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And yet it will still always be bigoted to care nothing about individuals and only care about negatively grouping large numbers of people together
When a large group of voluntary members all band together to hate minorites, yeah, I'll wear the bigot badge of honor for hating them. You want to compare lists of things we are both bigots about? Nazis, racists, pedophiles, rapists, cops, religious folk...
Which minorities do the very diverse-looking group of people holding some sort of ceremony on the Church's front page hate? Please present your evidence for this group of people's hatred.
https://sunriseaustin.org/
Because if you want to talk about hating people, you're hating the small number of Christians who are actually doing something good in the world because of all the bad ones. That's not rational.
You'll never get my sympathy with such aggression even if agree with some of your points. I'm not special in that way. Blind Hatred isn't helping
There is nothing blind in my hatred. I grew up blind. I was raised in the church. I had to learn for myself just how fucked up everything was. My aggression is earned. My entire youth was wasted on that shit because I was indoctrinated from birth. I believed. I was saved, I hated black people. I hated gay people. I was led to believe that anyone who wasn't a Christian was less than. All because the pastor and elders of the church said so. Did you know Cain was a white man because Adam and Eve were white, but when he killed Abel and was given the mark of his sin, that mark gave him dark skin? Don't you see, all of the black people are descendants of Cain, the murderer. It's all right there, in black and white. Because the bible tells us so.
I'm not fucking blind. My hatred has 20/20 vision.
So...you believed something awful, which was a fringe belief, and from that you took away not only how to withhold all empathy for people who literally believe exactly what you did, but also, you just aim that same irrational hatred toward people who don't even share the bad belief which you held..
lmao. Fringe.
No, friend. There is nothing fringe about Christianity. Maybe not all of them believe the exact same lies that I was told, but know that all of them believe some version of it. Maybe it isn't black people, maybe it's homosexuals, maybe it's women, maybe it's literally anything that they aren't. All of them--ALL OF THEM--believe it, though.
I've said it before in this thread, and I'll say it again. Christianity is a group of volunteers. No one is drafted into god's army. No one is forced to be a Christian. When you decide to become a Christian, you assume the mantle of hatred and oppression that has marched unimpeded for thousands of years. There is no "good sect" of Christianity. There are no reformists that are taking the bible and updating it with modern language and tolerances. It's all the same. All of the lies. All of the hatred. When the "progressive" Christians talk about how it's OK to be gay in their denomination, it's because they believe that gay is a choice, and that you can be forgiven of that sin when you simply stop being gay. You know, like you can be forgiven of murder when you stop murdering. To them, it's the same thing. Sure, they'll let gay people get married, they let murderers get married, don't they?
I didn't read this because you cannot be bothered to think that the extremely racist views you chose to hold aren't universal
By your logic, humanity is entirely putrid and unsalvageable and I can conclude that based on literally just your past professed beliefs which you suddenly now claim no responsibility for and instead choose blind, yes 100% blind, hatred as a piss poor excuse for making amends for the awful shit that you "volunteered" for
Well, since you aren't reading this, I hope you have a good day and all of your dreams come true.
My views are no longer racist. That was the whole point of my rant. I was raised a christofascist in the purest sense. I had to escape that shit. I have every reason to hate it, because it never bothered to apologize for nearly destroying my life.
And here's the thing about being an ex-Christian, and having to deal with the responsibility of my former actions. I'm not making a twitter apology and moving on with my life to leave the victims of my hate to deal with their broken lives on their own. My life is now dedicated to fixing my past mistakes. I battle against the lies I formerly held true because I want to make amends for all of the damage I caused. When I curse the names of priests, rabbis, and gurus, it's not some misguided hate. It's a fucking fascist seeking missile aimed directly at the people that want to destroy the world, all for the sake of the lies they believe and the power they crave. You really want to be the human shield for a pedophile priest?
I knew a bigot was impossible to converse with and that last line is pure pathetic proof of it.
If this hatred and way of speaking is what you think passes for making amends, you're entirely hopeless. The fact is that you're aiming your hate at people who never believed the awful shit YOU believed. And apparently thinking that your hate helps a single fucking person
They believe the bible. The bible is a book of hate.
Sigh. I don't know why I bother with the Christian apologists on a fucking atheism board.
Adios.
Healing the world with hate. What a fucking hero