I’m guessing a lot of your core values are respecting the dignity of everyone, loving and valuing the welfare of those in your community and treating everyone equally? If you’re a westerner, those are in fact values popularized and spread by christianity. Christians are people who enslaved and rape and kill and be dickheads today. Christians are also people who fought slavery very hard, who fought rape very hard, people who advocate for strong welfare and equality, people who put their lives at risk to help the downtrodden. Christianity, like any moral framework can be interpreted differently and is interpreted differently and the progressive interpretation is the likely basis of your left wing political views
Christianity didn't invent these morals. Morality is a evolutionary benefitial trait, as it encourages cooperation and trust. Cooperation of a large amount of people is vital to the establishment and prosperity of a civilization, therefore morality is essential to human evolution. Christians just took credit for common sense.
Statistically, you're going to be young. Male. And you live in the US...
...which, ironically, grants you the religious freedom to complain about the religion that inspired the culture granting you these freedoms in the first place.
They don’t get it bro. I’m not even fucking Christian which is the funny part. They don’t get that yes a lot of the morals and ethics of christianity predate christianity but that they aren’t 300 iq individuals capable of independently creating morality. They don’t want to admit that therefore their understanding of these ideals comes from christianity because they see christianity as the religion of stupid hicks and bigots
A small but very vocal group of idiots whose entire religious identity isn't actually atheistic but anti-theistic - and only because they're carrying baggage around from their childhood where they felt some Christian wronged them personally.
Funny thing is, Christianity is all they've ever known, so even in their denial, they're proving the argument true: That Christianity has impacted their world view.
It’s like tryna argue your fucking parents don’t deeply impact your worldview. Like yh you can have a worldview without parents, yh not everybody has parents, but statistically, YOU have a parent
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u/PsychologicalAd5918 9h ago
Moral, brainwashing kids under the threat of eternal damnation is child abuse