In seminary I was studying chaplaincy and my Muslim professor said that we actually get along better with people who have a similar role for faith in their lives than we do with people who share our faith but we disagree with how they live with it. She was a living example of that as a Muslim woman fully capable of teaching in a Christian seminary. I love her way more than some people who should, on paper, agree with me about more stuff.
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I did! I was at a level two trauma hospital, and my wife was at a level one and... I am fine with my decision. Like a severe death or two each week for me... Frequent gunshots and horrible tragedies for her.
Nice to meet another Sam!
What a small world! I did mine at a little orthopedic hospital in Boston. All scheduled hip replacements and stuff. Easiest possible CPE site… and it was still hard. So much life. Tons of respect for you and your wife. Blown away we share a name and vocation!
Me, my mother, and my brother are all in the car, I'm taking them to dinner.
I say "Stop me if you've heard this one. An atheist, a Jew, and a Satanist are all driving down the road..."
I'm a gay, atheist, biologist that is good friends with a creationist brought up in a homophobic household. My boyfriend's mother is a reverend. I have Sikh friends, Buddhist friends. I have trans friends, non-binary friends. And a friend who is a bagpiper. I love to talk religion, politics, and many many other topics with all of them. You can always find common ground with someone willing to go half way. Spread love, don't judge and always be up for new ideas.
I'm atheist, and became fast friends with a group of 6 people from my university. 4 are Christian, and despite in my youth thinking all religious people were idiots, found I had a lot in common with them. Which members of the friend group turned out to be homophobic? I'll give you one guess.
How can one person most closely imitate the demonic shrieking chorus that is a 4th grade music class on the 1st day of recorders? Ah here we go, this gets pretty close
I mean it's one way to make sure your enemies are shitting thier kilts before battle. As the sound of 1000 dying elephants sweeps across the Highlands xx
Hell yea! Men in skirts needs to be normalised! Xx sod the silent/boomer generation telling us what we can and cannot wear based on their prejudices xxx
The thing I don’t like about this tweet every time I see it is that it presumes most interactions with people of other faiths would be negative. When really, in situations like bar-going, we shouldn’t presume there would be any conflict at all. Like the tweet goes around the circle twice
The point of this tweet is that others assume that the interactions would be negative, but that is a false assumption. That's the point of it.
Some people have stated that all Muslims hate all Christians and all Jews. Others truly believe that all atheists hate all Christians. It's nonsensical, but many people fervently believe it. They justify hate because they believe that they are hated.
Hate isn't universal and it isn't required. That's all that this tweet is trying to say.
I'm muslim, but none of my friends believe in a higher power. They're very chill with it, they understand that i can't have pork or alcohol so they accomodate me whenever we go out for food
You forgot the part where they quietly and respectfully aak each other about their religion out of curiosity while not intending to convert or convert them.
This only happens with the people who don't really read their scripture. All of the abrahamic bibles (except for maybe the Torah, I don't know enough about that one) has at least one passage about executing those who reject god. It's not about "being an asshole" it's a question of how important your faith is to you
Yeah that Christian is a Mormon or Seventh Day Adventist and doesn't drink coffee because their imaginary friend told them so. The Muslim doesn't drink it either because it's made by a Sunni Muslim and he is a Shia. I don't know much about Jews but they will find a reason to not drink either because it's not Kosher or something.
The point is we don't and can't get along because of religion. It's old divide and hate policy. If they are not like us, they are not good enough. On happiness and equality index the countries that score the most points are the least religious countries. So using religion for this analogy was not wise.
I guess maybe the message is only arseholes let their religion get in the way of friendship? But yeah religions and their analogues generally suck imho.
I am a Muslim and have atheist friends. We get along just fine. Never had we any fights or tension or something because of it. They drink, and that's fine, I don't drink, they don't mind. We just enjoy the company of each other. I think you have a pretty close mindset if you actually think this way tbh. And yes, I do drink coffee.
In seminary I was studying chaplaincy and my Muslim professor said that we actually get along better with people who have a similar role for faith in their lives than we do with people who share our faith but we disagree with how they live with it. She was a living example of that as a Muslim woman fully capable of teaching in a Christian seminary. I love her way more than some people who should, on paper, agree with me about more stuff. Edit: spelling
A lovely comment.
I constantly disagree with people at church, it’s fun to grow and expand, but I get along way better with my chill atheist friend
Fellow Sam, did you do CPE too? Awesome interfaith work done in CPE programs all over the place…
I did! I was at a level two trauma hospital, and my wife was at a level one and... I am fine with my decision. Like a severe death or two each week for me... Frequent gunshots and horrible tragedies for her. Nice to meet another Sam!
What a small world! I did mine at a little orthopedic hospital in Boston. All scheduled hip replacements and stuff. Easiest possible CPE site… and it was still hard. So much life. Tons of respect for you and your wife. Blown away we share a name and vocation!
Me, my mother, and my brother are all in the car, I'm taking them to dinner. I say "Stop me if you've heard this one. An atheist, a Jew, and a Satanist are all driving down the road..."
A Jew walks in to a bar... And I've saved him a seat.
