Airing dirty laundry.
Dec. 21st, 2006 09:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bladesparkYou tell me I'm supposed to apologize to you, and then you freeze comments so I can't? Fine. You don't want this to be finished in private, I'll take it public.
I'll say again, I wasn't mad, and I was not telling you what you can't and can't do. I'm just hurt that somebody I thought respected my faith can't tell the difference between something designed to be funny and something designed to be hurtful and offensive.
I'm not going to apologize for being hurt. I'm not going to apologize for being offended. You're making a mockery of something I hold SACRED. Would you find it funny if I posted links to a "how many endangered animals can I get away with killing" challenge? Would you like it if I told folks I'd give away a free prize to everyone who condemns bisexuality as a sick perversion today? Here! Record yourself saying that gays aren't people, I'll mail you a movie! How would it feel if the tables were turned? Getting a prize for DELIBERATE blasphemy isn't great, it's sick. And you have lost the last scraps of respect I had for you by demanding I apologize for being upset about it.
You told me you respected my faith, and then you attack me when I let you know I've been hurt by your disrespect of it. That doesn't sound like you respect me, that sounds like you were just pretending to, so people would think you're a nice, kind, open-minded person. If you really respected my faith, you would respect my right to defend it. I didn't attack you, I didn't say anything negative about you or your character, I just say I was offended, and that I was hurt and disappointed by your behavior.
Well, you've lost a lot more than my respect now. I was dissapointed that you has so little respect for me, but I wasn't mad at you, just kinda sad. But NOW I'm pissed off. Looks like Gungho was right. You'd rather win and be right than compromise, you'd rather lock me out and demand apologies than take half a second and LISTEN to my side of things. I said I was hurt, and you took that as a personal attack. I didn't mean it as one then, but I mean this as one now! I hope you're pleased at the way you "won" this argument. Go you.
I'll say again, I wasn't mad, and I was not telling you what you can't and can't do. I'm just hurt that somebody I thought respected my faith can't tell the difference between something designed to be funny and something designed to be hurtful and offensive.
I'm not going to apologize for being hurt. I'm not going to apologize for being offended. You're making a mockery of something I hold SACRED. Would you find it funny if I posted links to a "how many endangered animals can I get away with killing" challenge? Would you like it if I told folks I'd give away a free prize to everyone who condemns bisexuality as a sick perversion today? Here! Record yourself saying that gays aren't people, I'll mail you a movie! How would it feel if the tables were turned? Getting a prize for DELIBERATE blasphemy isn't great, it's sick. And you have lost the last scraps of respect I had for you by demanding I apologize for being upset about it.
You told me you respected my faith, and then you attack me when I let you know I've been hurt by your disrespect of it. That doesn't sound like you respect me, that sounds like you were just pretending to, so people would think you're a nice, kind, open-minded person. If you really respected my faith, you would respect my right to defend it. I didn't attack you, I didn't say anything negative about you or your character, I just say I was offended, and that I was hurt and disappointed by your behavior.
Well, you've lost a lot more than my respect now. I was dissapointed that you has so little respect for me, but I wasn't mad at you, just kinda sad. But NOW I'm pissed off. Looks like Gungho was right. You'd rather win and be right than compromise, you'd rather lock me out and demand apologies than take half a second and LISTEN to my side of things. I said I was hurt, and you took that as a personal attack. I didn't mean it as one then, but I mean this as one now! I hope you're pleased at the way you "won" this argument. Go you.
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Date: 2006-12-22 10:16 pm (UTC)Funnily enough, part of my "over reacting" in my first response was to point out that, as far as my understanding of the right interpretation of the original scripture about denying the holy ghost, those doing it for this video aren't actually capable of committing the "unforgiveable sin" because they don't know the holy ghost in the first place. To deny it in the sense meant in the scripture, one has to have it present, and then reject it. If that spirit isn't part of your life, then denying it is pointless.