A lot of the posts here are just pointing out how illogical religion is, which I don’t mind. I’m religious myself, but I’m well aware how ridiculous it is. What does bother me is the arguments against Christianity that are used as arguments against all religions. Most of you were likely raised christian, so I understand why you focus on it, but most religions don’t have all of the problems Christianity does. I think a lot of the posts here would fit better in an ex-christian community.

  • sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.worksOP
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    By mentioning this, I was trying to suggest not letting it bother you so much if people make broad criticisms of religion because they probably don’t know what your specific beliefs actually are and might not even be speaking to them.

    It doesn’t bother me when people make broad criticisms of religion, it bothers me when there is no distinction between specific religions and all religion. I may have worded badly what I said before, I am not very insulted by what I see here. I am more just disappointed because I think it detracts from the experience here. I just want people to know what they are criticizing and clarify if it is needed. Communities like this often devolve into echo chambers and I think the lack of clarification makes it more difficult to have open and respectful conversations on these topics. My experience here has been much better than the atheism subreddit, which is why I care enough to point out this problem. I want to keep it that way, and I want it to be even better than it is now. I don’t want this to be yet another group of people making the same 4 posts about how smart they are and how dumb Christians are. But that’s all I see in the posts that I’m talking about.