People Share What Plot Holes In Religions They Don’t Get And Here Are 30 Of The Most Interesting Insights
Religions are very, very complex. And in order to truly understand them, one has to really devote oneself to learning everything in and around them. But no matter how hard they try, some people just can't wrap their heads around some of the teachings.
So, in order to spark a discussion that would make sense of it all, Redditor u/sebastian-yrigoyen asked people to share, as they put it, the 'plot holes' they have noticed while practicing their religion. From Jesus' teenage years to the lack of dinosaurs, here's the sacred stories that are bugging everyone the most.
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Bring on the downvotes bc I know I'm going to get them.
No bible is the word of God written by man. They are the words of MEN written by MEN.
FFS there are over 1,000 denominations of Christianity alone, each knowing their version is the right one and all others are blasphemy.
Not to mention every bible from each religion is packed with contradictions...
All these 'plot holes' or people's search for answers in general highlight the fundamental differences between science and religion. The National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine) shared this statement on the topic:
"Science and religion are based on different aspects of human experience. In science, explanations must be based on evidence drawn from examining the natural world. Scientifically based observations or experiments that conflict with an explanation eventually must lead to modification or even abandonment of that explanation. Religious faith, in contrast, does not depend only on empirical evidence, is not necessarily modified in the face of conflicting evidence, and typically involves supernatural forces or entities."
"In the beginning there was Adam and Eve" Ok, I'm following that. 2 people on the planet.
They had 2 sons named Cain and Able. Yep, still with it. 4 people on the planet.
Cain killed Able. Ok, thats down to 3 people on the planet.
Cain took a wife. Wait, wut?
The National Academy of Medicine argues that because they are not a part of nature, supernatural entities cannot be investigated by science. In this sense, they say, science and religion are separate and address aspects of human understanding in different ways. Attempts to pit science and religion against each other create controversy where none needs to exist.
Virgin Mary had a child. Glances suspiciously at churches/catholic schools stating abstinence is 100% effective in avoiding a pregnancy.
Honestly Joseph, I didn't cheat on you with Matt next door. Nor Luke. Or Judas. It was ... umm... some sort of divine being that ... filled me with it's ... joy ... and... Now I am pregnant.
If Adam and Eve were the first two people on Earth and are responsible for the birth of all people ever, than the entire human race is the product of incest.
Although, to be fair, that does explain quite a lot.
I was told, that we should not take whole Genesis literally. You should look at it as a symbol - so Adam and Eve were symbols for a human race. But to be honest, we have a very "cool" priest, he said, that he has no problem to believe, that Adam and Eve migth even be a lower stage of human evolution, not Homo sapiens.
I would say about 3/4 of hardcore Christians think being LGBT is wrong and against their god, but then also say that "God created everyone exactly how he wants them to be" like ?????
The bible says to get the town together and stone the homosexuals to death! If you aren't willing to follow through on your evil god's commands, maybe shut up about homosexuality. The bible is so evil that if you really followed all of its instructions in our modern societies, you would be arrested for committing atrocious acts.
I could live my entire life, adhering completely to the Christian moral compass, save millions of lives, treat every person with the utmost respect and dignity, refuse all toxic thoughts and actions, and yet (according to most Christian dogma) I would still burn in hell for eternity if I didn’t believe the Christian God exists.
That sentiment alone tells me that morality, and the course of our lives in general, is irrelevant in the end. All that matters is that the Christian God gets recognition. That God, to me, sounds more narcissistic than benevolent and loving. And therefore, is not a God I wish to worship.
There’s also issues such as, if God is truly omnipotent and omniscient then he could have purged the world of all suffering and pain. But he hasn’t because... he loves us? Because somehow the gift of free will, and therefore the gift of imperfection is more important than letting your children suffer and experience pain? Some children are born into poverty, beaten, starved, and killed before 10 years of age, without ever seeing kindness. What’s the lesson there God? Why must you treat the creations you love with such disdain solely to “make a point.”
I could go on. There’s so many issues I have with that belief system and narrative.
