I have the feeling that if it was a Christian church, that there would be a greater degree of news coverage . . . so it seems (at least to me) that this event was downplayed because of a negative bias. I saw a similar negative bias in the news when Planned Parenthood clinics and AIDS clinics were firebombed with Molotov cocktails in the 1980ās and 90ās.
Also, another question occurs to me: If people are planting bombs at the Satanic Temple, then how is this different from Muslim Shia and Sunni killing each other, or the Hindi and Muslim fighting each other in India over religion?
Well, certainly some donāt. But saying thatās the case for Xtians in general just doesnāt fly. I know some very decent folks who are religious as well as some assholes. The same is true for folks I know who identify as atheist. To say all Xtians, all Muslims, all women, all atheists, all Asians, all anything act or think identically is tantamount to bigotry.
You might want to walk your comment back a touch.
Not judge? Huhā¦thatās awfully Christian to say. I grew up being judged by others. Judging happens. Hell, I judge people all the time. These Christians have you playing by their rules. In the Christian pantheon, only they believe their āgodā can judge. You gotta stop and start playing by your own rules, you know? Start making them play your game.
I agree, it is important to condemn actions, and not people in a generic way, like the idiots who decided it was ok to bomb anyone that didnāt share their views or beliefs.
Judging actions and ideas is fine, but judging every member of a religion is not. Itās ok to condemn ideas, and religions are ideas, itās not ok to condemn every adherent of a religion, thatās just bigotry. The kind of bigotry that compares all atheists to Stalin or Mao, or assumes no atheist can be moral.
Rise above itā¦
I donāt judge anyone ever, and I hate those who doā¦ Iāll get me coatā¦
So if you noticed someone likes to cause shit and they come up to you wanting to hang out, but you feel like theyāre just going to be a stick up your ass and you decide not to hang out with them. How is that not making a judgement call?
Of course it does! I will judge an individual based on their behavior and/or words. I do my best, however, not to judge an entire group based on a wide-ranging categorization. What do I mean by wide-ranging? Those I mentioned in my earlier post are examples.
Fair enough. Yeah, same even though Iām not perfect at times. Itās hard for me to not blame most Christians for supporting the garbage religion thatās widely supported. Especially the ones copping out and saying they donāt have a religion. You worship the god of that religion, yes you fucking do.
You canāt fix stupid, and Iād be willing to bet that there are a lot of stupid theists out there. If they actually knew what TST stood for, instead of believing that itās members actually worship Satan, they might have thought twice before doing this.
I actually ran this idea by a conservative Christian friend, and the logic (if we want to call it that) is that Satanāas the Father of Liesāis the source of all deception.
Because Satan is deceptive, the members of the Satanic Temple are actually deluded into thinking that they arenāt actually doing Satanās bidding while they play right into his hands.
After all, Satanās greatest accomplishment was to convince people that he doesnāt actually exist.
And just so you know, I smiled nicely to my friend, picked up the check for our lunch . . . and tracked down a Smart Recovery meeting so that I wouldnāt relapse back into my alcoholism.
So you are planning on using us like rats in a cage. Observing and not sharing. That makes you antisocial and frankly impolite. Do you think you are just going to ask questions and not get questions in return? Do you imagine people will continue responding to your inquiries while you sit back and say nothing? Is there something wrong with you?
Nothing is impossible. Awareness is the healing of curiosity, and of us. Sharing requires exploration.
We must learn how to lead high-frequency lives in the face of ego. We must change ourselves and empower others. Imagine a flowering of what could be.
We are at a crossroads of joy and desire. We are in the midst of an astral condensing of joy that will amplify our connection to the cosmos itself. Our conversations with other storytellers have led to a maturing of supra-interstellar consciousness.
Humankind has nothing to lose.
The person 777 has such wisdom but I have a better aestheticā¦
Can you demonstrate your assertion., I want to see a round square.
Awareness is what? Here is a deepity, āAwareness is the healing of curiosity.ā Why should curiosity be healed? āSharing requires exploration.ā No it doesnāt.
High-frequency livesā¦ what are you smoking? LOL What do you think an āEgoā is?
We must ā really āmustā change ourselves. Why?
WTF? We call speech like this - āWord Salad.ā
Supra intersteller consciousness? Hey, I have an idea. Iām gonna go smoke some banana peel and get back to you.