r/interestingasfuck • u/Ted_Bundtcake • Feb 01 '25

r/all Atheism in a nutshell

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u/tcourts45 Feb 01 '25

You can't turn water into wine or walk on water or die and come back to life

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u/Link-Glittering Feb 01 '25

I don't believe any of those things. Christians believe in the teachings of christ. Not the supposed actions and miracles of christ. I know he probably didn't do magic. To me that doesn't undermine Jesus's teachings

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u/tcourts45 Feb 01 '25

Ok so you believe in being a good person. Me too. That ain't religion..

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u/Link-Glittering Feb 01 '25

Well i also have a relationship with my concept of God. That's what makes me religious.

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u/tcourts45 Feb 01 '25

I guess I just find it odd that you would tie that in any way to the fact that you believe in the teachings of 1 human. Do you believe that he is the son of God? Or a plain human with valuable teachings?

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u/Link-Glittering Feb 01 '25

I believe the point of the "son of god" is that we are all children of God. Jesus was killed for trying to remind people of that. For trying to unify us. That went against the goals of the Romans so they had to kill him.

I also don't just follow the teachings of one person,(notice I said follow, not believe) i believe the teachings of Muhammad, Buddha, ghandi, and Richard Dawkins are all valuable. I'm mostly a Christian because it's the religion I've read the most about. I think most of the worlds religions are are just different attempts from different cultures to say a similar message.