Thank you. Your right about me enabling them, I need to reflect on that! It also seems I need to set some boundaries & not feed the hateful trolls with my limited time.

I can not oblige that. Hate is a sin, and sin hurts everyone.

I don’t feel the need to defend my self against such ad hominem attacks, or deny such baseless claims. You have feel will to think and say as you choose. Your opinions are none of my business. If you want a discussion, please start with some good faith questions. Else, how can I not see you as a hateful troll?

I look at conservatism as a concept that preserves the experiments that worked, and a necessary counterbalance to progressivism. Obviously, the ideal is a balance between them.

As an example, I think the separation of genders in such things as changing rooms, sports, & jails are all valuable traditions learn by hard lessons of those you come before us, and that we throw those out at are own peril. Basically conservatism = traditionalism in my mind. Who are we to be so bold as to think we are smarter than those you came before us? Or that the ‘old rules no longer apply to our lives’?

Thank you for leaving room in your judgment, it’s only a %97 change you wish me “the absolute worst.” :)

Either way, I don’t feel I need to be less of my authentic self to please you. I will wear your hate with pride if need be.

Thanks for the reminder about humility, I struggle with that. I’m not really into echo chamber political type communities tho. I need to learn to stand ever when others won’t, feel better about my probably rather faulty idea’s.

Seem peoples presumptions about the terms conservatism & Christian are all over the place. Getting thrown in the "97% correlation between being a Nazi trash person and being a “conservative Christian” is trying.

Thanks for your encouragement :) It’s nice to find someone who is not getting there exercise from jumping to judgment.

Haha, I’m trying to not think about it and move on. I don’t want more of the questioning my self stress from that experience!

Some people seem to really hate those two word already :| looks like I should be praying for them. Hate is a terrible thing in someone’s life.

It’s funny to think of them as ‘sleeper agents’, acting normal until the trigger words “Conservative/Christian” are spoken :)

I’m one too https://lemmy.today/post/49597645