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Help and Support Links
- Freedom From Religion Foundation
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Mainstream
Bibliography
Start here...
...proceed here.
- God is Not Great (Hitchens)
- The God Delusion (Dawkins)
- The End of Faith (Harris)
- Why I Am Not a Christian (Russell)
- Letter to a Christian Nation (Harris)
Proselytize Religion
From Reddit
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I remember a sermon about that from my catholic upbringing. I remeber very few thing from my childhood, but that stuck with me. I think because there we were in church being seen by others and being told we should be at home. The logical gymnastics of these people are impressive in a way.
In all fairness the verse doesn't mean "don't go to church." It's talking about people who worship in public for the sake of being seen. Like this woman or people who only go to church so they can say they went and keep up appearances in the community. There are plenty of verses that require mental gymnastics and this isn't really one of them.
And this is why Christianity has like 47,000 different sects and counting.
But no I'm sure random Christian Lemmy user #16 is the person with the perfect understanding of his holy book.
It's really not that complex. Probably one of the simplest verses to understand. And I'm not a Christian.
It's talking about Performative Christianity, which is what this person is ALL about.
That is how they interpret it. But think about it. Church is public. During covid, church moved online. And that was fine. But why did it go back to in person. To be seen. And why is there a weekly mass at all. To be seen. Jesus never said people should go to church every week. That whole thing is an addon created but the mortals who wanted to be seen in their fancy robes and such. The whole thing is a mockery of Jesus's teachings.
Doesn't this apply to all of Christianity? Religion was made to control people and that's easier to do in person.
I was trying to be kind. But while religion itself spawned from people attempting to cope with the inability to control the things (like nature) that could determine if they lived or died, at some point it converted over to a way to control the populace.
or the ones on tv preaching for cash