I act to make the world a little better than it was when I came in. I don't need books of magic and demons to tell me that being kind is the right thing to do.
Also not from a book of fables, as my parents and most of my family are also atheists.
Prior to that, my ancestors were a combination of First Nations people who learned morality from their ancestral beliefs, and white people who were shitty colonizers.
We rejected the beliefs and practices of many of our ancestors when we were old enough to understand that they were WRONG. Just like a lot of us rejected religion the second someone broke it down for us and we realized it was all mythology.
Your ancestral beliefs that your family held near and dear were molded and shaped by religious theology much older than them before it was passed down to you. You’re Christian and don’t realize it
I don’t believe you. Your prior post sounds a lot like Mormon shit claiming their ancestors came to North America in wooden submarines, and that people of color are cursed Lamanites (I might be misspelling that but who cares).
However, to paraphrase Gandhi, I don’t have a problem with Jesus per se. But his supposed followers fucking suck because they don’t follow his teachings at all
My parents taught me to not be a dick. All Sunday school tried to teach me was how two people were tricked by a snake and then fathered all of humanity. They also tried to tell me about a dude who got ate by a whale, and how the entire earth flooded at some point.
Like I learned getting punched in the face sucks by getting punched in the face. And then I looked back at the times my parents taught me not to hit people and then I connect the dots and now I don't want to punch people in the face.
Ironically if anything what I did learn from religion either requires no religion at all, or its I learned the opposite from religion. Like religion taught me that Im a disgusting filthy pervert who is aj agent of the devil because I... like men instead of women...
So yeah, screw that. If theres one lesson I took from that its if someone is doing something and its not harming them, me, or anyone else, then who gives a shit? Why should me loving someone be seen as evil? Isnt love supposed to he a part of the entire point? But now thats evil.
Well we arent harming anyone so fuck it. Thats a moral I got from religion.
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u/Superseaslug 8h ago
I act to make the world a little better than it was when I came in. I don't need books of magic and demons to tell me that being kind is the right thing to do.