Well yeah if it's hateful or ridiculous go ahead and attack it. But it's good to tread lightly around people's personal beliefs. If anything, for the reason that it's hard to determine whether or not it's true. Just because you were raised different or it's just totally outside your sphere of experience doesn't mean it's wrong.
I dunno. I was raised nondenominational Christian when I was a kid but I quit religion and turned agnostic, somewhat because of the huge amount of inbred structural hate people like that had against other perfectly good people who had different beliefs. It wasn't an obvious hate, but it was aggressive -- in the end they still meant to snuff out all other perspectives and beliefs. I couldn't be affiliated in a group like that, yet I find that most people outside of that group are no better. Whatever.
Nice post count btw.
"I would be totally embarassed to write this, even as a fakepost. it's not funny except in how you seem to think it's good. look at all the redundancies, for fuck's sake. "insipid semantics, despicable mediocrity" ugh gross gross. I want to take a shower every time I read your prose." -Steel
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