Mentions (13)
"They've always control the country. Even on godless hellholes like NYC and LA Chrsitians still make up the majority of the population. They just overturned Roe v. Wade, c'mon. If you really want to be subversive and piss Americans off, become a militant atheist, a Muslim, or a fundamentalist Mormon."
"This is why it pisses me off when I see atheists on this god forsaken website gloat about how it's 'wonderful' that Christianity is dying a slow death in the West. We are taking a values system, a way of life and replacing it with nothing."
"And I'm sorry, but nothing in the way Dasha speaks of catholicism betrays this level of true belief. And at its very base, Christianity demands at least that of you: that you believe in the virgin birth, the resurrection, in heaven, in eternal hell, in the afterlife, in the archangel Michael, in Noa"
"Death from a Christian perspective I think is either just a polite taboo or something sad, mournful and sort of remote like in El Greco's paintings of Saint Francis (7). It's something to be gotten over or navigated around, not something you can draw knowing or worldliness or vitality from."
"Within Christianity, for example, you accept yourself as inherently lacking, now and always. And through this acceptance, is your salvation beyond it. And it is only through the grace of god, a supernatural force, that you are able to hold the ultimate contradiction- that to suffer has great meaning"
"After COVID-19 and especially after converting to Christianity, I've noticed that I've become more and more left wing, particularly on economics, and especially the past several months. Like I'm culturally conservative on some issues, but I've shifted waaaaaaay more to the left on stuff like taxatio"
"I shouldn't be shocked by anything anymore but the prevalence of the opinion that the stark differences between the West and the Orient come down to some fundamental difference in the original theology of the Bronze Age monotheistic Abrahamic religion of Christianity vs. the Bronze monotheistic Abra"
"The Abrahamic trio fucked up an interesting world."
"Early Christian converts were like, "oh, I can just go to a place better than this after death once I ask for forgiveness?" and then they would kill themselves. It's a very cynical and pessimistic view, but a fascinating subject. Judas even killed himself."
"back in the mid-to-late 20th century, buddhism was really taking off with affluent white people who couldn't vibe with christianity for whatever reason."
"I think religions exit their vulnerable embryonic stage (the cosmic leap from 10 to 1000 members) by appealing to a deep insecurity in their host society. Christianity gave an unconditionally-loving personal god to a brutal hierarchical Roman society. Islam gave strict rules and structure to a chaot"
"i absolutely endorse the idea of jesus as the scapegoat archetype elevated to the level of God. it is a truly groundbreaking innovation, and i think it is a healthy concept to organize a faith around. i also think the idea of mankind as fallen and burdened by original sin makes total symbolic sense "
"Christianity gave an unconditionally-loving personal god to a brutal hierarchical Roman society."