(August 13, 2017 at 9:06 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(August 13, 2017 at 8:49 pm)rjh4 is back Wrote: Why would you apologize for all those comments? Did you make them? I just don't understand the thinking here. Apologize for things you are responsible for. Seems to me there is no need to apologize for anything else.
It would be like me as a white guy apologizing for slavery. Why would I do that? I did not participate in the act. Even if my ancestors did (they didn't...at least as far as I know), I wouldn't apologize.
Just a pet peeve of mine.
Before anyone is quick to take the last paragraph as I agree with the sentiment of those posts, I can assure you I do not. I would rather have a peace lover of any persuasion as my neighbor than any of those nut jobs.
It feels accusatory when someone posts at you about something bad another Christian did, or when they are talking about Christians in general. I too feel compelled to apologize in these sorts of scenarios. It kind of sends a mixed message when things like this get posted at us or about us in general, and then when we apologize we get told not to.
Why would it feel accusatory to you if you weren't the one doing it and nobody said you were doing it?
And I did not get any hint from anybody's post that they were asking for an apology from Christians here. So how is there a mixed message? Seems to be only a message from me saying stop it because it doesn't make sense.
Their point was that there are a lot of nut job Christians out there (yeah, yeah, I know....all of them...save your fingers as I got to it first) at least saying they want to do the things Dawkins (if it really was him saying it) said , and they have shown some evidence in support of the point.
