FrEe WiLl (the ultimate, inconsistent copout that absolves god of any moral responsibility)No, and I haven't for decades.
Sandy Hook wouldn't exist if there were a god that gave a shit about people. The Holocaust wouldn't have happened if there were a benign god watching over everything. Tiananmen Square doesn't happen if god is taking care of people. Hiroshima and Nagasaki aren't wiped out if Jesus can take the wheel.
Well yeah suffering is a primary motivator of religious belief for many people. It provides meaning and purpose externally in a world that often lacks those things in exchange for rampant suffering and injusticePeople still believe in god in worse area's of the world. Honestly all this doom and gloom shit about 2020 is pretty sad considering how good some of have it here in the states compared to other parts of the world have had it bad for years. I have family living in Central America that live under way worse conditions then I ever will have it and they are the most religious people I know.
This year? Back in the day, the plague would ravage cities. Bodies would line the streets, those who took the bodies and burned / buried them ended up with the plague, emperors, kings, etc all succumbed to it. It was so bad people migrated north to the cold to hide from it. It followed them. Then you have the brutal inequality, patriarchy, etc of the past. 2020 isn't going to shadow people's thoughts on religion if the atrocities of the past never did.
Another religion hating circle jerk. Is there literally any point to these kind of questions on this forum.
Another religion hating circle jerk. Is there literally any point to these kind of questions on this forum.
Another religion hating circle jerk. Is there literally any point to these kind of questions on this forum.
This post is going to get dark, but it is the reason I am no longer religious and never will be again
- Raised JW
- Forced to hate others that aren't JW, absolutely convinced that everyone was against me and my religion and stopping me from being the few to enter heaven
- Was sexually abused in the group on several occasions and threatened. Was told that myself, my mother and my sister will be shot dead if I said anything
- Was put in a with a JW family after school because my mother worked late hours . They forced me to read, study and know the bible or be punished, punishments for not knowing phrases include: Being left 30kms outside of the city and told to walk back, being sprayed down and left outside naked in the yard in cold weather, having literal human shit thrown at me, starved and sleep depraived. Once again, threatened if I spoke out
- I had all my history books and dinosaur models/books destroyed by the JW families kids when they came over. They said it was "The devils work".
- My best friend in high school was raped by a pastor at the age of 12, she was told repeatedly that it was "Gods will" and other such stuff
- I was abused by a Christian maniac in high school who set me up every chance he could to try and be the victim. Everything from having my computer banned to accusing me of theft.
This is just the icing on the cake, there are deeper layers that are too disturbing to go into so I will avoid that. If anyone asks me to be religious after this, I will ignore them, water off a ducks back. Just as a reminder, this post has nothing to do with looking for sympathy, this is entirely about understanding.