[ SECRET POST #360 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #360 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 08 pages, 192 secrets from Secret Submission Post #052.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 linked back to the page ] broken links, [ 1 2 ] not!secrets, [ 1? 2? ] not!fandom, [ 1 2 3 ] repeats, [ 1 ] probably not for real.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Tuesday, January 1st, 2008.
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[sanae.livejournal.com]

iawtc

[aphelion-orion.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm going to play devil's advocate and say what I got out of that secret: That people/characters/whoever are "bad" if they do not believe in Christianity and that they "must be converted" in order to be "saved from divine retribution/eternal hell/etc". That's not a very nice viewpoint to take, so of course people are going to feel miffed that this person is implying their beliefs are bad.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Yeah. There's just simply no way to make the statement "I think everyone (fictional or not) who doesn't share my religious beliefs is going to burn in hell" inoffensive. It's offensive. Period.

But nobody's trying to censor that viewpoint. They're just emphatically disagreeing and/or mocking. Which is perfectly in keeping with "tolerating" it. "Tolerance" doesn't mean "nodding and smiling at every idiotic and/or bigoted idea that comes down the pike as if I had no capacity for critical thought."

[dorknessrising.livejournal.com]

If I wasn't already in a committed relationship, I'd be requesting your hand in marriage. Or at the very least a one-night stand at the local Marriott.

[aditou.livejournal.com]

Completely agreed. But that's just my two cents.

[sanae.livejournal.com]

Well, if the secret poster had said non-Christians were "bad" and "must be converted" I would agree with all the "LOL #16 IS AN IDIOT" comments. Except they didn't say that, just that they write fictional characters as Christians because they secretly don't like to imagine the characters going to hell.

I don't know, maybe it depends on what you read into it, but the secret seems pretty harmless to me.

[aphelion-orion.livejournal.com]

I agree that it is a thing of interpretation, but if we're going by the implication that s/he feels the need to "save" mere characters "from hell" by making them Christian, how much is she going to be intolerant of real people?

Please note that I'm not saying that #16 is DOING this, I'm saying that's what a lot of people are worried about and frowning upon, myself included. It's in the way it's worded, and I've been addressed by one too many well-meaning Catholic priest/Jehova's witness/Mormon (I've yet to meet a Muslim or Hinduist who attempts this) talking to me in a similar way so that I'm wary of it.