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Sorry man I've lived long enough to see very bad people use religion to explain what they do or to forgive themselves for awful things that they do. I have met
by stjohnswarts 5y ago
Sorry man I've lived long enough to see very bad people use religion to explain what they do or to forgive themselves for awful things that they do. I have met very few "saintly" people over the course of things. Luckily most people (at least in the west) don't give religion that much time in their thoughts and general don't shape their lives around it.
- hunterb123 5y agoThe nicest people I've met and the strangers who helped me when I needed it were religious. I don't think anecdotes can be used to accuse a massive group of people of wrongdoing. Religious people are people, judge the individual. And I don't think forgiving yourself is a bad thing. The only other options are kill yourself or wallow in guilt for the rest of your life. Just because you forgave yourself doesn't mean there wasn't consequences or guilt felt.