religion: something you should keep to yourself?

There is so much religious stuff on here and being pagan myself, I was raised to not cram it down peoples throats. I dont know if its a Christian thing to constantly bombard people with it and act like its the only religion out there and look down on others who dont conform to it but I think religion would be much more tolerated if people kept it to themselves like people used to do and really should start doing again with politics.
You never really used to know what someones political opinions were, but now people seem to just shout it to anyone dumb enough to listen.

Just some things you should keep somewhat to yourself or people you are close with

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BlueSkyKing · M

It has been said that religion is man’s first and worst attempt to figure out the world. Not until The Enlightenment and the establishment of the Scientific Method do we make the greatest leaps forward.

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@BlueSkyKing I wonder if people saw the con men making up the various religious fairy tales would people still believe in them?

wildbill83 · 36-40, M

@BlueSkyKing Francis Bacon is the father of Empiricism/Scientific Method

He was also a devout Christian...

Peaceandnamaste · 26-30, F

@Diotrephes Are you against Native American spirituality? I’m Native American so hope it’s not an offensive answer.

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@Peaceandnamaste Some Indians practiced human sacrifice. Do you think that was a good idea?

Peaceandnamaste · 26-30, F

@Diotrephes no I don’t think it’s a good idea, the Mayans and Aztecs probably practiced that and the Apache.

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@Peaceandnamaste Christianity was built on human sacrifice.

I wonder what the victims thought about being sacrificed. Did they think it was a special privilege to have been selected as the sacrifice so that everyone else could benefit from their deaths? Were they eager to die for such a cause? Did the crowd take pleasure in killing them?

Remember, Jesus won't return until a certain number of believers have been killed for their faith. If your death would result in Jesus' immediate return, would you be willing to be the final sacrifice?