The "God allows evil because free will" argument always confused me. I mean, isn't he supposed to be almighty? But... not almighty enough to remove evil without impacting free will? What kind of shoddy omnipotence is that supposed to be?
God is perfect and cannot sin. There exists “the wrath of God.” Wrath is one of the seven deadly sins.
God teaches us that it is a sin to be envious, and to be prideful, and that we must have compassion and understanding for others. And yet he will literally condemn someone to an eternity in hell for not worshiping him, even if said person has literally never heard of him.
To be fair, our perception of hell, fire, brimstone, the devil, torturing etc. Is more of a medieval invention. The Bible never mentions Satan as a ruler of hell nor does it describe any horrible firey torture. It actually speaks of hell as a place without God...the idea is your punishment is you never get blissful heaven
I don't believe in any kind of God but I've always found it funny how in the bible, God made the sun on the fourth day. How could there have been any days before that?
I don't know if this is considered as a plot hole:
Judas Iskariot was essential to Jesus' plan. If he didn't sold Jesus out then the prophecy will not come true.
Why then is he considered a villain? He should be at the top! He got the job done!
I actually asked this question when I was 7 or 8 at my Catholic school. I was told to go see the priest. He got angry at me because I couldn't understand. Made me say an entire rosary. I still don't understand why he is vilified. Apparently praying an entire rosary didn't give me the answers (go figure)
Plot hole: there are hundreds of other religions that also claim to be the only true one
This isn’t my religion, but I always found it hypocritical that the gods punished Oedipus for sleeping with his mother without realizing it, despite the fact that Zeus married his own sister while being fully aware that they were siblings.
Zeus could do whatever he wants.... who - besides Kratos - would disagree?
Late to the party, but in Islam there's the belief that God knows everything you will do before you're even born. Meaning that we don't control our own actions. At the same time, to get into Heaven, you need to-- of your own accord-- pray 5 times daily, read the Quran, etc. So my thing is this: If God knows what everyone is gonna do beforehand, and He knows people aren't gonna do what it takes to get into Heaven (cause he is omniscient); doesn't this then mean that God has already decided who goes to Heaven and who gets Hell? Cause there's no possible way in any Abrahamic religion (cause they all operate under the "do this to get into paradise" thing and all have God knowing everything before it happens) that we'd be able to try to get into Heaven. And this is just the tip of the iceberg on questions
Wait... If God controls your actions, He doesn't just know if you'll go to heaven or hell... He can make you perform actions that will send you to heaven or hell! Plot twist
I want to know why so many Christians say that murder is wrong but ignore all the killing that God did in the Bible. Like, how do they justify drowning everyone except Noah and his family?
Or the millions of people that died in the name of God because they refused this religion?
If man is not perfect, but man wrote the Bible how am I supposed to trust what I’m reading from the Bible. How do I know they didn’t mess anything up?
We can read Egyptian hieroglyphics. They kept extensive records. No mention of using Jewish slaves to build the pyramids, them revolting, a royal named Moses or a Red Sea parting.
Jewish slaves were kept and used but A sea splitting and ten plagues, really?
Not really a plot hole in the Christianity , but a plot hole in the interpretation of it.
Christianity was originally highly Jewish based and they didn’t like Romans, a few centuries later it was Roman/ European based and they heavily discriminated Jewish people. Wut
Also, modern Christianity was created when it was mixed with the pagan faith. No paganism is considered devil worship
I'm a lapsed catholic. Idolatry is one of the biggest "plot holes." If you worship the virgin Mary or any other saint you are as a matter of fact doing blasphemy. Don't come with the argument of them being a "middle man." Speak to god directly. The worship of saints is pretty much polytheism with yahweh (christian god) being Zeus's equivalent.
I asked my priest this when I was young (use to be catholic), I even told him why confess my sins to you? why not cut out the middle man and go straight to Jesus with my sins and prayers. He kicked me out of his office. I also brought up the point of graven images, where it is actually forbidden according to the catholic version of the 10 commandments. Then I told him the statue of Jesus on the cross, the rosary , and stained glass were all graven images. and again was kicked out.
