Answering Believers: "If I believe in God why does that bother you?"
On my personal Facebook
page, I tend to do my direct critiquing of religion mainly through what I call my
“Freethinker Friday post”. The rest of
the week, I post funny stuff, health tips, and inspiring and insightful quotes. For some of my Christian friends however,
even once a week is way too often for me to be challenging their beliefs. On
April 4th, I did a post called “A Twisted ‘Love.’ In which I talked
about how the Christian god’s brand of love is actually coercion because it is
accompanied by the threat of violence for those who don’t ‘choose to accept' it. An acquaintance from high school, which I
never even interact with on Facebook seemed to take my post a bit personally.
Here is the response I
posted for her, and others who might share her annoyance with questioning of
religion: