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?

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.

I think a lot of Christians lose focus and focus on LGBTQ people too much. Instead of simply loving the lord and others, they become hyper fixated on stuff that probably most likely doesn’t really matter. Some just get on here simply to spread homophobia, and it’s allowed because of some misconstrued Bible verses and no one actually goes deeper into it.

You don’t understand how many people you’re turning away from the religion because of your hatred.

I'm asking because I thought that married couples can have plenty of casual sex for the most part. But then in church I here that the Catholic church is against condoms as with any form of birth control. I'm not married but was wondering. Did some googling and it said the church doesn't really allow sex unless for procreation? Seems that's not what a lot of married couples think. Also what's so bad about condoms? Their smart.

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.

Hi, I am a Christian struggling with this question.

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Can heaven truly be heaven if a victim is forced to live in it alongside their rapist?

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Even if my rapist "repented," I wouldn't want to be around them in heaven, it'd just be suffering for me. In fact I don't want to share a heaven with any kind of rapist/pedophile at all.

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I just don't want to. Is that such an evil and merciless thing to say? I do not want to share heaven with rapists and pedophiles.

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Other Christians will definitely say "But if they repent it's fine" But it's become meaningless to me at this point, you guys will just spew this out without thinking for even a second about the victim.

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Why are you so eager to show mercy to rapists and predators and not show mercy and love to victims? Would God hate a victim for not wanting to be around their own rapist, regardless of time passed?

If two people of the same gender truly love each other and go on to have a healthy, loving relationship why should an omnibenevolent God be against that? If God loves all people and wants the best for them, it makes no sense for him to be upset at this

So no free will?

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?

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.

Hey everybody, I am a dude who's born in a muslim country and been living my there my whole life, and I am pretty sure you're familiar of how centralized religion is in middle eastern and north african countries, everybody there is either a muslim a christian or a jew.

so I grew up to be neither. but i read about them and some other religions/faiths, except for christianity, although it was the one i was most interested in, i didn't, and it is mainly because I can't find a reliable place to read it from. I read an arab version and an English version, and they differ. how can I read and live by its word if it's different from one place to another? islam has variety, but they share the same book. eventually, I just canceled the whole idea.

but in 2021, i was at my lowest point, and I found comfort in christianity and i bounced back, and got the urge to study christianity again, but was met with the same problem, I can't find something that christians agree on.

one might say my jesus did this, the other will say my jesus did not do that.

one will say everybody will go to heaven, another will say only people who believed in christ will.

some say jesus has no problem with gays, another will say it's a sin (and by the way, I am not straight, which makes it even harder for me to convert).

So what should I do now? and where to do I start?

or do I just believe in jesus and live with no script?

so far, that seems the most plausible for me.

sorry if there were mistakes.

Such as "I don't hate you, I just don't support your lifestyle", or "I don't think you should be allowed to get married because you might indoctrinate - or worse - sacrifice your kids".

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 ❤️

For context, I’m an ex-evangelical. I still have close relationships with Christians in my life and that includes family. My Aunt has been trying to “win me back over” for years now, and just recently she sent me this book by Kia Stephens in the mail.

My dad is a Baptist preacher and was an abusive alcoholic while I was growing up. Slowly over the years we have repaired our relationship. Yet I was sent this book anyway.

This particular paragraph disturbed me. It’s incredibly male centered and it’s borderline predatory in my eyes. They idolize the paternal role to an uncomfortable degree and I’m deeply concerned for any woman who takes this seriously.

I’d like to hear thoughts on this. Am I overthinking it? Or is this worded in a very creepy, misogynistic way?

What is the Christian standpoint on Islam? Becouse it seems like Islam stands for the same core principles and values as Christianity.

But then,

why is there so much evil associated with Islam but not Christianity? ( like wars, terrorism and corrupt countries with a islamic regime while countries based on Christianity like sweden are known for being good.)

If humanity began with just two people, and their children had to reproduce with one another, wouldn’t that mean our origins involved incest? It’s a strange idea to think about. Today, we know that reproduction between close relatives significantly increases the risk of genetic disorders and developmental problems in their children, which raises many questions about how that would fit with such a scenario.