Common misconceptions about Christianity.

[Final-Fan]

richardhutnik said:

Final-Fan said:

I am very, very disappointed, richardhutnik. 

You are taking abuse hurled on a YouTube video's comments as evidence of systematic oppression against the religious?  I'm not sure where to begin. 

Take YouTube as proof that it is human nature for people ot mock and ridicule things they disagree with.  If people had their druthers they would even consider taking Rush Limbaugh out to be shot, and same goes for the other side.  This level of hatred doesn't go away when you remove religion from the mix either.

This is not about repression, it is about human nature and how people will act in hateful ways for things they disagree with.

As for the backlash, I can tell by the numbers of thumbs up or down regarding it that it was negative.  And how the heck did I find out about it?  Well, apparently it went viral, because KnowYourMeme.com (Rocketbook folks) picked up on it and did an entire episode over it:

But ... this doesn't mesh at all with your earlier post: 

Pure bile, because of ONE line it says about scientists, and asked how magnets worked (saying we really don't know).  You see, in this modern and secular society, you are NOT to question the limitations of science.  You are NOT to be religions.  You are not to see wonder in the mundane.  You are also not to question the high priests who are the architects all around us, that being the scientists.  Nope, don't do it, you will be subject to ridicule.  And all along, no one can figure out why people can't be happy, and why the use of drugs for mood management is at an all-time high.  Nope, just reduce men to machines, and determinstic processes, and figure it out.  And then have it so that you have a welfare system that is less humane than the DMV clean up all the abandoned humanity and medicate them into silence.

- Who says it was all or even mostly due to this one line?  Totally baseless claim that you now seem to be abandoning. 

- In your diatribe about religion being ostracized, and science being considered sacred and holy, its practitioners being "high priests", you depicted a much more systematic and severe situation than people mocking people they disagree with.  This amounts, in fact, to a complete change in your position, unless you were utterly misrepresenting your opinion earlier. 

- You also do not even attempt to defend your assertions that either alleged repression of religion, or people mocking other people, are the cause of widespread depression, drug abuse, neglectful government bureaucracy, etc. etc.  Not that it was defensible...