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Last night I read a comment from someone on Youtube regarding how, if Homosexuality is an unchosen orientation, then pedophilia can also be classified as an unchosen sexual attraction or orientation.

I'm irritated with the constant comparisons between Homosexuality and Pedophilia.

If it's TRUE that pedophilia is in fact an innate "orientation" or sexual attraction whatever then society should do everything to keep those individuals from expressing those attractions and therefore harm children(which I agree with 100%) .

They followed the same logic that if pedophiles are able to recognize their attractions are wrong and go to therapy, then so should homosexuals go to therapy, because its just a sexual deviant of the same sort.

Does anyone else on here get so annoyed with this like irritated?

I guess I'm on here just venting.

Hello friends, I'm in my mid 20's and this is my first time exploring religion.

I was raised in a somewhat non-religious family.

I started wanting to explore my personal beliefs more a few years ago and became agnostic.

Within this last year I have started exploring Christianity a lot more.

I even started regularly attending church 10 months ago.

I love the church, I love the community, and I love the teachings of Jesus and wish to live like him.

The only thing holding me back from fully converting, getting baptized and taking communion is actually the bible itself.

I have such a hard time "believing" in it.

Especially as a very scientific person.

I can't get past a lot of the stories in the OT like the talking burning bush, or Noah's arc, or all of the mysteries and miracles.

I believe strongly in evolution, I believe dinosaurs existed, and the miracles just feel fictitious as I thumb through my bible.

This cognitive dissonance is my biggest hurdle because it makes me question if what I believe in and love about the NT is even real.

I know, the whole point is to just have faith in it; but I am REALLY questioning myself.

I don't know if I can ever believe in it, but I have loved the journey I have been on in the past year. It's like the closer I get to wanting to be baptized, the more I struggle in belief.

I want to be Christian, but at times I feel like my brain just can't do it, almost as if it wasn't built to be religious.

Is this normal for late in life Christians?

Should I just stick it out and contintue to do what I'm doing and hope God eventually guides me into having a stronger faith?

With how much I struggle with this inner battle, I feel like getting baptized or taking communion would be heretical at this point.

Before I say anything, I wanna apologize for ANOTHER political post and the length!

I’m sick and tired of other “Christians” giving us a bad reputation.

Trump manipulated Christians (mainly Evangelicals) into voting for him, and I'd add that it's also about consumerism.

Evangelicalism, being so closely tied to American patriotism, sees a “strong” white billionaire as the ultimate symbol of leadership.

I become enraged when I see other “Christians” go on and on about family values, love, and appreciation when they can’t even appreciate their neighbour or hold up their family values.

What happened to helping the poor and needy?

Sitting with sinners?

I understand that the increase in crime is scary and the opposition to abortion, but you need to look beyond that because America isn’t a Christian nation- It’s a nation where you’re free to be Christian.

If someone chooses to get an abortion, they have the right to do so, even though we disagree.

It’s heartbreaking to see that many of my fellow brothers and sisters became so hateful.

Why can’t we just learn to tolerate each other?

Every time I’m on social media and it’s a Christian majority comment section or niche , whenever they comment on anything about Muslims it all becomes over simplified and explained through racist Islamophobia. I’ve realized that during the Gaza genocide , a lot of Christian accounts have been not only fervently Zionist , but also using Islamophobia to explain away the situation in Palestine. I’ve seen this now with Syria too. With the recent massacres of Syria’s minorities , there have been a number of Christians explaining away Syria’s situation through using Islamophobia rather than talking about the geopolitical situation on the ground , foreign involvement , the oppression of the dictatorships et cetera. It’s as though the actual politics on the ground mean nothing to these people and for these Christian Islamophobes any and everything that happens in the so called « Muslim world » (even if non Muslims are doing the actions) is only explained away as « this is what Islam commands (injustice oppression darkness etc) » or « it’s a religion of war mongering and killing » and this includes situations where Muslims are also the victims of these atrocities.

For these Christian Islamophobes , when the victim is a Muslim , they secularize or christianize the victims. For instance , if it’s a shi’i minority being persecuted and there’s 1 or 2 Christian’s who got killed along with the shi’i or whoever the minority is, the Christian Islamophobes will make generalizing statements as though the victims were mostly Christian or leave out that the victims are even Muslims. Or they will use the name of the sect completely leaving out that this sect is Muslim too. On the flip side, when they secularize it, these people will remove the religious affiliation of the victims while only describing the religious affiliation of the perpetrators which in effect creates an image of Muslims as the perpetual bad guys and Muslims as never the victims of atrocities.

And the crazy part is that whenever anyone mentions Israel’s involvement in the situation of anywhere where there’s a large Muslim population it’s , « Israel has nothing to do with it ». Or they say stuff like « you all like to blame the west » despite the overwhelming evidence of the west’s involvement in the given situation.

I 23f have recently started gymnastics classes. Ive been jealous of how people can push their bodies to their physical limits and just think gymnastics is really cool. I don't however like the typical female leotard, and think it's wayyyy too revealing compared to the (typical) male uniform. I can't even understand how we managed to convince girls that wearing leotards and having to worry about shaving was better than full body suits. Anyways

I just feel sad about not being able to share in my excitement about this new hobby with the rest of my family because they don't think gymnastics is a girl's sport, especially not a woman's sport. Id begged to be put in gymnastics but wa always met with "a respectable girl doesn't do gymnastics" or something along those lines.

