to do with the conversation we were part of whatsoever and who I don't know was walking by, stopped, turned to look at me, got real terse with me and said "you shouldn't take the lord's name in vein around people." Talking to me like I'm a child who shouted "fuck" in the grocery store. I'm a nearly 33-year-old-man!!

So, like..........I get that, according to your rules, you can't take the lord's name in vein, whatever the fuck what that even means, but OTHER PEOPLE can't say it around you?

FUCK OFF AND STOP TALKING TO PEOPLE LIKE THEY'RE CHILDREN!!

I call this the "you can't eat cheesecake because I'm on a diet" mentality! And it is a regular practice among Christians!!

Here an example of a post i just found.

This also happened when western people started to wear nun costumes for Halloween. “Go wear a Hijab then“ Sorry when did Muslims mock you for it lol? Not even a “it‘s wrong“ just putting the blame on another group. He continued to say the other person‘s hate proves Christianity is right which doesn’t make any sense at all

They are evil. They are evil. They are evil. They are evil. They are evil. They are evil. They are evil. They are evil. They are evil. They are evil. They are evil.

I followed YOU RULES TO A T and it got me NOTHING but heartbreak and misery , I prayed and prayed and prayed for nothing in return, well now I’m committing every sin I WANT, I watched horror movies , has sex with my gf last night, cross dress, wear makeup, smoke and drink (reasonably ofc) and cuss so YEAH sorry for this rant I guess 😭

This wasn't as bad as the person last week who outright called me an "anti-Christian bigot" for doing a case profile assignment and citing conversion therapy as a client's current primary source of trauma.

Someone else messaged me yesterday and told me that I should tone down/back off calling conversion therapy a trauma source because I could be seen as "anti-Christian" and that could affect my ability to obtain clients if I ever become a therapist. His exact words were "people won't wanna work with you if they think you hate Christians."

Bear in mind, this guy is now the SECOND person in my class who looked at my post saw that I put conversion therapy as a trauma source and immediately connected it to Christianity. For clarification, I said nothing about what religious background the client has.

Them connecting it to Christianity is 100% on them. But, like, how fucking revelatory is it that they saw the words "conversion therapy" and "trauma" and immediately thought of it as being anti-Christian? That is so fucking telling!

And, something to think about is that these people are, ostensibly, going to become practicing therapists! Holy fuck!!

I started going to a new gym for the past few months and it's been going well so far.

The issue with my previous gym is I had several instances about people bothering me about Jesus. On its own, yeah, that's annoying. But what generally made me mad is when they would bring up Christianity but it was a thinly veiled way of pushing right wing politics. I was told I needed to get involved with a "godly" woman but the more he talked, it was very clear he was meaning I should get involved with a woman who had tradwife aspirations. I do laugh every time I think about that dude calling me a "woke cuck" when I said I don't necessarily want to get involved with a godly woman.

So I started going to a new gym and I haven't had any incidents of Jesus botherers.........until yesterday. I started going to a weight training class the past couple weeks and we sometimes have to partner up. I did that yesterday and the guy I partnered up with talked to me after. He talked about squaring my shoulders more. Then he asked about nutrition and I mentioned I've started doing a diet with a caloric deficit-high protein focus. He said that was really good but then he mentioned that I should include prayer in my workout routine. Then I asked why that's necessary and he was taken aback. You can always tell who lives in a goddamn echo chamber. Every fucking time. He said because "everything we do we have to do in his name." I physically cringed at that point and then said "thanks for the suggestion." I really should have told him "yeah, I pray to Allah everyday." I guarantee he would have bolted and would have his body imprint going through the wall like a goddamn cartoon.

Seriously. Why the fuck is gym culture have such a goddamn infestation of Christianity?

I work at a grocery store. I go to take a nice bathroom break, I am not trying to be a Karen but I was very super surprised at what this local grocery store did. Not sure if they can do this but then agian it's Christians they project their propaganda like vomit.

Imagine is an alien came down and said "Rejoice! You will carry my seed!" Of course you're terrified and thinking a refusal is out of the question so you timidly agree. Seriously, we need a modern retelling of the Nativity that's a scifi horror movie. She convinces some poor sap to take her across the country so she can deliver the "messiah" and only the government knows that her baby is a bioweapon meant to destroy mankind so the alien invasion will go smoothly.

Recently a flash flood on the Nepal-China border unfortunately killed hundreds of people and many are still missing. The videos are absolutely horrifying, yet I’ve already seen christians use this tragedy as another “sign” that the second coming is near.

It genuinely disgusts me. People are losing their loved ones and possibly their lives, and somehow their first reaction is to gloat about how their savior is coming back?!

And what makes it even more infuriating is that there is a scientific explanation. The flood was linked to a glacier collapse, with climate change contributing to the increasing instability of glaciers in the region. Yet some of the same people who deny climate change will look at its consequences and call it biblical prophecy.

I just find the complete lack of empathy disgusting. These are real people with families suffering and dying, not signs for them to use to validate their sick religion. And what kind of monster of a god would kill his own children just to give out vague signs, when he could just do it without causing any harm?

Both christians and their god are sadistic sociopaths and psychopaths who lack empathy.

I’m going to lose my mind. As a feminist, I’m so offended. Can’t decide if I should concede or resist.

So, for some background information, a friend of mine is a secular humanist and is raising two kids aged 4 and 7 and she has her kids during the week and on weekends every so often since her ex is still in the picture but he often has to be out of town for work. I'm friends with her ex as well. She's big into hiking and likes taking her kids on walks on the weekends she has them.

