#like i think xtians often see people who believe in g-d but not jesus as like ... functionally athiests | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

shalom-iamcominghome · 9 months ago

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As much as I appreciate and admire my family's religion because it brings them comfort and strength, there really isn't anything else like being told to youtube search for videos about atheists going to hell and then coming back to life, and knowing that, functionally, you are the same as an atheist because you aren't xtian to them. Like!!! Being told inadvertently and in a roundabout way that I'm going to hell by my dad is very odd, and the only thing to say in his defense is I have never delved into my religious beliefs and practices at all once. I'm just in awe about the idea of hell frankly

#jew by choice #jewish conversion #personal thoughts tag #ask to tag #< genuinely please i have no idea what i would even tag this as but it's like. i feel like it's sensitive #i told one of my shul buddies that tidbit about youtube and he held back his laughter and failed but i don't blame him #i was also laughing but if i took the idea of hell seriously (i don't believe in xtian hell so why would i?) i would laugh so i wouldn't cr #like i think xtians often see people who believe in g-d but not jesus as like ... functionally athiests #but i'm not an athiest. i just Do Not Believe in jesus or the divinity of jesus #and that was a huge problem i had when i felt forced to be xtian #and i respect xtianity but like... do they respect me. genuinely. because being told i'm going to HELL seems disrespectful...#and in his defense he doesn't know my religion or anything because why would i tell him that information when he talks/talked like that.#and i have my own complex ideas about hell but i don't ascribe to the ideas i grew up being tolf #anyway i just think it's a neat little nugget of 'oh maybe this is why i avoid any conversation about my own religious ideas'#okay but does anybody else with xtian family members experience this??? like!!! how do you even respond because i just shut up lmao

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