Posted by:
midwestanon
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Date: November 01, 2015 05:44AM
Anger is just an indication of how much emotion you have about something. When people decide to explode with vitriolic, rage-filled rants against the church, it's the church that's winning, because the church is the one that is holding the person with anger emotionally hostage. When someone can just brush off the church, it's tactics, forms of control, snide comments made by members towards ex-members, and can approach issues with the church in controlled, measured, emotionally distant ways, the church has lost.
It's not just the church that uses this cult-like ploy. Lots of churches (cults) use emotions and emotional ties to bind members to them. When the emotion is gone, the hate is gone, and what's left is just to really not care. I can't say I'm personally all the way there, but I'm certainly much better at being objective and critical in a remote sense than I was years ago.
Being nice to members- assuming they are decent t you- is just part of the social contract. Their is no recent not to be nice to everyone, even if they aren't nice to you. It's about being above a certain kind of behavior, a behavior people know is inherently not acceptable. Obviously, some occasions call for certain exceptions, but in general, there is no reason not to just be decent to everyone.
Now if missionaries and relief society sisters and HP group leaders and Bishopric members etc. etc. etc. knock on your door and call your phone, day after day after day, and still don't get the message, it's time to tell them to fuck off, turn on the hose, and threaten beatings and other indicators of ill will.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/01/2015 05:46AM by midwestanon.