Sinful-skeptic - Minerva

Just like how criticizing Christianity is not Christophobia;

Criticizing Judaism is not Antisemitism,

Criticizing Islam is not Islamophobia

Criticizing Hinduism is not Hinduphobia

Criticizing Buddhism is not Buddhophobia

Criticizing other religions/spiritualities is not Anti-Theism

Criticism is not discrimination

"Satan is the cause of all evil!"

If Satan exists. He was made. By god.

You cannot have it both ways. Where your god made & is responsible for everything and yet is powerless in the face of its creation & abandoned it to one rebellious child.

And may I remind you...

Angels were not given free will.

Anything done by Satan may as well be sanctioned by your god.

people on tumblr: OMG Christianity is SOOO bad, all of this sexism and homophobia, it's so evil, DNI Christians! also people on tumblr: if you suggest that women and lgbtq+ people are horrifically oppressed under any other religion and their tools of control are not empowering, you hate POC and especially lgbtq+ or femme POC (to be clear, I agree with you)

I'll start off by saying: I get where people are coming from. When you're part of a minority religious group, you already deal with enough bigotry, misunderstandings, and stereotypes. Even legitimate criticism can feel like just one more person piling on unfairly, and it's perfectly understandable to get defensive about it.

But I'm fucking over it. If you still act like Christianity is the only bad religion, or the only religion that's ever been used to hurt or control people, you are either astonishingly ignorant, or you are intentionally throwing victims of religious oppression under the bus in order to save face.

If you are capable of understanding that Christianity is used as a tool to control and abuse people, you are capable of understanding that other religions are used in identical ways. I don't think there's a religion on Earth that hasn't been used to justify abuse, bigotry, genocide, and all manner of atrocities. You don't get to say that just because you face illegitimate criticism means that nobody is allowed to make legitimate criticisms, and you don't get to act like being the victim of bigotry means that nobody is using your religion to perpetrate bigotry on others.

And as per my last post, it's incredibly damaging to victims of religious oppression to tell them that they're lying or exaggerating about their abuse because "X religion doesn't believe in that", or that it doesn't count because "well a REAL member of X would never act like that", or that they should stop talking about it because "well of course the way you were treated was wrong, but think about how you're making the rest of us look!" It's not okay when Christians do it, it's not okay when anyone else does it. We need to be supporting ALL victims of religious abuse.

Soooo true

Actually, ex-Christians have earned the right to make fun of Christianity. It comes free with the religious trauma.

feeling empowered and actually having power are two very different things. women are usually offered the first one.

Some Christians always forget about this. Just because YOU have the freedom to worship God/Jesus doesn’t mean you should push those beliefs on others who don’t want to follow Christianity or use Christianity as an excuse to create laws that restrict people from living their best life.