Most, if not all, monotheistic religions can be very loving or very hateful, depending on what the people make of it. At least that is my personal experience in Catholic Christianity and Islam.
I have a couple of friends who are of the faith, many express similar distastefulness for the hateful ones. They tend to refer to them as “Xtians”, a term they use to mean “Christians, without Christ” hence “Xtian”
Yeah I grew up in the South and it didn’t give me a very positive impression of the faith, and well I still adamantly claim that I’m not a Christian.
However, I do have some respect for the faith and a large part of that was meeting someone who is now a close friend of mine. One of the kindest, most patient, and sincere individuals I’ve ever met, a Catholic man whom I will not mention by name. I told him about my own experiences with the faith, and how his being a good person made no sense to me, that’s when he started explaining how he understood the faith, how he practiced it, and how it was meant to be practiced. That kind of thing definitely takes some of the “Edgy Anti-Theist” out of you.
Religiously speaking nowadays, I consider myself Agnostic leaning Buddhist if anything.
Most, if not all, monotheistic religions can be very loving or very hateful, depending on what the people make of it. At least that is my personal experience in Catholic Christianity and Islam.
You’re spot on. Unfortunately, I’ve ran into far more hateful than loving. Fake loving for appearances, yes. Actual loving, no.
I have a couple of friends who are of the faith, many express similar distastefulness for the hateful ones. They tend to refer to them as “Xtians”, a term they use to mean “Christians, without Christ” hence “Xtian”
Yeah I grew up in the South and it didn’t give me a very positive impression of the faith, and well I still adamantly claim that I’m not a Christian.
However, I do have some respect for the faith and a large part of that was meeting someone who is now a close friend of mine. One of the kindest, most patient, and sincere individuals I’ve ever met, a Catholic man whom I will not mention by name. I told him about my own experiences with the faith, and how his being a good person made no sense to me, that’s when he started explaining how he understood the faith, how he practiced it, and how it was meant to be practiced. That kind of thing definitely takes some of the “Edgy Anti-Theist” out of you.
Religiously speaking nowadays, I consider myself Agnostic leaning Buddhist if anything.