• Terevos@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    As an actual Christian that reads the Bible and goes to church, I wish more people who called themselves Christian actually followed what the Bible says. It’s a big problem in the US

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, if you don’t read the Bible or go to church, it’s almost impossible for you to actually be a Christian.

      But for some reason what counts as a Christian is determined by what you choose to call yourself instead of what our holy text says.

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        1 year ago

        Patently false. Most atheists have read the bible as much as most “Christians”. Some of the most-common “causes” of atheism are: never was pushed/encouraged to believe, skeptic/scrutinizing personality, or being annoyed by what “Christians” say or do. All of these reasons and more for being an atheist are good and valid-- I’m just arguing against this bad-faith (no pun intended) crap that you are arguing, and that some other atheists say.

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              That some people read the Bible and say “wtf is this nonsense?” and then question how anyone could base a religion on that.

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                1 year ago

                Yeah, that’s what I thought it was too. I’m just saying that “some people” aren’t “most people who become atheists”.

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                  I’d agree that it’s not a leading cause. To your list though I’d add that some people are pushed too hard to be believers, and reject it, or grew up in an area where people are just flat-out obsessed with religion and it ends up putting their hypocrisy in view.

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                    1 year ago

                    Depending on your point of view, those could be partially or fully extensions of my list points; but yeah, there are plenty of good reasons to be an atheist. I myself am an ex-Christian agnostic theist. My churches were Baptist, and… yeah, none of that crap anymore. xD