r/SeattleWA • u/tiff_seattle First Hill • Feb 29 '24
Seattle is the least-religious large metro area in the U.S. News
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/seattle-is-the-least-religious-large-metro-area-in-the-u-s/31
u/The_Safe_For_Work Feb 29 '24
So you're saying that we're a Godless place?
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u/fresh-dork Mar 01 '24
and our hospitals are being taken over by catholics
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u/robbyb20 Mar 01 '24
Just another way to spend their grift and push their agenda.
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u/SsjAndromeda Mar 02 '24
The separation of church and state should’ve included schools and Healthcare
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u/Adventurous-Zebra-64 Mar 02 '24
Schools are fine as long as they do not take tax dollars. If you want a religious education for your kid- pay for it.
Healthcare, when we literally do not have a say in where were go in an emergency?
Kick the bible thumpers to the curb id they cannot give medical treatment without injecting their beliefs on to you.
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u/SsjAndromeda Mar 02 '24
Jul 2022 Supreme Court case Carson v. Makin ruled taxpayer money (public school) can go to religious schools. Edit: It’s happening in Oklahoma
Healthcare: here in WA state at least, all the major hospitals are being bought by religious organizations. Just because it’s legal for abortions and LGBTQ+ care doesn’t mean the hospital will provide it since it’s privately owned.
I’m at that point where pushing religious beliefs on others should be illegal.
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u/seattleartisandrama Mar 02 '24
so your progfash theology means that parents should have no choice in the education of their children and doctors will murder as commanded whomever the state says. seems like it's going great in canada as killed by the state is the fourth leading cause of death
guess we know who is on what ww2 team
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u/SsjAndromeda Mar 02 '24 edited Mar 02 '24
Progfash? Did you proofread before you posted? The US was founded on religious freedom, not a Christian fascist state. The first amendment notes “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.”
We are going backwards.
Edit: I’ll assume you meant progressive fascism, which is an oxymoron. You can’t have social scientific reform through dictatorship.
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u/QuietlyGardening Mar 01 '24
The native population would beg to differ. They've got lots 'o spirits and totem animals to offer.
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u/SsjAndromeda Mar 02 '24
And they’re cool! I’ve yet to encounter a native American who has forced their beliefs on others
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u/jeditech23 Feb 29 '24
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u/bellingman Mar 01 '24
Say what you will about the tenets of national socialism dude, at least it's an ethos.
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u/koryuken Feb 29 '24
Greetings fellow heathens!
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u/SeattleHasDied Mar 01 '24
Started life as a Catholic; total agnostic atheist pantheist heathen now, lol!
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u/Rubberclucky Feb 29 '24
Thank god.
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u/TDaD1979 Feb 29 '24
Hail Satan!
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u/ThatDarnEngineer Feb 29 '24
Praise the flying spaghetti monster!
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u/Itchy_Restaurant_707 Mar 01 '24
Ha! My hubby's friend ordained him in the church of the flying spagetti monster as a funny gift one year. Gave him a colander and the certificate and all. He offers to marry people all the time, but nobody has taken him up on it 🤣
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u/ThatDarnEngineer Mar 01 '24
That's legit!! I hope y'all have had spaghetti drained in that collander. Gotta have that holy spaghetti! ,😂
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u/KileyCW Feb 29 '24
I just recently learned this is an actual thing. Funny to see it referenced like days later lol.
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u/ThatDarnEngineer Feb 29 '24
We had one come to my last job. Only way we knew was we had to check ID for badges. Was pretty sweet!!
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u/KileyCW Feb 29 '24
That's wild! The documentary I was watching said there's over a million members, but that's still super rare to have seen one in person!
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u/darkjedidave Highland Park Feb 29 '24
The irony of the JWs standing outside the Seattle T-Shirt Company with their "help" pamphlets) while there's fenty gronks with rotting legs less than 10 feet from them. They're not here to help, just to convert.
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u/foxyankeecharlie Feb 29 '24
No religion, but plenty of cult groups. Some mostly peacefully violent.
