scar-lip:

I’m not sitting here saying you have to believe in deities. Or that there’s anything wrong wtih people who don’t. Or try to point out why you’re wrong. You aren’t wrong.

But neither am I. And believing in deities doesn’t make me [ableist slur here]. It doesn’t make me ignorant. It doesn’t make me uneducated. It doesn’t make me anti-science (I love science- although I hate the way scientists infect it with their own bigotry). It doesn’t mean there’s something wrong wtih me. It’s not something that needs to be fixed.

Go on and talk about your experiences. Talk about why you don’t believe in deities, if you want to. You deserve respect.Your deserve to be heard.

But so do I. So when you’re talking about not believing in deities, don’t frame it as ridiculous that anyone would. Don’t frame it as the Ultimate Truth. Don’t frame your explanations of your views the way that the very people who add to your- and my- oppression frame their explanations of why we deserve to be oppressed.

Why should we pretend like both ideas are of equal intellectual merit when one has logical and factual support and backing, and the other lacks it completely?

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