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I’m religious. Before Covid I attended services regularly. I’ve found my church to be a safe and welcoming environment. My answer is still yes. Christian Fundamentalism is as much of a cancer as any other brand of religious extremism. The way faith has been warped into the religious right in the US sickens me.
Is Catholicism and religious fundamentalism societally regressive?
With the overturning of Roe v. Wade today giving US states the right to ban a*ortion entirely, I took a look at the protest signs of the people cheering and supporting this overturn. They’re all religious in some way, claiming the sanctity of life, God’s will, etc. Most, if not all, lean towards Catholicism or Christian fundamentalism. The Catholic Church today is publicly celebrating this overturn. This is making me think back to all the ways religious fundamentalism has thoroughly stalled societal progress as a whole. They are typically anti-science and were big criticizers of the Covid vaccine and Covid precaution measures. Throughout history, they have killed and isolated people for things they deemed evil, dubbing things as “witchcraft”, giving them the freedom to execute people by setting them on fire (mostly women, let’s not beat around the bush). They killed children who were physically or intellectually disabled, or encouraged parents to hide them away and not allow them into public. They also have long since always promoted the idea that women are lesser… lesser intelligence, lesser worth. Created by God to breed and rear the children and obey her husband. These beliefs are still preached today. My best friend teaches in a Catholic school, per her contract, birth control was not covered by her insurance, and She is barred from living with any men she is not married to. Long story, short question, but do you think, ultimately, this type of religious dogma is socially regressive? Does it stall progress?
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I believe in God/The Creator but my answer is still yes. The pandemic has shown me a very ugly side to religion… and that the loving, tender-hearted, vulnerable, humble image is actually self-promoting, selfish, ignorant and hollow. How many pastors and priests watched their congregation get sick and die and still refused to stop services, refused to promote masks, vaccinations, and proper quarantines? Too many of them. Too many. And now today, we get to see these people rejoice in taking away bodily autonomy from women. Women could potentially have even less rights than a corpse now. We can’t take organs from dead people unless they consented prior to death, even though people die every day waiting for vital organ transplants. As of today though, we can completely force a woman to die for her unviable fetus now. 👍🏾
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I grew up catholic and understand and agree to some degree of everything you wrote above. It is all true.I have kind of lost or distanced myself from religion because the church cause my family a lot of headaches and even kicked us out of our homes.I think being religious is a beautiful thing. To find strength and peace of mind in religion is great. ( I can’t) But as with everything if you become fanatic and take word to word to an extreme level that’s bad.We should adapt religion to our modern lifePeobably I did not word this well - English is not my first language…what I mean is religion like everything to be taken with a pinch of salt and not 100% literally…If that makes sense
I’m a practicing witch. Christians are the biggest hypocrites. A lot of their holidays are stolen from Pagan holidays to try to erase paganism. Pretty much the entirety of their religion is based on lies. But they’re too uneducated to see that. 🤷🏻♀️ that’s the problem with *most* Christians. They’re uneducated and just blindly follow what they’re told. Just had to throw that out there cause I know some Christians will read this. Instead of trying to argue with me, try doing some actual UNBIASED research. 😘
The separation of church and state is no longer a thing. The Catholic Churches in America are historically pro-birth, anti-science, and tend to be the safe haven for the most radical of radical. The members of the catholic and Christian churches that hold political power are setting us back decades as a country and will continue to do so because no one will stop them.
I don’t think it’s only Cristians that are against abortion but muslims, Jews and other religions as well. Also, there are extremists in every religion. I’m a Christian and We by no means have the belief we need to kill or violently do anything against someone the same way we can not force our God to anyone because for someone to believe in God has to be a personal choice. So we disagree completely in the killing of indigenous people, black people or any people. We believe that men and women have different roles and not of them are lesser than the others. Actually many Christians wouldn’t touch a fire arm. Do I believe that Christianity is here to stay ? Yes. Do I believe the media vilify Christians ? Yes. Do I believe there are bad people that call themselves Christians ? Yes of course. That’s why you hear about this bad people that abuse and rape but again , they do not represent Christianity they way it should. They are wolves dressed like sheep . Also, birth control is not banned all across churches or other religions . I’m not sure about Catholics.
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Yes I see what you are saying, I was just trying to clarify that some of those really bad things that had happen and still happen in the world ( again killing, abusing , raping etc ) by some that said that are Christians don’t mean that we are a bunch of ignorant, hideous, anti knowledge people and need to be eradicated. That was the vibe I got. My apologies if that was an incorrect vibe
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“Not all Christians” isn’t any better than “Not all men”. Especially when it IS Christians forcing their religious views on others here in the US. It is Christians codifying their religious doctrine into law. It is Christians trying (and succeeding) at stripping human rights away from people they “disagree with.” This cannot be reasonably denied.
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I feel like maybe you have missed the point of the post. “Not all religious people are like that” doesn’t address the issue that it is the religion at the forefront of these issues. Of course not every Christian believes the same things, but an overwhelming majority of them are vastly pro-birthing regardless of circumstance yet simultaneously rejected everything about protecting the vulnerable from Covid. Yet they claim their stance as “pro-life”. It’s a bunch of hypocritical hullabaloo with their religion as justification.
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