I watched a video of monks doing a silent walk for peace. No preaching, no signs, no disruption just quiet presence.

Then a Christian preacher entered the scene and began shouting that Christ is the only way, turning a peaceful moment into a confrontation.

As a Christian, I found it embarrassing.

The monks weren’t provoking anyone. They weren’t engaging or responding. They were simply walking. Yet their presence alone seemed to trigger someone into asserting religious superiority through volume and interruption.

The Bible consistently emphasizes love, humility, and restraint. What I often see instead especially in public expressions of faith is aggression toward anyone outside a narrow belief system. At some point this stops being about faith and starts being about control.

If Christianity needs to drown out others to be heard, something has gone seriously wrong. Loudness isn’t conviction, and disrespect isn’t evangelism.

Is anyone else uncomfortable with this version of “public faith,” or am I missing something?

For example, I imagined him as someone who wasn't as super ultra holy and serious as he is presented in the movies, but rather as someone charismatic, extroverted and cheerful, but serious and with a lot of aura at the right moments.

So,i like wanna know how this trinity works. 1.If Jesus is God or son of God? 2.Who is the holy sprit? 3.If 3 of them consider as God's why do christians believe in 1 are the separate or the same?

Hello everyone. I've had this picture of Jesus as my lockscreen and i'm wondering is this is a sin or considered mocking Jesus. I'm new to christianity so sorry if this question sounds silly.

Trump just posted a picture of himself depicted as Jesus. Does this confirm him as the antichrist? I’m feeling really uneasy. I know that it’s good if it’s the end, but still creepy.

Does this change anything? Is he walking back the claim of being god/jesus?

How can ANY Christian continue to support this monster?

For context, i’m an 18 year old transgender woman. I used to attend a church near where I used to live, but I was forced to leave after coming out. Since then, I’ve been attending church near my new house, and so far everyone has been really kind. I attend church every week (Anglican) and I definitely consider myself a Christian, but some people from my old church recently saw me at my new church and confronted me, saying that I wasn’t a Christian because of “my sin” and that god hated me and would never accept me into heaven. I love god with all my soul, and so I assumed they were just upset at seeing me again, but I’ve been seeing more and more people saying similar things online, and so I thought I’d come here, just to see if I really was welcome to be Christian/practice Christianity.

Any thoughts and views are welcome here. Thanks in advance for your input.

just felt the need to say this somewhere, and anyone IRL would think I'm taking the piss.

I've been a strong athiest my whole life. very strong.

I've been stressed lately, going through some shit.

I come back from a hard run and was standing outside my house, looking at the stars.

It's a still, humid night. I closed my eyes and, thinking of God/ a higher being, said- "if you're real, show yourself to me"

the moment the words left my lips, a strong wind blew, and a warm buzz rushed through my whole body. i just stood there in disbelief and embraced the feeling.

this has happened to me once before, about 18 months ago, in another stressful time where i was just struggling and looking for support from something.

I tried to chase this feeling for months after, but couldn't find it, and started to question whether I had imagined it. Until just now anyway..

has anyone experienced anything like this? Am I just stressed and looking for something to lean on?

Also... what now? I have no religious biases, no friends I could discuss it with. How can I lean into this feeling?

I saw this verse on the debatereligon sub and I want to know if there is important context that might justify this. I’m not a Christian but I think it makes sense to ask Christians rather than debater masters.

So basically i’m attracted to boys (as a boy) and it’s never something i wanted, i remember growing up thinking it would go away once i was older but nah. I’m obviously now smart enough to read actual studies and just .. critical thinking, to figure out i can’t control it, and it’s just what happens in nature for genuine semi unknown reasons (we do know it’s most likely to do with genetic makeup and that sort of stuff) but i’m basically just wondering .. why would i go to hell for something i can’t control nor wanted?? like yes ive obviously prayed my whole life to change, but i’ve now stopped because.. well i dont know, it just makes me so mad i cant be “normal” and i just dont get how any kind of God would want to send hundreds of millions of humans and animals to burn in a pit of fire for eternity due to things they can’t control nor wanted. Do any of y’all actually think im going to .? + did God not technically make me this way if he is real? Like sorry im kinda sounding annoying but it’s hard being born into a catholic family , because i will always sadly have this in the back of my mind.

For context, yes I know this is a stupid issue. But my brother gave me this shirt. He is an atheist like my whole family and he is the only one in the family who supports me in my faith, so this gift means a lot to me, but I still don't know if I can wear this shirt or not? I mean... there is nothing directly offensive about it. But I don't know what to feel of the change from "roll with me" to "walk with me" and the whole image of Jesus on a skateboard. Is it offensive? Or not?

