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Anyone else forget people are actually religious? Like obviously I logically know people are, but I wasn’t raised religious nor did it have any impact on my upbringing. Unironic believers catch me off guard
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Anonymous 5w

I always get caught off guard as a STEM major when I see believers in my classes Like how do you study evolution AND believe in the Bible? Those two things are contradictory 😭

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Anonymous 5w

me i was raised without religion really and it throws me off that people actually believe in that stuff

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 5w

I live on Utah now (I can see the temple from my window), and my mind can’t fully grasp people ACTUALLY believe in the church. Logically I get it, emotionally it just feels cultural. Like, when you go to a foreign country for the first time and the norms are totally different. That’s what it feels like

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

yeah I understand it from a cultural perspective and know a lot of people who like religion or even identify with it without fully believing every word in the Bible and that I get, it’s a great way to help build your value system and find community but like you don’t need to believe Moses parted the Red Sea, like dawg that never happened, I don’t care what you say 😭

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 5w

Literally, yeah. My mom has never brought up religion to me once in her life. We’re basically estranged, but I don’t even know her true thoughts on religion. Very likely agnostic, and atheism wouldn’t surprise me. My dad, who I’m closer to, was raised Catholic but stopped going to church before I was born. He’s a nominal Christian, basically. If you asked him, he’d say he’s Christian. But, had religion ever played a role in my life? Not exactly, besides family dragging us out or marriages

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