The Watching of ASAH

[kentauros]

11. MG, this thread is a kind of resurrection of one you did some years ago

and titled (I think) "Do you ever get the feeling that you're being watched?" with some rofl smileys in the body. Of course, I misinterpreted it to mean being watched by our cats, and not other DU groups until I read more

Nothing has changed in the years between, and I don't really expect them to change after this. I'll likely ruffle some feathers, but so far, no PMs from the "offended".

I was thinking about their use of the evangelical phrase I mentioned above that they've commandeered to "Attack the belief, not the believer." As I have observed their posts and reactions over the years, they are no more accepting of the actual phrase "Hate the sin, not the sinner" than they are of all the vitriol lobbed against them for being unbelievers. They seem to be of the mindset that you can actually detach the ideology from a person without all that vitriol of their own not affecting the believer. There is no "fine line" between the two. The beliefs of a believer are as attached to that person as the mind is attached to the brain. And they either don't get that part, or willfully dismiss it in order to have the "right" to attack a belief without consequences. Not gonna happen