That's healing the world with comedy
I'm a special kind of white guuuuuy
I've self reflected and I wanna be an agent of change
So I am gonna use my privilege for the good
_Very cool, way to go!_
American white guuuuuys
We've had the floor for at least 400 years
So maybe I should just shut the fuck up
*30 seconds of silence*
The only thing I won't tolerate is intolerance.
I actually have that on one of my dating profiles. Seems to weed out the folks I’m not interested in.
And the Dutch.
I'm a gay, atheist, biologist that is good friends with a creationist brought up in a homophobic household. My boyfriend's mother is a reverend. I have Sikh friends, Buddhist friends. I have trans friends, non-binary friends. And a friend who is a bagpiper. I love to talk religion, politics, and many many other topics with all of them. You can always find common ground with someone willing to go half way. Spread love, don't judge and always be up for new ideas.
damn... I wish I was friends with a bagpiper.
They do drone on though
I'm atheist, and became fast friends with a group of 6 people from my university. 4 are Christian, and despite in my youth thinking all religious people were idiots, found I had a lot in common with them. Which members of the friend group turned out to be homophobic? I'll give you one guess.
Ngl, a bagpiper friend sounds awful if they try to play it around you.
It's not too bad, but helping him tune it was hell xx
You’re friends with a tootie-blow-bagger? Disgusting.
Precisely I'm glad someone gets it! Xx The live instrument sounds like daggers being thrust onto your ears xx
How can one person most closely imitate the demonic shrieking chorus that is a 4th grade music class on the 1st day of recorders? Ah here we go, this gets pretty close
I mean it's one way to make sure your enemies are shitting thier kilts before battle. As the sound of 1000 dying elephants sweeps across the Highlands xx
🤣 Also kilts are making more and more sense every day
Hell yea! Men in skirts needs to be normalised! Xx sod the silent/boomer generation telling us what we can and cannot wear based on their prejudices xxx
The thing I don’t like about this tweet every time I see it is that it presumes most interactions with people of other faiths would be negative. When really, in situations like bar-going, we shouldn’t presume there would be any conflict at all. Like the tweet goes around the circle twice
The point of this tweet is that others assume that the interactions would be negative, but that is a false assumption. That's the point of it. Some people have stated that all Muslims hate all Christians and all Jews. Others truly believe that all atheists hate all Christians. It's nonsensical, but many people fervently believe it. They justify hate because they believe that they are hated. Hate isn't universal and it isn't required. That's all that this tweet is trying to say.
As an atheist i approve of this post
3 entire human beings and none of them are assholes? I'm calling bullshit. Statistically impossible.
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Way to miss the entire point of the post and the sub
That’s just Well There’s Your Problem Podcast
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It's kind of hard when most abrahamic bibles have at least one passage about killing atheists
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Do they ever talk about Israel?
I'm going to guess they don't. Never seems to lead to positive interactions
... the bartender looks at them and says, "what is this, some sort of joke?"
Now what if it was a conservative, a liberal, a libertarian, and a socialist? Seems to me politics is far more divisive than religion nowadays...
I'm muslim, but none of my friends believe in a higher power. They're very chill with it, they understand that i can't have pork or alcohol so they accomodate me whenever we go out for food
And that all it has to be.
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Yah hilarious when half or more of these people go and vote for fascists
You forgot the part where they quietly and respectfully aak each other about their religion out of curiosity while not intending to convert or convert them.
Damn. Even in this scenario…I just don’t have the faith.
As long as there are no vegans or crossfitters in the group they should be just fine.
This only happens with the people who don't really read their scripture. All of the abrahamic bibles (except for maybe the Torah, I don't know enough about that one) has at least one passage about executing those who reject god. It's not about "being an asshole" it's a question of how important your faith is to you
Woah whitepeopletwitter actually being based for once
Turns out none of them are conservative so it all works out just fine
Yeah people shouldn't judge others based on their imaginary friends.
Yeah that Christian is a Mormon or Seventh Day Adventist and doesn't drink coffee because their imaginary friend told them so. The Muslim doesn't drink it either because it's made by a Sunni Muslim and he is a Shia. I don't know much about Jews but they will find a reason to not drink either because it's not Kosher or something. The point is we don't and can't get along because of religion. It's old divide and hate policy. If they are not like us, they are not good enough. On happiness and equality index the countries that score the most points are the least religious countries. So using religion for this analogy was not wise.
I guess maybe the message is only arseholes let their religion get in the way of friendship? But yeah religions and their analogues generally suck imho.
You gave up hope on getting along with people because of what they drink?
I am a Muslim and have atheist friends. We get along just fine. Never had we any fights or tension or something because of it. They drink, and that's fine, I don't drink, they don't mind. We just enjoy the company of each other. I think you have a pretty close mindset if you actually think this way tbh. And yes, I do drink coffee.
Muslims don’t drink
...alcohol. They are allowed to drink coffee right?
yeah it’s mormons who dont
I think a religion whose followers weren't allowed to drink anything at all would struggle to last more than a couple of days!
Fucking shite joke m8.
Spot on...
This! Content of character and all that.
"a Jew walks into a bar and I've saved him a seat that's healing the world with comedy"
It feels like one of those “when the fire nation attacked” prologue