I always want to be kind to everyone, and I try so hard to be open minded and not judge others, but when I find out someone is religious, I find myself being so disappointed in them. I grew up in a catholic family and went to catholic school, and even as a young child, all the religious stuff just didn't add up. I couldn't believe, even then, that adults could abandon all common sense and reasoning, and bought into what seemed like such nonsense. I hate that I feel so negative towards those that are religious, but sadly I do.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.You can learn to hate the ideas without hating the people who hold them. The important thing is to remember to feel pity, not hate. And if you doubt yourself, ask yourself this. If I saw them trapped in a pit, would I lend them my ladder ? If the answer to that is yes, then you know that it is the ideas that you hate. And remember you can only be hating the ideas because of what they do to people.
Fernapple
Level 9
Dec 23, 2018
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Modern colloquialism is "hate the game,not the player".
From a Christian: "So if I find God, I learn the way of God, I instantly hate everyone else?? Fail to see the logic in that bridging of those ideas. I am a Christian and I do not hate anyone."
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My response:
It is not always a conscious thing . . . . you have to look at the base of the belief. . . . and that is that certain people are "saved", and certain people are not, and those who are not will burn in hell. When you dehumanize other people, and picture them as being unworthy, i.e. ("do not throw your pearls before swine" ), "swine"? . . . that is clearly and unambiguously a form of hate. Why not seek what is best for ALL of mankind, the World as a whole, all races, all cultures, rather than being divisive?
Don't feel bad about being prejudiced against people who are naturally prejudiced against you and a whole lot of others . . . generally I am prejudiced against people who think they have some special place in the world above others . . . . these are they kind of people who have created wars and chaos in the world because they think god has given them the right to do it.
THHA
Level 7
Dec 23, 2018
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Some people take a long, slow path to these realizations. Some never get there. It's a conundrum.
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Dec 23, 2018
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