Why do you think so many Christians don’t act like it?
IMO, they are more influenced by the culture than by Jesus. And by culture I’m including the ‘christian’ culture that’s kind of a warped version of what following Jesus should be like.
I’m certainly not perfect. But I really do try to follow Jesus. And there’s a lot of quiet Christians doing the same.
Anyone here who became a Christian by choice rather than indoctrination during childhood?
I have only met one person in my life that converted to judism by choice. She studied Hebrew for it in university. Her boyfriend at the time was Jewish and an asshole. Saying he wouldn’t date anyone without a master’s degree. He dropped out, she dumped him, and continued her study. By then, she was in a way, accepted.
Then there are a few people turning to spirituality from both christian or atheist backgrounds. Seeking comfort.
Every other religious person I met became religious during childhood, simply because their family was. One guy even goes as far as having bible study group, but refuses to study other forms of christianity.
I did. I was born into a Christian family and naturally became a truly-believing Christian while I was quite young. After that I gradually walked away from the religion until I returned under my own will. My faith is entirely my own and my parents have never forced me to believe anything.
Honestly I wish I could find a reason to believe, I want so desperately to believe there is a spiritual element to life and after life
Of course there is. But you won’t find it with post-roman Christianity. Christianity has become a religion that denies the magic found everywhere else in the world, and accepts only one kind, that of their one god.
If you want to see the magic all through the world, you need to speak to the druids, the witches, the hellenists, and the indigenous whose religions survived colonisation. You need to explore the old ways of the world, before monotheism blocked the magic in the world from our sight.
It would be nice if magic in any form is real
It is, and scientists have proved it. The placebo effect. Thoughts made manifest into reality. We have conclusively demonstrated that thanks to the placebo effect, a druid casting an incantation over your injury will cause you to heal faster. Magic is real.
I don’t think that’s how that works
Sure it is. I bet you’re thinking that it can’t be magic because it’s explained by a scientific mechanism. But that’s silly. Science is a tool for understanding the world. If magic is part of the world, then magic must be explainable by science. If you choose to define magic as impossible to explain with science, then you’re choosing not to believe in magic. But if you choose to believe that magic runs on predictable laws (which most people throughout history have believed), then you can believe in magic.
I didn’t really become a Christian till my early 20s
Why are Angry Reddit Atheists on Lemmy
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Think of it this way. There’s a nice building. It’s a really nice building and it was just constructed according to all the recent safety protocols and everything.
A bunch of people have been told by the maker of that building that it’s going to collapse soon. And so those people run and try to get everyone out of the building. And of course the people in the building think they’re nuts and don’t believe them.
The reality is that the building is about to collapse. And the people that know really do need to tell everyone they can. And they need to insist on it and convince them about it in order to save as many as possible.
Would you not also try the same?
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If the people that were told the building was going to collapse had zero proof, but trusted what the builder said, are they jerks for trying to save people from the building?
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I think any reasonable person would say no. In fact, any reasonable person would say that they were selfish and being jerks for NOT telling others about the impending collapse.
We even have laws about this in some places.
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The proof is all around you and it’s abundant. You’re just deceiving yourself to think it wasn’t created by God.
Do you actually believe this nonsense? Come on, an innocent man has to be killed to absolve the guilty?
Yes I do believe this.
Who can absolve a crime punishable by death but an innocent man?
