Diamondeye wrote:
What was insulting was the fact that, (not unlike a teenager) you had to stick your nose into the Easter thread (Bery's douchebaggery notwithstanding) and do it THERE.
You can't disassociate Bery's douchebaggery from the thread, though. He intentionally secularized a tribute to religious sacrifice just to obtain a pulpit for his corrupted version of Christianity.
That's been his modus operandi for the last .. what, 10 years? As long as I've been here, anyway. He'd **** on a thread with little cross shaped turds, apologize and claim to be only human... then mount a pulpit and defend his position based on his "Bible according to Bery". Over and over, for YEARS.
I started off defending him vigorously, and admired his unbending belief in God. For years I would side with him in his constant attempts to prove his moral superiority over Taly and others.
Then, after years of that, I noticed that he created the furor so he could play his game, and for a while I held Christianity to blame... because when Bery spoke, he spoke for all Christians, and if a Christian questioned his behavior, the God help the less devout because Bery spoke for God. Always he escalated the source of his authority... his arguments were based at a level just above whomever he argued with and no argument could stand when Bery was channeling his master. So, I held all Christians to blame for his asshattery. Those folks who gotta let you know within 30 seconds of meeting then that they were "christians" and all devout and going to heaven and ****? Yeah, they were "christians" alright. Right down to their toes.
But there were really good folks that just went through their days doing really good things and their actions spoke louder than words...folks who would actually help ... and love and care and pray for others. And by their works they were known. Good people, good acts, good results. So, I came to understand that it wasn't Christians I had a problem with, it was folks that had bad results... and looking deeper I noticed the acts weren't good either, they just gave the impression of being good... and the people weren't good either, they were in it for something for themselves.
It's evil. What else can you call something that weakens Christianity for it's own agenda?
So, DE, I don't see how you can ascribe responsibility to anyone other than the architect of this little crapfest. It's his baby, it's ugly, and it's the fruit of his efforts.