US Politics on Sidechat | Growing up in an areligious household was certainly a blessing, yet I have immense difficulty empathizing with anyone who has faith. It’s incredibly absurd to me—sort of like if your professor announced he was a devout follower of Zeus.

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Growing up in an areligious household was certainly a blessing, yet I have immense difficulty empathizing with anyone who has faith. It’s incredibly absurd to me—sort of like if your professor announced he was a devout follower of Zeus.

Anonymous 4w

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Anonymous 4w

I’m kind of jealous of the peace it grants many of them. I could see myself being like a liberation theology catholic, but I just am incapable of believing in the supernatural.

Anonymous 4w

in some ways, i look at polytheistic religions and have a greater sense of respect for it. abrahamic religions like christianity say there just is this perfect benevolent omnipotent thing, its completely isolated from the world in every way but also isnt. impacts nothing but everything. something like greek gods were deeply tied to tangible things and some intangibles. poseidon, the god of the sea. demeter, agriculture. the gods were imperfect. life is imperfect, nature is imperfect

Anonymous 4w

I would just say, stay open minded. If humans never believed in anything greater than what they’ve seen or done we’d still be banging rocks together.

Anonymous 4w

yeah how could anyone be stupid enough to believe in the 2000 year old religion follow by billions that formed the basis for like half of our culture’s moral values, symbolism, art, etc. and was practiced by the vast majority of the country’s population up until a generation ago. I was raised in an atheistic household and have zero trouble understanding why people believe this. get over yourself lol

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Anonymous

#1 4w

Lmao

Anonymous

#4 4w

the greek gods or those of many religions were just manifestations of nature, of parts of the world. believing in the greek pantheon isnt a moral highground or a "i want eternal life" necessarily, its just... seeing the world and making story out of it. maybe im jaded by a catholic upbringing but ive really always had a deeper appreciation for these things that arent a "to be perfect" type deal

Anonymous

#4 4w

i think i just (mostly) like the character of Jesus. it’s a pretty story, even if the whole thing was utterly doomed the moment it became the state religion of Rome. God the father can go kick rocks though, yaweh was just straight up an asshole sometimes

Anonymous

#2 4w

i mean jesus and mary are both the same kinda situation as god, just more tangible manifestations of the perfect benevolent being, with less power. theres valuable wisdom to be learned in the stories but in the end its another perfect being that arbitrarily has answers to everything but actually nothing. the result is a bunch of people claiming to have a connection to that perfectness and being worshipped for it, be that saints, visionaries, popes, whoever

Anonymous

#4 4w

if you claimed connection to zeus or ra or whoever, people would expect tragedy and you to be brash and unwise. the idea of perfection is, to me, deeply unnatural. balance is not perfection, it is often chaotic, but it is natural, it is real. im not versed in eastern philosophies but as i understand it, they appeal more to me, and the ideas that (i think) it has contradicts a lot of these concepts of perfect beings

Anonymous

#5 4w

they didnt specify christianity at any point. or any religion other than greek mythology, used to make the point of absurdism. if ive understood correctly, theyre saying the concept of truly believing in religion, a supernatural god being, is entirely foreign to them.

Anonymous

#4 4w

This