RE: Hate the belief, not the believer
February 19, 2015 at 5:51 am
(This post was last modified: February 19, 2015 at 5:52 am by Violet.)
(February 19, 2015 at 1:36 am)Losty Wrote: Since I de-converted from Christianity, I kind of adapted my "hate the sin, not the sinner" ideals. I have been through some really terrible things at the hands of religious people, in the name of god, and justified by the religion itself.
Some sins cannot divorce themselves from the sinner committing them.
I'm sorry that you've been through such awful things, Losty 
Quote:I have been thinking a lot about personal responsibility, and versus impaired judgement due to childhood indoctrination.
I'm really struggling trying to find a cross over point. When do stop blaming the religion for a person's wrong doings and make take responsibility of their own actions.
People always need to take responsibility for their own actions. Whomever and whatever is most at fault for causing them: it's up to them to decide if they're going to own up to their wrongdoings and try to be better than they are/have been... or if they're going to live in blissful denial of their effect upon the world.
By the time they're an adult... they should be quite more than capable of making decisions that should be expected of an adult.
Quote:When is it okay to hate the believer for their beliefs?
When they start hurting other people with their beliefs. It's okay to hate them, Losty.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
