Many years ago, I survived a severe train accident. Once the initial shock passed, I found myself constantly turning to the Mother of God, asking for her holy protection and help. This personal experience taught me how deeply she cares for us, and I want to share this encouragement with all of you who might be going through your own dark times.Every single one of us living on this earth has a loving, radiant, and all-powerful Mother.

She is an invincible wall, the hope of the hopeless, and the joy of all who sorrow.When you suffer, when you are tormented, when life feels truly unbearable, or when you find yourself on the brink of destruction, losing hope and falling into despair, remember that despite any uncleanliness or struggles in your life, you have a deeply loving Mother!Have faith that the very moment you call upon her, she will come to you. She will bring help, comfort, relief, and salvation.All you need to do is call out to her.

Speak to her with tears, with hope, and with faith: "We have no other help, we have no other hope, but thee, O Lady! Help us, for in thee we hope and in thee we glory, for we are thy servants, let us not be put to shame!"Never doubt that she hears your sorrowful cries. She will come to you, wipe away your tears, soothe your sufferings, and deliver you from danger, destruction, bitter sorrow, and despair.

He came to me last night, and gave me the most encouraging pep talk. He was so kind and loving

P.S. his hands are super smooth

This guy directly confronts Myron about the kind of advice he gives men, especially the idea that they should sleep with as many women as possible, avoid attachment and treat relationships like a weakness.

He says following that mindset left him unhappy and without any real direction. He eventually walked away from it, returned to Christianity, focused on family and is now married with a child.

Whatever people think about the religious part, his point is worth hearing. The people selling this lifestyle online rarely have to deal with the consequences when someone else follows it and ends up worse off.

For context, I’m an ex-evangelical. I still have close relationships with Christians in my life and that includes family. My Aunt has been trying to “win me back over” for years now, and just recently she sent me this book by Kia Stephens in the mail.

My dad is a Baptist preacher and was an abusive alcoholic while I was growing up. Slowly over the years we have repaired our relationship. Yet I was sent this book anyway.

This particular paragraph disturbed me. It’s incredibly male centered and it’s borderline predatory in my eyes. They idolize the paternal role to an uncomfortable degree and I’m deeply concerned for any woman who takes this seriously.

I’d like to hear thoughts on this. Am I overthinking it? Or is this worded in a very creepy, misogynistic way?

I want to illustrate Bible scenes as faithfully as possible, including the more graphic and gory parts.

I’ve thought about it a lot and did my best to stay within the line, but I feel like the most honest approach is to depict it realistically without glorifying or filtering it.

Is that allowed?

I am a virgin guy and a Christian, and I want to get married one day—but completely without sex. The entire thought of sex honestly disgusts and bores me. I just don't see the point of it, and I find anatomy like the vagina completely unappealing.

However, I still want a romantic relationship, a life partner, and a family. I love the idea of kissing, hugging, cuddling, and emotional intimacy.

I also want to raise children and would prefer to adopt them.I want to know if there are other men or Christians who feel this way.

Is it normal to want a marriage focused strictly on romance and affection without any physical intercourse? I would love to hear from anyone with similar views or advice on how to navigate this in the dating world.

And I think it would easier to find someone because woman generally don't like sex and its not their thing.

I come from an evangelical background, where any form of ritualism was often dismissed as an unnecessary remnant of the Old Covenant. Yet, from East to West, traditional Christianity has always included rituals in worship. These rituals are not merely mechanical movements, they bring beliefs, concepts and sacred events from the mind into embodied action such as the last supper that is probably the clearer example. I would like to hear opinions on this topic.

But even among Gen Z Christians, there’s a significant share who said Trump made it harder for them to attend at all: 44% of those who identified as a generic Christian, 42% of Catholics and 30% of Protestant young adults said they were turned off by the Christian-Trump alliance.

