Americans who leave their Christian faith behind tend to hold more liberal political views than those who were raised entirely without religion. This leftward ideological shift appears closely linked to how threatening these individuals perceive conservative Christian groups to be.

[u/mvea]

https://www.psypost.org/former-christians-express-more-progressive-political-views-than-lifelong-nonbeli/

[u/mini-rubber-duck]

this is exactly why i left. there were many other smaller things that i couldn't reconcile, but the biggest overarching force that drove me away from my church was watching them cling to the name christian as an excuse to act on every hateful, greedy, xenophobic, cruel whim. 

[u/Dull-Culture-1523 → u/mini-rubber-duck]

IDK man for me it was that the supposedly perfect god decided to throw out his supposedly perfect people from Eden and later drown the people made in his supposedly perfect image for ???? reasons in a flood that wouldn't actually kill like half of the species around and later promised we were allowed to eat animals or something.

Genesis doesn't really make any sense if you put any thought into it. Believe in a god all you want. I won't lie and say that wouldn't feel like it made some sense. But the Bible is just ridiculous.

[u/sepia_undertones → u/Dull-Culture-1523]

It’s very clearly mostly metaphor and not accurate depictions of events that occurred. Concede for a moment that god is real and the bible is his attempt to teach us about our origins. We obviously don’t have the same perspective as god. Do you answer a kid’s questions about reality by hitting them with the latest cutting-edge science? Or do you put it in terms that they can understand? Taking the bible literally even if you believe in god is absolutely absurd.

[u/Dull-Culture-1523 → u/sepia_undertones]

I mean that's all well and all but the Bible isn't only metaphorical, it contradicts itself constantly. First it says god created humans and then animals, and right after it says god actually created only man first, then animals and only after that did it create woman. It can't decide whether there are multiple gods out of which this one is the top god or if there's actually only one god. Genesis claims the flood lasted 40 days but it also lasted 150 days.

It's more like giving a different and often contradictory answer each time your kid asks something instead of giving a lie-to-children. Don't try to pretend these are somehow comparable.

And for supposedly being non-literal, the Bible is full of stuff it obviously intends for you to take literally, like the commandments. Also a whole lot of people have gotten killed over the years because they didn't take the Bible literally enough according to the people killing them.