how i feel as a christian on reddit

Cozmo23 · 7 months

Have you unlocked IR flares?

PlatonicTroglodyte · 7 months

Do a barrel roll.

richmomz · 7 months

( •_•): That's why I keep my religious beliefs...

( •_•)>⌐■-■

(⌐■_■): ...off the radar.

b2717 · 7 months

All I really want to know is what happened to the plane.

anexanhume · 7 months

FUCKING WINGS WHY WON'T YOU WORK

Harodan · 7 months

This whole comment thread... or at least, the top comments- are free of hatred, even if they have some harmless teasing.

I think I like this place.

I can stay here.

moralnihilist · 7 months

 *unsolicited challenge to your belief system*

SurfWookie · 7 months

Have you considered converting to a religion that has stealth technology?

tulkas42 · 7 months

Funny...that's how I feel when I play terran and I run into a shit ton of banelings.

oldschooljesus · 7 months

I am pressing "X" and nothing is happening

ReaganYouth · 7 months

Same for people who are non-libertarian conservatives and people who enjoy train simulator.

hyphin · 7 months

As a Muslim, me too. We should be friends.

Anticonn · 7 months

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Stellalune · 7 months

For what it's worth, there are more of us here than you might think. We just tend to keep quiet for...obvious reasons.

I have a couple of tips for you though (as unsolicited as they are, I hope they help):

-If you're really uncomfortable about the number of posts about religion bashing that pop up for you, try unsubscribing to r/atheism. Don't get me wrong, I'm all about questioning your beliefs, but I also understand that it can be a bit much sometimes.

-As long as you're not pushy about it in the comments you leave and be sure to have a balanced viewpoint whenever something faith-based comes up, you should be just fine. (Better yet just avoid the issue altogether)

-Lastly, if you're looking for a place to talk about Christianity related topics in a moderate environment that is (for the most part) free of trolls, r/Christianity isn't a bad subreddit.

Edit: Holy balls I did not expect there to be this much discussion about my comment. I don't think I've ever been orangered this much before... O.o I really didn't mean for this to turn into a thread discussing the politics of r/atheism. I just wanted to give the OP a couple options to help him out...

CoFlint · 7 months

DO A BIBLE ROLL

NOACeulemans · 7 months

Alternate title, submit to r/atheism "how I feel as an atheist in Mississippi".

gne1217 · 7 months

This also applies to, but not limited to:

Wanting to buy movies and songs/not pirating

Owning an apple product

Not majoring in engineering

logicninja · 7 months

How I feel as a Christian Veritech pilot on reddit

FTFY

like9mexicans · 7 months

Same could be said for republicans on here.

notChinese · 7 months

I remember there were some threads where Christianity was compared to schizophrenia, which I found insulting. This kind of comparison made schizophrenia sound like a conscious choice, and in turn, oversimplified the seriousness of living with the mental condition.

bcmintx · 7 months

So funny, so true. Politics, religion, hot topics all. Once you identify as belonging to one group or another, the other side will be WAY TOO HAPPY to tell you they know better than you.

I used to actively engage these conversations, but I find reddit more enjoyable when I leave the arguments out of it. Reddit's very interesting and I learn a lot from it. No one here will make me run from my beliefs.

florinandrei · 7 months

I was expecting something with lions and gladiators.

adolfojp · 7 months

Stand strong by your beliefs! One of these days Christianity might become a mainstream religion and who knows, you might even get a Christian president!

zuluthrone · 7 months

Trust your instincts.

Do a barrel roll.

atomp95 · 7 months

i think thats more like jews everywhere...

Draegur · 7 months

I am so sorry :(

I am so very, very sorry.

I may not believe in your god, but I've got no business judging you for it. I don't have a valid reason for the way you've been treated, but I can at least tell you why--even if it's nothing but an excuse:

I for one have suffered vast mistreatment at the hands of religious people. At the time, the only respite I found was in a person who was an atheist. They showed me kindness. They showed me reason. They showed me rationality. They showed me temperance, and acceptance.

It moved me incredibly deeply.

