Is anyone else an atheist with BC besides me?

Excuse me !! This is not how a president speaks. Wake-up call. Time to Dump Trump in the party of history where he belongs. The Federal Hoosegow.

Such an interesting book. I had forgotten the part about striped sticks.

Oh yes... particularly the 'women should keep quiet' line !!!

wanderweg, Bible literalists are an odd group. It makes one wonder if they have ever read the Bible. Reading the Bible cover to cover is the most common reason that people become atheists. The craziness and cruelty starts people asking questions.

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Saw this quote on a relative's FB page. Even though we've never met, I swear she's my sister from another Mister. I hit "love" on everything she posts.

"America will never be a Christian nation because the moment it becomes a Christian nation it will cease to be America'

It was originally posted by Andrew Seidel.

It’s been four or five years since I stepped beyond my Christian faith into the great unknown. It was so scary at first because like many, I’d been conditioned with religious beliefs my whole life. It’s not that I intensely seek answers on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. I meander. I’m an avid reader, so if I a book or article that gives insight into what a former believer might experience, I will read it.

This has served me well. I feel much more clear about why I am no longer Christian and I don't feel defensive or scared about my choice anymore. I saw how religion tries to get you to be submissive and not ask questions, and I can’t buy in to that. I’m more in the agnostic range. I think I’ve probably read more on religion in the past few years than a lot of church goers. They just get their information from the pulpit and seek no further. Hey, easier for them.

My sister in law recently sent me a religious music video clip—she wants to heal me, I guess. The beautiful woman in the video dressed in a flowing white gown while walking through cliffs above the ocean with waves crashing into the shore, was singing to god to rescue her. It seemed to me Cinderella waiting for her prince to come save the day. More societal conditioning that women are to remain passive and let men take care of the hard stuff. First of all, I don’t live a life that I feel I need rescued from! I am also pretty sure if it was sil’s brother dealing with cancer, she would not send a video of a manly man singing to god to come rescue him.....

Almost all religions put extra burdens on the female relating to "purity" of person, dress, and behavior. It's although religion itself was created to control women.

That makes sense, in a pathetic kind of way.

Churches need women to do the praying, to cook and clean for the clerics, to get the men into the pews. In my neighborhood, I see the women waiting on the catholic priests , who do not have wives, so the women in their churches dote on them like they are children, celebrate their birthdays in much bigger ways than they do for their own families, while at the same time calling them father. It is so bizarre.

If the ladies dote on the priest, at least they have a hope of currying favor with god in the afterlife. What thanks do they get at home for all the work they do? It makes sense to me, sadly. They're taking care of the person who might gain them something.

A lot of the women at the Catholic church my husband attended in the 1980s and 90s had the hots for the priests. They weren't that good-looking, but those women were like teenyboppers chasing a rock star. I guess they thought it was a safe crush - and it was, because the priests prefer them much younger of either sex. The other annoying thing was when they wanted parishioners to help with the big annual cleaning (before Easter, I think), they'd schedule men's chores at night, but women's during the day on weekdays. Then they'd complain that younger women weren't volunteering. Those sexist idiots thought all the young women should be 1950s housewives.

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As most religions are patriarchal, it very much is about controlling women. Among other things, society in general cannot handle the sensuality of women. Religions place priorities on purity. I recently read a book on the topic, and it’s appalling the adverse effect the purity movement has on a woman’s sexuality not to mention her self worth.

It’s an interesting observation, how women baby priests but call them Father. Quite dysfunctional, actually. A Church of Christ assembly in town holds a big mother’s day luncheon where all the men cook and serve the women and clean up. One friggin’’ day of the year. Oh, the mens think they are so generous to do this! “Look, we really do appreciate our womens.”

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Ananda, Good for him! My husband does that much cooking and grocery shopping but I do all the dishes. I think he cooks because I'm a really lousy cook.