To think Christianity is becoming the biggest religious threat?

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With all that is going on in the world I am seeing Christianity becoming more of a problem.

it shocked me to see British people chanting “Christ is king” at the TR rally last week. That’s not really our culture.

then you have the Charlie Kirk/US issues- I am seeing so many people quoting the bible now, using it to justify their reasoning rather than actual facts and statistics.

”the bible tells us” or “the bible says” . The talk of “god-given” rights. Especially in the US where the pledge of allegiance and the constitution seem to be inextricably mixed up with a Christian god.

I am catholic. But I also believe the bible was written by men, not god, it is fallible. It is more of a collection of stories to convey a good way of living, a code of ethics if you will. But it is also extremely dated and of it’s time, and most of it isn’t applicable to modern life. To me religion is more about a community, a group of people with common ground than god is great we’ll all go to heaven stuff. But I’m probably catholicking wrong 😂. I also believe that most belief systems are pretty similar, and Islam, Christianity, Judaism etc are all probably praying to the same deity. Just slightly different rules.

separation of church and state. But increasingly Christianity is being dragged into politics as some sort of justification as to why that side is right. They have god on their side narratives

so am I right in thinking this increasing use of Christianity could end up more of a threat than any other religion?

Wasn’t a young Sikh woman raped by two racist white thugs very recently? No idea if they affiliated themselves to any particular religion?

Any potential abuses need to be investigated, regardless of the religious background.

All those preaching 'love thy neighbour'

are you still loving your same sex couple neighbours? Your neighbour who had an abortion at 18 weeks because she didn't want to continue the pregnancy?

doubt it

Tell that to the Christians being murdered around the world but not reported about.

What's your point exactly?
Some people of a certain religion being murdered doesn't mean that some other people of that religion aren't being abusive!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002fxr8

This only stopped in the 90's, so I don't think it is a new thing but perhaps getting a resurgence thanks to Trump and the infiltration of society via social media.
The lack of tolerance has certainly grown in the last 20 years.

No it’s terminology for an act with socially negative consequences into a code of pro social behaviours into a format where people can choose to control themselves or lie about it or bear the consequences of social ostracism.

It is really no different from other forms of law except that we tolerate some diversity of religion under the blanket of nation state law.

No Christian terrorists? 🤣🤣

Have you not read about the Christian Crusades in your school history lessons? They were one of the original terrorist organisations and were hell bent on wiping out the threat of Islam, so nothing much has changed in hundreds of years.

Men are still using their version of God and Religion as an excuse for genocide. ☹️

The entire world would be a much better place without any competing religious nonsense.

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I agree - I had a termination many years ago (a contraceptive failure, believe it or not MN!). I would have had it at two weeks if I could have, it was seven weeks and I had it privately in the end, after a lot of to-ing and fro-ing within the NHS for various reasons. I was lucky to have that option. Abortion and infanticide have always been facts of life for human beings; personally I think religion has some valuable things to say about it, but laws have to be pragmatic, not idealistic. Abortion wasn’t a hot issue in the US until relatively recently.

But we do not ever have society without rules - rules make society, whether it is religious or secular (law).

Without rules you have no farming or industry and barbarism or tribal warfare.

Sin is made up 'terminology', which is used by religious groups, and which has no legal meaning in the UK legal system. It's completely separate from other concepts of law. HTH

Right and wrong or rules are completely separate from the concept of religious sin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_and_prostitution_in_South_Korea

If they did it in Korea...

No, in the UK.

A week ago. Man arrested by West
Midlands police.

I agree with this. The way America is justifying things atm is terrible.
I posted on FB agreeing with someone who didn't agree with Charlie kirks views but was appalled by his murder. Simple enough you might think but no, I was told that I was an awful person and that it was lucky that my mum was pro life as this woman would have aborted me even though she didn't agree with it. Not very Christian of her. They do their cause no good.

My point is armies do this as par for the course. US army is in legal battles with Korean rape survivors when they decided to perform mass rapes and label them "prostitutes". Christian country.

I've not read about too many Christian terrorists to be honest. Neither have I heard about Christian parents putting death threats on teachers or staff at a publishing house being murdered in cold blood because of a satirical depiction of Jesus.

Oh get fucked.

Islam is the problem and you know it

I strongly disagree with you. There is another religion that one could say has become very problematic in the past 10-20 years and has been the root motivation for many past terrorist attacks. If you are going to argue Christianity has become a problem I think it is only fair to mention the ‘other’ major religion? Why choose to ignore the elephant in the room OP?

Remember that group who kidnapped all the children and converted them....

Exactly. But these ones involving one particular religious sect aren’t. I wonder why?

This 🫶🏼

You realise that threats don't just come under the name of 'terrorism' right? Most religions promote wide spread oppression, especially of women and children, and blind obedience.