prompts: what angers me in religion / desperation-fueled religious phases / what is the bible?

[belenen]

icon: "ma'at (photo of a scale with a feather on it, and underneath it the word "Ma'at")"
from topaznebula: What about [Christianity] and its followers makes you mad? Why? Have you chosen to abandon that religion and/or part of that religion and/or it's followers, why or why not?What infuriates me is when people use a religion as a weapon - any religion, but

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[silviarambles]

I grew up Roman Catholic and I come from THE Catholic place, Rome. Everything I dislike about the Church is contained in one word: hypocrisy. My family is very religious (even if not the obnoxious kind), my country is MILES away from being a secular state, and every time I go back to Italy I feel like shaking people and saying 'Can't you see the hypocrisy of this all?'. It isn't even Christianity itself, it's the Church and what Christians made of it.

[slinkslowdown]

Go ahead, but don't dare claim that you give a shit about what Jesus taught.

I couldn't agree more.

I've got friends who belong to various types of Christianity and thankfully, they all fall in line with what you say here a Christian should be.

[belenen]

excellent choices by you, then! :D

[slinkslowdown]

To be honest, I couldn't keep somebody in my life that was a judgmental asshole, especially if they use their religion as an excuse for it.

[meri_sielu]

I completely agree with so many of your points here, it's one of the reasons I realised very quickly Christanity was not my path because the core values I had learnt about what a Christian should be did not fall in line with what I was experiencing whenever I met one. Of course not all Christians are ignorant or bad but the ones that are really give the rest a bad name. :( Much like anything I suppose though...

[belenen]

Yeah, I feel ya. It's hard to see anything valuable about a religion supposedly based on love that spends the majority of its efforts on infringing on the will of others.

[planetgeorge]

That's an excellent post! I have a problem with people who call themselves "Christians" but they're nothing more than judgemental assholes. Whatever happened to love your neighbor as you love yourself, or do unto others as you would do unto you? The last 3 years I was in Florida (before I moved to PA) I attended a Southern Baptist church and although the sermons weren't all fire and brimstone, there were some old school people there who believed if you broke any of the rules, you were going to hell.

[author_by_night]

I've known a lot of Christians who aren't like that, but many who are, and what's scary is how many are actually nice people... until their mouths open and suddenly all this homophobic stuff comes out. It's like, you believe in love and peace and being a good person... until someone's gay? Or nonchristian, for that matter?

The thing is that because I wasn't really raised Christian (though I wasn't raised not Christian either - my parents never really cared either way), I didn't even realize so many Christians thought like that. I delved into Christianity for Jesus, not to hate homosexuals or tell people they were going to hell. It's not entirely why I stopped going to Church, I think I'd even go again if I found the right one, but it didn't help. I went to a religious school and we had to study the Bible, and... I loved what I studied. I just didn't love the politics that sprang from it.