like, people will post something about Christianity, and i’ll spend a decent amount of time writing a thoughtful reply based on radical liberation theology only to have my comment immediately rejected by the person i was replying to because they’re only really interested in dunking on the stupid, idiot religioids… i don’t mind anyone dunking on religious institutions, because basically all of them are horrible, and i, obviously, understand that many may have religious trauma. but, still, it saddens me that so many trannies seem so fundamentally incapable of engaging with other ways of interpreting life and our place in the Universe. like, they’ve just replaced fundamentalist religion with fundamentalist atheism, and, tbh, even though the latter tends to produce significantly better political positions and outcomes, i do think they’re pretty much just as anti-intellectual at their core… and, i guess, i just feel like if there’s one group of people who should at least be somewhat open to hearing out other perspectives than the dominant one, it’d be trannies :I
yea, like, i get where it’s coming from, and i can’t really blame anyone for being antitheist. i mean, i also fucking despise the Church as an institution… but, it’s sad that people have so little patience for even thinking about the possibility of there being something beyond our immediate experience. like, i think there’s a lot to gain from discussing theology even if you’re not religious. there are, for example, many interesting ways to interpret, e.g., Christianity purely symbolically…
That’s the thing though, anybody can interpret religion and symbolism how they feel like, so if it can mean anything, it means nothing at the same time, making discussing it a waste of time. I can just discuss concepts and ideas themselves without interpretation and symbolism from some ancient scripture to back it up, if the point I make is good enough it will stand on itself. I have faith in myself and don’t need to bend some scripture to give my arguments credibility.
YESSSSS symbolic interpretations are so fucking interesting u get it