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  • IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    There are people who would kill for Hatsune Miku. This is just one of those things humans do.

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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    The thing that’s weird for me is knowing anyone younger than me well enough to know this

    Two of my best friends (the girl I mentioned is one) are 10-15 years younger than me, and yeah it's kinda weird. For the most part I don't notice, but then I'll say something or they will that really makes it obvious and then I feel my soul wither.

    But then I work at a job where some of my coworkers have worked there for as long as I've been alive (40 years), and now we're getting new people where I've been working there for almost as long as they've been alive (this is my 18th year here, and the minimum age we hire is 21). It's weird feeling like the old man at work and yet still only being in the middle of the age/experience range

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  • Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    I think it’s become weird due to lack of cultural context, but I’ve got plenty of younger friends under the context of ‘guy who teaches you how to fix things with a hammer’ and ‘guy who runs the community garden’ and ‘the elder goth’. It’s definitely impossible to have a younger friend just because, that would be weird.

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 10
    being bi, non-binary and christian is weird enough that I honestly don't find anyone my age being into jesus weird unless it's like... actual cult stuff ya'know

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  • Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Central OhioRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    I am a member of a great church, they are voted the most progressive church in the US, they are fine that the closest thing I have to faith is my actually-not-a-shitpost line that what we perceived as god was a bored alien (which I believe is possible but I think what really happened is early humans needed a way to enforce rules as a survival/cultural evolution mechanism…..and current humans need it too)

    And I’ve never seen anyone there “younger” than me, other than the kids of the other parents at roughly the same life stage as me. And we are like 3% of the congregation (who is a bunch of old, white socialists).

    I definitely go out of my way to avoid American Christians though, which isn’t “Americans who are Christian” I mean the actual sect (you know what I mean)

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  • Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Central OhioRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    I know lots of young people of other religions though, hmm

    I’m just vamping until the new mod

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  • ToxTox I kill threads Dilige, et quod vis facRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    I grew up in the south and my best friend's dad was a pastor at one of those "tv is the devil" churches.

    Thankfully their church did not agree that "deodorant is vanity" like some of the churches they organized with, but all of them were "men wear long pants, women wear long skirts" churches, because calves are lust ig

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  • Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    I always like to imagine the dial-up sounds when people like that are given cause to think about kilts and similar.

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  • MulysaSemproniusMulysaSempronius but also susie nyRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    I guess it really depends on if they are the help-others actually Christ-like Christians or death-cult Christians. I don't really understand most of the conservative churches, or why you would chose to join them.

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  • facetiousfacetious a wit so dry it shits sandRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    I find it weird when anyone is tbh

    I mean I have a bunch of Christian friends so I'm not judging I've just never really gotten it. Even when I was trying to be Christian to make my family happy.

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  • Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Central OhioRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    There is a reason Christianity blew up so rapidly at the start, afterall

    And then the toxic shithead men saw opportunity and welp,

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  • ToxTox I kill threads Dilige, et quod vis facRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    There is a reason Christianity blew up so rapidly at the start, afterall

    And then the toxic shithead men saw opportunity and welp,

    But enough about Paul *rimshot*

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  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    I grew up in the Bible Belt South and still interact with these people everyday. Our new neighbors wanted to invite us to church.

    It's kind of annoying having gotten out of it but I don't really find it weird. I've got a lot of scatterbrained thoughts on religion that I'd assume nobody really wants to hear. I just know that it's a thing and a part of me, reflexively, still gets a little angry when it's looked at as a way to kind of other people or punch down on those wacky religious folk. Boy they sure are dumb and mean, ain't they?

    Have they earned a lot of that scorn? Absolutely. They can and have been real bastards, I have enough separation from it to be able to step back and acknowledge that and kinda temper my kneejerk reaction. But also, like. It's complicated, man. This stuff runs deep deep and it's hard to shake it if you can even recognize you're in the middle of it at all.

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  • Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    No matter where you fall, I think we can agree if you hear the first crack of thunder and don’t want to lift the nearest object to the sky and make noises I don’t know if can be trusted.

    PSA if the nearest object is tall and metal don’t lift that thing any higher.

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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    No matter where you fall, I think we can agree if you hear the first crack of thunder and don’t want to lift the nearest object to the sky and make noises I don’t know if can be trusted.

    PSA if the nearest object is tall and metal don’t lift that thing any higher.

    The other day I was at work and a hell of a thunderstorm rolled in, with hail and lots of lightning and really high winds and everything. I was on a rooftop post, the highest one we have, directly between the two containment buildings. You betcha I went out and stood in the center of the roof and yelled at the sky and shook my rifle at it

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  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    I have found that I very deeply yearn for ritual and mystery.

    My ape brain desires nothing more than to paint myself and dress in animal bones and chant and hoot to make a vague and ominous spirit chill for a bit or give me a good hunt.

