It takes more than a simple majority to start killing every nonbeliever…

And like I said:

And followers are often naive.

What’s your explanation for saying the Bible forces them to only have some political beliefs and not to support everything?

If they can pick and choose, why should we care what they pick? Either it doesn’t matter to them what the Bible says, or they’re not honest about their motivations and/or goals

That’s kind of the whole point…

Catholics say they have to be against abortion and LGBT because of what the Bible says, but even worse shit is in there that is being ignored because Catholicism doesn’t have the numbers.

So either you don’t have to follow it, or the organized religion isn’t being honest about what they want

And followers are often naive. Which is why it doesn’t matter when a fringe group says they decided to draw the line at a more time appropriate line.

If some of it isn’t binding, none of it is. And eventually another extremist group will spring from your ideology.

It’s like if people started marching around with swastikas but said it’s cool because they only follow “the good parts” of being a fucking nazi. If we accept them as a valid group, eventually some members will embrace the other shit.

With religions it’s even worse, because you believe an all-powerful entity exists and will follow what you think that entity works. The majority of evil in this world is people who believe they are acting for the greater good.

I know you’re trying to say those first two lines ironically…

But yeah, that’s right.

Maybe some day you’ll see that, but logic won’t help until you’re ready.

Then you’re just picking and choosing what parts you believe and what parts you don’t.

You believe a higher power provides instructions, but you disregard some of those instructions.

Even if the parts you follow align with modern mores, you’re not following them for logical reasons.

And you can’t seem to understand why that makes people nervous, you just want everyone to pretend you don’t live your life by the guidance of an imaginary friend.

It’s a fucking cult.

Maybe for now it’s not dangerous, but very few are until they get a majority.

But I’m done here, you didn’t arrive at your position based on logic, logic didn’t get you to where you are today, it’s not going to get you out of your cult.

So…

You’re a Christian that doesn’t follow the Bible?

Then you’re just picking and choosing what parts you believe and what parts you don’t.

Who knows what crazy shit does your cult believes? What opinions do you hold based on faith and an old person telling you to hold?

It’s fucking dangerous for everyone else.

Why should people just take your word that you only follow the “good parts” and why should they believe what you think is good is actually moral?

If you’re picking and choosing what parts to follow, you can’t hide behind your religion as a shield.

Because the vast majority of religions oppress people…

And lots of religious people don’t want to fix that, they want to skip to where everyone treats religious people better and ignore how religions treat people.

If you follow an Abrhamic religion and claim to have to be against abortion and LGBTQ because your religion tells you to…

All the Abrhamic religions also say to do horrible shit like kill non-believers. So if they’re saying they have to follow the rules and it’s not their choice, we can look at the other things their religions tell them to do, and assume the reason they’re quite about those parts, is they don’t have the numbers to accomplish those parts.

Yet.

If they want people to be nicer, their primary focus needs to be on fixing their own house first.

It’s like a narcissist demanding everyone forgive them, but they don’t actually apoligize and definitely don’t change the behavior that upset people.

Other Lemmy instances can sometimes feel a bit hostile to religion, and I’m hoping to create a place that feels a bit more supportive.

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I hate how religious people always focus just on others not liking their religion. And never on why people don’t like it, and definitely not what they can do to change it.

The rare cases they do, it’s just to try and change the public perception. Never about how to actually fix the valid reasons people don’t like their religion.

It’s slightly more organized cults with better PR