Reply #22: I'm a liberal Christian and I take exception [View All]

[liberalhistorian]

to your premise that religious believers are disdained on DU. I have NEVER had ANY negative reaction to my religious beliefs on here, even from agnostics and atheists who respect my right to my beliefs as I respect theirs.

And that's the key, RESPECT. You cannot come on here shoving your religious beliefs down everyone's throat demanding that they follow your beliefs or they're not "true Americans." This is what the so-called evangelical "Christians" do, with their hate-filled, judgmental, ignorant, hypocritical, bigoted, arrogant, self-righteous, holier-than-thou medieval-age bullshit that's twisting Christianity into something Christ himself would not recognize. It's people who do that on here that are disdained and scorned, and rightfully so.

But my own experience has been that my religious beliefs are respected, and the right to them recognized, because I recognize everyone else's religious choices, or non-choices in the case of agnostics and atheists. But we don't need self-righteous lectures from people who don't understand that that's the difference.