Why would satan punish humans for rebelling against god, something that he himself once did. I've always thought of it as hypocritical, and that satan would reward the human for exercising their free will and living a life free of religious constraints.
Lucifer means the bearer of light (light=knowledge). I don't understand either...
It's not my religion but
"I love everyone no matter what" followed by "You better love me back or I'm gonna hate you forever and torture you for eternity" followed by "I don't love those people neither should you, what you should do is make their lives a living hell".
An omnipotent being is used to explain the origin of everything in this universe, but there's no explanation for the origin of said omnipotent being.
If Satan punishes those who sin, wouldn't he be considered a good guy?
Alternatively, if Satan is a bad guy, why would he punish other sinners?
That's not true even by biblical standards at least read the Bible before Saying things like that
What happened to Jesus in his teen years tho?
There's an awesome and very blasphemous book about that called Lamb: the Gospel according to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
It's not that blasphemous. He just goes on a trip around the world and learns kung fu.
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LAMB> The Gospel according to Biff, Jesus's childhood best friend. great read.
Read the book Lamb by Christopher Moore. It's a satire, funny take, on what Jesus DID do during his teenage years.
For more information, read the book 'Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal' by Christopher Moore.
The guy never actually existed - The Gospels only record the last few years of his 'life' & the nativity wasn't even in the first Gospel (Mark's) - it was an afterthought to pad the story out a little!
There's a story in the book of removed stories (Vatican didn't like certain ones so they aren't in bibles) where Yeshua (Jesus) was an a*****e and polymorphed some kid who got ran over by a wagon or something like that. Then Joseph beat the s**t out of him for good measure. Then Yeshua became a good person.
John Prine has the answer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ1LC7AotNE
There are actually apocrypha (scriptures removed from the Bible) such as the gospel of the infant Christ that describe Jesus in childhood and teens. The were left out of the bible partly because teenage Jesus was a jerk.
The Gnostic text actually cover that, but they were not included in the bible due to their controversial nature.
He shoved a kid off a roof then brought him back when people got pissed off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infancy_Gospel_of_Thomas
because it was a tiny Jewish cult (no more than a few hundred, maybe 1000 followers, Paul decided to convert the masses of Pagans to build up his religion, and thus by the time of 90CE when Rome recognized it as a separate religion from Judaism, the vast majority were not of Jewish origin, and there even was a scism for hundreds of years between the "Old Christians" aka those from the original Jewish followers who followed both Jewish and Christian practices, and "New Christians" who were the converts and their descendants. This eventually goes away, but from 100CE onwards the religion was mostly from Roman and Greek converts, and adopted things from them. And because of their origin, and their own fighting a hate of Jews came out of that.
Well, we know he surprised people with his questions and comments in the temple when he was twelve... and then in Luke 2:52, "And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man." (Imagine a teenager or young adult, growing up and just being respectful, obedient, and studious... I can't.)
The concept of eternal peace and joy in heaven sounds very psychologically degrading long term. It sounds like living like a pet dog.
Valhall seems much more attractive, with unlimited mead drinking and fights all day, forever.
Why do Christians think the characters in the bible are white or very caucasian looking?
Um, the Nestorian Church in China (6th-17th centuries a large presence there) portrayed everyone as Asian looking, the Ethiopian Church portrays as black, the Byzantines did a very Mediterranean look, etc. Everyone imposed their look onto these figures for their own culture. However if you read both Ancient Greek and Egyptian writings about what Semitic people from the Levant looked like, it is very different than what you might think
Former catholic.. still waiting for somebody to explain Jesus's DNA situation is.. is he haploid? Where does his Y chromosome come from? So many questions.
I like to tell myself she was raped, but Joseph as a cool dude who kept loving her anyway (at that time in history she'd be executed for it) and either helped or went along with her b******t story to trick the idiots.
I am a Christian and a thing that has really puzzled me is that if Adam and Eve ever gave birth to a child wouldn't it be a sin even if marriage wasn't a thing back then? Like despite marriage not being a thing back then it would still technically be a sin in the future. Or did God make marriage a thing in the future and just brush it off since Marriage wasn't a thing back then? I am confusion.
