• VelvetStorm@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Ok, so this is my time to admit my very shameful past. I used to be racist, homophobic, and sexist(known as the big 3). I used my religion as an excuse for the sexism and homophobia and my father(my mom isnt racist and they are divorced) and dam near everyone on his side of the family is racist so I just grew up in that culture. Once I stopped talking to him and met a lot of people from other races, i learned we are all the same. Then I stated reading the Bible, and once I did that, I obviously couldn’t continue believing in it. now I am an atheist and I don’t rely on a very very old book to come to my moral conclusions.

    So basically, it’s willful ignorance, and it is always easier to blame others for your own downfalls, and it makes you feel better about your own shitty life if you can hate on someone else.

    Edited for clarification.

    • Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works
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      2 years ago

      I’m so glad you were able to see the light and thank you for having the courage to put it out there for others to see.

      The most difficult faults to see and change are our own.

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      2 years ago

      Then I stated reading the Bible, and once I did that, I obviously couldn’t continue believing it.

      Yeah nothing obvious about that. Your religion is idiotic, all religions are lies made up by con artists or crazy people. You cant be trusted if you need some book assembled over a 600 year period, edited and abused by religious leaders to control and manipulate the masses into maintaining and increasing their own powerbase, to tell you right from wrong.

      Religion is just the old world version of todays billionaires