My aunt is a wonderful lady, but she's very gullible. Thanks to a video she saw on Facebook, she now believes the conflict in Israel is a sign of the end times and is deeply concerned for my immortal soul. How do I politely let her know that while I appreciate her concern I have no real reason to believe that the Israeli government commiting war crimes against Palestine is going to bring about the second coming of Christ?

I know this community isn’t very big yet, but I’m wondering who else here might have been a preacher’s kid or missionary’s kid growing up?

I work at a very small company and am the only non-christian. It's not a faith based org but the owner is VERY religious and half of the employees are of the same faith. The rest are different factions of that faith. They all know i dont practice but i keep my views to myself.

However, im starting to tire of the “god is guiding us” talk. As an example, i recently made an error but discovered it quickly due to a series of coincidences and managed to fix it before it became a real issue. My boss made mention that “god is always guiding us” and basically said i was led to find this error by god. I REALLY wanted to ask where god’s guidance was when i made the error in the first place.

Anyways, whenever she says something like this I usually just give a “mmmhmmm” or other somewhat neutral and non-commital response. I honestly don’t think there IS a better way I can respond but figured I’d post here in case anyone had suggestions.

And before it’s suggested…there is no HR, it’s an amazing position outside putting up with the religious mumbo jumbo, and I’m not going to quit or report the boss.

P.S. as a reddit refugee who desperately missed the exchristian sub there, i do hope this community can get some more action. Reddit is dead to me, lol.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/905567

I recently deconverted last year. During the process, I learned to be skeptic on supernatural events after watching debates and some episodes in AXP.

That's just me after deconversion, so I'm not sure if all exchristians are the same. I'm wondering if there are exchristians who believe in other supernatural things like ghosts? Or aliens?

I've already missed this community from Reddit and thought we needed a place to come together and talk again.