[Lenneth]

Sometimes you can only stand to hear so much before a proverbial nuke goes off.

Haha, yeah, I did the same. Here's my (I gotta say something) accidental Facebook rant to one of my close minded "Christian" friends who brought Caitlyn up and said some derogatory things about her...

"The evangelicals claim to have the truest truths of Christianity and the most favor and love of God but from the outside looking in, I don't see anything of the sort. it appears as thought being transgender is not a legitimate condition nor is its treatment acceptable. Seems pretty unloving and hypocritical to me. If she had a cleft pallet, cancer, epilepsy, depression or a host of other conditions she'd have their blessing ...but not transgender. And even if you're right, when Caitlyn's painful life is over, shouldn't she and her choices be between her and God alone?

Nice!

Oddly i've encountered a few who actually refuse to believe that both Depression & Epilepsy are legitimate problems, both religious & atheists.

One good example of one was once in church, a woman started to have an Epileptic seizure, several rushed to aid her & prevent her injuring herself, one such idiot walked over & said "I see she is trying to get attention again & succeeding with you fools." before walking away.

what part of eyes rolled back, convulsing & foaming bloody foam (she bit her tongue) at the mouth made him think it was a "put on" I have no idea....

I mentioned that though to make a point, the only "problem" with any religion is with sociopathic individuals who are only there to use it as a control mechanism & or stick to beat others with, sadly individuals like that are simply a hazard of life.

Should you throw away or destroy a perfectly good coffee mug simply because a fly that was just on a turd landed on it? no, you go and wash it.

it's not really my religion itself that has the problem though, it is just some of the brainless bigots that seem to gravitate to it.

That's a good word Lenneth and I need to keep reminding myself of that every day because I'm trying really hard not to lose my faith OR become cynical towards it. It's the idiots, not God, who are rejecting me.

I know, sometimes it seems like you are fighting a battle up the side of a cliff, it is easy to get down about things with how relentless some can be at trying to grind you down.

"Is it Intentionally causing harm to someone else?" when they say No/well, I guess not I finish "then what is the problem with it?" usually leaves them nowhere to go or makes them think.

That's a great response, one I haven't yet had the opportunity to use though. I think people are afraid to ask ME what I think about Caitlyn because they suspect, but can't believe, I might be doing the same thing.

I have several like that, sometimes the level of blatant willful ignorance I see some people display really makes me wonder if the human race is doomed at times.

other times I get surprises that give me a fair bit of hope like the unexpected positive comments about Caitlyn I mentioned above.

others though like the caustic comments though make me think a brick has more brains than they do.