I have to agree with your sentiments. I always wonder the same....especially like, why are babies born with diseases and pain? They did nothing to deserve that....why are children being killed daily? They have done nothing wrong.

It's a serious issue. In no place in the bible does it say that being homosexual is a sin, but many people look for excuses for their biases

True! 😞 Sad, but true. Church people hate a lot.

It's so easy to twist a document to mean anything that you want it to. That makes it very easy to use against other people. Once you identify them as other they're no longer as good as you and it's okay to hate them cuz they're not the same.

It's always the interpretation, they choose how they want to interpret it.

What really gets me is how some people just spew horrific vitriolic rants and claim they are religious. I've studied multiple religions, and none of them even condone hatred. That kind of behavior is just dreadfully offensive.

That's the worst thing of all. You can't be a Christian with hate it your heart.

It is really a red flag when someone always uses their religion for whatever they did or are doing. Yes it is good to have some faith but people should also think by themselves and take responsabilities if they did something wrong. Stop saying " it is God's will" when you have not even a will yourself. Also I respect more someone accepting their flaw and working on it than someone thinking they are perfect because they practice a religion...Of course not all believers are like that.

This should be #1

I was going to a church for awhile till a member told me "No one is going to help you here." Never went back.

My extended family were fundamentalists and thought my close family were going to hell because we were Lutheran. Ditto for my husbands family when he converted after we got married

It gets wielded like an automatic ultimate authority everyone should just accept.

I just see it as people using it as an excuse to not actually read the Bible or do bible study. So much like how to train your dragon. “Everything we know about you is wrong” and then he studied them and he learned. The Bible is even worse than that.

..and their refusal to accept inconvenient truths.

The Bible says: “Men who practice homosexuality . . . will not inherit God’s Kingdom.” (1 Corinthians 6:9, 10) The same applies to women.(Romans 1:26). Although, those who don't want to be christians shouldn't be harrassed of their life choices. The Bible doesn’t promote hatred of anyone​, gay or straight. It does however tell us to “pursue peace with all people,” regardless of their lifestyle. (Hebrews 12:14) So it’s wrong to engage in bullying, hate crimes, or any other type of mistreatment of homosexuals.

Do they think Jesus was against helping the homeless?

Donations are voluntary are they not? That pastor was a k******d.

Religion really screws with women's rights. I was told once, by a chauvinist Christian that women have different rights, but they are still equal rights.

I work in a restaurant too and they are rude.

Which is morally superior, though? Subsuming morals that have been imposed on you by a church, or developing your own morals based on the idea that you should treat others the way you would like to be treated in similar circumstances? The latter actually requires self-reflection and thought, and can be modified as the times change. The former merely requires blind obedience and, apparently, judgment of others.

For me, it was a claim that animals have no soul. and I am absolutely sure that they have it, both reason and soul, and more than some people.

Sayings something like this to someone who lost their mother. This makes me want to punch them in the face.

Also, rules that would have made perfect sense for the protection of a tribe in the Bronze Age (most of Leviticus) make absolutely no sense in the modern world. We can eat shellfish now, because we have freezers. We can get tattoos and piercings, because we have autoclaves. And so on.

This is one of the biggest problem with traditional religions. They originate in ancient times, brutal, violent and sexist. How is it logical to follow rules that were developed thousands of years ago in a very different society? I dont need bronze and iron age people to tell me how to behave, how to dress, what to eat or whom to love.

Do the elaborate props and videos include the Learjet, the Bentley and the weeklong retreat at European resorts?

I have noticed science is only accepted if it supports the religious worldview in some way. Any other science is to be dismissed.

When I was 12, I was told you had to believe in Jesus to go to heaven. I asked what about the other people in other countries that never even heard about Jesus. I was told they weren't going to heaven. My God wouldn't keep good people out of heaven just because they didn't know about Jesus. Goodness and kindness get you into heaven, not Jesus or religion in my belief system. I'm a nurse.

Perhaps they were referring to George Michael.

Amen.

Some of the most vile and bigoted people I have known would call themselves “good Christians” with a straight face. It seems like half the people I went to high school with wound up being ultra right-wing zealots who believe everything they read on Breibart.

Setting aside the obvious reasons for why this was terrible, what, exactly, was the mf point in asking this? Let's assume for a moment that hell exists. What could be done about anything at that point? What could the kid do? What could the group person do? Nothing.

What a horrible childhood, deprived of joy and happiness?