If you ever need clear proof that Christianity is bullshit, look at war.

Most recently the thought has been striking me while watching the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But its true of the majority of wars in recent history. Ukrainian Christians pray to God for safety as they bail out of the back of an armored carrier ready to kill in defense of their homeland. Russian soldiers pray to the same God for protection, huddled in their trenches, waiting for inevitable attacks. When troops die, back home, they pray for God’s vengeance on their enemy, and both sides ask the same God for justice and comfort.

What ridiculous nonsense. Does either side ever think about how God seems to have fucked them over in favor of their enemy? If the god they were praying to were real, couldn’t and wouldn’t he intervene without them having to kill each other violently? Doesn’t it actively disprove the existence of this “god” when he doesn’t?

I am frustrated by the Christian notion to just use their religion as a salve to pain while not changing any behavior that causes the pain in the first place.

I’m tired of the powerful hiding behind religion and using it to control the brainwashed masses.

I don’t understand how the rest of the world doesn’t already see Christianity, and religion generally, as a harmful evil in society. Its like watching a bunch of deluded heroin addicts.

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    4•11 months ago

    It just clicked for me why Marx called religion “the opiate of the masses.”

    …a salve to pain while not changing any behavior that causes the pain in the first place

    As a recovered addict/alcoholic, this rings true, because it’s exactly why I used alcohol and opioids on a personal level. I’m convinced it’s this same addict’s logic that religious people use to handwave not just war, but climate change, bigotry, abuse, slavery, poverty, and a host of other things that are killing us all, and that we could potentially fix if we actually addressed the problems rather than hiding in religion.