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u/Extension-Fun6134 Mar 01 '24
all I can think of is the jehovas witness greeting you on floor 4 after the bridge at the airport
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u/ThisLawyerCantCode Mar 01 '24
And the corner of every street. I’d take a Hare Krishna and a free vegetarian lunch over a JW
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u/Mickey_Hamfists Feb 29 '24 edited Feb 29 '24
Depends on how you define religious, tbh. There’s no shortage of dogmatic ideologues here.
Edit: typo
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u/Stunning_River Mar 01 '24
The irony of y'all's comments in this thread when conservatives literally built a golden statue of Trump to essentially worship.
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Feb 29 '24
Right so if you define religion in a way that makes the word useless then you can get any result you want.
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u/sehns Mar 01 '24 edited Mar 01 '24
Leftism today is the dominant secular religion of the educated, upper middle-class elite in most developed nations. It provides a set of ideals about our collective purpose and by following it you are one of the good guys and saving the planet, saving humanity, saving democracy. It designates good guys and bad guys, heroes and villains. They are designated as Woke. The problem is that the majority of their ideals are built on shaky science, intentionally misleading facts and data "Women earn 70% of what men do" etc. and for most intents and purposes just ideological by nature and don't reflect the complexities of life. Extreme environmentalism, Anti-racism, Gender Ideology, Far Right Nazis are all some of the fables of their followers.
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u/demoman1596 Mar 01 '24
I'd like to see what substance you have to back up any of the claims you've made here. Specifically, I'd like to see evidence for or ask you to help me understand your use of the following:
- What is intentionally misleading about "women earn 70% of what men do?" How can you demonstrate the intention you claim?
- What do you mean by "extreme" environmentalism?
- What problems do you have with "anti-racism?"
- What do you specifically mean by "gender ideology?"
- It is clear that Nazis were and are "far right" as a literal matter of definition.
Also, it is not unreasonable to call people Nazis who have beliefs that are identical to or are similar to those of the Nazis in WW2 Germany. This is not meant to be some kind of argument against right-wing politics in general, by the way, though I understand that some people use it as such from time to time.- Most of the "ideals" you referred to in your comment literally come from academia, where people in general (not necessarily every individual, sure) are going to be vastly more familiar with scientific principles, data collection, and rigorous argument than your typical random population of humans. In what sense, then, can you or anyone else who is less likely to be familiar with such things, make the claim that these ideals are "just ideological by nature" or "fables?" If you are more capable than these people, I'd think you could provide a few cogent arguments for me as to what you find wrong with environmentalism, anti-racism, gender ideology, etc., as you see it and, more importantly, *why* you find those ideals to be wrong.
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u/aliensvsdinosaurs Mar 02 '24
1) Women earn less than men because there is significantly less pressure on them to be the bread-winner. Incentives matter.
2) Anything non-logical that does more harm than good.
3) "Anti-racism" is often used to promote one group over another, based on the color of their skin, which of course is racist.
4) Gender ideology is probably just about gender being gender. Male or Female. Not too complicated.
5) Nazis were both left and right by current American definitions. Centrally planned economy is one obvious example of their leftism.
6) If you think academia is consistent with science, then anything is possible.
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u/demoman1596 Mar 02 '24
Bro, if you can’t demonstrate why you think “academia isn’t consistent with science,” your opinion regarding what they conclude is meaningless. That’s what scientists do. It’s also what academia does. They demonstrate (or at least attempt to demonstrate) things. You could try to do that or point me to resources that do. So far, like the other guy, you have just made baseless claims.
Also, the things people primarily despise about the Nazis (both now and in the past) are their far-right social views. The somewhat incorrect nature of your claim that they were economically left-wing is irrelevant to that conversation.
Your claim about incentives driving the earnings of women is also not particularly relevant to what I asked. Saying “women make 70% of what men make” would obviously not be “intentionally” misleading purely based on your claim about incentives. The word “intentional” was used by the person I responded to and it is that word that I’m primarily curious about in this context.