Eve was created for Adam to be his wife and life partner. They were married as soon as Adam woke up from the sleep God had put him in, when Adam declares, "And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh." (Read genesis 2 v23:24)
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If god is so loving and loves all his children even sinners then why did he recommend stoning in the early testaments, why are children and innocent people dying of diseases and allow human suffering, why would god give boys foreskin but then decide that they should be circumcised as a “contract” between them and god, why did god create f*****g mosquitos, fleas, ticks and wasps (besides possible population control), how is it even possible for noah to have taken 2 of every animal. It is a logistically impossible and extremely inconceivable. Why would god punish everyone else for what 2 people did thousands of years ago. That is like punishing a whole classroom for the rest of the school year for the behaviour of one student. If god created satan and is all mighty then why hasn’t he destroyed satan. If humans were created to be perfect but have free will, how can we make bad decisions? that is not perfect, a perfect person wouldn’t make bad choices. I have soooooooo many more that I can ask but I would literally be here forever.
Yeah, I just saw a comment hidden with 34 upvotes... :P
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Standard answer to discrepancies in the Bible: "you don't have to take that literally, it's more like metaphor". :-( Then why is it so specific all the time?
The biggest problem is a term called "lost in translation". For example, an easy experiment to do is to take a King James translation (which is the most accurate English translation or should be), and any other more modern English translation and compare the texts. You will find one says one thing and the other says something else when taken into context.
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I feel like religion has also influenced a lot of gender discrimination
You’re right. Even the less harmful religions tend to discriminate against women.
Load More Replies... If God is perfect, and he has a plan for all, then what is the point of praying? You shouldn't be able to change a perfect things mind?
That's question is what started my journey to non belief.
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I never understood Jehovah's Witnesses. Like, it must be awfully depressing. They believe that 144,000 people can get into Heaven. So either it's already full, or you're competing for a spot with every JW who ever lived and ever WILL live.
They have the belief that after armageddon and judgement day comes the righteous will live life peacefully, eternally on earth as we were originally created to be. The ones that are chosen to go to heaven are there to help Jesus rule over the earth as Jesus would be the king but under advisement of God. Kind of like a government system. Apparently the 144,000 people have already been chosen so there is no competition to get to heaven. The idea that we will live happily on earth for all eternity with all their loved ones, no suffering etc brings them the peace they need.
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There's one constant about all religions. Even going back to when people were worshipping rocks, trees, the sun, whatever. There's always some person the tree, rock, sun, etc talks to personally and people are supposed to obey him. And provide for him. And give him things that he didn't earn. Can't understand God needing a middle- man.
Christians claim god is eternal (he always existed). They claim god is a perfect being. Claim he is all-knowing (knows everything). Claim he has a divine plan (knows the past, present and future). They claim he is inerrant and infallible (can never be wrong). If god is eternal that means that he existed for an infinite amount of time in the past. If he is a perfect being then he would have been perfectly content and perfectly full of self love for an infinite amount of time. From there, why create anything?! From there he creates angels. At least one angel betrays him. How could he not see that coming from an infinity time away? He is all-knowing and had a divine plan. Then he creates Adam and Eve and they betray him. He gets mad at them. How could he not see that coming? He lets mankind become evil so he decides to kill everything on earth except for Noah's crew with a torturous flood. He says that all evil will be erased with this flood, but there's still evil. A buffoonish god with a comedy of errors.
God allegelly killed over 2.8 million people, without countinting the estimated from Noah´s flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, etc. Satan apparently killed 10 people. God loves us all. Satan bad. Whaaat? Thank God I´m an atheist.
You say that you are an atheist and yet you say ,,thank god”?
Load More Replies... All of this supports my decision to be an atheist but still don't how to tell my very religious family
Be an Atheist. It's your choice, you don't have to tell your family if it's not that big an issue. If it's trivial things like praying before eating, just go with it, see it as a family tradition. If it's more, like being forced to go to church, things like that, then yes, maybe it becomes a problem then.
