Religious misanthropy
You’ve probably seen this video by now. I hesitate to post it, because the original video had closed comments and was pulled as soon as people started linking to it, and this one is an upload of a rehost by OneGoodMove (not sure why they hosted a YouTube video separately; it makes sense to do that sort of thing to save the person’s bandwidth, but it goes against the reason YouTube exists in the first place), so I’m guessing the person who originally uploaded it doesn’t want people to see it.
Still, it’s all over the blogosphere now, so I suppose it can’t do any more harm.
The misanthropy I’m talking about isn’t the mother’s, though. Yes, she’s obviously not a very good person slash needs mental help &c., but that’s not the point.
I’m talking about the dozens of commenters who themselves claim to be Christian, but say they treat their atheist [friend/coworker/family member] like any other person and don’t confront them about it.
Obviously, from the atheist’s point of view, this kind of behavior is laudable (fuck, I know I like to be left alone), but what kind of [friend/coworker/family member] does that make said Christian?
If you believe in the God of the Bible, you believe, at the very least, that non-believers won’t get into Heaven, even if you don’t believe in Hell as such, and you’re perfectly okay with letting your [friend/coworker/family member] throw away an eternity in Heaven (or worse, trade it for the same eternity in Hell) out of “politeness”?
If your apathy towards your fellow man has reached such levels that you’re willing to do that, I’m not sure why you’d call yourself a Christian.
“Moderate” Christians truly are the least consistent type.
Coduuuu said,
April 11th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
I hate you.
Skatje said,
April 12th, 2007 at 12:12 am
It’s better that they’re just shitty Christians who leave us alone.
And they could probably justify it like “god meant for them to be this way.” Or something. I’ve heard that one, anyway. >.>
Cairnarvon said,
April 12th, 2007 at 12:18 am
The problem with that justification is that in the end, it makes morality irrelevant.
Not that religion doesn’t tend to do that anyway, just for different reasons.
rednwhite said,
April 16th, 2007 at 1:54 am
Religion makes everything irrelevant. O\__/O