ndsvw, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

In the end, I had a 2 pages-document of pros and cons for leaving church…

Some of them:

• If I wasn’t part of Christianity and had the choice to join, would I do it? No.
• The scandals
• Their actions to keep the scandals under the radar which made it even worse
• Wasted money in Germany. A bishop in Germany bought a bathtub for 15k €. That’s a prominent case, but there are a lot more
• The fact that the church is literally a throttle of evolution.
• Still no equality between men and women (I’m sure, they’ll do that at some point. But it’s the church. So, it’s gonna take 600 years)
• No proof of existence of a god or whatever
• There are n religions saying, their god is the real one. At least n-1 of them must be wrong.
• Only 3-5% of the money you pay as a member via taxes goes to charity (in Germany)
• The “Bistum Köln” in Germany has so much money… They started investing it and bought shares of companies.
• I became a member of a religion when I was < 1 year old. I confirmed it when I was 13??? Most other live-relevant decisions are 18+. This should be the same here.
• Religion lessons in school felt like a waste of time
• Church is a black box. No one knows what they are actually doing, how much money they own, …
• Church has an own “justice system” in Germany, which is terrible.
• Most Christians prefer not acting christian when they are challenged.
• I didn’t want to finance an Anti-LGBT group
• Ratlines, a.k.a. “How the church helped Nazis to escape Europe after WW2”
• … and 10 more points.
• Also, I found only 3 or 4 very bad arguments to not quit

And when I realized that the only thing keeping me in there is “fearing” how some people (mostly family) might react when I’d quit, I knew, I had to quit as soon as possible.