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I am actually religious, but this still bothers me: So, Jesus was born at midnight on the 25th of December. BC means Before Christ. So, either there were six days at the start of AD, or the final year in BC was short??? IDEK.
One of the commandments is something like 'thou shalt have no other god before me'. This implies other gods and that this one is suuuuper petty.
"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people" - Karl Marx
Raised in a strict Catholic home and went to mass every Sunday. One particular Sunday I actually paid attention during the Eucharist. I asked my mother when we got home if it is just symbolic when the priest turns the bread into Christ's body and the wine into his blood. When she said, "No, we believe it is the actual body and blood of Christ", I ran to the bathroom and threw up. I came out and screamed, "We are cannibals!" Thus, began the rapid decline of my blind faith...
The god of the bible has the same traits as the men that created him. He's petty, jealous, wrathful, vengeful, prideful, boastful, hypocritical, homophobic, tribalistic, misogynistic, needs constant worship, etc. He's a blood thirsty warmonger. He was pleased when King David brought him hundreds of bloody foreskins. He was with his chosen people in a battle, but they still lost because the enemies had iron chariots!
Best thing to me? Every one of these are legitimate questions with coherent answers yet none of these people ever seem to actually want the answer. They simply need to feel smarter than believers, usually (but not always) to cover up a questionable lifestyle. While I'm no believer, these DO have legit answers.
I understand that there are many parts of faith that everyone can't make sense out of. People especially blame the Catholic Church for many of these things. I recommend a book that clears up Catholicism a bit. It's called "A Young Catholic's Apology for the Faith" read it or not. I respect you and your choices. I can't make you read it. Everyone has their own religion that is each right for them. While I am Catholic, others feel its best to be something else. You be you. I just feel that this book would help you understand what Catholicism is really about.
Why doesn’t god just speak for himself? A ton of child rape and cover up happens in the Catholic Church. Do you donate to the church? If so, you are knowingly funding child rape and cover up.
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Hey, let's do this article but with Islam and its followers. Oh wait....we must respect their faith and not dare question it lest we be deemed bigots. I have read Christians mocked and ridiculed for their faith. But I notice if you did this article with any other religion it would be considered bigoted. Why are Christians the punching bag of the religious world. Seems one sided to me.
People are pointing out errors in Christianity because it is the dominant religion. Many young children are forced into being Christians and told that they will be punished if they don’t. Being a Christian by choice is fine with me, but forcing it upon others and having churches that take people’s money so they can ‘get into Heaven’ is not.
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I was interested in this because it said plot holes in "religions". I assumed it would be about various religions but mostly just Christianity. Kinda disappointed.
So... Bored Panda jumping on the Christian bashing train? Why do so many atheists care if there are religious people out there? What does it matter to you? I have the right to believe what I want, the same as you. You want to have a logical discussion about religion, fine, but stop treating us like we're idiots or something. A lot of people have beliefs about a lot of things. Why can't we all just get along? Not everything needs to be so antagonistic.
I'd venture that atheists only care as far as the religious keep making it an issue by trying to make laws based on their faith. They try to inject their faith into public schools. No atheist anywhere would care one whit about someones personal religion, if they kept it their personal religion.
Load More Replies... 49 questions about Christianity, one about Islam (but includeds Christianity) and two from dead religions. This seems balanced.
Why would it be balanced? It’s taken from reddit which is an American based website. The most common religion in America is Christianity. My family is Muslim (I’m atheist) and I definitely know more about Christianity than Islam because I grew up in bible thumping America. Don’t spread your religion so effectively if you don’t want it to be widely discussed. Or learn Arabic and go on Arabic sites if you want to see questions about Islam.
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Ian, christianity is making the positive claim (that god exists, etc.), so christianity tends to have the burden of proof. Why do you believe? Do you have a particularly good reason? Have you ever seen an angel, demon, soul, ghost, talking donkey, god, christ, etc? When there is good evidence, then atheists might have good reason to believe.
