[ SECRET POST #2089 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2089 ⌋

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

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[Slender Man]


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[TGWTG]


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[Twin Peaks]


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[Jojo's Bizarre Adventure]


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[Journey Into Mystery]


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[Ferris Bueller's Day Off]


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[Transonic (X-men)]


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[Baldur's Gate]


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[Wanted]


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[Tiger & Bunny]


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[Bionicle]


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Comments

[brightblueink]

Yeah...I know there's been some pretty hurtful things done by Christians to other people, so I try to do my best to acknowledge that. I mean...I don't have any problem with people talking about their religion, of course, and I do believe it's part of our calling as Christians to share with others why our religion is important to us, but...IDK, if you start badgering and bullying people that's not really setting a great example, I think. I used to do that as a teenager so I've been trying to get better about letting my actions and the way I treat others speak for my faith rather than just...words. I don't know if I always do a great job of it, but...I'm...trying?

But yeah, I think it's important for us to acknowledge some of the unhealthy bits of Christian culture because...a lot of it isn't exactly Biblical, it's just the norm of our "culture." And I'm rambling now, sorry!

DA

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The thing is, other people who actually want any contact with the religious side of you will generally ask about it. And they'll be more likely to ask about it more than once if you don't respond to a limited question with a deluge of information.

Getting a sermon in my face never made me more open to any religion. It just convinced me that the person attempting to give one was a sanctimonious ass. And while I realize that some religions think being friends with an unbeliever is a) an opportunity to convert them and/or b) a threat to the religious person's soul, reducing it to that is really manipulative. I get that it's probably hard to live in a country that's so predominantly Christian that there aren't many people who are unfamiliar with your faith (and would have any reason to be curious about it). But along the same lines, a lot of us who aren't Christian would be thrilled to never have unsolicited preaching directed at us again. Speaking for myself, religion looks like a fandom to me - a fandom that takes itself so seriously, overall, that it can't cope sanely with people who aren't into it, and will never be into it. Just about every other fandom in existence can accept that such people exist, and that it's reasonable to leave them alone. I wish yours could do the same.

Also, there's always, always more than one way to look at a story. If all of that heaven and hell framework existed? I'd go enlist in your Devil's army, long before I'd do the Christ-worship song and dance. The Christian god ... the only reaction I have ever had to that character was aversion. Revulsion. If he existed, I'd want to stay as far away from him as possible. I'd want him overthrown. Anyone who managed to convince me that the Christian cosmogony was real wouldn't have a Christian on their hands. They'd have a newly-minted Satanist. And I can't be alone, in that.