Asklemmy

To be honest, I've met more folks who complain about deeply religious people than I've met deeply religious people

I’ve been told the same thing, they said god gave me my strength, but realistically if this “god” did give me anything, it would be my weaknesses and hostile social environment, where I was forced to find my own strengths that a god couldn’t give unless they wanted me to face some sort of mythological nepotism.

I've had a life of endless suffering due to many things. When people tell me it's all part of our loving God's plan for me, I almost lose mind. If God exists, he isn't loving. Inflicting such awful things on your children isn't love. It's abuse.

It kills me when people give up the concept of having power within themselves and instead attribute it to "God."

My grandmother would do this all the time. She would never accept that her determination, her skill, her prowess got her where she was, it was always "I thank God that he did this for me."...NO GRANDMA, YOU DID THIS! It's so frustrating to see people feel essentially powerless unless God does it for them.

Gotah start thanking Satan just to level it out.

Yeah it's annoying.

But fairy tale creatures aside, recognizing and being grateful for any good luck, attributes, or privilege you might have is good for you and your empathy for others.

I find it extremely offensive and presumptuous when a religious person tries to use God talk with me. When somebody tells me to praise Jesus or thank the Lord I feel the same level of discomfort that I'd imagine they would feel if I said hail Satan or let Satan guide us or whatever. I don't consent to having any of those intentions towards me and it's very selfish and narrow minded that they assume everyone would agree to those things they say.

I wouldn't be irritated if they didn't insist on it incessantly

I was just working on a post sharing some pics by one of my favorite photographers and wrote a little something along these lines.

They praised God for the opportunity to get these very unique photos. While I'm not religious, and to me, the photographer did all the work following this bird forever, through long hours of darkness and cold, waiting patiently day after day, honing his craft.

And that is a good enough reason for praise from me. But he felt a blessing from outside, and I can appreciate that for him. Did he think providence put him and this bird together? I don't know if it went that deep. Maybe he was just glad this animal existed, and he is here to experience it, and this moment could have randomly happened for anyone, but instead it happened to him.

Whatever the reason, his beliefs led him to experiencing something amazing. I could just call that inspiration, while he attributes it to his beliefs. Does it make a difference to either of us what the other believes? Nah.

If people aren't proselytizing at me, they can believe in what they please. When most people say they were glad God gave you the strength to do something, they're just being happy for you from their perspective. They probably have no idea what your beliefs are, that's just their default and the words that come to their mind to congratulate you. You should kindly take their words with the intention they were spoken with, not necessarily a literal meaning. Jumping to being offended just makes conflict where there wasn't any, and that would make you the disrespectful one most likely.

I remember when I was a teenager I was annoyed when my mom thanked god for paying off the house instead of right fully taking the credit. I remember her and my father busting their ass every day to pay the bills but not once did I ever see god pitch in so much as a dollar. Yet she gave all the credit to "god" anyway.

God yes. (pun intended)

I once overheard a woman in a store going "Jesus provides"... while staring at a wall of drinks carefully stocked by employees and made in factories built and operated by other people.

So fucking irritated my dude. I know in their minds they're doing it out of a sense of trying to help other souls to find the correct path, in theory. But when you look at it from a secular point of view it literally just feels like them asserting their worldview constantly in the most smug possible way, like get fucked fr. Humans just don't know how to stop themselves from convincing everyone around them of whatever fairytale horse shit they desperately need for themselves to not fear death. I don't mind them believing whatever the hell they want, I just wish they would shut their ass about it. If it's the truth thing everyone on Earth has the same access to it and I don't need somebody constantly reminding me that what's true is true. Things that are true don't need to be constantly repeated

I'm not a Christian anymore, but brought up as one. I was never told what Christianity actually is and meant, and only figured that out later in life. That did help me to not be too annoyed with the annoying parts of Christianity, even when people themselves don't have a clue about what they are saying.

A basic misunderstanding of what is meant by 'thanking God' in a religious context like this, for atheist (and for a lot of theists as well), is the idea that this is an outwards expression, to something out there. For the theists it is supposed to be an inward expression to a feeling/knowledge of yourself. That's the entire idea of baptism, it's the symbolic acknowledgement of having God inside you. And part of the three parts of God (in Christianity), inside, outside, and in other persons. Symbolized by the holy spirit, God as a father and Jesus.

A consequence of being a creation of the almighty God. So, that's 4 Gods to keep track of. Of which 3 of them are the representation of 1, this also hints at the polytheistic beginnings of religion.

I think for most atheists the feelings of annoyance isn't because of these beliefs, as they are in themselves quite logical (in their own right, I didn't mean 'correct' or 'factual'). The annoying part is Christians don't understand their own religion anymore and most of it is infested with fascism.

Anyway, this helps me not hate too much on harmless frases.

Yes.. doctor saves a critically injured patient.. "thank God all mighty !"

removed am I a joke to you? - doc probably.

Also only credit for the positive shit. Mass shooting , never hear them say..thank "God for the killings"

Yep it's definitely annoying and it's so pervasive that we even have lemmings that do that stupid shit.

The fighters that thank God for helping them beat the shit out of their opponent.

Very, and even people that don't make it about god, somehow don't like that I am not religious.

me when I say anything good for LGBTQ

-"that's Satan"

"god is love" except when they don't like it

I'm part of a religion and annoyed by most religious people (I'm not Christian brcause I'm converting to another religion that aligns more with what I personally believe). Irl, you'd never guess I was part of any religion because I know how to STFU. Sadly, a lot of religious people don't do that. I really hear you and it is frustrating to deal with.

Thank God for imbuing you with skepticism

Yes.-The phrase "God has a reason for everything." Is something i hear a lot and take issue with.

-That said, it sounds like the person was pointing out that it's worth practicing gratitude, but then they had to go and wrap that message up in religion, which automatically makes it a turn-off.

No not really. I hate that they use "that is demonic" or "your going to hell" to attack anything or anyone they do not like or understand.

No

For me, it depends on the authenticity.

There's too many people that talk God this and God that, because they've been told that's what they are supposed to do as a God person.

But then their actual actions are not what a god person is supposed to be.

I'll take a 10% Christian that walks the walk 10% of the time over a 100% Christian that walks the walk 10% of the time any day of the week.

they can wishfully think themselves into anything as long as it makes them better than other people and they can play victim

I'm not in any way religious, and it does irritate me when people say, of some senseless tragedy, "everything has a purpose."

But I do see, in your specific example, that what they say has metaphorical value. You should be grateful that you had it in you to accomplish what you did, even if you don't attribute it to some mythical being.

I often think the phase "there but for the grace of God, go I" because I don't know a secular equivalent. Think of God as a metaphor for the universe.

Not irritated but it is slightly annoying. Just try to remember these people base their entire personality on their religion and without they don’t know who they are. It’s why it’s so hard to get people to leave.