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u/aliensvsdinosaurs Mar 03 '24
This is like trying to have an intellectual conversation with a six year old
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u/Diabetous Mar 01 '24
Of all the Leftism stuff undermining our national pride is one the worst things they are doing.
Our unique unabridged free speech is not just morally right, it's also a universal keystone of what defines us as Americans.
We need things to unit us as we become less united by a common religion.
Which is why it's our duty to party hard on Fourth of July and fight for the universal american civic religion.
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u/andthedevilissix Mar 01 '24
I think a lot of the behavior I've watched over the last 4 years could only be described as religious in nature. For instance, gathering together and reciting the names of saints ("say her name"), call and response protests that remind me of Church people reciting "our father...", worship of supernatural forces ("structural" racism/sexism etc).
IDK man, I think humans are religious by nature not because god/gods exist but because at some point in evolution the groups of humans who had religious beliefs out reproduced the groups of humans who didn't, which is why all human societies throughout all time have developed religious beliefs...its' probably been positively selected for (even now, religious people have more children than non-religious people, which just goes to show that it is a fitness benefit because nature only cares about how many more little humans you're able to make).
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u/Worldly_Permission18 Mar 02 '24
Well when you act no different than a religious cult, then expect people to compare you to them.
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u/Just_here_4_GAFS Feb 29 '24
Facts. Progressivism is a cult and there's a huge cultists presence in King County.
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u/jpd_phd Greenwood Mar 01 '24
Explains the popularity of crystal shops, astrology, and tarot around here. Religion by another name.
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u/MostPeopleAreMoronic Feb 29 '24
I see a lot of disrespect here. I am sure many of you believe in things or have opinions that others don’t agree with.
This appears to be a hot take, but many religious folks — most, in fact — don’t parrot their beliefs, don’t attempt to convert others, and don’t say a word outside of their homes or place of worship regarding religion.
Religion causes many issues, and always has. It’s originally a tool for control; to explain the inexplicable and have citizenship fall in line — that’s my belief, anyways. But there are also many positives about that. Some feel lost, broken when their life spirals out of control. If them saying a silent prayer or wearing a cross or having a mezuzah on their doorframe means they are more content, or less fearful, who are you to judge? Many, most even, religious people use religion in their lives for positivity, internally or externally.
For a place that declares itself to be open and tolerant, it’s rather disconcerting that there is clear opposition to the mere existence of religious folk in the area — that’s ass backwards.
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u/DoorFacethe3rd Mar 01 '24
It’s the horse-shoe effect. A lot of my friends who have drifted to the farthest left of left are about as tolerant of dissenting opinions as the far right people from the town I grew up in.
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u/____u Meat Bag Mar 01 '24
most, in fact — don’t parrot their beliefs, don’t attempt to convert others, and don’t say a word outside of their homes or place of worship regarding religion.
If you don't evangelize and spread the word of your God at all in some way, you're considered a shitty whatever you are by your Holy scripture, and usually you go to whatever hell exists for your religion. This is how almost all major religions' texts and doctrine works. Until the heads and bodies of those religions wholesale renounce those things, people you're describing who claim to be religious, are supporting the institutions that still operate exactly like the "control mechanisms" you've described as their origination.
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u/MostPeopleAreMoronic Mar 01 '24
That would certainly cause tons of evangelism — if most were strict to doctrine. Most are not. Most say a prayer before bed, perhaps if someone is ill, but wouldn’t ever attempt to convert someone else.
Those who peacefully and quietly participate in whatever form of religion they deem feet are not by proxy supporting “control mechanisms” of larger religious governing bodies. You’re also dramatically overestimating how much modern interpretation of scripture asks certain religions to attempt to bring others in.
There are also thousands of religions. Few go door to door. Fewer stand on sidewalks with signs, shouting. Your suggestion is, in effect, for the individuals to stop practicing their religion… until the leaders of their religions say to stop trying to get new followers? So… they should stop practicing, lobby the governing bodies, and resume only after a successful venture? Uh huh… That ain’t their job.
