This is absolutely disgusting. Don’t hate on others belief. I am absolutely shocked that this came up on my dash and am utterly heartbroken that someone went to all the effort of creating this image.
This isn’t hating on beliefs. In ALL OTHER ASPECTS OF LIFE, truth seeking is accepted and normal…yet if we apply the same logic to religion, it is somehow considered hate. By this logic, suggesting that the earth isn’t 6 thousand years old is hating on Fundamentalist Christians. Study after study have PROVED that prayer is ineffective. If finding out that something you believe in or support offends you, you should probably take a good, hard look at yourself.
This image doesn’t say a single thing about religious people. It doesn’t call Christians bad, evil, mean, horrible, stupid, etc. It it not offensive at all, nor is it hateful.
Frankly, I am sick of seeing anything that challenges the idea of religion being labeled as such. We are allowed to challenge each other’s political, social, and philosophical ideas. Religion shouldn’t be exempt from this. Imagine what would have happened to this world if scientists stopped researching certain things in the name of “not being offensive to the beliefs of others”.
Can we stop holding religion to some crazy standard and just treat it like another belief system? Something that SHOULD be challenged and explored so long as one is not personally attacking those who believe in it.
As for those “offensive” scientific studies proving that prayer does not work
Power of prayer flunks an unusual test - Health - Heart health …
Long-Awaited Medical Study Questions the Power of Prayer - New …
Largest Study of Third-Party Prayer Suggests Such Prayer Not …
BBC NEWS | Health | ‘No health benefit’ from prayer
Tumblr. If the truth is offensive to you, you are doing it wrong. If you are so obsessed with your belief system that you attack ANYBODY who disagrees with you, you are doing it wrong.
YUSSSS. ALL OF THIS.
Also, I have to say, I always feel so awkward when someone says “you’re in my prayers”, or there’s a tragedy and people say you should pray for them.
It just feels like the focus goes to that person’s religion, or how pious and good of a person they are by being such a believer. I dunno, to me you can just as easily say, you’ll be in my thoughts, or something along those lines, and thus make it about the person’s situation and not your religion. Also less chance of non-believers like me feeling awkward as shit.
THIS.
Payer doesn’t work. This is a fact and a fact is not in it self offensive. I guess that what you really find offensive is that people are pointing this out. I’m sorry but sometimes having your views challenged and sometimes getting offended is the price we pay for the free speech people have died to give us.
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
/attributed to Voltaire, but first used by Evelyn Beatrice Hall about Voltaire’s views
“Also less chance of non-believers like me feeling awkward as shit.”
pretty much.
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