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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah I'm sorry, but when I know you're religious, any religion, I'll think less of you. I won't treat you any different, hell, I will go out of my way to try and show respect for your dumbass skydaddy beliefs, but yeah, I'll think less of you because frankly, you are. You're stuck with the mindset of a 5 year old

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

It's funny because when I know that someone judges someone else over personally held beliefs so intensely that they think less of them, I tend to think less of that first person. We all live lives differently. If they're not impacting yours, who cares? If they believe in something you don't, who cares?

You talk about being stuck with the mindset of a 5 year old for believing in something in their own lives. But real adults just live their lives and don't run around judging by their own personal metrics. Real adults also certainly don't care when someone runs around saying "YOU'RE A CHILD".

And yeah, I'm not sorry for that one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think this conversation is way more black and white than it needs to be.

You can love and respect someone while thinking that that one belief is really stupid. In fact shockingly stupid. (Not saying religion is shockingly stupid)

I am sure, your best friend once said something or did something that you judged them for negatively. Made you think less of them. While loving them as a whole.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You can love and respect someone while thinking that that one belief is really stupid

I completely agree! However, it is entirely irrelevant because the original claim wasn't that they thought someone was stupid. They said they actively thought less of them and then mocked them for having the permanent mindset of a child. Your point doesn't cover that level of immature hostility.

You cannot claim to be a friend of someone while openly believing they are less than you and mocking their entire mental state and world view. The behavior is contradictory to what a friend actually does. You are not a friend in that case, you're just a shitty person who is pretending to be someones friends while (no matter what you say) treating them less than you would treat someone like yourself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah the child thing is embarrassingly the kind of thought process that a child would have. An adult can't be flawed, is famously a thing a lot of children think of their parents at first. And it isn't proper, which is why I said the conversation doesn't have to be so black and white. Ironically this paragraph isn't nice either.

I am not sure if "thinking less of them" should be read as "less than me".

Anyway I don't have an issue with you. I just thought the conversation is very hostile when your point seems to be about appreciating others and welcoming difference. It seems to be a waste of your energy and time.

Take care!

Edit: if you are wondering why I focused my critic on you. They didn't seem interested in a conversation anyway. I mean "sky daddy"?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Religion is shockingly stupid. If you weren't indoctrinated from birth it's all really fucking weird.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can think that way but it isn't what I wanted to say, which is what I said.

No reason to be hostile. You ain't winning when you are.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I was in no way being hostile. It's just a statement of fact.

Today is Monday, the temperature outside is 47F, and believing religion is stupid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago