Subjective Morals and Societal Whims

[The Industrial Atheist]

Quite common among both Christians and rational people Godless heathen trash (aside, thanks to the forum designers for including the cross-out feature; I've made great use of it). 

Seriously, and out of character, I'm actually not trying to fool or troll anyone. I post in the spirit of satire. As I'm fond of saying, it amazes me that anyone EVER believed any of this crap, let alone in today's era. It can sometimes be cathartic and there's nothing like schooling a "moderate Christian" on what their own damn book says, quoting chapter and verse, concluding with calling them a "dumb ass phony Christian".

Well, that wasn't far off from many Christians I had been in contact with. One guy (now, ex work colleague) once told me that my choice is, I either worship God (i.e. in his own interpretation, Orthodox) or I worship Satan - in that "there's no neutrality in religion" philosophy. I told him back "Okay, I'd go with Satan then." He didn't see that coming.

Not to mention that I used to visit a psychotherapist, burdened by my frustrations and all kinds of painful emotions regarding my Christian upbringing, past experiences, religious family, etc. As I was relieving myself of my anger against religion and religious beliefs, she was defending her religion (Christianity). She once recommended me a book by C.S.Lewis... I read in it stuff like why atheists deserve to go to hell, about holy people stepping amid dinosaurs and how the tears of angels could not be anything else than love in liquid form. That's when I stopped going to her.

Also, you have heard about Chechnya, right? About the homosexuals being tortured and killed. I posted some news regarding this topic on some fb groups (not christian related, but people of my country). Answers... well, some liked with laughter, a woman said "I wished I lived in Chechnya.", a man said, "Good, they should be put against the wall and shot dead!", while I had a discussion with a ~30 years old guy in which he said that "homosexuals should be killed", I said "what if the others decided that you should be killed?" He answered, "What, are you gay? =)))))))" To him, you had to be homosexual in order to care for the life of a homosexual. And worst of all, it's not only religious people who feel like that. It's culture. And homosexuality is a taboo. Anyway, the holy Orthodox Church can only feel proud with people shouting on the streets "We want normal children, not homosexuals!"

Damned fanatics. As about moderate christians, you never see them on the streets with banners like "Christians fighting for the civil rights of gay people." They know either to pose the victim or to take a defensive position (of their smeared religion).

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Well, good luck to you. I've dealt with depression as part of schizo-affective disorder. I usually just say schizophrenia out of force of habit as that was my dx for many years.

Interesting to see that I'm not the only one struggling with depression. Every time I'm depressed I'm thinking like "Wouldn't it be nice if I stopped living, if everything just ended?" When I'm deep depressed I'm having moments imagining myself hanging by a rope. It feels like relief. But I haven't tried anything in the past 10 years, so I don't worry that I might do it one day.

I'm not sure if this was the depression or something else, but I couldn't stop thinking about negative things, like for long periods of time.

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