Lucifer_Carroll
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Joe Wordsworth said:
Christians are for the most part good people. The teachings of Christ (and I mean exclusively those that are of Christ) are beautiful in most every way. The beliefs of pacifism, loving thy neighbors, condemning hate, condemning the corruption of religion, aiding the poor, being the best person morally that you can be, not giving in to hate even when they crucify you, having faith in eternal justice, a heavenly protector, and the reunion with loved ones, being empathic to the pain of others, and so on is something all despite religious convictions should follow. The much-vaunted path of Christ is good and decent.
Has their been great evils commited by people who disregard this path yet still had the gall to call themselves Christian? Yes, and I will state that. Was their rise to a dominant religion aided by such fiends? Yes, and I will state that. Are there those today who still are such fiends? Yes, and I will state that.
Many of my greatest and truest friends have been devout Christians. They are beautiful people all. One is so empathic that he's zen for 95% of his life, only daring to feel as much as he can when it's truly important to do so. He has saved the life of at least one of my old friends. There are more stories of similar.
I support Christianity and I would vote well against those who would actively move to destroy it. I would yell at someone directly telling a Christian that they are an inferior person or that their belief structure is a lie(this means directly, directly, not message board generalizations, though I will try not to participate too much in the latter). The thing is, I would do the same for a pagan or an atheist.
Because my best female friend is a pagan and the best man I ever knew was an atheist. And here I am none of the above, believing strongly that religion's true place would best be in people's hearts and lives, and overall a believer that religion like all world views should be kept secret inside you and aiding you instead of being a secret club.
On the other hand, I can still laugh at religious humour. Middle School Jesus, the Simon Travalgia snippets, and Jesus Saves, Gretsky gets the puck, he shoots, he scores are funny to me. I will laugh at them. I will also laugh at clever Pagan humor or humour that mocks atheists and you can damn well be sure I'll be laughing if someone made a clever joke at my own religion.
Malice and ignorance are around for each group. Each group and religion has those who hate it for tangental reasons or blame the individual for the views of another whole. Calls demonizing atheists, pagans, and Muslims get loads of airplay. Atheists of hate torment the weakest among the Christian number. Even my own religion gets the usual mix.
I think part of it is that religion is a worldview and there can only be one correct one so the appearance of others makes insecure people edgy and unsure. Thus, hate. Laughter is different though. Laughter can be born out of the religion itself (as are the Simon Travalgia pieces) and can help tone down the hate. Atheists or nonbelievers laughing about Christ in their own circles is no different in my eyes than Christians laughing about how these deluded idiots are sacrificing Heaven.
Perhaps it's my folly for always being in the middle.