    I don't know why. I think I'm kind of desparate for some sort of deep rooted cultural identity maybe? Being a white American sometimes leaves you feeling a little... bland? Looking back even when I was a kid, modern Christianity never felt quite right to me. Like, it was too sanitized. It claimed to lay bare the fundamental mysteries of the universe but also required you to "have faith" if there was something that didn't make sense or you couldn't understand or it couldn't cleanly explain. To me, those things are contradictory. Diametric.

    Obviously, I'm a modern man of Science who believes in Tesla Coils and gunpowder but you know. I can recognize the desire.

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  • Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Central OhioRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    Tox wrote: »
    There is a reason Christianity blew up so rapidly at the start, afterall

    And then the toxic shithead men saw opportunity and welp,

    But enough about Paul *rimshot*

    That’s exactly who that was about lol

    Not exclusively

    But he was the prototype

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  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    In some ways that's happening here, too. Religiosity is in a free fall over the last few years and it's largely being attributed to the hard core Rightwing take over and the rise of "Evangelical" Christianity. People just don't like it. I think it's just not quite as noticeable because of how decentralized the Church is in America. Specifically, that there is no one Church. There are 98 million billion little offshoot churches of all different denominations that might have congregations in the thousands or might be 5 people in a living room.

    That said, I think I also saw an article recently that stated more young people are turning to the Catholic church in search of rigidity and hierarchy in this tipsy topsy world. So who the fuck knows.

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  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    I'll bet a lot of the saints and such don't even think about us anymore.

    They're like my dad who moved to Canada from England when he was 12 and now adays only thinks about it when he occasionally watches some football match.

    But I'll bet Jesus is like the guy who visited Japan once ten years ago and will not stop talking about it when you get him started.

    That's about the best we can hope for, I think.

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  • Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    I like to think Jesus is quiet and reserved and plays his part, but if you get him talking about carpentry! Whoo boy!

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  • Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    He love furniture that slots together. Fuck nails, he says, so triggering.

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  • PaladinPaladin Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    I figured that young people would be hyper-evolved omni-talented celestials compared to me, a sack of rotten dirt, but education just seems terribly bad nowadays and with COVID, it's reaching new lows. I'd expect religion would have something to offer people suffering from ignorance.

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    Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
  • Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    Jesus would have loved those things, what are they called, that burn wood in patterns. Like a hot pen.



    This is my last flippant reply because I think this could actually be a good topic, but it’s so annoying the crucifixion has become the main symbol of Christianity.

    Just imagine an alternate world that really honed in on the turning water into wine bit. Absolutely smashed priests in togas handing out bottles of wine to the locals, wearing string necklaces covered in corks, as the sacrament dictates.

    Or maybe go all in on the water walking thing, and nuns become renowned for their jet skiing. The symbol of Christianity becomes those bugs that don’t break water tension and the pope gives his decrees from atop a floatie in the holy pool.

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  • SirToastySirToasty Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    Weaver wrote: »
    Who needs Jesus? Embrace unknowable geometric shape!
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    Love a monolith

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  • HeadCreepsHeadCreeps NOW IS THE TIME FOR DRINKING! Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    I was raised in a pretty secular family, so when I encounter deeply religious people or are in the home of someone religious, it always feels alien to me

    I guess this mostly pertains to Christians/Catholics, as I think I'm more tolerant of other faiths because, of course, I am a whiny leftist who thinks the white man is the source of all the world's ills

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  • LucedesLucedes Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    i prefer disorganized religion

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    One thing I think more American atheists, neo-pagans, and even WASPs who convert to other more organized religions could stand to be self aware about is just how much latent cultural Christianity we tend to carry around

    The number of common neo-pagan or new age spiritual beliefs, in some circles, that are essentially just Protestantism with the Jesus filed off and a new figure (or set of figures) stamped in to replace him is pretty uncanny

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  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    Mortal Sky wrote: »
    One thing I think more American atheists, neo-pagans, and even WASPs who convert to other more organized religions could stand to be self aware about is just how much latent cultural Christianity we tend to carry around

    The number of common neo-pagan or new age spiritual beliefs, in some circles, that are essentially just Protestantism with the Jesus filed off and a new figure (or set of figures) stamped in to replace him is pretty uncanny

    I mean our entire country is built on/around puritan work ideals. A lot of this is just INVISIBLE to folks, it's wild.

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  • CalicaCalica Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    I grew up in a fundamentalist sect (one of the less overtly toxic ones), so no, I'm not surprised that there are people I grew up with who stayed and are raising their kids to be good little Christians.

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  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 10
    If you talk to them enough sometimes they share their Jesus self-insert slashfic.

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  • ToxTox I kill threads Dilige, et quod vis facRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    Sterica wrote: »
    If you talk to them enough sometimes they share their Jesus self-insert slashfic.

    More of a crossover

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  • CoinageCoinage Heaviside LayerRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    I struggle against being an epic reddit atheist, but this poll is strange. "Your age", as if anyone reading this is young, and the world is still extremely religious. And if someone isn't religious there's a pretty good chance they hold equally superstitious beliefs about Spirit/Source/etc. I don't like it, but clearly there's something weird about you if you're comfortable saying "there's no evidence for that, it doesn't check out" to everything.

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