You should definitely not silence yourself for the sake of offending people. For lots of reasons. First, it's important to you. It affects your life. Of course you should write.
Second, I see plenty of anti-Christian stuff on the Internet, and your writing on that is probably the most careful I read because you identify exactly what about Christianity and Christians are the problems, how and by whom you are hurt and why that makes you so wary of all Christians. And you are willing to talk with people who say "I'm a nice Christian!" on an individual basis. I think your expression of your feelings is unusually fair compared to all the "well, Christians had the Inquisition and they're all like Jerry Falwell, some fucking religion!" posts out there.
Third, you need to tell the straight Christians who will read your journal. It's a drop in the ocean, and the Christians who are "nice" and willing to listen or who belong to the UUA and UCC are also drops in the ocean, but the ocean's made of drops.
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Date: 2005-06-17 04:31 pm (UTC)Second, I see plenty of anti-Christian stuff on the Internet, and your writing on that is probably the most careful I read because you identify exactly what about Christianity and Christians are the problems, how and by whom you are hurt and why that makes you so wary of all Christians. And you are willing to talk with people who say "I'm a nice Christian!" on an individual basis. I think your expression of your feelings is unusually fair compared to all the "well, Christians had the Inquisition and they're all like Jerry Falwell, some fucking religion!" posts out there.
Third, you need to tell the straight Christians who will read your journal. It's a drop in the ocean, and the Christians who are "nice" and willing to listen or who belong to the UUA and UCC are also drops in the ocean, but the ocean's made of drops.