But I was immature. I failed to grasp the truth of exactly why this noble individual inspired me so. The moment I felt strong enough to withstand the animosity, I lashed out at the people who hurt me. I showed them cruelty. I was unreasonable. I acted irrationally. I forsook them, and then I laughed.

I was one of those missiles on your tail, seeking vengeance for old wounds that you had no part in inflicting.

I know now that it was wrong to seek vengeance of any kind. Becoming an example upon them of the hypocrisy with which I had been treated was not a poetic irony, but a failing of personal integrity.

You are a human being.

There are things dear to your heart that defy empirical account.

You are an advanced, abstract, endlessly complex being--as are we all--a nigh impossible yet inevitable emergence of chemistry and pattern recognition and reconstruction.

I can have nothing but respect for you; for every breath, every blink, every gesture, every thought, every word you will ever speak is a subtle contribution to the grand mosaic of our species' experience. Our collective intention is progress, whether or not individuals of our world are even aware. You, too, contribute to the greatness of what it means to be--for in your mind, and in your heart, rests a masterpiece of cognitive engineering; something bigger than yourself: the idea of such a thing as a God.

Regardless of subject, the fact that we, any of us, as living matter, can share in any concept, and look upon it in the same light, is an inescapably beautiful truth.

You've crafted this by investing your will, and your hope, and your intellect--all of these each singularly astounding things in and of themselves--in what you truly, deeply feel to be the best interest of the entire universe of which you are a part. I lament that before recent days I had been unable to grasp this.

You deserve no such fate as to feel hunted. Today I welcome you--figuratively and collectively to mean all those who are religious--and ask humbly that you might consider my failure to appreciate the masterwork of your mortal dedication for the overwhelmingly inspiring thing that it truly is.

I may never be able to believe in your god directly--

...but I believe in you.

ReadMyComments · 7 months

try being muslim... in a christian world

sick_of_the_atheists · 7 months

I feel ya, bro.

hartlocker · 7 months

FIRE ZE MISSILES!

areyouapedo · 7 months

Can't tell if Atheist means "one who doesn't believe in a God" Or "anti-Christian"

Fredderov · 7 months

As a Swede I think it's cute! This whole thing in the US with christians and atheists... it's like Tom & Jerry!

dziban303 · 7 months

Harpoons are anti-ship missiles, not anti-air missiles.

freelittyta · 7 months

it's just that a lot of people think, myself included, that what is written in the bible and other holy books is only the word of man. if there were an entity with the infinite power and wisdom and knowledge to design the intricacies and complexities that exist as us, inside us, and as all of our surroundings for as far as you can imagine... why would he behave in such a petty and childish way as to care if we shaved or worked on sunday? why would he be so sociopathic as to tell that guy to kill his son only to see if he would? why would he be so needy for attention that he would require our woreship? why doesn't he ever actually help us? other than that guy who he helps in the football. and rappers. why doesn't he set us all straight rather than having different religions fighting in his name?

it's just very frustrating when progress is halted by religion. and it's frustrating to think that stories of creationism that have no basis in fact are being taught to children as the truth. when there is so much evidence, real evidence that you can see and touch to the contrary. i'm surprised that they are not trying to come in to the astronomy classes and tell people that the flat earth is the center of everything.

i don't need a book filled with stories of atrocity to tell me to treat people with the respect that i would like to receive myself.

superblah222 · 7 months

You do have ~2000 years of bad history to be targeted with...

BlueString94 · 7 months

Funny, that's how I feel as an atheist in real life.

jeremyjack33 · 7 months

Wow this post went from about 3300+ Karma to 1600+ in a matter of about an hour after it hit the front page.

Gotta love the atheist brigade of tolerance here on reddit.

andrewsmith1986 · 7 months

How youd feel as a christian in ancient rome.

mgpo222 · 7 months

As a (American) Catholic on Reddit, I feel like an Atheist in America.

HyperionCantos · 7 months

I want to apologize as an atheist. Many atheist redditors try to push their beliefs onto other people, which is just a douchebag move regardless of what belief you hold.

that_one_christian · 7 months

t'was a joke

funny

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