Oh, sorry, I wasn't trying to say that you, specifically, lump all Catholics together as nutjobs. I read the other comments on your post, too, and ... yeah. There are some people out there like that (some people who have that attitude toward Christians at large, in general) -- it just irks me when people use one example of a loon of sorts and make it the face of the entire group.
I'm appalled that she said that, too. I've known some Christians whose behavior would, by their own standards, put them, in a moral place, below some atheists/agnostics I know. Not that I myself think less of them for that exact behavior, but -- well, you can't help but scratch your head a bit when you encounter one of them who preaches to others about the abstinence thing but then has sex with nearly every member of one of the fraternities.
Anyway. Judgment of others is, generally, not a good thing, but to judge someone based on a generalized stereotype of a group to which they belong ... it angers me, then saddens me. They miss out on meeting some great people that way.
I'm appalled that she said that, too. I've known some Christians whose behavior would, by their own standards, put them, in a moral place, below some atheists/agnostics I know. Not that I myself think less of them for that exact behavior, but -- well, you can't help but scratch your head a bit when you encounter one of them who preaches to others about the abstinence thing but then has sex with nearly every member of one of the fraternities.
Anyway. Judgment of others is, generally, not a good thing, but to judge someone based on a generalized stereotype of a group to which they belong ... it angers me, then saddens me. They miss out on meeting some great people that way.
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