It's just that thing where people (usually of the Christian faith, but of course not all Christians are this bad, just the fraction that is happens to be very vocal about it) divide things they don't understand into two categories in a very black-and-white manner... If it seems to go with their beliefs, God did/made it, and if it's against what those two-thousand-or-even-more-year-old scriptures say, surely it is the work of the devil and must be abolished at once. I just find it amusing that these people don't realise that in their holier-than-thou attitude they are just so full of hate and I don't understand how there is even any room a) for love in their hearts and b) for them in this heaven they think they're going to for being so damn "good"... Live and let live, dudes.
(I myself am an atheist, btw, that's just how I see the world, but I'm not about to start converting people out of their religion and I hope people don't try to convert me into theirs... )
One of the lessons I'm still trying to learn is how to let other people be wrong on the internet. Even if they are so very, VERY wrong. ;)
A similar thing that could have been cringe-worthy but for me, came all the way back around to ridiculous, was the image of the flyers passed around SD ComicCon about all of the different things that will send you to hell. The usual suspects were listed: goth, heavy metal, tattoos, LGBT, witchcraft, Wicca (sorry!), etc. But my favorite was all of the extra stuff that they had clearly added in just to guilt this specific audience (though I'm sure they have their "reasons" for finding most of it "evil"): D&D, cosplay, Harry Potter, Twilight, LotR, and an extra one warning against any kind of fannish obsession.
Wait, back up a second! I told myself. LotR?! Why yes, they had indeed included on their list a book written by a Christian man who was good buddies with C.S. Lewis. Champions of research, they are not. *facepalm*
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(I myself am an atheist, btw, that's just how I see the world, but I'm not about to start converting people out of their religion and I hope people don't try to convert me into theirs... )
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A similar thing that could have been cringe-worthy but for me, came all the way back around to ridiculous, was the image of the flyers passed around SD ComicCon about all of the different things that will send you to hell. The usual suspects were listed: goth, heavy metal, tattoos, LGBT, witchcraft, Wicca (sorry!), etc. But my favorite was all of the extra stuff that they had clearly added in just to guilt this specific audience (though I'm sure they have their "reasons" for finding most of it "evil"): D&D, cosplay, Harry Potter, Twilight, LotR, and an extra one warning against any kind of fannish obsession.
Wait, back up a second! I told myself. LotR?! Why yes, they had indeed included on their list a book written by a Christian man who was good buddies with C.S. Lewis. Champions of research, they are not. *facepalm*
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And that's what makes you different to them.
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