#on a journey to help leftist spaces blame less and educate more

[13thpythagoras]

Yeah welcoming criticism and I would prefer to see individuals judged rather than classes or groups; what I see often is that right wingers use the old testament to justify a lot of what they do, while Jesus did indeed get killed for refuting that old testament. And no one is perfect, but like, calling out atheists hits like biased gossip, just call out the atheist who you specifically disagreed with or listen and learn more(?)...

Without asking anyone to believe anything, it is always fun to poke holes in the right-wing religious aggression with the cheat code of just Googling quotes by Jesus, it meets them at their language in a way that forces a confrontation with them and their claimed God.

I wouldn't say someone on a healing journey getting away from that toxicity is a part of the problem, I assign blame top down and Joel Osteen et al and all the preachers-in-business-suits are doing just fine, my pet stereotype is genuinely if the preacher's in a business suit, I won't trust it. Every preacher in a church I trusted always had a gown on with a robe and decorative sashes. There's always balance to find, and I would rather help teach vernacular and argumentation than put any one class or group down. Individualize the blame and democratize the love, I say....

Hey non-Christians, every time you're like "ummm akshually Christianity is inherently oppressive because the Bible says XYZ (and you have to agree with this interpretation and follow it to be Christian)", literally all you're doing is agreeing with the uberconservatives who are making sure Christianity stays oppressive instead of permitting alternate interpretations and alternate ways of approaching its texts. You aren't part of the solution, you're part of the problem.