Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4?
HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 1 day agoAbsolutely like that for me. Or Christians. If I know you’re a Christian within 15 min of meeting you, we are not going to be friends.
Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4?
HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 1 day agoAbsolutely like that for me. Or Christians. If I know you’re a Christian within 15 min of meeting you, we are not going to be friends.
BassTurd@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There a very few notably religious people that I associate with. I have a coworker that was a pastor for years and is still religious. He approaches it in the way I think it should be. We discuss religion as a theory, he doesn’t push or tell people what to believe. His belief is that God has his plans and that’s between him and each person. If every religious person lived like him, I’d have a lot less issue with it. I don’t agree with many of his other beliefs that are born from his religious background, but he’s not trying to impose them on anyone or prevent anyone from living their lives.
Other than him, and even still sometimes him, I agree with you. It’s like a scarlet letter that was put on volunteerily to say, “hey, I’m a dick and my beliefs are correct and apply to everyone.”
i_am_hiding@aussie.zone 15 hours ago
Honestly as a religious person myself I’m constantly disgusted this isn’t the norm.
If the topic of religion ever comes up, the theory is my favourite conversation. I’m not here to sell you on my view of God, and I don’t want you to sell me on yours. It’s two sides of the same frankly quite interesting coin, and I like learning about the different ways people do things - but I’m not here to make you do things my way. That would be wrong.
And unless the topic comes up organically, it doesn’t fucking matter. We can work together or be best mates or whatever and unless you asked, you’d never have to know I was religious.