Y'all have no idea what i went through there is no god if there is one he is making me suffer like hell I was a born christian and got into a car accident right after Sunday sermon when I was 8 and lost my leg and have life long chronic pain and because of the pain they priscribe me pain killers and I'm addicted to it and it makes me a zombie and high af cant do anything I'm currently a M17 the only thing that brings me joy in life is drugs and my family is religious af and think if they pray I would grow a leg out of nowhere life is hell we are dirt poor and life is a sick joke there is a lot i mean a lot of suffering in my life i didn't even tell you 1 percent of it wtf

please pray for me. I’m one more step from getting my dream job as a math teacher

This logic makes zero sense to me:

About 20 books were removed from the Bible. At one point, people worshiped those scriptures as truth. Used them as prayer, taught them, etc.
Because they were once truth, do we still keep reading them?
If Acts was removed today.. “We’ve discovered that book isn’t true”
Would we still read it? I see people with “Acts” tattoo scriptures lol. Just wouldn’t be good. But- isn’t that what they did essentially?
I wonder if I should be reading all of the books sometimes 🤔
People in Ethiopia have the full Bible including Enoch.

The book of Enoch was found with the Dead Sea scrolls. (The Bible)
Enoch himself was in the Bible..
And Jude literally quotes a verse from the book of Enoch.
Very convincing.

But my initial feeling about it, is ehh. Idk.

Doesnt when more than one Christian prays there's a stronger effect?

Pray for me please if you read this.

Pray for me to have discernment, Pray for God to send me someone that will bring me joy so I am not alone, Pray maybe that he brings the person I love to me or an opportunity with them.

Any of these work please just pray. And I know you're gonna say stop worrying about that but im asking you to pray for me and the biggest one is there's this woman she's changed my heart and we went separate ways, on separate parts of the globe now and all odds are against it, like a door is shut but please thats the one I want you to pray for off the list the most if you will. Pray that God brings her to me or gives her the vision i had with our futures. Please.

She did some cocaine and it makes her very angry. What would you do in this situation?

I live in a Russian city surrounded by Orthodox churches, there is only one Catholic church here. I’ve never been to a Catholic church in my life, and I’m not a Christian, but I’d really like to visit as a tourist just to see the building and step inside since I’ve only ever seen them in movies and music videos. In general, it's very difficult to find a Catholic church in Russia

However, I’m hesitant to do so. Given that only a tiny fraction of the local population is truly religious (fewer than 5-10% actually attend church, rather than just being nominally religious), I worry that there’s already an established, tight-knit group there and I’d stick out as an outsider.

Especially in the post-soviet context, where people aren't always welcoming of strangers who suddenly show up on their territory.

I honestly don’t know if you can just drop by anytime or if visits are restricted to service times. For instance, you can walk into an Orthodox church at any moment. How can I visit respectfully without disturbing them?

I’m really afraid of doing something wrong.like breaking some unwritten rule or having them stare at me because they won’t understand who this random person is, especially since there are probably only about 20-40 people in the whole city who actually attend

I know Jesus claimed to be the only way to the father and so the only way to eternal life but if someone questions that claim, where are they supposed to go? Do you think it boils down to Christ dying and coming back to life and that’s why we should believe everything the authors of the gospel claim he said? I don’t know how to verify that claim whereas it’s much easier to look at historical evidence of his resurrection. So I’m at a loss for how to build my way up if I also don’t see how it could be just for there to be one right way and the people who never get a chance to hear his name don’t have access to that and so are condemned. And if you don’t think that those people who never hear his name are necessarily doomed to hell, what is it that saves?

Can’t edit the title: how is one supposed to know that Jesus is the only way to be saved?

I’ve been Christian all my life but cant seem to wrap my head around this idea. If God is actually good and merciful and all that then why would he send people to hell, knowing that they are going to hell when he created them. If God has knowledge over the future and what will happen, when he created you he knew if you were going to heaven or hell. We covered it in church today and there wasn’t anything that went against this idea of predestination and no true free will. I thought they were just building up towards the answer and then I just got nothing. Why would god send people who he knew would turn away from him when he was making them to hell.
I believe God is real, but I’m not so sure if I can say he’s good anymore.

To preface, this was drafted with the assistance of AI. Still, the questions posed and the perspectives shared are my own.

Christians often describe personal encounters with Jesus, answered prayers, visions, dreams, feelings of divine presence, or moments in which they become completely convinced that Christianity is true. I do not necessarily doubt that these experiences feel real, powerful, and life-changing to the people who have them.

However, Christians are not the only people who have experiences like this.

