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  1. shy ♡

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    Haha yes that's perfect. :p And exactly what I was trying to say.
  2. shy ♡

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    MD I wish your image would load. :[ Yeah Judaism is sort of an ethnicity as much as a religion, but because it's entrenched into religion it's a pain in the ass. Like, you're Jewish only if your mother was Jewish - but how does that make sense ethnicity-wise? (It makes sense in no way...
  3. shy ♡

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    Yeah, no one seems to really care. I have infinite rage feelings about this, honestly. Like, yeah, steal our religion and then mistranslate all of it and then don't bother to even learn the original texts, go ahead. I don't even like Judaism and I still hate Christianity for blatantly...
  4. shy ♡

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    Be glad you guys can excommunicate yourself. :| There's no ex-Jewing yourself. I'm stuck a Jew for life. (And that's totally not indoctrination, nooooope!)
  5. shy ♡

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    :\ No. They're not. They're Jews. And they don't deny people cancer treatment because if you live by the old testament (or the Torah) then you live by 'respect life above all else', and 'respect thy neighbor', and 'treat others as you'd wish to be treated'. Also 'no haircuts' is just a...
  6. shy ♡

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    I love when we pretend Christianity is the only religion! My favourite game! Anyhow. I do tend to avoid Chareidim et large. If you lived here you would understand; in the US apparently they are different and actually uh, good? Idk. But in Israel they are... douchebaggery personified. They throw...
  7. shy ♡

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    I have met these people, and I live in a country led by these people, and I live with and was raised by these people. So I do have a somewhat biased point of view towards religion. :|
  8. shy ♡

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    Religious families usually raise their kids religious. If the kid grows and chooses to be an atheist, that is a different matter; they are taught, when born, that they are religious. That is indoctrination. They are factually not born as a religion so the parents are indoctrinating them into the...
  9. shy ♡

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    You are minimizing. People don't have to die for religion to be imposed on them. Kids are raised with religion, told that they are religious. They are sent to religious schools and indoctrinated. Whether they are killed if they stop believing doesn't matter - they have little choice of whether...
  10. shy ♡

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    Being religious = religious ideology. Atheism = no religious ideology. Meaning, all religious people will share the fact that they have an ideology that makes no sense (floaty sky person, invisible pink unicorns, harry potter, whatever), whereas atheists will only share the fact that they don't...
  11. shy ♡

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    Haha I think I'm the wrong person to ask, seeing as I dropped out of fourth grade.
  12. shy ♡

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    Religion should not be taught as a required course because there is no reason for it to be a required course. It's not truth, so forcing people to learn it is wrong when they could be learning things that are factual and useful. There are enough kids dropping out of school because there's too...
  13. shy ♡

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    Tarvos, from what you've said it seems like you weren't raised to be religious. There is a marked difference between raising a kid to know about their parents' religion and raising them religious. For example; parents have a set of ideals for their kids. 'Don't kill, don't steal, don't smoke'...
  14. shy ♡

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    Religion should be taught, if at all, when you're older, i.e. during your teens. Being raised religious just pisses me off. Especially when people balk at the idea that it's indoctrination.
  15. shy ♡

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    Really? That's pretty awesome, haha. I wish I could see her reaction to that. It was, after all, an action of god, surely!
  16. shy ♡

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    Yeah, that documentary really is terrifying. But it was made during the Bush era, so I like to think at least they aren't as pervasive in the government anymore. Very scary thinking what a large influence they had.
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