Comment on community for lgbtq+ christians or those learning about christianity
rglullis@communick.news 1 week agoYou can still enjoy community without claiming to be a Christian. Perhaps in America you can’t…?
I’m born and raised in Brazil. Lived in the US from 2008 to 2013. Now I’m living in Germany - more specifically, in Berlin.
In the US, I had some family and friends. In Germany I was all on my own, so I’ve tried getting integrated. I went out to meet different people. I wasn’t just stuck in my room all day long. The friends that I did do turned out to be invariably Italians, Polish, Israelis, Spaniards. The best I could say about the people from Nordic backgrounds were “they are my acquaintance”. Dating in Berlin was weird - much similar to New York - where I’d never know if I was just getting myself into some mindless hook-up or a detailed plan establishing the contract terms of the relationship.
I was in 3 years already in Berlin and I was seriously considering moving out, when I’ve met a (Greek) woman who I am so very lucky to be able to call “my wife”. She had moved to Berlin just one year before me, and though she had a much larger social circle than mine, they were also mostly of other Greeks. When we started dating, her group of friends didn’t see me as an attachment to her friend. They took me in as part of the group. I’ve became friends with them as well, we would go play ball or hang out even if my then-girlfriend couldn’t make that one night.
All of this to say: you are getting at this backwards. I’m not saying that I went to the religion to get “accepted” by peers. What I am saying is that even when I was surrounded by people, they were pretty much all of them completely atomized individuals. This feeling only changed when I found myself closer to people with other cultures who still have a higher attachment to their cultural roots.
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I don’t care for your personal history, it had absolutely nothing to do with Christianity, which is the topic of the thread.
Monotheism is bad and religious people, monotheists especially, are usually dragged into progressive values despite their resistance to them.
It’s beyond insane how much of the world you’re having to ignore just to keep identifying as a Christian despite not believing in single tenet of the religion.
So I remind you of the argument I said before; it genuinely wouldn’t make any rhetorical difference what religion you changed into this conversation for Christianity. You ask whether Christianity is compatible with being trans, but then you refuse to say what notion of being Christian is.
So I’m to just take it that you just like to think your Christian, despite deriving all your personal moral from the world, like people do?
You can’t name what these “Christian values” are that you’re asking about. Yet you insist that you have them.
Wtf?
rglullis@communick.news 1 week ago
I didn’t say any such thing. I asked (someone else, a “self-professed” Christian, not you!) the opposite of that: I asked what was so bad about having a community of people who are trying to reconcile their life choices with their Christian faith.
The other guy went on to say “they are using the flag! The flag is a sign of people who do not repent, and that is sin”. Okay, I think this answer is stupid and left at that.
You on the other hand got on a little a soapbox to expose yourself as the utmost authority about all and any religion. Congrats! Do you want a cookie before or after I block you and go with my day?
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Alright, sure, "the topic of this thread, which you’re defending, is", does that make you feel better, and can you now you start answering, or is just that you’re arguing in such bad faith you have zero intention of answering ANYTHING?
“Soapbox”.
Again, I’m not an atheist, buddy. I’ve simply asked very simple questions, like “please elaborate on what you think ‘Christian values’ means” which you keep avoiding, because you can’t define it. Because it’s all hypocrisy and not a genuinely held belief. Which just proves what utter bullshit it is.
Monotheism is cancer, yet you keep defending it.
rglullis@communick.news 1 week ago
You don’t have to be an Atheist to want a soapbox. All it takes is an insufferable know-it-all who thinks that repeating nonsensical slogans makes for a compelling argument.
Enjoy your evening.