Enlightenment, spirituality, faith — there’s nothing wrong with these things.
Organized Christianity is a social climbing scheme for people who desperately want to get away with never needing to truly outgrow their dysfunction. That’s why organized Christianity is popular with bigots, abusers, and people who hate the mirror.
This might have been better in unpopular opinions.
But I don’t entirely disagree with you. There certainly are some true believers out there, some are better people than others.
But there are also a lot of people who use their status as Christians to essentially cover up their true personalities, there’s a lot of people who believe that just because someone goes to church that they are a good person.
I was raised Christian, but left because I just saw too many people preaching one thing but then doing the opposite in practice. There’s a lot of hate attached to a lot of Christians and I personally believe that’s against the true intended spirit of the religion.
There’s also the general history of how the church was used to control and such. But that’s a discussion I really don’t want to get into.
I mean not to offend, but arguing with a strong believer is a waste of time. The basis of religious belief is to trust without evidence, but that goes against my personal belief that nothing can be proven to be true without at least some evidence.
What pisses me off is when people use Christianity to justify there own beliefs. There are many conservative Christians who are totally fine with mass deportations and attacks on LGBTQ.
People like to use the the term “don’t use gods name in vain” to argue against swearing but I think it is more tied to not using gods name to promote hate or political beliefs.
Let me add this, if religion provides comfort or makes someone want to be a better person? That carries value still.
There are plenty of churches to choose from. If you don’t like one you can go to one that’s more excepting. The ones that do the most aggressive recruiting tend to be the least accepting.
Anyone who’s had bad experiences with evangelicals but is still interested in faith should look into churches with more welcoming doors.
A less problematic person in some social situations usually results in bottled up emotions that become oppression when let out. Spirituality and faith aren’t bad things (I consider them essential to the human experience), but not the social climbing pyramid that is the white Christian church of the first world.