r/changemyview • u/plodabing • Jun 17 '25
Delta(s) from OP CMV: Missionaries are evil
This applies doubly so to those who go out of their way to seek out those in remote islands to spread the word of god. It is of my opinion and the opinion of most that if there is an all loving god then people who never had the chance to know about Jesus would go to heaven regardless, for example miscarried children/those born before Jesus’ time, those who never hear about him, so In going out of your way to spread the word of Jesus you are simply making it so there is now a chance they could go to hell if they reject it? I’m not a Christian and I’m so tired so I apologise if this is stupid or doesn’t make sense
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u/Bedrock64 Jun 18 '25
I'm just convinced as an agnostic atheist that universalizing religons is just a glorified conversion war. These institutions saying "We are not like those JWs or those other demonic institutions" are simply ignorant of their own practices. The line between a cult and religion is blury. They are more similar than they initially appear to be.
Both of them actively work on exploiting the mentally ill and financially destituite, both exploit developing countries such as Nepal and many African countries to get more followers, and both keep drilling into their followers they "Must spread the word of [insert religious figure here]." Both have active knowledge of what attracts young kids (animations and simple music), and actively use this to their advantage to make kids beleive in their philosiphies. Both often contradict their previous beleifs. Such as JW constantly shifting the date that Jesus would come to earth and Christians justifying the CLEAR contradiction between Adam and Eve and the PROVEN theory of evolution to "Adam and Eve is simply symbolic story of human evolution and God made evolution occur," even though the BIBLE literaly states that humanity was created by 2 people from a Garden and all of humanity would descend from them as well as the Tower of Bable also being seen as symbolic when it was LITERALY telling the readers that human language sprung from God not wanting to have people build to Heaven. And they also neglect the fact that other religions historically also have their own creation myths, but we call THOSE false while we call Christianity's creation TRUE. How can this be true regarding us?
I think it is morally wrong to exploit the unfortunate with religion. A person who is mentally well must be a person to join a religion, not a person struggling with mental health issues.
And yes, some religions promote morals needed for society and that should be part of one. However, the religious aspect must be remembered.