Unpopular Opinion
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Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
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4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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Religions have dozens of ways to make you feel bad about your choices and the choices of others. Fictional sins based on nothing are a common way of doing that. "You sinned, so you must want punishment/suffering". Even when this sin is stupid and arbitrary. Ableism is another big one with religion: "They're disabled because my god wants them to suffer, so I'll contribute to their suffering - like my god wants me to".
"Dwelling on it". Yeah, people hold grudges against bad people that hurt them. Religions teaches that you should forgive everyone, especially the pirest that raped your child, stole your money, or started a holy war and sent you off instead of them. Dwell on that stuff. Make it right. Don't just forget about it and pretend like someone in a fictional afterlife will take care of it, because fictional gods don't do that.
If you choose religion, you are choosing suffering. If you choose a system of lies and fiction over reality, you're going to get lies and fiction instead of reality. That will cause you suffering in many different ways.
God does not want anyone to contribute to the suffering of disabled people. Suffering can be a test from God, but He does not want anyone to be cruel to anyone who suffers, even sinners. He wants us to save them by inviting them to the true path. God will reward us for enduring suffering without being broken by it. He will also not burden a soul beyond what it can bear.
Holding a grudge is like lighting yourself on fire and expecting the other person to burn. Objects of hatred become idols. By hating people who did terrible things to you, you are turning your worship away from God and choosing to wallow in your own pain. Nothing that you do will ever undo anything that was done to you. The best that you can do is forgive them and stop letting them have power over you. You can punish them by living as your fullest authentic self in spite of them. There are evil people who will get away with it in this life and it's pointless and tragic to damn yourself by hating them. By hating and obsessing, you're giving your tormentors power over you even if they're dead.
God and His path are the only things that can take away your suffering. By choosing religion, you aren't choosing a lie, you're choosing the way, the truth, and the light.
I won't pretend that you'll never suffer. Life is suffering, but God can take away the pain. There are people who are severely disabled and were constantly denied justice, but they are happier than people who live extremely comfortable lives.