elleusine:

I really dislike when people mock Jesus. I do. I generally don’t talk about my faith online, but this has really gotten under my skin.

I don’t Photoshop ridiculous images of Buddha or poke fun at Allah, and I don’t intend to ever do so. I don’t see other people do so. I don’t openly target other people’s religions. Yes, I disagree with other religions. But I don’t let that affect my relationships with people of other faiths, or lack thereof. Each person is entitled to their own personal beliefs and I will not ever force what I believe down some other person’s throat. And I fully agree that many Christians are wrong in the way that they try to convince others to their faith. I try not to be one of those hypocrites.

Yet again and again I see images mocking, insulting Jesus. I’ve seen how much respect people can have for other religions on Tumblr. Why not mine? Just as not all Muslim people are terrorists (in fact, I think most of them aren’t), not all Christians are stuck-up, ignorant hypocrites. To me, what I believe is as much a part of me as my skin color, my ethnicity, where I was born, what economic class I belong to.

I’m not saying that all jokes relating to Christianity are horrible. I’m not saying that Christians are the only ones who were ever wronged in the history of mankind, because that is clearly false. I’m not saying that everybody needs to stop posting those things immediately, because obviously, everybody here has the right to decide what they post.

Just please, consider having a little bit more respect for what I believe in. I’ll try my best to do the same for every one of you.

A few people have mentioned that the sentence up there was badly worded, and I fully agree. I was in a bad mood that night and didn’t think as carefully about my wording as I usually do. It was a poor comparison.

This is my official apology. I was simply going to ignore it and move on, but that would be wrong of me. I will do my best to be open and honest to whoever reads my words. Here is what I meant to say if I had been more lucid:

To clarify - just as the majority of Muslims are not terrorists (only a few out of millions are), the majority of Christians are not like the Westboro Batist Church and do not wish perdition on every human being on earth. And not all Christians are stuck-up hypocrites - you cannot sum up an entire group of people by one blatant stereotype. That goes for any group, whether it be religious or ethnic or economic.

elleusine:

I really dislike when people mock Jesus. I do. I generally don’t talk about my faith online, but this has really gotten under my skin.

I don’t Photoshop ridiculous images of Buddha or poke fun at Allah, and I don’t intend to ever do so. I don’t see other people do so. I don’t openly target other people’s religions. Yes, I disagree with other religions. But I don’t let that affect my relationships with people of other faiths, or lack thereof. Each person is entitled to their own personal beliefs and I will not ever force what I believe down some other person’s throat. And I fully agree that many Christians are wrong in the way that they try to convince others to their faith. I try not to be one of those hypocrites.

Yet again and again I see images mocking, insulting Jesus. I’ve seen how much respect people can have for other religions on Tumblr. Why not mine? Just as not all Muslim people are terrorists (in fact, I think most of them aren’t), not all Christians are stuck-up, ignorant hypocrites. To me, what I believe is as much a part of me as my skin color, my ethnicity, where I was born, what economic class I belong to.

I’m not saying that all jokes relating to Christianity are horrible. I’m not saying that Christians are the only ones who were ever wronged in the history of mankind, because that is clearly false. I’m not saying that everybody needs to stop posting those things immediately, because obviously, everybody here has the right to decide what they post.

Just please, consider having a little bit more respect for what I believe in. I’ll try my best to do the same for every one of you.

There is an edit to this post, you can read it here.