(April 10, 2015 at 8:21 pm)Ksa Wrote: And you cannot blame them, because they mean you no harm, but harm is often done, often irreparable.Kudos except for the last part.
You can absolutely blame them. If they are continuing to engage in abusive behavior after being informed of how it affects you, then they are absolutely to be blamed, regardless of their intentions.
An example---not nearly on the level of faith healers, but it illustrates the point nonetheless. I would tell my mother about an accomplishment, one I had worked really hard at and felt a great sense of accomplishment at having achieved. She would immediately say, "Praise God" or something to that effect. That is abhorrently offensive, and I told her so. It trivializes all the hard work that I did. Her response is "I believe x or y, and it's not meant to be offensive." My response is always: "well, now you know it's extremely offensive, and in the future if you say that to me again, you'll do it with that knowledge."
If she were to continue to act like that, she would be completely to blame. She can think it, say it to others, but don't bring that shit to me. Christians that do harmful shit knowing it's harmful, but giving themselves captive to their dogma are absolutely to blame.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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