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Former religious lemmings, what made you quit religion or stop being a believer? (endlesstalk.org)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It was a journey. There were several small things that kept adding up until I couldn't handle surrounding myself with hypocrites.

Why do Christians get so sad when people die? They act like they'll never see that person again when their religion says it'll only be a few years before they're reunited. Everyone says they believe that, but no one acts like it.
When was the last time the church has been on the forefront of social change, and what was it for? Wasn't slavery - that's how Southern Baptists split from Baptists. Wasn't women getting the right to vote or get divorced.. Wasn't when people were asking for workers rights.. Same-sex marriage.. You name it. The people claiming to have a direct line to the most potent love in the universe... Kind of suck at spreading the love around.
Mega-churches.
All the pedo scandals and coverups. It's a feature, not a bug.
Truly horrifying living conditions around the world. There is an amoeba found all over the globe who can eat its way into your eyeball, and then into your brain. Children experience this, and in some places, 30-40% of a population went blind because of it. There is no NEED for this to exist for an all-powerful god, but here they are. If god made nature, they made these amoeba, and I don't want to associate with someone who created every deadly pathogen to ever exist.

If there is a god, they're a fucked-up sociopath, not the embodiment of love that I keep being told they are.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Mine was a very similar path to yours. Way too many little observations that alone could have been shrugged off as a rounding error but taken together it was clear that shit wasn't adding up.

Then I started listening to biblical scholars and now there's nothing that could convince me otherwise. It's a collection of human literature. The good and the bad that had come from it is only a reflection of our humanity.