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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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    Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It's more like "Brahma (God) is One, the faces of Brahma are many." He's also triune, with Vishnu and Shiva.
    
    Kind of like the 72 names of God.
    
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    Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    That’s disgusting.
    
    Matthew 7:21-23 ESV
    
    [21] “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. [22] On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ [23] And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
    
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  - Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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    JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yes, but at the same time there are still some more dogmatic Hindus who don’t view the Christian God as some other deity.
    
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- Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Maybe the answer is learning. Helicopter parents don't allow kids to learn the hard lessons.
  
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