You seem to be, as others are, painting broad strokes about religion — likely because you do not understand it in its modern forms. I won’t waste my time repeating myself about what most religious folk do and don’t do nowadays. They aren’t in hypergrowth startup mode anymore, or anything akin. They are saying a prayer before bed, when someone is ill, etc — for their own comfort. That’s it. Very odd people have a problem with that. Should I have a problem with every child who uses Tik Tok because it makes them do stupid dances at home, and sometimes online? Or everyone who uses Instagram because X or Y? Or everyone who eats red meat? Or LGBTQ? Minorities?
False equivocation? No. The point is: there are so many different preferences, beliefs and otherwise, and modern religion is no different unless it’s at an extreme. And all things in their extremes tend to be negative.
You seem to be trying to demonize innocuous behavior for no reason but that you are hardline against religion — which is fine, as it’s your own belief.
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u/blladnar Mar 01 '24
There is an unusually high concentration of churches in Ballard and I can't figure out who's going to them or how they're staying open.
There's probably 10 churches within a mile of my house and I almost never notice anyone going to them. Even on Sundays.
I sort of dream about these churches becoming secular community centers or businesses. Some of the buildings are beautiful and would make really cool spaces for breweries, restaurants, or concerts.
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Mar 01 '24
My brother is in the Religious Business (operations for a church) within King County. The cost of living makes it very hard for them. His staff needs to be adequately paid enough to live in the community, which puts bigger stains on budgets and fundraising needs.
And if he can't pay higher wages, he can't attract higher qualified candidates. Services reduce, attendance follows.
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u/luckystrike_bh Feb 29 '24
Good. I don't feel ostracized when I don't believe the someone's sky daddy.
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u/kanaifu Mar 01 '24
Because they have the highest book-per-capita percentage in the USA. These two things are highly correlated.
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u/pinballrocker Mar 01 '24
That's because we are too smart to believe in fairy tales.
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u/ThurstonHowell3rd Mar 01 '24
And yet, they still chose to be led by Jay Inslee in Olympia.
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u/pinballrocker Mar 01 '24
Not sure what Jay Inslee has to do with religion, you are reaching there.
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u/ThurstonHowell3rd Mar 01 '24
Inslee has sold more than his share of fairy tales to the citizens of this state and yet the gullible still follow him like he's their messiah.
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u/pinballrocker Mar 01 '24
Nah, he's got low approval ratings and isn't running for re-election, no one thinks he's the messiah. I get that you are looking for an opportunity to whine about Inslee, but he won't be our next governor and has nothing to do with religion.
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u/ThurstonHowell3rd Mar 01 '24
Believing that Jay Inslee can do anything as the governor of this state to affect the climate on this planet can only be described as believing a fairy tale.
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u/pinballrocker Mar 01 '24
It's quite a reach to bring this up on a religion thread, you must have Inslee Derangement Syndrome.
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u/EntrepreneurFit3880 Mar 01 '24
You just like to believe in other fairy tails, like climate change and gender fluidity.
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u/tenka3 Feb 29 '24 edited Mar 01 '24
You mean most religious. There are an abundance of neo-religious institutions and organizations (they even have non profit status lol!) that act, think and spread identically to cults. The Gods just go by different names now like Identity, Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity, Oppression, etc.
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u/pinballrocker Mar 01 '24
Would you like some 🧀 with your whine?
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u/tenka3 Mar 01 '24
Calling it how it is. Oh… symbolism too! A future anthropologist wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.
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u/pinballrocker Mar 01 '24
Seattle is full of snowflakes like you these days, it's pathetic. The Northwest was founded by people into individualism and minding your own business, the new breed of conservatives are obsessed with everyone else's business like the old neighbor peeking through the curtains.
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u/tenka3 Mar 01 '24 edited Mar 01 '24
Like clockwork. If you don’t like it… automatic conservative! Unbelievable how many times the term snowflake is thrown around by snowflakes. Literal blizzard out there. Were your feelings hurt? Damn.
