One thing I have known for a long time was just reaffirmed. It's OK to condemn someone....

[MarkCharles]

2. Interesting point you raise.

I also find religious believers' use of the "other ways of knowing" the holier than thou, the "we know something you don't know" kind of attitude rather demeaning. They are free to proclaim that THEY THEMSELVES KNOW THE TRUE CHRISTIANITY, as they shout it out over and over, and ignore the threats to our democracy posed by all the OTHER forms of Christianity trying to overthrow everything from Roe v Wade to what is taught to our children in public schools as "science" and by whom it is taught, (see NH bill to require background and political affiliation disclosures of all school teachers teaching evolution).

Religious believers seem to object only to people being angry at their fellow religious believers. They never seem to be really angry at all at attacks upon Muslims, attacks upon an atheist teenager and her family, graffiti upon temples, etc.



The use of the F word seems to piss them off more than anything else, for sure. Use of that word, to them, means someone is angry at them, and they don't like people being angry at good old god-fearing Christians. My observations only.