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For God so loved the world, he drowned them all slowly, one by one, over 40 days, that they could witness each other struggle, suffer and finally succumb to the cold, dark, rising waters, because of how he made them, that he should have something entertaining to watch. Amen.
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You're in an imaginary abusive relationship.
That’s a pretty good definition of “abusive relationship.”
So love.
Like a (mafia) boss.
The purported “love” of “god” is more conditional than the Twitter user agreement.
I grew up in a very religious family from the 7th day Adventist church. I told my mom "I'm not sure if I believed in all that" bs, I really don't. But even after a few years of me not going to church and everything, I guess she thinks I still belive in god or the church morals and shit, so she basically doesn't let me live my life because of the things that she believes. She cried yesterday when I finally toughened up and went out but I also don't want that to happen, idk what to do. Help?
Firstly, congratulations on coming out.
Secondly - and I know this is easy for me to say from a distance - that’s her problem. You can’t live your life to make someone else happy - not her, not her god, not anyone - at the expense of your own happiness and your own integrity. Her despair is not your fault, it’s the fault of her religion placing limitations and conditions on her love and acceptance of even her own children.
If there can be any demonstration of the vacancy of religious “love and kindness” it’s when you’re not one of their in-crowd; at the very least you’ll get passive-aggressive “I’ll pray for you”.
You can’t take it upon yourself to be responsible for her happiness, or to let her put it onto you. The only thing you can do is remind her who you are, that you’re a good person, and try to start or invite a conversation between you about why you don’t believe her thing and what you do believe in.
In essence, you’re going to have to be the grown-up here, and leave the door open for her to come to you whenever she’s ready.
I'm going back to church after 20 years. I'm being a hippocrate. I dont believe but i need there help. I'm disabled and they have the resources that will get me by month to month. Am i an awful person?
No.
I was going to simply post that but, c’mon, I don’t do simple, do I? So, I’ll elaborate. You, at least, are self aware enough to acknowledge your hypocrisy. They call theirs “faith” and treat it like a virtue.
The underlying problem is that if they were genuinely charitable - like a secular, humanist aid group - belief or non-belief wouldn’t matter. This shouldn’t be an issue; people should help people because they need help, not because they’re a member of the same fandom. But it’s that “conditional love” mentality (i.e. religious morality) they learned from Bible-Sauron, reinforced by the fig tree-killer himself, that dick-hole Jesus, who had exactly the same attitude:
I’m not going to tell you that you’re an ethical giant, a model of perfect morality. But I’m also not going to condemn you or tut-tut you for doing what you gotta do.
Quod Est Necessarium Est Licitum - That which is necessary is lawful.
Their tax-free status is granted on the basis of their “harmonious relationship to the community at large,” If you gotta sing in falsetto in order to harmonize with their off-key tune, so be it.
Just keep your wits about you.
#DogsNotGods - all day, every day.
Blackmail is not love.
People >>>> beliefs.
