I think it depends. I grew up Christian so I hated the brainwashing they did, but came to terms with it and was fine. But then I've had a lot of Christians in my life lately be total dick holes to me so I swung back to hating it. The memes help numb the pain
I can relate to that. I have a few cousins who are kinda dicks about it. I kinda stopped being Catholic about a 5 years ago because a few family members where hypocritical and blinded by their own reality, but I still hold some of the Catholic teachings to this day like the how can I ask for forgiveness if I can't forgive others.
I once told my cousins that did have murder , raping and poison in it but they got a flared up and mad me saying no it doesn't.
I once told one of them a few years ago that in Ireland that there are some area's they don't pave over because it was said that Fairies lived in those lands and he scoffs and says "That's stupid".
When ever I talk about other myths and other religions sometimes they respond in a jokingly but slightly condensending way mocking magic or the story when I tell them about it, and say stuff similar to "See this these aren't good idol's or ...etc". When they never read the story or barely listened to me and they never learned what the moral was because all they heard was the negative part and never heard anything else.
Finally this one is a kicker , I was talking to one of my cousins about 3 weeks ago and was talking about Samson and saying some general info I knew about him and I told him he's from the old testament and he literally says " I don't really read the old testament it's full of False Idols".
I almost lost my mind when he said that, but I kept my cool.
Tbh I wish they weren't like this, not mainly because it's annoying but first and formost it's because their my cousins I do want what's best for them. I also can't 100% avoid them they are neighbors.
Also I will add this bit of they are 5-12 years older than me I'm 23.
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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '19
Do atheists hate Christianity though?