My counterexample list is not just myself, that's just the first and most obvious element. There is no point to listing all the people that hate your newfound religion despite being from the 'younger generation', almost everybody hates this shit, probably including your kids as well.
A free man should resist anything, whether it's a change or the status quo, if it's pushed by self-serving bullies and pathetic status seekers. The dominant religion where I live is 1400+ years old, it's a moral and intellectual disease embraced only by the scum and the naive.
I'm not being extra hard on your religion because it's good to be spiteful, this is just how I treat most religions. It's good to be spiteful to religions and their followers because that's what they deserve most.
That's still just personal attacks. Any movement is going to have noisy attention seekers getting attention. If you watch cable news have a debate about a social issue you're guaranteed to get the worst, loudest people who like having debates on TV. I've never yelled at anyone for misgendering or anything like that, but I absolutely understand and support it. And absolutely not because it's a popular movement, but because I agree with it on an intellectual level as the right thing to do. Something you haven't even addressed. I'm assuming your 1400 year old religion is based on dogma, mythology, rituals and is of course based on 1400 year old sensibility that hasn't evolved. I don't follow any ancient religion because there's no rational basis for 99% of what they teach. Speaking to people with respect whether they demand it or not seems like a perfectly rational thing to do that doesn't require a leap of faith.
I wasn't engaging in personal attacks, it's what I sincerely think of religions and their followers. What good is niceness when it's not sincere? Would you prefer if I pretended to like or respect you or your ideology while secretly despising you like the plague?
Your religion involves far more than "treating people with respect", this is such a pathetically false and cowardly phrase that all religions try to hide behind under various formulations. Your religion involves revering a certain class of people and elevating them above the rest of us and agreeing to every bullshit they make up or risk the consequences for dissent, made abundantly clear by repeated examples. I.e, just a standard old delusion, but with new words.
I don't despise any religion for faith, I despise ideologies for authoritarianism. Your religion, just as the 1400 year old disease I was raised on before I knew any better, is the authoritarian ploy currently in fashion to destroy lives and bend free wills. You support it, you kneel to it, you are happy your kids are absorbing your delusions before they know any better, and that makes you an authoritarian. You and the rest of your religion deserves nothing but contempt and sneering.
Having said that, I have to admit I don't actually know what do you actually hope to accomplish by replying to me? Knowing why I despise your kind of believers? I made that very clear. What else?
A free man should resist anything, whether it's a change or the status quo, if it's pushed by self-serving bullies and pathetic status seekers. The dominant religion where I live is 1400+ years old, it's a moral and intellectual disease embraced only by the scum and the naive.
I'm not being extra hard on your religion because it's good to be spiteful, this is just how I treat most religions. It's good to be spiteful to religions and their followers because that's what they deserve most.