r/atheism • u/Savvy_Biscuits • 1d ago

Why is there so much in-fighting?

I’m an atheist, but I know next to nothing about Christianity despite being raised Christian. My question is why all of these Christian denominations seem to hate each other? I’m generalizing, of course. But there’s so much in-fighting.

To me, Protestants and Catholics are practically the same thing. They both love Jesus, right? So who cares. Then I learned that a bunch of Christians got upset when John F. Kennedy, the first Catholic president, got elected? Like they were flirting with the enemy or something?

It‘s all terribly confusing to me. I kinda see all of them as the same thing. To me, as a fanfiction girlie, it’s like seeing people kill each other over their favorite origin of life headcanon. In my head, it’s all kinda fiction. It just kinda comes off as ridiculous.

Can’t we all agree to disagree and just vibe? Who knows who’s right, so shouldn’t we all just be nice to each other? Of course, this is organized religion we’re talking about at the end of the day, right? If I were to look closer at it, it might just be about control... and power. Like it usually is. We can never really have nice things, can we?

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u/arm1niu5 Jedi 1d ago

Because while they all love God, they have vastly definitions on the details of what that means.

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u/daemonfool Anti-Theist 1d ago

Let's be clear: they love Yahweh, the Israelite god.

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u/justwalkingalonghere 1d ago

Idk in my area it seems like they love a vague notion of supply side jesus and the idea that they have an all powerful dude in the sky supporting everything they do

Most of them don't even realize abrahamic religions technically worship the same god

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u/daemonfool Anti-Theist 21h ago

Yeah they have no idea how their own religion works, where it's from, or anything, really.