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Southern Baptists Vote to Further Expand Restrictions on Women as Leaders (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 1 year ago by deacon@lemmy.world to c/news@beehaw.org

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Yikes. There is quite a pattern developing in the religious right, in the US at least. We are turning back the clock folks.

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[–] NeonSkies@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any religion that deprives certain groups of power simply for existing as a certain thing is maybe worth a reexamination.

[+] 10A@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] NeonSkies@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you think Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Mormons, Scientologists, etc should question their most sacred doctrines? I assume you think they're incorrect about what they believe, and questioning their faith would open them up to the truth, right?

If you then think that you shouldn't question your faith, isn't that a bit of a double standard? If you've got the truth, after all, it should have greater and clearer explanatory power than anything else, and, therefore, questioning it will only result in understandable, clear answers that strengthen your faith rather than weaken it.

[–] 10A@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I was raised an atheist and didn't find Christ until adulthood. So I am quite familiar with dismissing Christianity and any other religion for a variety of reasons.

Incidentally, I was also nihilistic and depressed for all those years, but I can only identify that in retrospect, because at the time, living in secular culture, the nihilism and depression just seemed like the normal way of being for people.

I'm a Christian because I know without a doubt in my heart that Christ is real, and He really is the way, the truth, and the life.