I've added myself to a "do not mail" list but these churches keep sending me stuff. (JW today)
I usually 1 star them on gmaps because I don't like receiving this crap and I thought that if enough people do the same, it'll discourage them through fear of a bad reputation. I don't put anything dishonest in the review, I just let people know they're sending unwanted mail.
Salam, I am looking for an easy course for a convert that I know of, to begin learning to read the Qur'an in Arabic. They speak English and have never encountered Arabic before.
Why is it so offensive to question someone about their faith?
If your belief in a god is fundamental to who you are, and you are confident in your belief, why would you be so offended when someone asks you about contradictions, or the extent of your beliefs? It's almost like there is an instinct to resist any application of critical thinking, or else their religious house of cards will all tumble down.
I find it to be a similar phenomenon with the MAGA folks. I tried to explain how tariffs work to my father in law at Thanksgiving, a man who listens to 12 hours a day of FoxNews. He reacted so emotionally about a simple economic concept, frustrated and angry that I would even DARE to question what Trump said. Refused to listen, kept interrupting saying things like "that's wrong", and refusing to explain why. Finally said "i don't care, Trump is always right". I am having so much trouble trying to connect with people like this. #religion source
iwI think it’s sad how many children are indoctrinated into believing in god and following christianity
I go to a christian/pentecostal college and my fellow classmates always play christian music with little children singing along with their parents or choir groups in the church.Also hy are they all dressed the exact same?Not just the children,but people in churches.They all wear sad,beige,mute colors,atp you can’t even tell them apart since they look so similar to one another.This s seriously fucking with my head.Full grown adults believing in fairytales and listening to this imaginary friend of theirs,aka.’God’,and imprinting this exact same belief onto their children🤦♀️ #religion source
hStruggling with Conversion Ultimatums in a Relationship
Hello I need your help and hopefully the right person will see this . so I’m just gonna refer to myself as Laila and I’m a Christian and for the past few months I’ve been talking to a guy and he’s Muslim. We often argue about many things so we just block eachother and but go back in less that a day . But recently it been a lot like every other day. And one of our main “ problems“was him wanting me to convert to Islam since we’ve already been talking about marriage and all that stuff and it’s only possible when I convert. I was gonna go to visit some of my relatives over the holidays and the moment he found out he told me that if i don’t revert by December 21st ( the day I would go and visit them) he will block me delete his socials and I will never hear from him again. And that happened. As mentioned before we’ve been arguing a lot and ig it was a lot for him yesterday he told me that if I don’t promise him by 6am that I will convert by December 21st he will delete everything and we will hear from each again. And he did as he said and since we’re long distance there’s no other way to reach out to him and I tried everything. It’s not like I couldn’t see my self reverting and I’ve thought about it often it’s just I’m still not 100% convinced yet and I still have a lot to learn but I’m not against the idea of me converting . I’m confused myself because all of this and it also kind of hurts that he doesn’t really seems to understand how big of a change it would be for me to revert and I would probably lose many people in my life. Another this is that he’s 5 years older than me so we’re in different places in life and this why I think he was in such a hurry to get ge to convert.But opefully you Zaki read this and reach back to me but any advice would help. Thank you #religion source
There are no people who came from a religious family, the community provides a lot of support and it’s very pleasant. This is the main reason why people practice religion. Except that we deist or agnostic atheists have no community. We think we are few because we do not have a common voice, the religious take up a lot of space because they are united…. Why wouldn't we do the same? #religion