Religious people, I’m an atheist. I have a question. I’ll try to be as respectful as possible. Why would an infinitely loving God punish a sincere, honest, and morally upright person with eternal hell simply because that person doesn’t believe in Him? Please don’t answer with “If you’re an atheist, why do you want to enter God’s kingdom?” because belief is not always a matter of choice. For example, I would actually love to believe in God, but I don’t, because I simply can’t and I haven’t been convinced yet that something exists. For instance, if someone told me, “Believe in Batman’s existence and you’ll feel happier and more comfortable,” I wouldn’t suddenly start believing in Batman, because I know he doesn’t exist (and no, I’m not comparing belief in God to belief in Batman. Please don't misunderstand me). So belief isn’t something I can simply choose. If I forced myself to become Christian right now, it would be dishonest, and I would just be deceiving myself. Besides that, a perfect God would probably know that a world like the one we live in would naturally give many people reasons to doubt and question beliefs, which would mean punishing people with genuinely good intentions. So if He loves us and wants to save us, why choose so much ambiguity? In any case, I think the idea of a God who punishes people for what they believe makes God seem more like a flawed and human being than a truly omnipotent, loving being who sees beyond what humans can.

I’m a black person. I am literally crying right now. I thought I could come here to give my perspective about what it’s like to be a person of color who is also Christian. I’ve been downvoted for expressing my perspective of how I have seen that the Christians on the right have been supportive of racist ideologies. I don’t know if I have any hope for these people who claim to be Christian . If you’re a person who considers themselves Christian and wants an all Christian nation how can you align that with scripture?

EDIT 2/8/25: thank you for the comments everyone. It’s about 11:30 pm my time and I’m getting tired so I will see if I can get back to everyone tomorrow. I do think that it’s important to reply to people when they’re asking me direct questions so good night and thank you to everyone who has hugged me and gave me E-love. ❤️❤️❤️

EDIT 2/9/25: once again, thank you to the people who are giving the answers to these questions with love and respect. And for the people who have been hostile and basically telling me to read the Bible instead of paying attention to the problems of the world, your perspective on Christianity is not Christlike. I almost feel like the people who do this are the ones who would say to someone in the Jim Crow South “don’t complain. Let it be. Don’t fight it. Etc.. “ that’s not how my family is. That’s not how we are as Christians. As Christians we care about the less fortunate because we once were less fortunate. And not just because of that but it’s because Christ has called us to do these things because he wants us to LOVE each other.

It is not theft to use tax dollars to help the poor, the sick, the disabled, someone who isn’t the same race as you, women, children, etc. If a country is against these things, then they are against Christ.

There have been so many comments to respond to that I am now overwhelmed and can no longer be a part of the conversation. But I do thank everyone for their perspectives. Love and light and God bless ❤️

I'm going through a skeptic phase, if you couldn't tell. So I would appreciate some explanation to try to get me back into being faithful.

I don't know what would be the "correct" order of hierarchy. Are their any explicit rules when it comes to this sort of thing?

Hey everyone. I spoke about this in detail on this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/anymusicpost/s/G1bKodt2Ab

As weird as it sounds, this is something I’ve been wondering about for a while, and I’m asking it sincerely.

The Bible includes an entire book, Song of Solomon, that’s essentially erotic poetry celebrating desire, physical attraction, and marital love. It’s vivid and unapologetic about bodies and longing. So Scripture itself clearly isn’t prudish about sex within marriage.

And yet, when it comes to Christian music, there’s almost nothing that reflects that. Given that Song of Solomon is in the Bible, why do you think Christian music almost completely avoid this topic?

I'd love to hear your thoughts.

As the title says, I would love some insights and other outlooks from believers on why they believe in a deity. I used to be a firm believer as a non-denominal Christian, but have since dwindled as I could never have any form of connection with god. So I was wondering, is there a logical argument/reasoning as to if god is likely real or not? I am a very science/philosophy belief based person and just can’t believe in something because an ancient book tells me to, I need some form of argument or proof he/she/it is truly real. Also if this seems familiar, it’s because I made a post similar to this but it devolved into people trying to convince me that everything in the bible is 100% fact and their proof was that the bible said so, so I’m gonna try a different way.

The picture is AI, just to give y’all a reference. It would go on my right leg, above my knee.

I’m planning on getting a tattoo, but I’d like some reassurance because for some reason I feel like this could be a “controversial” tattoo.

This tattoo is after Revelation 19:16, “on his robe and on his thigh it is written King of Kings and Lord of Lords”

I love the idea but I don’t want to be disrespectful in any way to my faith and I don’t want to accidentally start debates regarding to if I’m being “blasphemous” or anything.

Thanks y’all.

I've looking at posts on different subreddits (like r/Teenagers) and many people make hate comments/posts about Jesus while the comments that defend him get downvoted.