Interesting... I don't know which is worse, the loudmouth christians who "know" they're right or the loudmouth pagan/athiests who "know" they're right... Yes, I'm christian, and I'm a pretty firm believer in it all, but I live closer to a live-and-let-live sorta thing (my opinion is the only behavior I disapprove of is really harmful stuff, like murder, theft, rape... yeah I know, not christian ideals by your standards. heard of the 10 commandments? they're not just for the jewish). Quite frankly it offends both my religious beliefs and my general "practice what you preach" belief when I see posts like this:
"I hate it when you christians get things wrong and stereotype us pagans or things related to us, after all, all you are is a bunch of murdering raping dumbasses that don't believe in freedom or anything truly good and do bad stuff to innocent people. That's a contrast to pagans/athiests, who have done nothing but good in this world and are responsible for all good acts, and are just too modest to brag about it, like christians would. It's been proven that Christ was a pig-fucking orangutan and I'VE never met a single good christian, so by my population sampling you all are a bunch of ignorant asses. There have been documented occurances where christians ate babies and shot kittens then laughed about it later, and by those cases I think we can judge all other christians and their beliefs. I'd rather kids learn about anything else than about Christ and how he taught to murder, rape and hate, because even though I haven't been polluted by actually reading the bible or paying attention at a christian mass, I've heard that stuff from my other pagan/athiest friends who also hate christians, and I think we can thusly just take it as fact."
Sound familiar? We've all seen these posts responding to a religious zealot who says something stupid, who then becomes hated and is called ignorant. These responses, unfortunately are themselves by religious/anti-religious zealots who say things that are ignorant as well, but get praised by everyone else because it's always popular to bust on "those darn oppressing christians"... Don't get me wrong, I don't care what they believe in, nor do I judge them on it. What I judge them by is their apparent hating prejudice of people they don't know, like me, my family, and a some of my friends, and that they then have the audacity to claim it's all because people like ourselves are self-righteous, judgemental, and filled with hate.
Congratulations, you have all the qualities you claim are in the people you hate most.
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"I hate it when you christians get things wrong and stereotype us pagans or things related to us, after all, all you are is a bunch of murdering raping dumbasses that don't believe in freedom or anything truly good and do bad stuff to innocent people. That's a contrast to pagans/athiests, who have done nothing but good in this world and are responsible for all good acts, and are just too modest to brag about it, like christians would. It's been proven that Christ was a pig-fucking orangutan and I'VE never met a single good christian, so by my population sampling you all are a bunch of ignorant asses. There have been documented occurances where christians ate babies and shot kittens then laughed about it later, and by those cases I think we can judge all other christians and their beliefs. I'd rather kids learn about anything else than about Christ and how he taught to murder, rape and hate, because even though I haven't been polluted by actually reading the bible or paying attention at a christian mass, I've heard that stuff from my other pagan/athiest friends who also hate christians, and I think we can thusly just take it as fact."
Sound familiar? We've all seen these posts responding to a religious zealot who says something stupid, who then becomes hated and is called ignorant. These responses, unfortunately are themselves by religious/anti-religious zealots who say things that are ignorant as well, but get praised by everyone else because it's always popular to bust on "those darn oppressing christians"... Don't get me wrong, I don't care what they believe in, nor do I judge them on it. What I judge them by is their apparent hating prejudice of people they don't know, like me, my family, and a some of my friends, and that they then have the audacity to claim it's all because people like ourselves are self-righteous, judgemental, and filled with hate.
Congratulations, you have all the qualities you claim are in the people you hate most.