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I haven't been on lemmy too much. But I've found beehaw specifically has been full of positive interactions. I get what you're saying regarding religious interactions though.

I'm not personally religious, but I don't really care what other people believe in as long as they're treating others with respect, being a chill person, and dont force their beliefs onto others.

Basically, as long as people aren't hurting each other and just being nice, that's all I ask, haha. You would think that would be easy enough to do but I suppose the tricky thing is we don't know what other people are dealing with in their personal lives when we communicate. People are complex I suppose.

The world would probably be a better place if we could feel what it would be like to be in each other's shoes

(U.S. specific rant incoming)

As long as they actually advocate for queer rights and don't vote for politicians who do everything in their power suppress and restrict those rights.

The issue is many religious people value their religious "principles" more than they do voting for someone who would not repress the queer community.

So at the end of the day it feels very two-faced to me. While they may be nice to your face they have no problem voting for people who would condemn you to hell and treat you like animals because their single issue voting tendencies are ingrained.

most religious people I know in real life are relatively chill. Most folks keep it by and large to themselves honestly. Im athiest now and used to be agnostic (technically still am but that is a whole huge debate topic itself). There is a lot of sorta anti religion now but I think that mostly is due to religion being injected into laws and causing non religious to see it as an evil. Which I get. When someone is trying to codify their religion into law its scary af. Even religious folks don't like it but then if non religious get to zelous it hampers them down in the conversation.

Based on my personal observations, there are sort of like 3 rings to a religion. The outermost contains the vast majority of adherents who are pretty casual in their faith. If they are of some Christian denomination say, they'll show up for Christmas or Easter services and go their separate ways otherwise. The 2nd ring contains people who attend services regularly but are non-evangelical. They are devout in their faith but not pushy about it.

Then finally, there is this innermost ring of evangelicals who make it their mission to tell you how great it is to find God and can be pushy enough to make a priest cringe. People from the outer rings generally try to avoid this group, but they tend to be the most active online. I guess maybe lemmy has yet to be overrun by them?

I get the feeling is because the politics of the unchill religious people wouldn't be accepted on Lemmy.

I run into anti religious people sometimes and then I like to mention that I feel we can all make it our own. It's just a human thing.

Of course it is nice when you have a community too but you can still be religious without that. Take the Bible for example. You don't have to be into what your local community is saying. You can get into that stuff in your own way, just the way you think is right. Nobody owns that.