If you want to talk about religion, atheism, or agnosticism in a public, semi-anonymous internet community such as Reddit/Lemmy, you’ll want to have thick skin. Sadly my skin is not as thick as I’d like.
Oh, and as an ex-Christian, I still use Christianity as a frame of reference a lot— especially when criticizing American “Christians” for their lack of empathy when a good chunk of their own book states they should be otherwise. But then because I brought up Christianity but didn’t explicitly say it was wrong and/or evil, I get shit on pretty quickly. Then people literally try to tell me I’m lying about being an ex-Christian, including on Lemmy. People are… sad.
I know people who believe in one or more gods, but who do not consider themselves part of any religion. They did their own thinking and decided for themselves that there is a god (or gods). They also explicitly decided that the religions they know of do not fit their beliefs or ethics. I respect that.
That’s basically me. I mean, I grew up Baptist, and they definitely helped me realize one day that I would no longer be a Christian. I ended up doing my own thinking, realized what traits I believed I observed from a possible creator, decided that it doesn’t fit into any given religion, and also decided that there’s very little else I can prove or know about this creator.
