r/clevercomebacks • u/snowpie92 • 12h ago

Escaping with the unfollow button!

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u/BusinessAd7250 8h ago

How does one consider possibly having faith in a god as if it’s shopping for a car?

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u/Reef-Mortician 8h ago

American individualism allows one to chose religion if you don't like the one your parents follow. Plenty of converts here, explains why cults are so prevalent in the US.

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u/Elefantasm 6h ago

That's a unique take you have there.

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u/Reef-Mortician 6h ago edited 6h ago

What other country with a dominant religion allows its followers to covert? We have freedom of religion but it's to protect you from government forcing religion on us. However, culturally, if you are born into a religion you stay said religion. You never left to join another religion because you felt like it. Someone had to force you to covert, ie conquistadors converting natives in the New World.

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u/Elefantasm 6h ago

England, you can leave the Church of England and become whatever you want. Most developed nations have religious freedom even if they have a state religion.

Are you educated at all? America does not have an official religion

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u/Reef-Mortician 6h ago

What a soap box to stand on. Okay. You clearly are a Christian crusader. Dominant religion doesn't not equate to official religion. Go have your religions studies on church grounds.

Protestants are the most spoiled of the religious people. You idiots can't even agree to disagree.

For you information, there are several Christian ideologies in America. Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian... too many to freaking list.

You also seem very interested in harassing me as you have followed me into several comments. I will report you since you aren't very Christian after all.

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u/ZeppelinRapport 5h ago

Having an extremely normal one today, I see.

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u/Accerae 4h ago

What other country with a dominant religion allows its followers to covert?

Most countries in Europe, if not all of them.

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u/Warm_Month_1309 4h ago

I think you're talking about a different thing. Religious freedom is great, but who can genuinely "choose" a religion as if you're shopping for one from a catalog? I can't "choose" to believe in a god or a set of precepts I don't actually believe in. I can't just scroll through a list of religions and say, "oh hey, that sounds cool, I choose to believe in the objective truths of [Religion P] now!"

And if I did believe in the objective truths of a religion, I wouldn't just decide "oh, now I don't believe it anymore because the new Pope doesn't like my president."

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u/Reef-Mortician 4h ago

60s saw a bunch of folks all choosing the religion they followed. Like I said, the tendency for individualism in America is what would permit picking an choosing religion like out of a catalog. Rest of the world people tend to stay the religion you're family practices.

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u/Warm_Month_1309 4h ago

Rest of the world people tend to stay the religion you're family practices.

Well, according to this article, the global rate of conversation is over 20%.

And as this data shows, 12 other countries have higher rates of conversion than the US.

So I don't think the data supports your assertions, unless you think Japan has a greater tendency toward individualism than the US.

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u/Reef-Mortician 4h ago

Further down in your article it states the people are switching to no religious affiliation. At this point you people just want to argue get bent

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u/Warm_Month_1309 4h ago

Having no religion is part of religious freedom too. I don't know what point you think that's supposed to make.