My Religion

That's unfortunately not how it works. The religious very often use their religion as an excuse to control other peoples' lives.

I’m going to vote for the guy who shares my religious values, and he’s going to make the thing you’re doing illegal

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For what it's worth, that's not an especially relevant passage here, as it's less to do with being open about your faith and moreso about intent. For example, those who would go to the synagogue to pray or who would give alms to make themselves feel better and appear righteous. The Bible is crystal clear that you should be openly expressing your faith to others should the intent be to spread the religion. Mark 16:15–16, for example, reads (NIV):

He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned."

Probably more relevant for your case are the passages along the lines of: "Look, give it the old college try, but if they aren't willing to listen, don't be a removed about it; just move on." For example:

Matthew 5:43–44:

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

Matthew 7:1–3:

“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?

Matthew 10:13–15

If the home is deserving, let your peace rest on it; if it is not, let your peace return to you. If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet. Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.

The Parable of the Weeds.

Etc.

Uhuh, more from your Bibble.

“Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.” Matthew chapter five verse sixteen

It's the Bible, so even that passage is contradicted in another book.

It's the intent that matters here, not all public displays of faith go against the teachings of Jesus. But yeah, someone doing it just to draw attention is wrong.

🤔 I understand this more like "Don't practice the religion as a way to show off. Don't make a YouTube/TikTok/whatever video giving a homeless man $100. Just give the guy $100 and STFU about it. Also, stop posting prayers in comment sections on social media; it seems fake, and you make the rest of us look silly too."

I'm not a bible guy though, so idk

"My religion says I shouldn't vaccinate my kids" Fuck off.

I’m a gynecologist. My religion says I can’t do an abortion.

I would say that if "you" won't perform an abortion, "you" are not actually a gynecologist. Go study and practice urology, or proctology, or gastroenterology, or oncology, or neurology, or cardiology, or dermatology, or any other field where "you" will not be called upon to perform a simple, routine procedure.

You provided a good counterpoint. These self-imposed restrictions can become obstructive or even weaponized. It's like a variation of weaponized incompetence.

These restrictions can also lead to people making onerous demands of others to accommodate.

I think because most religious tenets are more restrictive rather than permissive, it's easy to say "everyone should have the freedom to practice their own religion.", but the part that gets left out is "including no religion at all." and that is an important distinction.

Whenever I meet these types of psycho Christian nationalists who think it's A-OK to impose their own regressive views on others by rewriting the law to be a reflection of their holy text, I just fire back with an even more regressive, barbaric interpretation of a religious commandment.

"I worship Ba'al Hamon, and my religion says I must sacrifice an infant child to gain his favor. I will lobby my congressmen to change the law to add an exception to infanticide when performing a ritualistic blood offering. Oh, what's that? You don't like that? Gee, and you were so gung-ho about forcing people to abide by your religious demands a second ago. I thought we were cool with forcing our beliefs on other people?"

If your religion can't coexist with nonbelievers without forcibly bending them to your rules, it's a shit religion.

if the person on the counter says it disagrees with their religion

"Dont go to the pharmacy on wednesdays because that removed Mary is on shift."

That's ridiculous, if you don't want to do the job, don't be a pharmacist.

I want to learn to give abortions by hitting pressure points. Ahem, hey baby ready for a back massage? Great, let's do it in the garage or shed.

What about the landlords? Are they also universally followed?

Be cool if we could convince them that there were a limited number of souls allowed in heaven (say, 144K) and it was to their benefit to steer other away from the righteous path to enhance their chances (of course that could be what they are doing now, for all I know).

Also with christianity, they're literally instructed by their holy book to punish you the moment you heard about their god and you decide to not convert.

innocuous

I see what you did there.

tbf religion as a whole is such an insane concept that trying to imput any time of logic to it is also insane

You can have that worldview without religion.

I don't care.

Out of curiousity, which one is this?

And whether you look under the rug, is that true in all texts of the religion?

shame we can't prevent them from voting about it.