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Who said that? No one said that. You are just projecting. Besides one of the posts was specifically about Islam so take your concern trolling and go somewhere else.
Load More Replies... If god is so loving and loves all his children even sinners then why did he recommend stoning in the early testaments, why are children and innocent people dying of diseases and allow human suffering, why would god give boys foreskin but then decide that they should be circumcised as a “contract” between them and god, why did god create f*****g mosquitos, fleas, ticks and wasps (besides possible population control), how is it even possible for noah to have taken 2 of every animal. It is a logistically impossible and extremely inconceivable. Why would god punish everyone else for what 2 people did thousands of years ago. That is like punishing a whole classroom for the rest of the school year for the behaviour of one student. If god created satan and is all mighty then why hasn’t he destroyed satan. If humans were created to be perfect but have free will, how can we make bad decisions? that is not perfect, a perfect person wouldn’t make bad choices. I have soooooooo many more that I can ask but I would literally be here forever.
Yeah, I just saw a comment hidden with 34 upvotes... :P
Load More Replies... Standard answer to discrepancies in the Bible: "you don't have to take that literally, it's more like metaphor". :-( Then why is it so specific all the time?
The biggest problem is a term called "lost in translation". For example, an easy experiment to do is to take a King James translation (which is the most accurate English translation or should be), and any other more modern English translation and compare the texts. You will find one says one thing and the other says something else when taken into context.
Load More Replies... I feel like religion has also influenced a lot of gender discrimination
You’re right. Even the less harmful religions tend to discriminate against women.
Load More Replies... If God is perfect, and he has a plan for all, then what is the point of praying? You shouldn't be able to change a perfect things mind?
That's question is what started my journey to non belief.
Load More Replies... I never understood Jehovah's Witnesses. Like, it must be awfully depressing. They believe that 144,000 people can get into Heaven. So either it's already full, or you're competing for a spot with every JW who ever lived and ever WILL live.
They have the belief that after armageddon and judgement day comes the righteous will live life peacefully, eternally on earth as we were originally created to be. The ones that are chosen to go to heaven are there to help Jesus rule over the earth as Jesus would be the king but under advisement of God. Kind of like a government system. Apparently the 144,000 people have already been chosen so there is no competition to get to heaven. The idea that we will live happily on earth for all eternity with all their loved ones, no suffering etc brings them the peace they need.
Load More Replies... There's one constant about all religions. Even going back to when people were worshipping rocks, trees, the sun, whatever. There's always some person the tree, rock, sun, etc talks to personally and people are supposed to obey him. And provide for him. And give him things that he didn't earn. Can't understand God needing a middle- man.
Christians claim god is eternal (he always existed). They claim god is a perfect being. Claim he is all-knowing (knows everything). Claim he has a divine plan (knows the past, present and future). They claim he is inerrant and infallible (can never be wrong). If god is eternal that means that he existed for an infinite amount of time in the past. If he is a perfect being then he would have been perfectly content and perfectly full of self love for an infinite amount of time. From there, why create anything?! From there he creates angels. At least one angel betrays him. How could he not see that coming from an infinity time away? He is all-knowing and had a divine plan. Then he creates Adam and Eve and they betray him. He gets mad at them. How could he not see that coming? He lets mankind become evil so he decides to kill everything on earth except for Noah's crew with a torturous flood. He says that all evil will be erased with this flood, but there's still evil. A buffoonish god with a comedy of errors.
God allegelly killed over 2.8 million people, without countinting the estimated from Noah´s flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, etc. Satan apparently killed 10 people. God loves us all. Satan bad. Whaaat? Thank God I´m an atheist.
You say that you are an atheist and yet you say ,,thank god”?
Load More Replies... All of this supports my decision to be an atheist but still don't how to tell my very religious family
Be an Atheist. It's your choice, you don't have to tell your family if it's not that big an issue. If it's trivial things like praying before eating, just go with it, see it as a family tradition. If it's more, like being forced to go to church, things like that, then yes, maybe it becomes a problem then.
