#yes im still mad about that post about mocking christianity and holding up the sun as worthy of worship because science and atheism

[shivasdarknight]

the way that people on this website are so quick to dunk on all religions because of their beef with the institution of christianity 😐 yes, institutions of religions have done horrendous and heinous shit. but you're acting as if religion is only the different denominations of christianity. y'all sometimes bring up judaism, very rarely islam, but you act as though the institution of one religion is now representative of how all religions - including ones without institutional power - are morally.

the fact that indigenous religions and spiritualities are totally left out of the conversation is really telling. because then you'd have to admit that religious institutions intentionally tried to wipe these beliefs out (and many were completely eradicated) due to how it ties in with culture - and if you kill a culture, you kill its people. religion itself is so heavily tied to many different cultures and is so crucial to their identities that indigenous americans risked felonies to continue their practices in secret up until the american indian religious freedom act passed in 1978. by blanket condemning all religions because of your issues with the institution of christianity, you literally fall in line with their colonizer rhetoric because to destroy all non-christian religions is their goal. and idc if you call yourself atheistic, to aid in the destruction of cultural religions places you in line with christian institutions rather than against it.

again: your issue is how major religions (mostly christianity) are used as an arm of colonization and the enforcement of white supremacist beliefs. stop dragging everybody else into your bullshit and focus your energy on the actual problem - because as it stands, secularism and atheism have become new branches of cracking down on religion because they can't do shit about christianity, but they can sure put down other religions and help in their destruction as an atheistic branch of white supremacy.

and as an aside, I am not saying "defend christianity." im saying target your energy at the institutions that are doing this damage, not the marginalized cultural religions or the people who practice these faiths and build community around them. because man, if y'all can't get behind the idea that religion can be crucial to a cultural identity, you're not at All ready to talk about how marginalized groups took christianity and made it their own (see: the black church; mexican catholicism) and how this became an important facet of communities, especially as it pertains to social movements.

#original #religion #yes im still mad about that post about mocking christianity and holding up the sun as worthy of worship because science and atheism #seeing mutuals reblog it to agree w it drove my blood pressure up #the tags are rancid and im sick of y'all #and again: IM AGNOSTIC #it's not my fkn place to tell someone that their beliefs are wrong or one set of beliefs lords over all others #im just a random white bitch from maine. not my fkn place to tell people that their gods are fake or nah #i full on stopped referring to myself as an atheist because of how it's used. just makes me sick