Is agreeing with the shittiest fundies that “ultra shitty fundies are the only real version of this religion” so that you can ignore kind, tolerant, reasonable religious people
Like the Westboro Baptist Church interpretation of the bible ain’t the only valid one (and in fact misses a lot of historical context).
Most Muslims regard ISIS as a hideous and awful perversion of their faith (and actually they’re misreading the text, ignoring a lot of the context giving books of quotation traditionally used to help interpret the Koran and generally twisting it to their own ends.)
And so on and so forth.
Stop validating shithead fundies belief that they’re the true practitioners of their faith, stop putting forward bigoted, violent, awful interpretations as correct, and jeering at people who interpret their faith in a kind and tolerant way along with fundie shitheads. That is not fucking helpful.
Fundies misuse religious texts, often ignoring historical context, allegory and translation errors, and so on to suit their purposes.
I’m an atheist and I am so fucking sick of this utter bullshit.
The problem is that there are just so many different interpretations that it’s just one big headache. Personally I feel like you can get what you want out of a religion so if you choose to focus on the advocacy of violence instead of the advocacy of peace then it’s really just a reflection of your own intentions and self. Perhaps that is called cherry picking, but you’re still following the text.
At the end of the day it’s all about personal responsibility. A religion can’t make you do anything. You do it because you choose to. If it could, well, I wouldn’t be a hooker. Ha!
Basically. I think that nice people will focus on the nice bits of their religion and shitty people will find ways to twist even the sweetest and most peaceful religion to allow bigotry and violence
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 