It's normal for people to believe what they're raised to believe, and what the people they admire and love believe. My parents raised me to believe a charismatic version of Chrisitanity with a literalist interpretation of the Bible. They raised me that way because they thought it was the right way to raise me so I wouldn't go to hell. I don't blame them for that.
Usually there's context in criticism of theists that implies 'not all theists'. Just as when someone complains about white people, if the criticism doesn't apply to me I can assume that it isn't really aimed at me, even though I'm a white person.
I think all theistic religions are flawed but I have no hard feelings towards Christians, Muslims, Hindus, etc. in general. I have a problem with Christianists, Islamists, and Hindu Nationalists though. I also find it irritating when someone comes at me to prosyletize, espcially if they're using particularly stupid arguments (for example, 'you can't see the wind but you believe in that').
Many of the people in my life who I love are theists, some of them are very devout theists. I love them for who they are to me, not what they do or don't believe.
Usually there's context in criticism of theists that implies 'not all theists'. Just as when someone complains about white people, if the criticism doesn't apply to me I can assume that it isn't really aimed at me, even though I'm a white person.
I think all theistic religions are flawed but I have no hard feelings towards Christians, Muslims, Hindus, etc. in general. I have a problem with Christianists, Islamists, and Hindu Nationalists though. I also find it irritating when someone comes at me to prosyletize, espcially if they're using particularly stupid arguments (for example, 'you can't see the wind but you believe in that').
Many of the people in my life who I love are theists, some of them are very devout theists. I love them for who they are to me, not what they do or don't believe.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
