Just because they're really out to get you doesn't mean you're not paranoid

[ciroccoj]

OK, so after being rather disturbed at my own prejudice last night as I searched around for websites that didn't have the word "Christian" in them, I ended up ordering from one of the Christian sites (christianbooks.com). Although I must admit that first I puttered about a wee bit; nothing major, just looked them up on Wikipedia and Google, and read their "A word on our product selection". Found nothing alarming, and ordered.

Got my confirmation e-mail that my order had been placed this morning. Along with a handy dandy link to Focus on the Family and a suggestion to buy the complete line of works by James Dobson. Went back to the site and did a few searches on their website for books on homosexuality, evolution, abortion, and contraception, and yeah, not ordering from there again. I did find one book on being Christian and gay - well, actually, several, but most were all about how you can use Christianity to free yourself from your sinful gayness - and one book about how you can be Christian and still believe in evolution. The rest were all anti-gay and anti-evolution. Abortion had two pro-choice books, and about 1/4 of the books were OK with contraception.

So now I'm ticked off at myself for two reasons. First: I should not have been dismissing any site just on the basis of a name. That goes against everything I try to teach my kids about tolerance and fairness and respect for diversity. If I can try to keep an open mind towards Al Jazeera English and Fox News, I can bloody well do the same for Christian book sites.

Second: if I'm going to try to soothe my suspicions, half-assed is not the way to go.

Damn.

Comments

[snarkhunter.livejournal.com]

Hee. I'm sorry--I shouldn't giggle, but somehow this is really amusing to me.

I am also disturbed by my prejudice against openly Christian websites, and, again, this is weird, since I am a Christian. But so many of them are so offensive to me...it's a little tiresome. ::sigh::

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Hee. I'm sorry--I shouldn't giggle, but somehow this is really amusing to me.
You know, it wasn't, to me, but then I read this, tilted my head to the side, and... ::snicker:: yeah. So: thanks :D :D :D

I am also disturbed by my prejudice against openly Christian websites, and, again, this is weird, since I am a Christian. But so many of them are so offensive to me...it's a little tiresome. ::sigh::
I can't imagine. I kind of think of myself as sort of... ethnically Christian - you know like folks who aren't religious, but were raised in Jewish families? Kinda like that. Because Christianity was in the stories I was told, the holidays we observed, the weddings I attended, yadda yadda. So it's weird to feel myself reacting negatively to something that I (mostly) identify with. But at least it's not actually my religion.

That's got to be intensely frustrating. Doh. Sorry :(