Think I need to work on my substantial bias against Christians of all denominations, cause as soon as I find out someone is Christian I immediately react like that picture of homelander people use as a react image
Like, I don’t really like religion or the manner of thinking that leads to spirituality, but I don’t really have a strong negative reaction to any other religion
Like, I am ethnically Jewish, and describe myself as Jewish under cultural grounds, but I do not believe in anything Judaism actually teaches as a religion. Yet I do not have a negative reaction to Jews who are religious/spiritual, but Christians? Nah
Like part of it is a sort of Leninist rejection of the category of religion in society, an a Russelian rejection of the religious view of reality, but Christianity in particular grosses me out
Maybe it’s my trauma? Maybe the reality of evangelicalism presenting an existential threat to me and my family as queer and Jewish? Idk. I gotta write something about it.
I can relate to feeling the same kind of reaction because I have seen Christianity be used so many times to validate hatred of others or extreme actions. A person whom I used to go to high school with and considered friend, posted on Easter the year it feel on trans day of visibility that "we are in a spirtual war" and at that point I knew I had to cut ties. I wish I didn't so many other similar stories but I do...
growing up as a catholic in an abusive household has inextricably tied up christianity with being ashamed and stuck. a lot of the core values of it led to multiple ruined generations of my f*mily, so yeah i also run into the same problem of being irrationally disgusted at strangers. feels too harsh
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Like, I don’t really like religion or the manner of thinking that leads to spirituality, but I don’t really have a strong negative reaction to any other religion
Like, I am ethnically Jewish, and describe myself as Jewish under cultural grounds, but I do not believe in anything Judaism actually teaches as a religion. Yet I do not have a negative reaction to Jews who are religious/spiritual, but Christians? Nah
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Like part of it is a sort of Leninist rejection of the category of religion in society, an a Russelian rejection of the religious view of reality, but Christianity in particular grosses me out
Maybe it’s my trauma? Maybe the reality of evangelicalism presenting an existential threat to me and my family as queer and Jewish? Idk. I gotta write something about it.
(Not a Leninist btw, just agree with a lot of his views of religion)
I can relate to feeling the same kind of reaction because I have seen Christianity be used so many times to validate hatred of others or extreme actions. A person whom I used to go to high school with and considered friend, posted on Easter the year it feel on trans day of visibility that "we are in a spirtual war" and at that point I knew I had to cut ties. I wish I didn't so many other similar stories but I do...
The person I reference was never a poster of religion or politics so this was quite the whiplash
growing up as a catholic in an abusive household has inextricably tied up christianity with being ashamed and stuck. a lot of the core values of it led to multiple ruined generations of my f*mily, so yeah i also run into the same problem of being irrationally disgusted at strangers. feels too harsh