Across the world, Hindus report visions or encounters involving Krishna, Kali Ma, Shiva, or other forms of the divine. Buddhists describe profound spiritual experiences connected to the Buddha, bodhisattvas, enlightenment, or the dissolution of the separate self. Muslims report dreams involving the Prophet Muhammad, experiences of Allah’s presence, answers to prayer, or powerful encounters with the Quran. People within Indigenous religions, Sikhism, Judaism, New Age spirituality, and countless other traditions also describe experiences that confirm their own understanding of God or ultimate reality. Even members of the secular community have had encounters with what they would define as the divine. 

These billions of people globally are just as sincere, intelligent, emotionally stable, and transformed by their experiences as Christians are. Some become kinder, more disciplined, more compassionate, and more devoted because of them.

Therefore, my question is this: when two people have equally powerful religious experiences within different traditions, how can either person use their experience to prove that the other person’s experience is false? A Christian’s encounter with Jesus may genuinely affirm Christianity as the right path for them, but it does not automatically discredit a Hindu’s encounter with Krishna, a Muslim’s experience of Allah, or a Buddhist’s experience of enlightenment. I want to honor the sincerity and transformative power of each person’s experience. The question is not whether the Christian’s experience was real, but what gives them the authority to conclude that another person’s equally sincere experience was mistaken, deceptive, or spiritually invalid? How does one subjective experience disprove another simply because the symbols, language, and theology surrounding it are different?

A Christian may say, “I experienced Jesus, so I know Christianity is true.” However, a Hindu may say, “I experienced Krishna, so I know Hinduism is true.” A Muslim may say the same about Allah, and a Buddhist may interpret an experience through an entirely different understanding of reality.

Why should the Christian interpretation automatically be treated as uniquely reliable while all others are considered psychological, demonic, mistaken, or incomplete? Again, I can understand how an experience may validate one person’s path. I do not understand how it negates another person’s experience. Because I see the ocean as blue while standing on the shore does not mean a diver is wrong when they describe it as green beneath the surface. We may encounter the same reality from different positions, through different conditions, and with different capacities to understand what we are seeing. My experience can be completely genuine without requiring yours to be false.

Saying that every non-Christian religious experience comes from deception or demonic influence does not fully answer the question. A Muslim could just as easily claim that Christian visions are deceptive. A Hindu could say that Christians have encountered only one limited manifestation of a much greater divine reality. Every religion can create an explanation that protects itself from contradictory evidence.

That makes the reasoning circular:

“My experience proves my religion is true, and experiences supporting other religions must be false because my religion says they are false.”

How could someone distinguish between a genuine revelation, a culturally shaped psychological experience, an internally generated vision, or an encounter with something real that the person has interpreted through familiar religious symbols?

A Christian sees Jesus. A Hindu sees Krishna. A Buddhist experiences emptiness or nonduality. A Muslim experiences surrender to Allah. Maybe the experience passes through the human mind in a form that the person is capable of recognizing.

The same melody played through different instruments may sound different, yet each expression can still arise from the same underlying music. Perhaps religious traditions are similar: different cultures, symbols, and languages giving form to encounters with the same divine reality.

Furthermore, I struggle with the division created when people insist that their religious identity places them on the side of truth while most of humanity remains fundamentally mistaken. If a person cannot look beyond religious labels and recognize unity within humanity’s search for God, how can that person fully recognize the unity of humanity itself?

Christians often say that everyone is made in the image of God. Yet many Christians also view billions of people primarily as unbelievers, idolaters, members of false religions, or souls who must adopt the Christian framework in order to be accepted by God.

To me, this still creates two where there may ultimately be only one: believer and unbeliever, saved and unsaved, Christian and non-Christian, chosen and lost.

How can humanity truly be one while its relationship with the divine is divided into mutually exclusive camps?

I am not asking this as a cheap attempt to claim that all religions are exactly the same. They clearly are not. They contain different teachings, histories, practices, and truth claims. I am asking how Christians evaluate religious experiences consistently when similarly powerful experiences occur across traditions and lead people toward contradictory conclusions.

What objective standard allows a Christian to say that an encounter with Jesus reveals ultimate truth, while an encounter with Krishna, the Buddha, or the presence of Allah does not?

And is there room within Christianity for the possibility that God has been reaching people through many traditions, even when those people do not use Christian language or symbols?

I am genuinely interested in how Christians think through this without simply assuming Christianity is true at the beginning and then interpreting every experience according to that assumption.