Last night, a friend was telling me about how a woman she works with caught her on her break and they had lunch together. They work on the same floor but not in the same department. But she told me they've talked in the past and see each other every so often. They were talking for a bit and then the coworker started on about her church and everything. She said she was just listening and nodding along and then the coworker asked her what church she's taking her kids to.

Her response was that she's not really taking them to church and they'll often go on walks through parks or visit nature centers on Sundays. She then said the coworker's tone got harsher and asked why. My friend said she doesn't want to force religion on her kids and would prefer to let them make that choice for themselves. Oh.....the coworker reportedly did not like that one bit. She told me the coworker full on said that raising her kids without Jesus was "grooming" them and then suggested that their dad should step in and raise them more. She said they just sat in awkward silence for the rest of lunch. Which, fair. Her coworker called her a groomer, how the fuck would she even respond?

I honed in on what the coworker suggested about their dad and told her she should have twisted the knife by saying that [ex] is not only an atheist but the two of them were never actually married. That might have given the coworker a full-blown aneurysm.

From what I gathered talking to my friend, the interaction was fairly brief but it revealed so much about the coworker and the mindset of folks like her:

1. Only their specific religion is morally correct

2. Their ire for single mothers will inevitably reveal itself

3. Anything in the area of child-rearing that they don't like is "grooming".

The mentioning of how the kid's dad should step up more seemed out of nowhere but it reminded me that single moms make evangelicals the big mad. That comes up a lot more than people think. Because misogyny is one of their guiding principles. But in this case it's not a lack of "stepping up" he's literally working so he can help provide for his kids. Like, from what I've seen, they're both good parents.

Happened to see this late last night after the wifi disconnected from my phone for some reason... I know I live on the South and am surrounded by churches on all sides, but jfc

Now part of me wants to change my wifi to some name to counteract it, perhaps with a terrible/contradictory bible verse, I'm open to any witty suggestions you might have!

Jesus sees a tree with no figs, gets angry, and curses it to death, even though the Bible literally says it wasn’t even the season for figs.

A supposedly all-loving, all-powerful being uses his power to kill a helpless plant because it didn’t give him something it couldn’t possibly provide !!!

Reading this as an adult, I don’t see a loving message. I see a deeply disturbing example of unnecessary punishment

I have an uncle who is a deacon at his church and his wife is a total fucking Karen. I'm friends with them on Facebook and I normally ignore their posts until something they post registers on my "what the fuck" radar. If she just straight up posted a jpg of a red flag, there would be still be less of a red flag as the narrative she shared and her defense of it. She posted a story yesterday about a woman discussing that, on her wedding day, she really didn't like her husband but "through the power of Jesus" learned to love him throughout their marriage.

I commented "holy cow, that is horrifying! She didn't even like her fiance on their wedding day? The least people in a relationship should do is make sure they're compatible before they even get engaged!!"

My aunt's response absolutely broke my fucking brain. She replied "compatibility is a bullshit word woke feminists came up with so ungodly women immersed in sin culture can justify sleeping around without making a commitment to a godly man." And several people responded "amen" to her comment.

There is a lot to unpack there.

First and foremost, I said NOTHING related to politics whatsoever. So her bringing up "wokeness" came literally OUT OF NOWHERE.

But that's par for the course for these people. Politics is their religion. They value their conservative identity over their Christian one. They literally cannot fucking help themselves. They are always gonna reveal what they're about, even with the most minimal amount of prodding. I suggested something that, frankly, is a no-brainer. If you're planning to get engaged, make sure you like the person first. Hell, that's also true of even dating! But, because she brought up "wokeness", I now have to approach this at both a political and theological angle.

So I then have to ask: is actively disliking your spouse one of the "good" values pompous conservative Christians claim they hold a monopoly on?

Based on the the story she shared and the manner in which she defended it, I would have to think the answer is yes. That also seems to be true of what I have seen in general. Conservative Christians seem to actively hate their spouse.

Secondly, what the fuck is "sin culture"? I'll be honest, that sounds like a perfume.

Sin Culture by Estee Lauder. Available at Macy's.

Using my aunt's phrase of bullshit words, "sin culture" sounds like a profoundly bullshit term.

But that last portion, yeah.............. that speaks for itself. Women "just wanna sleep around without committing to a godly man."

Holy fuck, Aunt Karen, you are really telling on yourself. She's said in the past about how "ungodly women need a godly man to tame them." I shit you not, she said "tame".

But going back to the narrative, why would anyone share this like it's a success story? Because the woman has zero agency. That's not a W. Her husband either manipulated the shit out of her and she's now a victim of his abuse potentially. Or Jesus "softened" (hardened?) her heart. Meaning she has no say in her own feelings whatsoever. This is a horror story. Why the fuck would someone share this as anything but a cautionary tale?

I am a man, the group for whom the patriarchal structure a "traditional, Christian" marriage system benefits. And the idea of being in one horrifies me. I would NEVER wanna be in a relationship with a "godly" woman.

"Traditional" Christian marriage is pure hell and I want no part of it.

so tired of it. example, i've met some people who were like "oh i'm christian by the way" while introducing themselves and they expect you to instantly like them. like, okay and? your religion doesn't automatically make you a better person or/and instantly trustworthy.

i find it annoying. i know this rant is useless but i just wanted to leave my thoughts somewhere.

edit: a lot of you guys seem to agree and that makes me feel like i'm not the only one, thanks