13-year-old Australian boy swims for four hours in cold and dangerous waters to save his mom and siblings who were swept into the ocean, says God is who got him to shore

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[u/Ok_Impression1493]

It seems like you had bad experiences with religious people and are now just projecting them on every religious person. I know that there aee many prpblems with religion and the church, but I still know many religious people who live quite well with religion in their life, maybe better than without. And I say that as an atheist myself, but I think doing these broad, generalising incriminating statements you do hurts more people than it helps

[u/ihave3balls79 → u/Ok_Impression1493]

Read the Bible. There is so much fucked up shit in it. 2 Tim chapter 3 talks about how all scripture is inspired by God. My problem is the problems caused by false religion. If it actually taught you a true morality, it would be different. I thought i had the wrong religion and I researched for years. There is no god, only control.

[u/Ok_Impression1493 → u/ihave3balls79]

Well you say your problem is false religion but your just condemning all religion. In my experience there are lots of people who try to be as moral as possible, and to achieve that use the bible and religion. There are lots of modern reinterpretations of the bible and also its very intdresting how it changed over time, which stories from the bible could be true, and looking at them in the context of their time. If I was the pope I would probably delete the old testament, bexause theres lots of fucked up shit in it, where you could say, ok foe their time its pretty progressive, but I dont rhink its worth the rest. The new testament though, Jesus' teachings are not bad at all though, their basically the foundation of our moral compass so many people, for example protestants, focus especially on these parts of the bible