Isn’t odd how the MAGA scriptwriters are so good and picking and choosing what they are upset about?
this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2024
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How does Maga have anything to do with this? This is about Christians, religion not politics.
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That eggs aren't meat doesn't mean they aren't chicken, duh!
A lot of Christian sects are stupid, but I always found Catholicism particularly inconsistent about their own teachings, even more than Baptists.
Explain the Baptist ones. I am legit curious
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The shampoo bottles:
Logic in religion? Sorry, friend, but that's a no can do
To be fair, convincing anyone with facts and logic is pretty tough (and not just for me), religious or not.
Turns out, that's not how humans work most of the time...
to paraphrase an interaction I saw screenshotted somewhere at some point:
"you can change people's opinions with facts"
"[link] here's a study saying that's incorrect"
"well I still think it works"
I think that my mind has been changed by facts. But how do I know? Maybe something else actually changed my mind, and I tell myself it was facts because I like to think of myself as a logical person.
if, as you talked to people, you've allowed yourself to feel uncomfortable by genuinely considering they might be right and you're wrong - you probably did.
It's not logically sound to try to convince someone that you can't change opinions on the internet. Either you fail or you prove yourself wrong.
I don't see it like that. Just because the outcome is somewhat paradoxical, facts are still on your side here. And it's not like that study said it's impossible, just that it rarely works.
I find that especially when you try to deconstruct someone's bigotry with facts and logic, they just- don't care. I vividly remember that one instance when I spent a lot of time deconstructing someone's transphobia, linking various studies, pointing out flaws in their logic, just to get to the core of their issue with trans people - "they make me feel icky"... what are facts and logic going to do about that?
We dress our feelings up in various facts, with various logical conclusions, but though those two can be argued against, trying to change someone's "but I don't like this" is really difficult, and for a stranger on the internet it's near impossible. To cope I like to tell myself that at least I'm perhaps planting seeds of doubt
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