Change My Mind

I’m an atheist, but I don’t exactly agree. In times of peace or when everyone has a lot, religion is just someone’s belief. However, when things get hard and you have to worry about a roof over your head and food in your belly religion is helpful. It can give you hope that science can’t. Science doesn’t give you a reason to keep going, but a religion can. Religion gives people hope, which is important.

My opinion? Religion is a society's way of trying to control individuals' spirituality.

Perhaps I have a keen grasp of the obvious.

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Why do you think that?

It causes people to ignore what's in front of them and hold on to values that are obsolete and be discriminative towards minorities, gay people, trans people, people of different races etc.

Are you talking about a specific religion or just religion in general?

most religion, but I'm mainly focusing on christianity, more specifically catholicism and evangelicalism

I can’t speak for other religions, so I will represent Christianity.

Christianity teaches that all people are equal, and are created in the image of God. That doesn’t mean there aren’t homophobes, transphobes etc. But those individuals are not obeying God’s law. Christians believe that same sex marriage is a sin, but that’s not the same as discrimination, or hatred. I can’t speak for liberal Christians, but conservative Christians believe that transgenderism isn’t healthy because it isn’t possible to change genders. If a Hispanic person said he feel like they’re black instead of Hispanic, does that mean he should change his skin color? No. It’s a mental problem. So why is it different with genders?

So if you’re mainly focusing on Christianity, what do you think about other religions?

If so, they are being ignorant of how passages that say homosexuality is a sin were mistranslated and they hold on to them to hold on to discriminative ideals, and they ignore science of how someone can become another gender

What makes you think those passages were mistranslated? Also, could you define "discrimination"? And it isn't scientifically possible to change your gender. Someone could try surgery to change their bodies, but they are still the same sex.

As one of 1.6 billion Catholics on this Earth, I'm a little apprehensive as to what you mean...do you want us all gone because we bother you? Do you want us to ALL change our views because they bother you? mm?

Not a good look, my dude.

No, it's because you ignore what's right in front of you, and hold on to discrimination that is almost two thousand years, it's utterly disgusting

The only thing I find utterly disgusting here is your barely-disguised hatred for religion.