Christian tells me to get a life.

 @slimynaut

Well Im not, Christianity is simply true and very easy to defend with truth. If you dont believe it thats fine but I agree many preachers go about it in very bad dishonest ways because they want a conversion of another to be a badge they wear. I dont agree with it and they are not preaching correctly.
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James Apperson
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There is no honest way to defend a lie.
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If someone says 1. "I have a subjective personal understanding of what Christianity is. 2. I choose to imagine that it's true, because I want it to be true. 3. I realize that I do not "know" it's true. However, ... 4. It appeals to my intuitions and has great emotional and social utility to immerse myself in this narrative. 5. I don't try to spread it to anyone, because I don't want the responsibility for the effect it might have on someone else, because I've seen how it takes a different form inside each person's mind, and I've seen how it often damages their life and other people's lives. 6. I realize the form it takes in my mind (all the details which define it for me) is unique to me. And I realize that's because I am a unique individual in the world. 7. I vow to never allow my related beliefs and investments to infringe upon anyone else; not even when a rationalization seems available for that. " Then I have no problem with it. They aren't lying to anyone about it. They aren't trying to spread it. They're even honest with their own self about the subjective and uncertain nature of it. With all that being the case, there's no ethical necessity for them to do any fact-checking or further reasoning about it. But if they aren't committing to all of those positions, then there is an unethical expression of dishonesty somewhere inside the form it is taking.
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 @thetyrintaylor  which part of which comment?
​ @ApPersonaNonGrata  it's a lonely world when you're more logical than emotional.
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 @ApPersonaNonGrata  The entire comment. Get a real purpose and move on
​ @thetyrintaylor  1. What counts as a "real purpose"? 2. How do you know I don't have various other and "real" purposes? 3. Notice how we're talking on my page. More specifically, a "Christian" came into this space of mine ... and decided to challenge me about something I said. I didn't go into any of their spaces. I didn't ask them to come here to mine. But I set this to "public" because (unlike religious spaces) ... I'm charitable in my willingness to invite challenge and open dialogue. A "Christian" initiated a discussion w/ me. I honored their request. That's what humans do. We humans ALSO sometimes talk about trivial shit, like our preferred recipes for pie crusts. But that doesn't mean it's all we ever spend time on. Meanwhile, ... I don't * rent billboards,
* stand outside of religious events with picket signs, or * attend church services to heckle preachers. Nor do I post disparaging comments under church streams. Nor am I part of a colonizing force that sweeps across the globe, hijacking political systems, and sabotaging health and economic systems. Nor am I part of a sociopolitical ideological movement that causes children and young adults to literally kill themselves due to *hate called love*. If you can think of a better "purpose" than to reserve a small virtual space where we openly discuss and REFUTE such specifically-religious behaviors (along with the theological narratives which cause those behaviors), ... Let me know. Really. I'm all ears (plus a heart). Why is it that socially and politically weaponized religious ideologues can spread across our world, being as outspoken and "othering" as they damn well please, ... but when anyone (at all) is OVERHEARD talking (in our own spaces) about how that shit needs to stop ... We HUMANS are told to 'get a life'? Christianity is currently (and has always been; since it began) waging a WAR against humanity.
I was born into that battlefield. I didn't choose it. I didn't start it. But here I am, no matter if I like it or not. All I'm doing is talking openly about it. And yet, Bad Faith Actors feel like they need to SHUT DOWN the free exercise of speech in virtual spaces (and in physical spaces). Sometimes, towards that end, you try shaming people into quietly passive submission. That doesn't usually work. But ya figure 'it's worth a try'. Meanwhile, ya'll feel like you DO have great "purpose" to fuck with everyone else's life. But if anyone wants to talk about it, ya'll say we need to STFU and just ... "let it happen". Like somehow it would stop being the RAPE of the human body ... if we just stop struggling and learn to like it. To quote Greydon Square, ..."You're a conquered mind, trying to conquer other minds".
These are among the multitude of ways Christianity is the organized emulation of clinical Narcissism. Like all clinical Narcissists, you refuse to hold yourselves (nor to be held by others) to the standards you hold everyone else to.












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