Truth Sandwich 🥪🇺🇸😷 on Nostr: npub1edc7d…f0q44 Good people use the Bible to justify their goodness. Bad people ...
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Good people use the Bible to justify their goodness. Bad people use it to justify their badness. It’s a Rorschach blob: people see in it what they want to see.
Your cousin was wrong: it’s not bigotry to oppose bigots. But it is bigotry to oppose Christians who are not bigots, unfairly blaming them for those who are.
Let me put it this way: It’s good to hate Nazis, but bad to hate all Germans. It’s good to hate white supremacists, but bad to hate all whites. It’s good to hate Christofascists, but bad to hate all Christians.
It’s good to hate bigots, but it’s bigotry to hate those who merely share irrelevant attributes, such as nationality or race or religion, with bigots.
In the fight against bigotry, we must not ourselves become bigots. We have to narrow our focus to the guilty, not just those who resemble them on the surface.
#bigotry
Good people use the Bible to justify their goodness. Bad people use it to justify their badness. It’s a Rorschach blob: people see in it what they want to see.
Your cousin was wrong: it’s not bigotry to oppose bigots. But it is bigotry to oppose Christians who are not bigots, unfairly blaming them for those who are.
Let me put it this way: It’s good to hate Nazis, but bad to hate all Germans. It’s good to hate white supremacists, but bad to hate all whites. It’s good to hate Christofascists, but bad to hate all Christians.
It’s good to hate bigots, but it’s bigotry to hate those who merely share irrelevant attributes, such as nationality or race or religion, with bigots.
In the fight against bigotry, we must not ourselves become bigots. We have to narrow our focus to the guilty, not just those who resemble them on the surface.
#bigotry