Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-12343352-20170716212429/@comment-28396600-20181103054641

I just found the most disgusting, spiteful, and just downright cruel creepypasta story I've ever read. It's called "Why I became an atheist" and it just fills me with so much anger. While I'm admittedly not as religious as I used to be, I absolutely can not stand hatred of any kind. The way that this story portrays an entire group of people (Christians) as some kind of evil, brainwashed, cult of child murders is soooo offensive. Pretty much everyone in my family aside from my uncle and cousin are Christians so that story almost offended me on a personal level. Just because the writer of this story is an atheist, that does NOT give him an excuse to portray an entire minority as evil, bloodthirsty monsters just because they believe in a higher power. Religion bashing isn't any less offensive than racism and sexism in my opinion. The author of that pasta is probably one of those people who would never say the N-word in a billion years because he's afraid that it would offend black people, how is disrespecting Christians any different? It feels like all he wanted to do was offend people for no good reason whatsoever. That story was the most disrespectful, mean spirited, and dangerously stereotypical jab towards any minority I've ever read. I actually feel kind of ashamed of myself for reading it. I have a serious headache right now due to all the anger and shock that abominable creepypasta made me feel. It may be fictional, but that doesn't matter. Fictional things have inspired real life hate crimes before. Ever heard of the Slender-Man stabbing!? I worry that the pasta will turn some people into religion haters. How did Hitler get so many people to believe that Jews are evil? Propaganda of course. What I read was essentially propaganda so to all those people who claims,

"Oh, it's just a made up story. It's not harming anyone!"

Sometimes fictional things CAN negatively pollute the minds of people. Anything that repeatedly goes against an entire race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability, political affiliation, etc. seems very dangerous to me and it bothers me to end that such stuff exists. Can't we just learn to set our differences aside and love each other. Is that too much to ask!?