Taboos aren't just intended to uphold individual moral integrity. They exist to prohibit social harm.

I was never a coffee drinker for unrelated reasons, and also never acquired the taste for it even though the smell is generally nice.

But now I'm in my 40s and have multiple medical conditions (i.e., more than just the AuDHD, lol) that are treated with stimulants, so I will usually supplement my adderall with a cup of coffee in the morning and one at lunch time.

The nice thing is that I don't have decades of tolerance and habit around the stuff, so it is still nice and potent. Instead of adding a bunch of junk to it, I just let it cool off then drink it quickly or add a chocolate protein shake to it for a few breakfast calories if I didn't eat.

Plus even though I don't like the taste I think the coffee at work is decent because it's a machine that grinds whole beans, and the operations manager for our location fills the hopper with the beans himself. Some Starbucks somebody gave me recently tasted rotten in comparison. And that's not "mischievous child" rotten, that's carcass rotten.

I think the disconnect comes from the phrasing of the first sentence. Perhaps combine it with the third?

And Dark my angel!

What in the name of Judas-Rockin-Priest is going on here!

Nuance!? In my Lemmy!? XD

same with their end times bullshit. look pal I don't believe in your invisible friend, I REALLY don't believe in the entire fanfic franchise much less care which one wins your WWE headcannon shit.

@watson387@sopuli.xyz @King@blackneon.net @lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

Not everyone who believes in entities and deities (and you're assuming gendered pronouns and, by extension, unknowingly reinforcing the Abrahamic machismo whenever you use the masculine noun "god" to describe any deity/entity being worshipped by a worshipper, ignoring that there are Goddesses and feminine spirits as well, such as Pomba-giras, Lilith, Shakti, Kali, Morana, Morrigan, Santa Muerte, Ereshkigal, Hekate, Isis, Sekhmet, Bastet, Naunet, Babalon, among countless other feminine entities and Goddesses) does so out of being convinced by someone else.

To use my own experience as an example, I began worshipping an unified and syncretic Dark Mother Goddess without being convinced by anyone else. At that time, I used to be a member of a Luciferian sect, whose worshipping was centered around the male aspects of Lucifer, not the feminine aspects of Lilith, for example. Unexpectedly even to myself, I got this uncanny call of a powerful feminine spiritual energy who suddenly took me like a thousand hurricanes and became the epicenter of my entire existence, even though it happened to the disapproval of the Luciferian sect I was part of. I left the sect and, since then, I've been following a very personal (and quite lonely) syncretic belief system built of entities and concepts borrowed from and based upon several different systems, none of which I really belong to.

So, tl;dr: not everyone who believes in entities and deities does so out of being convinced by others, in fact, some (like me) even does so against any convincing from others, out of strange phenomena such as gnosis and synchronicity. Perhaps She is the one convincing me, thus validating your point about "one being convinced to believe"? Maybe... but humans aren't the ones convincing in this specific situation.

Someone needs to edit Pulp Fiction to make Jules say this one instead of the fake Ezekiel line

A law isn't necessarily bad just because religion might agree with it. Murder is wrong, and religion agrees with that. We can't allow murder, simply because it violates a religious code. That's taking a worthy concept - purging religious influence from government - and turning it into the same incoherent dogma which describes much of religion.

I don’t need religion to tell me murder is wrong. And that’s a dangerous line of thinking there as I’ve heard so many fundamentalists say “well how do you know what’s wrong and right without religion?!”

Are you talking about murder? Because if anything legal morality is far better than most religious when it comes to killing people. And that's even with capital punishment still practiced.

I'm a trans woman. Ok

You have to use She/Her. Fuck off.

Repost it?

No, the key word is Religion. It's all fundamentalism, just different intensities.

Carriers matter too

Given they're all made up... at this point we're better off making up a religion that enforces actually good behaviour like taking vaccines and not bothering people with different sexualities/gender identities/etc.

Whufs this from?

my religion's "whole of law" is: "be excellent to each other" and "party on, dudes"
like, half of the cults i've started have had a foundation in billandtedology