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As a Christian who doesn't follow much of the super religious "rules", I think it's kind of a red flag but sometimes it's not. Red flag because my girlfriend's ex-friend was super devout and put it all over her bio and was very ableist and homophobic. My friend, for example, is agnostic, so he's not sure if spirituality exists. He has a friend who's super devout and constantly talks about Christianity. She has a Discord server about Christianity and most of her friends are Christian who just talk about Jesus and God all the time. She puts the crosses and bible verses in her bio too. She's very nice and tries to be accepting but seems kinda judgmental or like "Oh, your non-traditional ways are... nice I guess."

She constantly asks my friend how his relationship with God is and if he reads the Bible and what his favorite verses are, even when he says he's not super religious.

My mom as of recent has become super religious, and while she is pretty left-leaning, thinks the only way to believe is to be Christian and you HAVE to believe in Jesus or you'll die instead of live forever in Heaven.

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[โ€“] BassTurd@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

Tell them you stopped believing in ghosts when you were a child. If coincidentally, the Christian God is real and all those other dieties aren't, he's a real fuck face. Why would anyone want to follow a supposedly all powerful being that gives children cancer instead of not being a piece of shit? If I die and go to Hell, at least I'll be spending time with the one angel that fell because he loved me too much. It's these old Christians that explained what Hell is like, and they had a pretty strong bias when writing it out. Why should anyone take their words with any value?

God's either fake or a dog shit entity, so either way I have no interest in giving him any sort of praise.