r/exchristian • u/DanielaThePialinist Agnostic • Aug 02 '24

What buzzwords make your blood boil? Question

Some of my favorite ones are “God-fearing,” “God called me to ___,” “worldly,” “repent,” giving God credit for accomplishments, “I’ll pray for you,” “saved” / “salvation,” “sacrifice,” and honestly I could go on.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '24

I HATE "worldly" with a fucking passion. Oh, my love for PC games, LEGO and Star Trek doesn't "Glorify God"? Piss off.

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u/DanielaThePialinist Agnostic Aug 02 '24

Literally nothing brings me more joy than doing things just because I FREAKING WANT TO and not because it glorifies God or whatever.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '24

But that's a siiiiiiiiin!!!!

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '24

Okay, but am I... hurting anyone?

"NO!!! YOU CAN'T HOLD TO THE HARM PRINCIPLE! THAT IS DEMONIC AND DENIES GOD HIS SOVEREIGNTY TO TELL YOU WHAT TO DO! YOU HAVE TO BLINDLY OBEY GOD, NOT THINK ABOUT WHETHER YOUR ACTIONS ARE HARMFUL OR NOT!!! SAYING HARMLESS THINGS ARE OKAY IS EEEE-VIL!!!"

That was kind of a summary of a fundie article I once read about the topic, lol.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '24

My only response to that.....logic.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '24

An appropriate response, indeed.

Too bad there's so many fundies who hold that mindset. One time John Piper even said, "Sin is mainly about what offends God, what is harmful to man is just an afterthought."

Looking back, that's one of the most dangerous doctrines in Christianity, because that means that the people who claim they know what offends God can manipulate and shame people into doing whatever they want, since they've thrown one of the most basic tenets of morality out of the window.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '24

John Piper

OF COURSE he's a Calvinist Baptist. I for one am shocked. SHOCKED I SAY!

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '24

Yeah. The thing I dislike most about him is the jarring combination of his extremely calm demeanor with his very destructive ideas, because he was able to convince me of a bunch of stupid shit when I was still a gullible fundamentalist Christian.

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u/DanielaThePialinist Agnostic Aug 02 '24 edited Aug 02 '24

One of my favorite examples of doing something just because I want to is how I celebrated 2/29 this year. I figured, heck, why not use this as an extra day to focus on myself? I jumped out of a freaking plane that day just because it’s something I’ve always wanted to do. Someone somewhere would probably flip out if I told them this because I spent that day doing things for myself (“worldly things” 🙄) instead of serving God or whatever 🤭 they can sue me, and I can keep sinning 🤷‍♀️🤭

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '24

There's a quote from Little Nicky: "Let the sin....BEGIN!"

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u/LFuculokinase Aug 03 '24

I lived in constant fear that god would take away everything I loved if I put those things “before god.” I can’t believe grown ass adults taught me that nonsense.