Load More Replies... I am actually religious, but this still bothers me: So, Jesus was born at midnight on the 25th of December. BC means Before Christ. So, either there were six days at the start of AD, or the final year in BC was short??? IDEK.
One of the commandments is something like 'thou shalt have no other god before me'. This implies other gods and that this one is suuuuper petty.
"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people" - Karl Marx
Raised in a strict Catholic home and went to mass every Sunday. One particular Sunday I actually paid attention during the Eucharist. I asked my mother when we got home if it is just symbolic when the priest turns the bread into Christ's body and the wine into his blood. When she said, "No, we believe it is the actual body and blood of Christ", I ran to the bathroom and threw up. I came out and screamed, "We are cannibals!" Thus, began the rapid decline of my blind faith...
The god of the bible has the same traits as the men that created him. He's petty, jealous, wrathful, vengeful, prideful, boastful, hypocritical, homophobic, tribalistic, misogynistic, needs constant worship, etc. He's a blood thirsty warmonger. He was pleased when King David brought him hundreds of bloody foreskins. He was with his chosen people in a battle, but they still lost because the enemies had iron chariots!
Best thing to me? Every one of these are legitimate questions with coherent answers yet none of these people ever seem to actually want the answer. They simply need to feel smarter than believers, usually (but not always) to cover up a questionable lifestyle. While I'm no believer, these DO have legit answers.
I understand that there are many parts of faith that everyone can't make sense out of. People especially blame the Catholic Church for many of these things. I recommend a book that clears up Catholicism a bit. It's called "A Young Catholic's Apology for the Faith" read it or not. I respect you and your choices. I can't make you read it. Everyone has their own religion that is each right for them. While I am Catholic, others feel its best to be something else. You be you. I just feel that this book would help you understand what Catholicism is really about.
Why doesn’t god just speak for himself? A ton of child rape and cover up happens in the Catholic Church. Do you donate to the church? If so, you are knowingly funding child rape and cover up.
Load More Replies... Hey, let's do this article but with Islam and its followers. Oh wait....we must respect their faith and not dare question it lest we be deemed bigots. I have read Christians mocked and ridiculed for their faith. But I notice if you did this article with any other religion it would be considered bigoted. Why are Christians the punching bag of the religious world. Seems one sided to me.
People are pointing out errors in Christianity because it is the dominant religion. Many young children are forced into being Christians and told that they will be punished if they don’t. Being a Christian by choice is fine with me, but forcing it upon others and having churches that take people’s money so they can ‘get into Heaven’ is not.
Load More Replies... I was interested in this because it said plot holes in "religions". I assumed it would be about various religions but mostly just Christianity. Kinda disappointed.
So... Bored Panda jumping on the Christian bashing train? Why do so many atheists care if there are religious people out there? What does it matter to you? I have the right to believe what I want, the same as you. You want to have a logical discussion about religion, fine, but stop treating us like we're idiots or something. A lot of people have beliefs about a lot of things. Why can't we all just get along? Not everything needs to be so antagonistic.
I'd venture that atheists only care as far as the religious keep making it an issue by trying to make laws based on their faith. They try to inject their faith into public schools. No atheist anywhere would care one whit about someones personal religion, if they kept it their personal religion.
Load More Replies... 49 questions about Christianity, one about Islam (but includeds Christianity) and two from dead religions. This seems balanced.
Why would it be balanced? It’s taken from reddit which is an American based website. The most common religion in America is Christianity. My family is Muslim (I’m atheist) and I definitely know more about Christianity than Islam because I grew up in bible thumping America. Don’t spread your religion so effectively if you don’t want it to be widely discussed. Or learn Arabic and go on Arabic sites if you want to see questions about Islam.
Load More Replies... Ian, christianity is making the positive claim (that god exists, etc.), so christianity tends to have the burden of proof. Why do you believe? Do you have a particularly good reason? Have you ever seen an angel, demon, soul, ghost, talking donkey, god, christ, etc? When there is good evidence, then atheists might have good reason to believe.
Load More Replies... Who said that? No one said that. You are just projecting. Besides one of the posts was specifically about Islam so take your concern trolling and go somewhere else.
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