OCB: One Classy Broad

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Hating Christians because they don’t believe the same thing as you is ridiculous, and it’s exactly the same thing as homophobia. Tumblr users always brag about how open and accepting they are, but apparently it’s okay to hate Christians publicly. 

I KNOW RIGHT! I thought this was a place for acceptance and love, not hate and bigotry. 

If you’ve ever made a pro-life post, you know that this is NOT a place of acceptance and love. Haters start coming out of the woodwork.

Forcing someone to do something that they don’t want to with their body is always wrong, but it’s okay to do it in Catholicism apparently.

Honestly, if you’re going to go around blogging about how you know what is better for my body than I do, that you have some right to tell me what I can and can’t do with my own body, that is far more hateful than anything I or anyone else could ever say to you. Stop acting like it’s Christ-like to be judgmental and horrible to people around you. Stop acting like Christ wanted you to go around dictating what everyone can and can’t do with their bodies.

And for the love of, well, Christ, stop acting as if Christians are some poor oppressed minority. Atheists are quite literally the most hated minority in America. In seven states, it’s illegal to hold office if you’re an atheist. The Catholic Church was the most powerful institution in the world for nearly two millenia, and its corruption, sexism, and influence still reaches into every corner of the world today. 

Seriously. Take a step back and look at yourself, check your privilege, and STFU.

Agree with so many things that STFUsexists said. But, sweeping generalizations made on Tumblr about Christians should not be okay. Not all Christians are pro-life and are about oppressing women and members of the LGBTQ community. I’m not a Christian, but there are a lot of hateful things directed to Christians as a group that cause me to bristle. If we could focus our anger and discussion at the specific groups that have stirred up the ire within us that would be much better than alienating an entire group of people who don’t necessarily deserve it. You can disagree with the tenants of Christianity but it doesn’t mean you have to take the entire group down all of the time. I’ve seen so many things calling those who believe in God “stupid” and “ignorant”. Why is that okay? 

I think that sometimes generalizations are understandable and we, the reader, know that the poster doesn’t necessarily mean every single person from that group. But I think that really only applies when you’re talking about a reasonably sized group. For example, I often say I think the tea partiers are an awful group of people. Are there possibly plenty of great ones? Sure. And I think it should be understood that I’m aware there are exceptions. But “Christians” are a HUGE group. A ridiculously huge group. To denounce all Christians is just bad form and it makes the person speaking sound fairly ignorant. I disagree with plenty of aspects of Catholicism but I wouldn’t say that all Catholics are awful, women-hating, pro lifers. Perhaps that’s because of my personal experience, I live in a state that has a decent sized Catholic population and I worked at a Planned Parenthood that often worked together with Clergy for Choice. 

I’m getting ranty and not really making full points. I guess the main reason behind my reblog is to just emphasize that hating Christians isn’t okay. It is ignorant. We’re articulate enough to speak against the specific aspects we don’t like without having to denounce an entire group. 

You can stop reading now because anything below this point is going to be a bunch of random thoughts.

I suppose it’s easy to think of Christians as some super privileged group, but that’s also not quite true. The people who say these things, I wonder if they think about why so many people in poverty have religion. Why did so many of the slaves convert and accept Christianity? It wasn’t just because it was forced on them (although that is so so true), but they also needed something to look forward to, some beacon of hope, and Christianity gave them that. Any religion could have given them that. Religion is not the enemy. Organized religion has proven time and time again to not be the best thing for our society, but the actual different religious philosophies shouldn’t be attacked with one sweeping blow all the time. It’s lazy! It is much quicker to say “THOSE DAMN CHRISTIANS!!” instead of specifying, but taking the time to specify and really build your argument is just the better route. 

I’m not religious. I think of myself as agnostic. I normally don’t rush to the defense of Christians but I have noticed a lot of hate directed toward that group and I don’t really think it’s warranted. 

I mean, for goodness sake, Unitarians are considered Christian and they are [often] so damn accepting and liberal. How can someone just make a sweeping accusation about Christians when that group contains Unitarian’s and strict Catholics? It just doesn’t make sense. The same logic that tells us that we can’t make sweeping generalization about Black folk should hold when we’re talking about Christians. A group so large will have such diversity that we cannot judge them all as one.