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Are all religious folk seen as dogmatic, self-righteous bible thumpers?
Being raised in a Christian family myself, I find this very stereotypical. I love reading Voltaire, Percy Shelley, sometimes H.P. Lovecraft, Philosophy, Psychology, Literature, History, Sinclair Lewis. And every book on religious hypocrisy, even Pullman's Good Man Jesus and Scoundrel Christ. Especially some of the works of the Marquis de Sade and Walt Whitman and Natalie Clifford Barney. None of my family seem to be like the fundies you read about everywhere, my older siblings learn Oriental and Ancient Greek Philosophy and martial arts and they are all skeptics. But I don't seem to mind and neither do they about me.
Exactly the same for me. Raised in a Catholic family, with a catholic sister, unconcerned brother and i have been a Witch since i was young. I have never been persecuted for what i believe - except when i had an aunty say "Warlock!!!!!" when she saw me out of love for her favorite movie, Warlock - and i have existed with them perfectly fine. But because of the media, extremes of ridiculous Christian groups who are obviously ignorant, misguided and/or stupid people are seen to be the "norm". It's just like Islam in the media. They choose Abu Hook-Handed Hamza to to represent the Muslim community and everyone thinks they're all terrorists. That's like taking the GrandDragon of the Klu Klux Klan and saying they're the Representative for the Christian west.
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