Is it normal i’m not christian but i hate when people mock christians

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I’ve had a really rocky relationship with religion. I grew up Christian but became disillusioned with it, I became very anti Christian, was even part of a Satanist website called joy of Satan for a while but left it because of its racist ideas, then I was at a stage where I was still into spirituality and occultism but still enjoyed atheistic content online since I was still antichristian, but somewhere down the line things got weird.

Suddenly it just really pissed me off when people got attacked for believing in God. In my life I had been taught that the reason people were so anti God is because deep down everyone knows he’s real (the fact that I considered this valid at all had some folks say I was pretending to be an atheist in another question, but I guess I misused the label) and I went through this frustration because I tried to find SOME reason that people were so anti God that made logical sense outside of religion but I just couldn’t come up with one, and it made me pissed.

It angered me even more because I more or less agreed with these people, but for some reason they really angered me, especially when they were the majority opinion. Was it a projection thing? Maybe I was mad at myself for being disrespectful towards things people held sacred, and directed my anger towards others? I’m not sure.

I’m sorry if this doesn’t make sense but I’ve been worrying about this for too long and needed to condense it somehow.

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GuvnorsOtherWoman

1 year ago | pl

Normal. It shows you are a respectful person.

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1WeirdGuy

1 year ago | pl

The atheists that make me sick are the cowards who reply to comments on facebook or youtube when theyre triggered because someone else in the comments says they are gonna pray for the kidnapped child or the cancer patient in the post. They get triggered and basically tell the person with cancer or the one with a kidnapped child that god doesnt exist and prayer is useless

I would physically assault them in real life I think a good slap to the face would help bring them back to reality.

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- bbrown95
  
  1 year ago
  
  Agreed. It is beyond unnecessary, and it's as if they only want to pick fights or get attention by pissing people off. By all means, people should believe or don't believe whatever they want as long as it doesn't involve actively hurting others, but no need to shove it down anyone else's throat or disrespect other faiths or lack thereof (and that goes for all sides).
  
  I can't remember what the event was (I want to say it was the Stoneman Douglas school shooting a few years back), but I remember there being outrage over people offering thoughts and prayers "because prayers are useless and those people aren't actually doing anything to actively help those people". The way I see it is; 1) Sometimes praying is all a person can do (no one can bring anyone back to life), and 2) Who's to say people can't both pray AND physically do what they can to help? I suspect most of the people who whine about thoughts and prayers doing nothing also have no plans to do anything to actively help, either, and are just keyboard warriors looking for something to be pissed off about (and Facebook seems to be the place people like that lurk the most). 🤣
  
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- SweetNLite
  
  1 year ago
  
  I'm an Atheist and I agree with everything you say. I f'king hate those types.
  
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- Ihidabody
  
  1 year ago
  
  It is true that praying is useless.
  
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  - 1WeirdGuy
    
    1 year ago
    
    Theres a time and a place for saying things and its not to mourning victims
    
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    - Ihidabody
      
      1 year ago
      
      Doesn't matter. Somebody has to give them a heads up.
      
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      - LloydAsher
        
        1 year ago
        
        A heads up that you are an asshole? Yeah I see that.
        
        Respect the dead and mournful, someday it will happen to you. As that's the nature of life itself.
        
        Dont have to be the asshat pessimist in the room to tell people what they already know. That's just rubbing salt in the wound.
        
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        Ihidabody
        
        1 year ago
        
        Oh. Since when did you become Mr. Respectful? Lol!
        
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Yaidin

1 year ago

Having an actual religion will always get more respect from me than the average 'live, consume, die' mentality that a lot of people hold nowadays

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- LloydAsher
  
  1 year ago
  
  Agreed. The only reason why I'm an agnostic is I cant honestly have true faith in god.
  
  I'm not gonna lie to an omniscient god about my beliefs about it. Better to come clean and keep an open mind about religions. Except the ones that do human sacrafice and other objectively immoral shit.
  
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- Ihidabody
  
  1 year ago
  
  What's wrong with not practicing religion? Religion isn't a essential.
  
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  - LloydAsher
    
    1 year ago
    
    Depends on what you mean by essential. It's not food or water. But an understanding on how the universe works is needed for humans. We are complex enough to require that next step in sustenance, understanding of our relationship with the world.
    
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    - Ihidabody
      
      1 year ago
      
      You don't need religion in order to do that, dimwit.
      
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      - LloydAsher
        
        1 year ago
        
        Religion is how you organize dimwit.
        
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        Ihidabody
        
        1 year ago
        
        Organize what exactly?
        
        Your life? Pffft someone can organize their life without religion.
        
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PurpleHoneycomb

1 year ago

Mocking someone for religion (or lack of religion) often achieves the exact opposite outcome of what the anger is trying to achieve. An adult's religious philosophy isn't going to change simple because you tell them to change it. Religion is often one of an individual's highest priorities in life. They often believe their truth to be the only truth.

After a certain age, people start to become incredibly stubborn with religion. This is true of all religions; but is especially true of the major ones.

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- bbrown95
  
  1 year ago
  
  Agreed, and people often get even stronger in their stance when they are approached in a rude or disrespectful way about it. Definitely not a good way to convince someone to change.
  
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  - LloydAsher
    
    1 year ago
    
    That's a subconscious survival tatic. If you lasted up to a certain marker of time clearly what you believed worked out for your continued survival so it just sticks. Going off the beaten path could get you killed when the old way worked out thus far.
    
    To change it you have to internally surmise that it's a benefit in the long term (including afterlife for religion) so you should change your behaviour or beliefs.
    
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    - bbrown95
      
      1 year ago
      
      That makes sense!
      
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      - LloydAsher
        
        1 year ago
        
        It's real but I forgotten what it's called.
        
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kikilizzo

1 year ago

Same here.
I consider myself pagan or spiritual but my country is a christian country and I respect christianity and like it.
I respect all religions though. I find it horrible when people mock christians who have done nothing wrong. They are just living their lives and are allowed to believe whatever they want. I think some people are jealous that religious people have found something that brings them peace and belonging, and wants to ruin that for them.

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techpc

1 year ago

For sure. I am a Christian, and I respect other religions as well. Unfortunately there are many who do not, but I'm glad we can agree on a basic level of respect for everyone.

Attacking someone is a terrible way of trying to convince them of something.

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bbrown95

1 year ago

Normal, and a good quality to have. I believe when it comes to religion, by all means believe or don't believe whatever you want as long as it doesn't involve actively hurting others, and show the same respect to others' beliefs as you would like shown to yours.

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1WeirdGuy

1 year ago

At 25?

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- LloydAsher
  
  1 year ago
  
  I assume merit is 24
  
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    1 year ago
    
    I recently turned 23
    
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Hubbard

1 year ago

Yeah, evidently it’s still not gone away

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1WeirdGuy

1 year ago

People need to realize that and the world will be better. Its my opinion people will always fight over religion we will never live in this diverse utopia whete muslims and christians live together and fuck eachothers daughters.

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- Hubbard
  
  1 year ago
  
  Username checks out
  
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Iambillythemenacetosociety

1 year ago

Who gives a shit?

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SugaDaegu_328

1 year ago

God is not real. Deal with it.

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  1 year ago
  
  Thanks for proving my point
  
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Tommythecaty

1 year ago

*spits on ground

Fuck you too then.

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