RE: The Not-so-elephant In The Room
December 13, 2015 at 6:12 pm
(This post was last modified: December 13, 2015 at 6:13 pm by Regina.)
I don't care what people believe, honestly.
It's not the belief in a God that offends me. It's the dogma, rules and objective morality. It's the pushing of "moral values" that you disagree with in your face and being told "you have to respect this because it's their belief". When it gets to that point, that's when I get all "fuck your beliefs". I see wanting to believe in an afterlife and something higher as something very normal actually. I don't think it makes you sick to want to believe there's something for us after we die, it makes you human. Sure, I don't believe in it, but I see the appeal.
If someone wants to believe there's a colony of faeries living at the bottom of their garden, yes I'll think they're nuts. Honestly though, if they're not harming anyone in the name of said faeries, I'd just let them live on in their delusion.
It's not the belief in a God that offends me. It's the dogma, rules and objective morality. It's the pushing of "moral values" that you disagree with in your face and being told "you have to respect this because it's their belief". When it gets to that point, that's when I get all "fuck your beliefs". I see wanting to believe in an afterlife and something higher as something very normal actually. I don't think it makes you sick to want to believe there's something for us after we die, it makes you human. Sure, I don't believe in it, but I see the appeal.
If someone wants to believe there's a colony of faeries living at the bottom of their garden, yes I'll think they're nuts. Honestly though, if they're not harming anyone in the name of said faeries, I'd just let them live on in their delusion.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
