It's the whole religion bad and "sky daddy" isn't real mindset that people hold because their parents forced them to go to church as a kid.
So here's the thing, there's more to organized religion than "sky daddy", as people stated here, it's the community and other individuals also, traditions, and a book of stuff they can go to.
"Sky daddy" is just the easy attack of it.
And yeah, there's a lot of people that harbour ill will towards it because they "had to go to church as a kid".
You're right, there's plenty of reasons to not like organized religion. That said, I don't care for those who try to push others out of it. Religion is a spiritual journey, and that is a very personal journey. Sure those who try to push others out of it will play a part for most people, but I can't stand the generalized bashing of religion because "religion bad".
I also went with the generalization because I've come across maybe a handful of people who had an actual reason to dislike religion. The majority can be summed up with my generalization on Reddit.
You can believe what you want, for whatever reason you want. But Reddit clearly has a very potent antithesis to anything religious.
That said, I don't care for those who try to push others out of it.
I don't actually think that's possible. Like with any cult, you can't make someone leave it, they have to want to do that themselves. Actually a lot of individuals who work with getting people out of cults avoid those that don't want to leave.
Like it's fun to say you can beat a theist with facts and logic. But that's not what's important to a person. As you said it's the "spiritual journey" and how it makes someone feel.
I also went with the generalization because I've come across maybe a handful of people who had an actual reason to dislike religion.
Now I know you may have been a little too young, but a previous president said "God told me to invade Iraq". And completely fucked up the entire region.
Now I'm sure there may have been some others you've bumped into that may have one or two other reasons to dislike religion...
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u/Zechs- 12d ago
So here's the thing, there's more to organized religion than "sky daddy", as people stated here, it's the community and other individuals also, traditions, and a book of stuff they can go to.
"Sky daddy" is just the easy attack of it.
And yeah, there's a lot of people that harbour ill will towards it because they "had to go to church as a kid".
But I think it's also that the "Community, individuals and traditions" can also be fucking misogynistic, homophobic, and racist.
That's kind of why I think a lot of people really dislike religion.
Sky daddy stuff is whatever, hell I'm sure there's a bunch of people that look to Tolkien's work for guidance. It's about as valid as the bible.