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What always gets me is the idea of humility in Christianity with the “Stay Humble. Pray” bumper stickers and the like.
What could be less humble than thinking that the perfect Devine creator of the universe would listen to and solve the petty problems you ask of it?
Maybe not unpopular on Lemmy, but definitely is in real life.
Here's a real unpopular online opinion:
The follies of organized religions don't invalidate sincere faith and devotion to a higher power. Just because there are narcissists who believe a supreme creative intelligence pays particular attention to a specific religious group, doesn't mean that behavior is representative of every person who believes in a supreme creative intelligence.
Online atheists have a nasty habit of reductively lumping all religious belief in with the most egregious examples. I should know, I used to do it.
It's still a mental illness and should be treated as such.
Is it? Panpsychism is a reasonably plausible hypothesis to explain subjective consciousness.
Not only that, you're that being's most perfect creation. For which it would sacrifice its only child.
That's not religion.
Maybe we should regard the lives of ants more closely. It would take an omniscient power to know for a fact whether or not the innumerable lives of ants were actually of consequence to ours. The linchpins of human history could have very well been events as mundane as a farmer being driven to insanity by a persistent colony of ants destroying his crops or an animal in turn modifying their behavior to the bewilderment of its keepers because of the mighty ant.
To this day human decisions that could reverberate throughout the rest of human existence might very well be made due to the influence of what too many of discount as a common pest. I mean they are but my point stands.
I’m not completely disagreeing with the sentiment, I simply believe that faith and religion still have a place to comfort individuals. However the power hungry communities that typically form around the vulnerable seeking solace and sense of belonging are a disease.
In summary; ants are cool, organized religion is whack.
Sounds like you don't know what religion is (hint: it isn't Christianity).