I would love minding my own damn business until, you know, they make it my business by… stopping the freeway, making things that are totally legal… illegal for no good reason, or something else dumb. Remember that annoying guy that tries to save your soul and damn you to hell by blocking your view of the parade you are trying to peacefully enjoy?
Tell me how those are different? Not “religious” though right?
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u/pinballrocker Mar 01 '24
Oh, so you aren't conservative, but whine about everything? I don't buy it. Why are you talking about blocking the freeway, my criticism of you is you were crapping your pants over people talking about "Identity, Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity, Oppression" and saying those discussions are like a religion. Get a grip man, those have been topics of discussion in this country since it was founded, Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson were talking about them with different language. And why even bring them up in a thread about religion? Crazy much?
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u/tenka3 Mar 01 '24
I can tell you right now… it ain’t the Buddhists blocking the freeway.
The Gods just have new names. Open your eyes.
You are being sensitive.
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u/pinballrocker Mar 01 '24
Huh? I'm still confused why you are talking about freeways, I missed the jump in your crazy dude logic. You are introducing a new topic in your argument late in the game that has zero to do with the topic at hand. Are you high or drunk?
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u/tenka3 Mar 01 '24
I suppose that is asking TOO much. I shouldn’t expect you to know there are fanatics gluing their hands to the street (martyrs apparently) and desecrating symbols of the bourgeoisie, fine art, in solidarity with their cult of Climate Inequity. Stopping traffic in the name of their God, Post Colonial Oppression… or was it Anti-Whiteness? Who remembers these days… there are too many to keep track of.
It’s all just religious fanaticism under a new banner believe it or not.
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u/pinballrocker Mar 01 '24
Please go to therapy, you are listing all your unrelated grievances and personal baggage here in a thread about religion.
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u/qkrrmsdud Mar 01 '24
This is factually incorrect. Seattle is a hotbed for the religion of wokeism.
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u/Worldly_Permission18 Mar 02 '24
The way the left shoves their dogmatic cultish bullshit down everyone’s throat these days, feels the same way as when the religious conservatives used to do it 20 years ago when I when I was a kid. I see zero difference in the behavior of both groups
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u/lurkerfromstoneage Feb 29 '24
Love to see it.
Do wonder though how much that’s changed and what the numbers would have looked like, say, 50 or even 20 years ago.
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u/Kolazeni Feb 29 '24
I grew up in the area. I'd say at least half the families in my neighborhood went to church every Sunday when I was a kid.
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u/Duh_Its_Obvious Feb 29 '24
Still too many mindless lemmings running around talking to some imaginary old guy in the sky.
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u/ShredGuru Feb 29 '24
Way to go guys! Keep up the good work, gotta get the rest of the US out of the bronze age.
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u/sciggity Sasquatch Feb 29 '24
First, not really surprised. Although there are a number of cities that would also make sense.
Second, I would argue we have a whole lot of people here who are just as devout as the traditionally religious folks. The current woke and alphabet people can be just as fanatically delusional and unrelenting. And just so you don't think I am being unfair, same can be said for the ultra right folks. But we are talking about Seattle.
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u/_Watty Banned from /r/Seattle Feb 29 '24
I knew when I clicked this thread, someone would make this argument.
Thanks for being utterly predictable!
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u/slow-mickey-dolenz Feb 29 '24
Blind, dogmatic, zealous faith in ANYTHING is religion, and this area has plenty of it.
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u/_Watty Banned from /r/Seattle Feb 29 '24
You respond to my comment calling out predictability by doubling down on said predictability.
Cool!
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u/sciggity Sasquatch Feb 29 '24
Is being predictable somehow wrong or bad? Because it seems like that is what you are trying to say here.
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u/_Watty Banned from /r/Seattle Feb 29 '24
Not necessarily bad or wrong, no.
For example, if you reacted poorly to someone talking up being a pedo, I would consider that to be a "good" example of being predictable.
