Anonymous #1 5w

yes period!! same. i just see so many people online calling halloween shit satanic and calling everyone else sinners for liking the show wednesday, and that shit freaks me outttt

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Anonymous OP 5w

FYI Halloween literally has Christian origins. Not 100% but it literally does have some history connected to it. There r just some ppl who like to ruin shit n I don’t think those ppl should be associated w religion as a whole. There’s always subgroups of everyone religion that takes shit way too far but I think that applies to everything

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Anonymous #1 5w

that’s very interesting i didn’t know that! but like hobby lobby also doesn’t sell halloween decor (ghosts, witches, goblins, etc) for the same reason😭it’s just sad imo

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Anonymous OP 5w

Ugh!! It’s so annoying how easily Christian values can be bent whichever way to suit ppl’s opinions. I grew up catholic and have had a lot of education on the religion. It’s always interesting to meet someone who preaches Catholicism or Christianity but knows nothing abt it. Like friendly reminder judging ur friend is a sin equally as weighted as a divorce or being gay. My college roommate thought Santa used to actually exist but st Nicholas was quite literally a real person

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Anonymous #4 5w

this. just wanted to share some beliefs in case anyone was gen curious :)

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Anonymous #1 5w

Omg yes as a Christian the anti-Halloween crowd always KILLS me. Like girl it’s Halloween as in All Hallows Eve as in the feast before All Saints Day like it’s literally in the church calendar 😭😭😭

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Anonymous #6 5w

and maybe not poses both traits but like is just nonbinary or fluid idk what im sayin

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Anonymous #6 5w

no i get what you’re saying, just a powerful, genderless entity. lorelei in gilmore girls always refers to god as she and her. i love it sm.

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Anonymous #6 5w

EXACTLY growing up catholic we were taught that god has no gender that sex and gender is a mortal thing and then we open up the bible and it says he and father and the moment someone says god could be a woman is caused an uproar in the christian community 🫩

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Anonymous #6 5w

I rmb talking abt this and smth we kinda touched on is that it's also humanizing this all powerful entity when we're supposed to praise God as a being beyond our comprehension. To give God human traits is kinda disrespecting the all powerful and all knowing entity aspect.

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Anonymous #8 5w

Im not religious btw

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Anonymous #10 5w

also going to hell is actively interpreted as a choice based on your nature. like if you’re a good person and do good things then you’re not going to hell because you’re “embracing God” (aka love and goodness etc) by being a good person. people who weaponize God to hate are the ones going to hell

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Anonymous #6 5w

God is made up of the holy trinity (the father, the son, and the holy spirit). the son (Jesus Christ) is the only man. the holy spirit and the father are gender less, but we typically refer to God as “Him” because Jesus is the only one with a gender

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Anonymous #11 5w

The issue with that line of thinking: what is the threshold for what God is supposed to prevent before he’s worthy of worship? If we were unable to feel pain, or catch disease, or hate each other, what would make us human? Why would we exist at all if not to live and occasionally suffer? I’ve always thought, the fact that we FEEL bad about children suffering is only a testament to our humanity. It says nothing of the objective rightness or wrongness of the matter.

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Anonymous #12 5w

Whether a child is too young to walk and receiving chemo is just as amoral as if that child lives 70 years and then gets cancer. All this to say, your belief or non-belief in God cannot reasonably have anything to do with how much people suffer in this world. To some, the children being able to receive chemotherapy is a blessing worth more than gold. To those people, it is God’s blessing that children can receive chemotherapy.

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Anonymous #12 5w

My personal beliefs are closest to #4’s, except that I don’t think God exists as a unified form. I think that is a useful representation, though. I just haven’t been able to fully believe it. God is effectively just cause and effect. There are behaviors that have heavenly effects and behaviors that have hellish ones. Holy books try to outline what those behaviors are and enforce them through visceral fear - an effective tactic.

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Anonymous #12 5w

I believe that human beings are drawn to religion and other “implicitly true” sources of meaning. In a sense, those who believe they have no religion are worse than those who know what they believe. For some, it’s the belief that the earth is holy and her nature and beauty must be preserved, even at the cost of human life. That is one of the oldest religions there is. For others, it’s hedonic sexual expression, and the holiness of that sort of freedom. Another religion that predates history.

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Anonymous #12 5w

God seems to be a representation of causes and effects that underlie all we know and what we don’t know we know. Obviously God cannot be contained by words, thoughts, or even physics. How then can God “exist”? If God is not even constrained by existence itself, is He not simply what we make him to be? Is He not the inexplicable phenomena we observe, and the empirical data we have gathered over millennia?

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Anonymous #12 5w

Over time, we found that living in certain ways creates lives that are indistinguishable from heaven, and living in other ways takes us to hell. Sins - lying, stealing, sexual immodesty, backbiting - all bring hefty social consequence. Is social consequence not hell for such gregarious animals as we? Insofar as we apprehend our psyches as multifarious, is social consequence meaningfully distinguishable from psychological consequence?

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Anonymous #12 5w

The ideal state for a say, Christian for example, is not living in fear of sin; it’s living a life such that you align yourself with what pleases God. The fear comes as a natural consequence - we all fear doing wrong, and we have to. Does a progressive fear becoming an alt-right Nazi or do they simply align with progressive values. If a half-baked progressive was born to extreme progressive parents, would the parents not treat Nazi-ism as fearful sin?….

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Anonymous #12 5w

….Would our half-baked progressive not feel fear if they found themselves even considering any ideas approaching Nazi-ism. This fear is what is latent in all ideologies of good and evil. It is taken for granted by supporters of any ideology that the facets of their ideology bring only good consequences to their supporters. The ideal belief in a “good” ideology is not a constant fear of straying from that ideology, but unquestioning alignment with the doctrine.

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