• LazyBane@lemmy.world
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    A lot of Christians have a pretty vague understanding of the bible, or the religion as a whole, usually jusy what will let them justify whatever they need to be justified.

    This should be expected, to be fair, since Christianity is a cultural inheritance. You’re not expected to know much about it other than what your priest tells you, if the Christian even goes to church to begin with.

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      As an actual Christian that reads the Bible and goes to church, I wish more people who called themselves Christian actually followed what the Bible says. It’s a big problem in the US

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        Yeah, if you don’t read the Bible or go to church, it’s almost impossible for you to actually be a Christian.

        But for some reason what counts as a Christian is determined by what you choose to call yourself instead of what our holy text says.

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          Patently false. Most atheists have read the bible as much as most “Christians”. Some of the most-common “causes” of atheism are: never was pushed/encouraged to believe, skeptic/scrutinizing personality, or being annoyed by what “Christians” say or do. All of these reasons and more for being an atheist are good and valid-- I’m just arguing against this bad-faith (no pun intended) crap that you are arguing, and that some other atheists say.

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                That some people read the Bible and say “wtf is this nonsense?” and then question how anyone could base a religion on that.

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                  Yeah, that’s what I thought it was too. I’m just saying that “some people” aren’t “most people who become atheists”.

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                    I’d agree that it’s not a leading cause. To your list though I’d add that some people are pushed too hard to be believers, and reject it, or grew up in an area where people are just flat-out obsessed with religion and it ends up putting their hypocrisy in view.

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      What’s even the point of deciphering the Bible when you can make it say what ever it is you like. Why not just start with what you want to believe and patch together Bible verses that support it?

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      That’s my main problem with the culture. If people want to believe random supernatural stories written long in the past and use that as a basis for their morality… uh, okay… I just don’t like how they rely on other people to do their reading and interpretation.