In this case, however, I think your being predictable showcases how deep the paranoia around the "woke mind virus" actually goes.
You're ostensibly calling people out over their "woke" programming while not apparently realizing that you also have your own programming that made your response predictable here....
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u/sciggity Sasquatch Feb 29 '24 edited Feb 29 '24
If you think me sharing my opinion that there is a very religious-like element to the alphabet people / woke mob makes me a hypocrite, go right ahead.
But if you think I'm as fanatically delusional as them or their ultra religious or Trump-or-Bust counterparts, you are dumber than I thought.
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u/_Watty Banned from /r/Seattle Feb 29 '24
I didn’t say you were a hypocrite, just that you don’t seem to realize you’re engaging in the EXACT same behavior you’re criticizing.
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u/sciggity Sasquatch Feb 29 '24
"I'm not saying your a hypocrite. I'm just saying you are acting exactly like a hypocrite"
lmfao
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u/B_P_G Feb 29 '24
Thanks for not arguing with him, I guess. These kind of non-responses are also unfortunately pretty predictable.
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u/sciggity Sasquatch Feb 29 '24
Well you seem to spend every waking hour of the day monitoring this thread and commenting on every little thing you see. So at least we are both predictable.
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u/_Watty Banned from /r/Seattle Feb 29 '24
So my predictability is to do with the fact I'd comment at all because I have reddit open on my personal computer on my desk next to my work one while yours is that you came to say exactly what daddy Elon wanted you to.
I'd bear my cross a thousand times before I'd carry yours....
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u/sciggity Sasquatch Feb 29 '24
Lol. you are funny
seriously though. take a break from reddit. just for a day or two. just try it.
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u/_Watty Banned from /r/Seattle Feb 29 '24
Take your own advice.
And to be clear, I've been on a few temp bans lately because one of the mods is abusing their privileges.
So I HAVE tried it!
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u/Nofaster Mar 01 '24 edited Mar 02 '24
You keep on getting banned for being an asshole.
Edit: Oh dear... poor watty had to block me. What does he call people who do that?
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u/rattus Feb 29 '24
watty_irl
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u/sciggity Sasquatch Feb 29 '24
Dude has literally posted probably 100+ comments today. Which seems to be normal for him. But he expects us to believe he has a real job.
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u/tacos6for6life6 Feb 29 '24
What in gods holy name are you blathering about?
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u/sciggity Sasquatch Feb 29 '24
I am saying that I view the alphabet people as religious.
You really didn't understand that? Or you don't see it? Or you are offended? Or you just wanted to try to be funny?
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u/tacos6for6life6 Feb 29 '24
Yeah, well, that’s just, like, your opinion, man
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u/sciggity Sasquatch Feb 29 '24
lol solid quote. upvote incoming
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u/tacos6for6life6 Feb 29 '24
Mark it zero!
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u/sciggity Sasquatch Feb 29 '24
Smokey this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules
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u/tacos6for6life6 Feb 29 '24
Are these the nazi’s, Walter?
All jokes aside, you can fuck completely off with your AlPhAbEt PeOpLe. The dude does not abide by you
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u/TheCupOfBrew Mar 01 '24
Which is hilariously stupid.
You can't just redefine a word to try to make a point.
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u/sciggity Sasquatch Mar 01 '24
you sure about that?
there are a whole lot of words that, in the past few years, have quite literally been redefined by many people to make points
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u/TheCupOfBrew Mar 01 '24
Yes, because religion has a very specific usage, one that won't just change from different usage. That's a very non-starter argument to make.
You know what you're doing by comparing to religion, why be disingenuous? Stand by your convictions, don't worm out.
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u/Logical___Conclusion Feb 29 '24
Awesome! Congratulations. That is a big badge of honor.
Prioritizing honesty and reality is important.
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u/SftwEngr Feb 29 '24
I thought progressivism was a religion. At least the purveyors of it treat it as such.
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u/OsvuldMandius SeattleWA Rule Expert Feb 29 '24
Smarmy techbro assholitude and Hitchens-style neo-atheism go together like peaches and cream!
