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Am I a weirdo on for getting louder when I think I my opinion is in the minority? Or is that just a white privilege reaction?
I can be that way, especially when I feel I have the moral or logical upper hand.
I remember once being threatened by fellow passengers on a train to be thrown off. I was in a conversation about religion with someone, and it started when I asserted that Protestants (of any given denomination) have no greater moral standing than Catholics. Evidently at the time, I was in a car full of protestants.
I had already asserted my lack of belief. So what happened next was unexpected, and I still can't explain it. My rival asserted Catholics are deceived by Satan. I countered that Satan, or any other anthropomorphized evil is even less likely than God, or any philosophical notion of an intelligent creator of the cosmos, and that was the point several passengers threatened to physically throw me off the train.
The conversation ceased. I didn't recant and they didn't throw me off the train. And I still don't understand either the logic or the paradigm that defined that as the bar, when my fellow felt driven to threaten violence.
It wasn't very Christian of them, but in the age of white Evangelist Christian nationalism, I don't expect self-identifying Christians to actually seek to be christ-like.
As someone who grew up catholic, yep. There's a decent chunk of protestants that just think Catholics are satanists