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[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Okay, thanks, that gives me a bit more to work with, but I’m still quite confused.

Your original reply to my personal story was:

Maybe secondhand stories are a bad way to understand it.

And I’m confused because mine was a first-hand story.

I get the ‘it’ is ‘god’. I never saw anything strange. My point was my pain was used when I was a toddler by priests to justify the stories of saints, especially their pain and sacrifice. How exactly is that a second-hand story? How is that something that can be dismissed as metaphor? How does that relate to language? It’s a direct, literal and personal experience in the Christian church. Full stop. You don’t have to like it, but it’s a real thing that happened. And no matter how it hurts your feelings, I am not alone.

This is not fan fiction. It’s real. I don’t care if you believe it. I honestly couldn’t care less about your beliefs in general. I’m just sharing my experiences because it helps me to talk about it. Your opinions about me don’t matter to me at all. I’m only engaging with you because I feel bad when people believe the lies told by the church, and I care about other people. If you’re going to be a dick about it and dig in your heels, I’ll stop being interested in talking to you.

I’m sorry you seem to feel that way, and you should probably stop trying to engage atheists until you can open your mind a bit.

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