Mental Judo

"Holier than thou" point of view is old and integral with the missionary self image. They are the ones bringing light to darkness, and all that "savior" crap.

Right now, I'm wrestling with a fundie and he's exposed his holier than thou attitude about general Christianity. Secular Humanists promote respects for individual beliefs, but how can one preach their faith over the individual faith of others IF they didn't think theirs was better.

That is one of the critical weaknesses of the hierarchy of legitimacy in religious debates. Particularly ones that believes your are not as holy as they are and they have the right of it. This brings out the messier side of an individual when many of these individuals don't have the actual near objective assessment to know their own imperfections to know better.

One of the guys in FF who is an atheist, used to be a religious stick in the mud. The one who took his faith seriously and with absolute conviction. This archetype is the one that is scary because on the side of religion he would be the type with NO WEAKNESSES. I mean these are the kinds of guys who do what they say, and mean what they do. They are freaking paramounts of honor, that actually can shame people by the level of commitment they give by their faith... and this guy became an atheist.

I shouldn't be surprised. Its just when you struggle to be consistent with a dogma that is inconsistent with its own core values: tolerance, love, empathy, compasion, justice... etc. Anyway, in an argument with a religous person like mr. Honor would have been like waves crashing against a jagged cliff.

But this guy, with his "holier than thou" self view, this guy can be Judo'ed. Unlike Mr. Honor who actually can admit to his own weaknesses and see them clear enough to never let it influence him. Holier than Thou guy is not comfortable to assume that the faith of others are different because of the differences in experience and world view of every person. HTThou cannot accomodate a world of differnce in the petty particulars, while Mr Honor sees the bigger picture and doesn't care about the petty particulars.

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