Reply #14: Another Rat's Ass Category

[hamsterjill]

I don't care what you believe. I believe that, in this country, you have the right to believe as you see fit. The clincher is that *I* have the same right.

I am sometimes frustrated by DU'ers who seem to attack Christianity as if Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck were the poster children for the religion. There are not MY poster children for what I believe Christianity to be. I never elected them as mascots. I see posts sometimes (there's one going on right now) where Christianity is made fun of, and ridiculed. Belief in any higher power is ridiculed. In my opinion, that puts those DU posters in just about the same category, themselves, as Limbaugh and Beck. They seem to have a fear of those people who dare to be different. Dare to believe in something. Should not anyone and everyone's right to believe as they see fit be respected?

To me, Christianity is about being compassionate, being charitable, caring about one another and trying to help each other. The hijacking of it by the right wing extremists is unfortunate, but I'm not one of them. I don't like it when I get lumped in with the idiots who use Christianity to justify wars, poverty and greed.

I certainly realize and stipulate that others, who are not Christian, may care about being the same - compassionate, charitable, etc. Being a Christian doesn't make me any better, or any worse, than any other human being on the planet. It's just my choice to have a belief.

I'm pro choice (most definitely!) and I don't care if someone is homosexual or heterosexual. I'm not interested in hurting anyone. Not interested in making you be like me. Just interested in coming to DU and sharing ideas about politics, etc.