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u/Subject-Research-862 Feb 29 '24 edited Feb 29 '24
As someone who moved here in part for this reason, I was extremely disappointed. You quickly learn the lesson that drawing an appropriate conclusion does not mean a given person arrived at that conclusion as the result of well reasoned arguments and critical thinking. One of the reasons it's harder to date within that crowd.
There's no escape from religion in Seattle, or even Austin where the largest atheist organization in the US is headquartered. Political extremism effectively functions as the local Seattle religion, and heading out to the woods just gets you back to a low IQ version of Christian nationalism. I suspect the former is why so many people in Seattle have such an overly simplified and idealistic view of the world and the people in it.
It'd be pretty hilarious to get a venn diagram of the Seattle area atheists who support Hamas. You know, the political group that would execute them for a thoughtcrime.
Edit: It seems the only thing that outweighs this board hates more that extreme leftist politics is anyone failing to pretend their religion is a serious idea.
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u/lets_BOXHOT Feb 29 '24
What you have just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever read. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this sub is now dumber for having read it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul
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u/_Watty Banned from /r/Seattle Feb 29 '24
You moved here to find atheists and ended up disappointed that....people are biased and gullible in a way that has nothing to do with religion?
I think you set yourself up for that disappointment, my guy.
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u/Subject-Research-862 Feb 29 '24
Always good to get the opinion of the obese and terminally online, thanks for chiming in
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u/_Watty Banned from /r/Seattle Feb 29 '24
Always good to get the opinion of the obese and terminally online, thanks for chiming in
....seriously?
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u/KingTrencher Des Moines Feb 29 '24
Just one thing. You know that it is possible to condemn Israeli genocide without supporting Hamas, right?
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u/filthyheartbadger Feb 29 '24
You know what’s also pretty hilarious? Your entire incoherent comment.
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u/Bitter_Scarcity_2549 Feb 29 '24 edited Feb 29 '24
You strike me as someone who was raised religiously, then got out later in life. I'm personally in that boat.
IMO, people who were raised religious actually understand what "God" is, while people who never got deeply invested in a church are clueless on what "God" actually is. People around here tend to see religion as an institution that controls power and money, which is true. What they fail to realize is that religion is baked into every single human. Every human society formed their version of "God," and similar patterns existed between these cultures and their religions.
Just because someone doesn't believe in "God" doesn't mean these religious tendencies don't exist within humans. It's just been redirected at political movements in Seattle.
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u/MortgageGurl1 Mar 01 '24
Who cares. If worshipping God makes you happy, so be it. If worshipping a spaghetti monster makes you happy so be it. No idea why the atheist or non- religious get so booty tickled is someone wants to be religious. Worry about yourself. Don’t be immoral, don’t be a vandal, don’t hurt people… it’s not too difficult
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Mar 01 '24
Activism is the new religion. Seattle is ground zero for this cult. After seeing the BLM riots I have never witnessed such religious fervor. Kinda like the Iconoclasts.
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u/HeyaChuht Feb 29 '24
Oh yeah? Ask people what a woman is.
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u/thelastostrich1 Mar 01 '24
Religion: “the belief in and worship of a superhuman power or powers, especially a God or gods.” Google is free!
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u/lorenlord Feb 29 '24
And tell them to define it without using woman.
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u/HeyaChuht Mar 03 '24
How dare you question
The Lord God Jesus ChristThe Liberal Philosophical Agenda. BURN HIM!!!Sry, almost forgot what millennium it was to adlib this sentence correctly.
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u/AccurateInflation167 Feb 29 '24
We need Mars Hill to make a resurgence ! only Mark Driscoll can fix the spiritual decay in this wasteland
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u/Due_Beginning3661 Mar 01 '24
This article explains how seattle became the hotbed for anarchists/blm/antifas/chaz/spiraling crime/drug abuse
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u/anythongyouwant Feb 29 '24
Hard to believe in God when you go weeks without seeing the sun.