There are people of all kinds of faith on here and I respect them all. I respect people who have no faith. There is free will and freedom to choose to believe or not but I am appalled at headlines and some of the Faith Shaming I have seen on here lately.
I hated the geography shaming. I hate any kind of shaming but it sends a very bad message to people of faith who have to defend themselves to people calling them communists and questioning their patriotism for all kinds of reasons. Markos, we don’t win elections by any kind of shaming and shoving shame to believers is the same as calling them out IMO. True enough, I guess if you are a newbie, it will get you on rec list but calling other Kossacks that are believers, they live in a fantasy is more than ridiculous, it is cruel.
I think there is enough division in this country without Daily Kos adding to the mix. There was a diary up and still up with nothing but pure division and hatefulness towards people of faith and I am disappointed that such remains.
Maybe no other Kossack on here will take issue with the diary with a post railing against it, but I will because Daily Kos means too much to me.. I know many including aethists who do not appreciate these kind of posts to be shared and it causes much division.
Let it be known I am not the type to sit here and ignore faith shaming.
Sometimes Faith is all many have.
I know of no one on this site who shoves religion down people’s throats. That is what the other side does. In the same sense, people should not shame people who bow their heads in earnest and pray over their food, or for their President, and for other people and to give thanks for what they have. I stand up for what I believe in and everyone on here who knows me, knows I will stand for anyone’s choice to believe or not. I will not be offended without standing up and I choose to stand and say, quit Faith Shaming. When this is done, it is shaming our President, former presidents, good folks, disabled and dying folks and This type of shaming runs people off this site because their faith is important and we have lost many good people off this site from this kind of thing. Donating people.
I say again it needs to stop. Don’t broadstroke all the so called relgious people on the right with people like Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden and Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi with those people. Those folks have shown to have faith. Those kind of Faith Bashing hurts us literally and politically.