“Your religion isn’t the same as morality.” - Britta Perry
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The same god who allows rape and murder as long as you believe in him
The entire argument is pretty stupid…
Do you believe in god? Yes
Does rape and murder happen? Yes
Can you rape and murder if you tried? Yes
So what does your god add to the situation? Is the only reason you don’t do it out of fear? Yes/No?
Also do you really obey the laws of your god? Yes
So you don’t ever wear both linnen and wool? Uh what?
And are you really sure you never sat where a menstruating women has been sitting?? Wait what?
How many different seeds are in your garden? ??
Religion provided people with a sense of community. Without it, they’ve been finding community on the internet which has resulted in people believing in all kinds of strange things. Significantly stranger than there being a metaphysical consciousness in the universe.
Religion, while not perfect, often tries to encourage people to be better. Of course religion can be corrupted by politics at times, and we’re certainly in one of those times. But the general concept of people coming together and encouraging each other to be better isn’t a bad thing.
Internet groups are worse than religion, many of them are devoted towards hating an enemy and unlike religion, make no effort to encourage people to better themselves. Religion can often fail at this goal, but most internet groups make no attempt to be better than a failed religion. Case in point: atheistmemes@lemmy.world
Grace for one, not the other. I see.
Switch religion for internet groups in your comment and you’ll be baffled at your hypocrisy.
There are good things that are less intuitive about eg. Christian values such as forgiveness. You get as many chances as you need and are still worth saving no matter what you have done wrong.
