RE: Hate the belief, not the believer
February 19, 2015 at 3:49 pm
(This post was last modified: February 19, 2015 at 3:51 pm by Dystopia.)
Losty something I forgot to mention - The fact you hate the belief but not the believer doesn't mean you have to endure abuse and pure stupidity in the name of religion and abstain from calling it out. When I see someone doing something terrible because god said so I always call them out, on the internet and in real life. If religious people engage in ridiculous behaviour they deserve to be ridiculed and criticized.
I think you can hate the believer if she/he is clearly a "bad" person - When a white supremacist spits out bullshit I don't merely hate the ideology, I hate him/her for being such a bigoted asshole. I don't see why we shouldn't do the same with Christians - Yes Christianity is not the same as racial supremacism, but it's an ideology that can be used with prejudiced intent, particularly against women, LGBT, apostates, non-believers, other theists, etc
I think you can hate the believer if she/he is clearly a "bad" person - When a white supremacist spits out bullshit I don't merely hate the ideology, I hate him/her for being such a bigoted asshole. I don't see why we shouldn't do the same with Christians - Yes Christianity is not the same as racial supremacism, but it's an ideology that can be used with prejudiced intent, particularly against women, LGBT, apostates, non-believers, other theists, etc
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you