Especially during Ramadan I don't feel I can bring this up and it's just sad that even when wearing 'as modest clothing as possible', gymnastics is still too sexualised in our community.

I want to enjoy the limits of this human form Allah SWT has given me, I want to appreciate it in all it can do. I don't think that's something I'd be damned for, but it hurts knowing that it's looked at in contempt by the majority of people.

Demonizing Islam

I'm like so over it.

I hate to see that more and more people start to demonize Islam as a dangerous religion.

They take Quran verses out of context and start spreading misinformation without even checking the facts.

They see some garbage on the TV about terrorism and immediately point the finger at the whole religion, as if a normal Muslim person living in a country is a threat for everyone around them.

It has come to the point of which I'm afraid to even say that I'm a Muslim.

In my country, there is an upsurge of right-wing parties.

Even the media seems to be extremely one sided.

For the past few months or so, all I've been hearing on the media has been

"A Muslim has done XYZ"

or

"The suspect was screaming 'Allahu Akbar'"

and so on.

Sometimes when I'm outside I start to feel uneasy because some people look at me and my negative thoughts start to creep in:

"Are they maybe judging me because I look like a Muslim? Because I look like a foreigner? Maybe because of my beard?"

It's becoming so exhausting. I already suffer from a mild social anxiety, but with the way things are going, it's only going to get worse. I hate it, I really really hate it.

Some brothers argue about the Supper, because they consider that the bread and wine are not symbols or representations of the body and blood of Christ, but should be understood literally, as it is written in the Bible.

Something similar happens with offerings: many maintain that they are not a command or an act of obedience, since it is not explicitly ordered in Scripture.

According to this perspective, the offering should be given voluntarily, when they feel happy and grateful, without any obligation.

A small group from my church is Opinions on street evangelism? planning to go out soon to do street evangelism and I kinda agreed without really thinking about it. I suppose I felt like I just should've

The thing is that I'm not sure if I like the concept. I think that if God wanted someone to come to him then he'd set pieces in place to draw them in. Trying to go out to random people and just going "Hey do you know God? You should repent now!" Feel more like interfering and forcing God onto people

Like I've seen a few clips of those "Christian Youtubers" who do things like that and honestly I get embarrassed from watching. If you're gonna approach someone and take time out of their day then you should respect them and know when to stop.

Plus I'm pretty introverted aeound strangers and I don't like going up to people unless I have to😭

I’m not even joking. Every day before taraweeh he gives a little 5 minute talk about a verse he read or a story he’s researched.

Yesterday he came out with this. He said that before the non Muslims were open and direct with stopping us practice our religion. Now they are more “covert” so they use “hidden tactics” like stopping you praying Salah.

Bro what 😂😂😂😂

On International Women’s Day, there was a post that went viral on Instagram, about how Islam honors women with hadith, and Quraan verses that prove that.

This is an example of hadith mentioned in the post:

Islam honours Women:

• A mother is a gateway to paradise, a daughter is a path to mercy, and a wife is a garment of love
• "The best of you are those who are best to their women" ~ Prophet Muhammed
• “Whoever has three daughters, cares for them, and is patient with them, will enter Paradise"~ Prophet Muhammed
• "The best of you are those who are best to their wives"~ Prophet Muhammed

Notice how there is a pattern?

All of these are extremely indirect and focus on what men get rewarded when they treat women well.

This is not fitting the context at all, in my opinion.

I have also heard this talk so much whenever the notion of feminism in Islam is brought up, and I just think that it’s the wrong take and wrong arguments.

I’m actually starting to hate this perspective that is completely centered around men.

It emphasizes how women should be submissive and only serve as a way for men to earn more rewards.

But how about we actually start talking about women now?

What do you guys think?

I’m curious.

Netflix just aired a completely unnecessary and racist attack on Dagestanis in their new show Running Point.

The show is about a wealthy family that owns a basketball team, and Kate Hudson’s character, Isla Gordon, is put in charge of running it.

The scene in question happens in episode six, where a basketball podcaster named Sean Murphy, who has a history of being critical of Isla, is in the middle of recording an interview.

At this point in the story, he has just revealed something that makes it clear he got inside information from someone who was trying to create tension between Isla and her star player.

Furious, she storms into his studio and interrupts him, demanding to know who leaked the information.

When Sean reminds her that he’s in the middle of an interview, she snaps back with, “Just tell whatever wife-beating Dagestani MMA fighter they can wait.”

What makes this line so outrageous is that it comes completely out of nowhere.

This is a show about basketball.

The podcast is about basketball. The audience watching the podcast within the show would be basketball fans.

There is absolutely no connection to MMA, let alone Dagestani fighters.

The chances of a Dagestani even watching this fictional basketball podcast are next to none.

So why was this line written? It serves no purpose to the plot, no relevance to the scene, and is just a blatant and unprovoked smear against Dagestanis and Muslim fighters in general.

This wasn’t satire.

It wasn’t a joke.

It was a direct attack, casually inserted into a show where it had no place.

And the fact that Netflix signed off on it shows exactly how normalized Islamophobia has become in the media.

If a line like this had targeted any other group, there would be immediate outrage.

But because it was aimed at Muslim athletes, it’s just brushed aside. It’s disgusting.