Results of a survey, split out by religion (10 groups), where Americans answer how strongly they agreed with two statements:

  1. "Empathy is a foundational moral value that helps build a healthy society", and
  2. "Empathy can become dangerous when it leads people away from building a society guided by God's truth".

The top 4 groups most likely to agree with (1) and least likely to agree with (2) were, in order (1 vs. 2): Unaffiliated (83% vs. 13%), Other non-Christian religion (80% vs. 18%), Jewish (77% vs. 23%), and White mainline non-evangelical Protestant (73% vs. 25%).

The least likely to agree with (1) and most likely to agree with (2), by far, was White evangelical Protestant (42% vs. 44%).

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[–] 10 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I believe it, having grown up in Christianity. (Though since de-converted and de-baptized.)

For a religion that supposedly preaches love, they love to presume they're better than other people and church leaders LOVE getting you to hate others.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

    You make up your own ritual. There's no standard way to do it, but for me, it helped with the closure of that chapter of my life. I will say that mine involved fire as that is antithetical to the Christian baptism ritual and, for me, sacrilege was important.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Were you baptized as an adult?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Nope, I was baptized as a child.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I was raised Roman Catholic and was baptized as a baby but the had to go through Confirmation classes and then re-up, so to speak, in the faith by going through confirmation.

    I knew it wasn’t for me at a young age and opted not to be Confirmed. I’ve always felt that’s when I ‘officially’ stopped being Roman Catholic.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    I was raised Methodist but we spent time in a Baptist church too. I had to go through confirmation, but I wasn't exposed to any other belief system in a meaningful way until junior high school, which is when I started questioning things. I just ended up being friends with weird, nice people who knew it was all bullshit and I found myself deeply uncomfortable with the concepts of Hell, eternal damnation, and the notion that God is the good guy in the story after doing so many horrible things.

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