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78 sats \ 6 replies \ @k00b OP 11 Jan \ parent \ on: Peter Thiel on the Apocalypse, the Antichrist, and Modern Technology podcasts

It seems you feel the need to guide someone's thought process as opposed to just presenting the information.

I did feel that need. I didn't mean to insult or condescend and I'm sorry if I did.

I've met many atheists that scoff at anything bible or religious. I just wanted to help them reserve judgment - not patronize them.

I didn't grow up religious myself and I don't actively practice, so that context may help you see my intent. I'm not trying to judge atheists which is what I feel you're accusing me of.

16 sats \ 2 replies \ @TNStacker 11 Jan

It didn't come across as intentional judgement, but more of what they might call unconscious bias. I think you mean well. This is just how the language you chose struck me. If you have to tell someone to be open-minded, are you communicating with the right folks?

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 11 Jan

If you have to tell someone to be open-minded, are you communicating with the right folks?

I've met very smart and otherwise open-minded people who've entirely closed themselves off to religion. One friend who works on flying cars is probably who I was holding in my mind when I wrote this - he was raised very religious and resents religion as an adult, so I'd often have to defuse his defenses to discuss things like this with them.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @TNStacker 11 Jan

I get that. People will respond with their trauma responses.

33 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 11 Jan

I've met many atheists that scoff at anything bible or religious. I just wanted to help them reserve judgment - not patronize them.

THIS

As a Christian that finds value in the knowledge of philosophy of any sort I find it odd how some can be so closed to value in the philosophical aspects of Christianity.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 11 Jan

It seems like a sort of bigotry. Only a fool would claim that Christians haven't been guilty of the same thing but bigotry is a the base level doing harm to one's self. For this reason alone we should seek it out in ourselves and destroy it.

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 11 Jan

As I explore my feelings further, you probably detected my seethe in "thinking and un-triggered." I do find people that dismiss religion out of hand upsetting and maybe I shouldn't.

As I said, I haven't had much of a religious arc myself, and was mostly steered far away from it, so perhaps I'm engaging with the ideas and sensitivities more naively than someone more experienced would.