Being a Christian is kinda like saying you’re obsessed with Undertale or some such shit because no matter how genuinely and responsibly you enjoy the source material you’re now associated with every freak that has ever been into it
Only also now you’re responsible for all those freaks’ actions past and present somehow????
Its like could you imagine if conversations went “you like Undertale? I was traumatized as a minor seeing smut of that online and now I hate that game and everything it stands for and I also hate you.”
As if Undertale is not a creative and well-made game about pacifism and forgiveness and acceptance and love!
Actually fucking. Nevermind. Conversations DO go like that, it's part of the problem!!!
But it's pretty well understood that that's Not a Good Thing to Do, so why is it still okay to act like all Christians must be shitty people???
LIKE FIRST OF ALL ABOUT THE TRAUMA THING YEAH ME TOO, I am ALSO in "the fandom" and I know how shitty the "fans" can be and I ALSO have been hurt by it AND I CAN SEE WHY THAT WOULD MAKE YOU NOT LIKE THE "SOURCE" AND THAT'S VALID AS HELL
BUT WHY ARE YOU MAKING ME PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT??? WHY IS THAT OKAY???
I want to be educated and I don’t want to hurt anyone, and I try not to hurt anyone!!! And I know that I have the ability to hurt people and that my beliefs do not automatically make me a good person and I’m doing my best!!!
But why am I personally being made responsible for thousands of years of hate in the first place?
ESPECIALLY when all that shit was based on Christian Fanon and I KNOW it was based on Fanon and I can tell you ALL ABOUT how it's shitty and wrong and all the ways it's not like Canon and how cool the Canon actually is if you actually look at it
And people are probably going to read this post as me being holier-than-thou but it's like bro, it's not the implication that I could be a shitty person that makes me upset!!! I KNOW I'm a shitty person! I'm not in denial about it!
It's the HYPOCRISY that fucking bothers me.
See, stupid me, I thought that being quicker to judge than to understand was a church thing, that I would escape in the world at large.
But ever since I've gotten on here, I've seen the communities where I hoped to find unconditional acceptance judging people separately from their individual experiences and motivations in lieu of making sweeping generalizations about their beliefs and why they hold them, in order to alienate and vilify them.
Which is the exact same thing they're mad at Christians for doing.
I'm not saying people who do that sinners destined for the fire or whatever, I'm just saying it’s a dick move.