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Dante9 on 19 November 2025
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killeryoshis said:
This is the first year I decided to take being a Christian seriously in my many years of life. After studying morality and the formation of societies, I realized that society owes a great deal to religion. (Read Tom Holland's book Dominion.)  After studying each religion, I found Christianity to be the one that made the most sense, especially in comparison to atheism. Which I find is a worldview in itself, even if the people who believe in it don't see it that way. This Twitter/X  thread perfectly states my point. 
I chose Catholicism because my other options were less true. Evangelism (Which is ahistorical). Orthodoxy (This religion is like Catholicism, but with less reason.) Mainline Protestantism (These institutions are so corrupted, I find joining them was like joining heretics.) 
firebush03 said:

Actually… I’ve got a question. Have any of you struggle with feelings of guilt associated with video games? For instance: I cannot play any M-rated video games nor do I feel comfortable engaging too often with video games without feeling a deep rooted sense of guilt. As though I worship an idol of this world.

I have a hard time logically explaining how video games could bring guilt. It is art. No different than movies or books. It only becomes an issue when it draws you away from your duties. For example, if you choose to play video games instead of praying, then there is a problem. But if you did all your prayers, video game playing has no issues. If anything, you deserve it! 

So I would classify excessive video game playing as under the Deadly Sin of Sloth. 

As for mature games, I don't feel anything with extreme violence. I don't think it is considered a sin anywhere. Sexual stuff makes sense, but unless you are playing the game specifically for that stuff, it shouldn't be too much of an issue. 

I bet you have heard this before, but atheism is not a belief system, but rather the lack of one. It does not take any effort or practise to not believe in something. It just does not exist, in our eyes. Simple as that. Is not believing in unicorns a belief system, for example? Of course not.

Many religious people seemingly cannot fathom not having a belief of some form, so in their mind, they have a need to twist even unbelief into a belief. It's weird.

Sorry, didn't mean to crash this place but as an atheist I just felt i needed to address this.