Religion is weird.

I've been with my church about a year or so now, baptized about half a year ago. Before that I was a hypocritical mess of a human, and honestly I'm still not the best Christian out there,

Buuuut, what Ive found funny, is all those people that see something like..... Pokemon and DnD for example and scream and call it satanic and that you'll go to hell,

Meanwhile, actual Christian rules: don't give in to anger, don't rush to judge others unless you yourself are perfect in the eyes of the Lord, also literally says that those who spread false gospel and try to deceive the young (like for eg by claiming a videogame will doom you to hell) will themselves be thrown in the deepest pits of hell...

Just find it extremely ironic

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BohoBabe · M

Call me cynical, but this is partly why I think most people don't really believe in their own religion. Does anyone really make an effort to follow their holy text or official church teachings?

GeminiDuality · 31-35, M

@BohoBabe I definitely see where you are coming from, I can't speak for others, but to me and my religion, i believe it's because it's not meant to be easy to follow them, we are flawed chaotic beings, who live to satisfy different wants. In the end , we can never truly follow the bible, but we can try, and if we could follow it without fail, then Jesus would not have needed to die for our sins

BohoBabe · M

@GeminiDuality But it's not just that religious people fall short. I never see them even making the effort. If I legit believed Hell was real, I'd do everything I can to avoid going there.

GeminiDuality · 31-35, M

@BohoBabe that falls into the hole of human nature and temptation etc, but it's a fair point, I'm not a good example at all I mess up a ton, but that's also why we believe God often punishes some believers worse, because they know and yet still don't do, that's why I'm curious about the question

BohoBabe · M

@GeminiDuality That's another thing I disagree with, the concept of punishment. People who are born into bad circumstances are more likely to do bad things. Now of course, we as a society still have to punish people for doing bad things, we can't let criminals run wild because they were born into poverty. But if there is a god, he created all of this. So why allow people to be born into poverty, knowing there's a better chance they'll cause crime, then send them to Hell?

GeminiDuality · 31-35, M

@BohoBabe the irony in your statement is that the bible actually states it's the rich that have the hardest time entering heaven.

The answer is of course I don't know, how would I? What I do believe is that we are punished because we as a race gained free choice and have used it since then to pat our own backs, to lose ourselves in our wants, and to absolutely ruin our planet.
I can't prove God exists, but I do not need to prove that Humanity is a blight on this planet

BohoBabe · M

@GeminiDuality But then couldn't you make the argument that this god should have made a world without wealth or poverty? I don't believe Communism is possible, but Yahweh could have created a reality where it is.

We actually don't have free will. Every decision we make is a result of other factors we have no control over. It's actually been proven that our subconscious makes decisions before our conscious is aware of it.

GeminiDuality · 31-35, M

@BohoBabe in that case you are by all means free to believe what you want to, personally I will continue to believe we all have free will

He could have made a world without those things, and in HIS world , yep that's what we believe will be the case, but we shaped this world in our interests, and we decided we wanted those things. Look I can't tell you why something exists, I can't tell you what Jesus thinks,

I believe because to me the idea of pure random chance existence, resulting in eternal nothingness sounds hollow , I can't tell you why God allowed drugs, sexual abuse, murder, cp, or any of the other horrifying things, I can guess and assume but I don't know.