Lemmy needs Al

Yeah, true, wiith a remark that Christianity was not an institution in the very beginning. There were self-organized rebellious group of people without strict hierarchy. Then as it became more popular, tyrants turned it on their side to support existing world order. A classic story

As the things should be

One individual can live with religion or spirituality in religious form, but not humanity as a whole. There were experiments in totalitarian countries to violently exterminate religion, they didn’t end up well. Usually it’s brainwashing and freedom of conscience denial

Seems like they are great people

Not a fan of licorice?

I don’t know how modern progressive religious communities address these very important mental health and lack of self-love issues, but i grew up in a conservative one, and even there i remember reading or hearing interpretation of a phrase “love your neighbor as yourself” as you should love yourself as well—and if you don’t, you would not be able to love others. I’m sure that what you’ve said has a place to be, but community and people around play higher role than abstract beliefs imo

Easy answers to easy questions

I think they’re not real, (un)fortunately. But yeah, if someone wants that, why not?

Why does it recognize that file as js?

Did you train these rats to maul anyone who tries to arrest you?

Would disagree here. There is no such thing as “Christians as a whole”. There are different denominations whose beliefs could be almost opposite. I heard that in the US, on one side, there’s the conservative Catholic church, and various protestants who usually are even more conservative. Yet even there, one woman bishop stood up for trans kids before Trump. But in my city (I live in Finland) the mainstream Evangelical church is presented on pride parades. I’m not overly concerned about church as an institution—what worries me is that religious oppressed minorities feel additional pressure from the left-wing atheists. That’s terrble imo. I’m not a religious myself and don’t go to church, but my rule is simple: You’re christian, or muslim, or buddhist, etc? Fine. You’re bigot? Fuck you.

How about that

Yeah, the image on the coffin looks ai generated. But the image itself is not, there are other versions

The image on the coffin is probably ai generated yeah, everything else is definitely not

I wiped😓

Jokes aside, this is part of my “propaganda” posting when I’m shifting mainstream religious narratives from conservative to liberal. I cannot imagine the world without religion, as human beings tend to be spiritual, but i can imagine religion to be ethical and open-minded as in certain European countries nowadays

Nice to know incest has been burned🙏