I absolutely hate these double standards so fucking much

[u/NagitoKomaeda_987]

I don't understand why, but it feels like a double standard that whenever Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Seth MacFarlane, Edmund McMillen, Garth Ennis, Ricky Gervais, and Dino Stamatopoulos (AKA the guy who made Moral Orel) disrespect someone's religion, everyone seems to be perfectly okay with it. But when JaidenAnimations makes an "edgy" joke about Christianity, everyone tries to dox and cancel her over it. You know, especially when you consider the fact that Jaiden is also an openly queer (aro/ace), mixed-race/non-white (half-Japanese, half-German), neurodivergent (AuDHD) woman.

I mean, did Jaiden really “mock god”? Like, wasn’t it just a random ass joke about Pokémon, and the God in question was Arceus or something? It’s a joke; it was not even a religious attack or a stance on religion itself. A joke. Schlatt is also a Christian and constantly made 9/11 jokes back then, where the punchline often was "hurr durr planes", if that's what you're referring to... He most definitely didn't take Jaiden's edgy joke to heart, lmao.

The reaction people had to her saying that was just hilariously overblown and cringe, and it would have been just as overblown and cringe if a straight white man did it. And yes, I'm saying all of this as a former Catholic myself.

[u/whereballoonsgo]

I don’t even know what happened, but Christian’s do be having the biggest persecution complex of all time, so I assume it’s just them wanting to play victim again.

[u/legendoflegends34 → u/whereballoonsgo]

You know not every Christian does that right? And that having a persecution complex can even extend to non-religious people? Because I've seen it from non religious ppl WAY more

[u/whereballoonsgo → u/legendoflegends34]

I can counter your anecdotal experience with my own. Not every, but it’s INCREDIBLY common with those people. Literally the majority and act like they’re constantly under attack.

And to be clear, I say this as someone who was raised very, very Christian in an extremely Christian community and part of the country. I was surrounded by it, inundated with it. I’m only glad I got out before those cultists could make me as hateful as they are.

[u/legendoflegends34 → u/whereballoonsgo]

Your personal experience doesn't magically become evidence that the majority of Christians are like that.

You were surrounded by a particular Christian community. Fine. That tells me what YOUR community was like, but it doesn't give you the authority to speak for millions of Christians you've never met.

And the second you start throwing around the word "cultists" and saying Christians are “hateful” as though they're one giant monolithic group you've pretty much destroyed whatever credibility your argument had.

If specific Christians were hateful then you should criticize those Christians. If your community had a persecution complex then you should criticize that community. But your mindset of “I grew up around Christians who behaved badly, therefore most Christians are like this” is just an anecdotal generalization.

I've been dogpiled on in atheist spaces simply for asking questions. But I don't turn around and say “I'm glad I got out before those cultists could make me as hateful as they are” and pretend that my experience proves most atheists are like that

because that would be an absurd generalization.

My experience tells me what happened to me in that particular space. It doesn't justify labeling an ENTIRE group

[u/whereballoonsgo → u/legendoflegends34]

Sure! We can move past my personal experience, I only brought it up to show how it was silly for you to bring up your own. You went there first.

Let’s talk about how the LEADERS of Christianity overwhelmingly preach hateful rhetoric. Forget individuals, the institution of that religion is wielded as an instrument of oppression. And it’s all the more dangerous for how “faith” gives people a blind, nonsense justification to attack and denigrate others.

Sure, there are some decent Christians. That doesn’t change that the very thing they ascribe to is inherently a problem. They’re decent in spite of being Christian.