Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes?

MisterNeon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I don’t know where to find them, I’m broke, and my spirituality says it’s ok. Have you thought about getting a religion more conducive to your values?

  You shouldn’t choose a religion because you agree with it. You should choose a religion because it’s convincing.

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• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Have you thought about getting a religion more conducive to your values?

  If you think like this it makes me wonder if you’ve ever fully bought into a religion before. When I was growing up and still believed in God, I believed in my religion so I held its moral values. There was some wiggle room insofar as what type of Christian I could be (like which denomination) but the idea of just converting to a different religion because I liked their moral system better would be silly because I didn’t believe in that religion.

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  • MisterNeon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If you think like this it makes me wonder if you’ve ever fully bought into a religion before.

    You’re close to the mark on that. When I was a very little kid I remember being creeped out by all churches. I went to Catholic kindergarten and my grandfather was an Episcopalian reverend. At the age around 12 I realized nobody was answering my prayers so I became an Atheist by default. Now I’m somewhere between “Through science we can explain the nature of the universe” and “Tezcatlipoca has a claim on my soul and Tlatecuhtli thirsts for my fetid blood”.

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Listen, if you didn’t want Tlatecuhtli thirsting for your blood you should’ve thought of that before getting tasty blood. Eat less sugar or something.

      But on a more serious note I remember having a discussion towards the end of my faith/middle of my deconstruction with a coworker who was Hindu (though I don’t know how bought in he was). It was basically this same conversation. He was saying something about why don’t Christians just find a different religion. Almost like it’s going to a store to buy a shirt or something. But in reality it’s like “I believe I am morally obligated to buy and own red shirts. I think blue and green ones are neat, and there are designs from them that red shirt designers can learn from, but I am morally obligated to buy and own red shirts because it’s the right thing to do.”

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      • MisterNeon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I said my blood is fetid.

        In my experience with living in Christian dominated Texas the Christians would steal from me directly or my paycheck. Then they would forgive themselves without ever compensating me for the theft. Afterwards they would claim moral superiority demanding I subjugate myself to them and it’s only right that I toil for them to enrich themselves.

        The Teotl make more sense to me than the foreign gods despite myself not being aboriginal. Hence my blood is fetid.

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      • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Hindus aren’t monotheists. Iirc, Hindus kind of believe most religions are real, a lot of them believe that Jesus is an image of God I think. They are more open to people picking and choosing a god. Christians only believe there is one true God.

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    • Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Maybe the answer is learning. Helicopter parents don't allow kids to learn the hard lessons.

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• God1st@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You don’t wanna know where to find them. Im a Christian and have been reading the Bible pretty frequently as of late and it does have me think negatively in paying hookers. I’d just say curiosity on what new girls are on the page and what their asking donation is. I can go without sex but after awhile it gets frustrating being in a dry spell

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  • MisterNeon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You keep repeating “I’m a Christian” so much I think you’re a troll account.

    If not then answer this question, “Why are you a Christian?”. I’ve got no use for the foreigner god, why do you?

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    • Apepollo11@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m suspecting a troll account too. The repeated assertion that they’ve been reading the Bible is a weird point to keep making. As if it’s someone who has only the most superficial understanding of Christianity.

      If there was some mention of actual verses, then that’d be one thing - but as it is, it feels like OP is just farming replies than actually after advice.

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• WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Do you want to know? There are whole subreddits dedicated to the subject.

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  • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh god what kind of sick perverted fuck would do that?! Use Reddit?

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    • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      In this case, johns looking for hookers. You know, it’s full of your typical back alley bastards. /s

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  • MisterNeon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not particularly. I don’t drink, I don’t gamble, I don’t participate in pre-marital sex, I don’t steal, I don’t gorge myself, I don’t physically attack people, and I’m pretty honest also. I contribute all of that due in fact I’m the furthest away from the light of Christ I’ve ever been in my life. The more I disregard what Abrahamic religions hold in importance the more pious I become.

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    • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No worries, I just would have helped if it was something you wanted, but nobody should be forced into anything they don’t want to do.

      I totally agree with your point that Christian values can drive the temptation towards “vice”—I just told OP the same thing in my reply to him. If you don’t create a moralistic contradiction for yourself, there is no tension to rebel against.

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    • Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It's almost like there are different paths for different people.

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      • MisterNeon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It’s almost like the Christians crash the economy and deprive me of the resources to commit the sins that they wail against.

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