how to stop religious hatred (specifically towards christians)
My family is considered buddhist but since we aren’t very religious I’d consider my relatives mostly atheist. Which Im grateful for, so unlike many people who are athiest who I feel are ex-christians, I never really had any experiences with religion. No religious trauma, no church, just the occasional praying at the temple once every three months. Growing up of course there were religious people since this is southern america but just even being surrounded by christian or catholic people made me feel angry and I would assume the worst out of these people. Even going to the local church for egg hunts on easter was frustrating.
Of course now I have a better understanding of people and religion but recently it’s just been worse. I don’t even want to be around my friends who are christian or even strangers that I didn’t know. If I found out they were religious I would genuinely want the worst for them. I can’t explain the feeling but it’s almost like just bottled up anger.
And it goes for other religions too but if Im being honest I don’t really care about other religion. thjs feeling is mostly just toward christians or catholics. I just don’t understand how could people believe in the bible and you just seriously cannot be a decent person if you do.
It’s also ruined my experiences for dating since christianity is the main religion and every guy so far has been Christian. And once they bring religion up I get the same feeling again.
I’m also an Asian female so whenever I see other Asian christian’s or christians that are a person of color in general, it’s like what the fuck are you doing? these people colonized us, they are the oppressors and then that feeling is over and over again.
Im not really posting this to argue whether or not I should care for other religions because I know being an atheist is not just “not being christian” it’s not being religious or believing in a deity at all. But I just need this feeling to stop or at least decrease because I’m scared that one day I’m going to say the wrong thing to the wrong person. Or if anyone has/had the same feeling.
Posted Jun 10, 2026, 4:23 PM UTC