Posted on 07/19/2014 7:55:52 AM PDT by markomalley
Everyone is exactly who he or she says on the internet – at least according to one Washington Post writer. That conclusion is her rationale to say Christians are awful people.
Sally Quinn, Washington Post columnist and OnFaith founder, claimed that, “When it Comes to Hateful Internet Speech, Christians Are the Worst.” In her July 17 article, Quinn examined a white-supremacist site and comments on her articles to conclude that Christian “haters” “need a place to unleash their dark sides.”
For her introduction, Quinn pointed at white-supremacist Stormfront to note how the site targeted others: 39 percent Jews, 33 percent blacks, 13 percent Hispanics, 11 percent Muslims and 3 percent other. “This led me to surmise that many of the haters are white Christians,” she said. The perfect example! Find a fringe hate site and blame it on Christians. She clearly didn't spend any time at left-wing sites.
When she founded OnFaith eight years ago, Quinn lamented how, “the first hate emails I received were horrible.” She explained: “I can’t tell you how many people wrote in to say that I was a whore and a slut and so much worse that I can’t even write it here. And these all came from Christians.”
“If they are anonymous,” she argued, “they can be the worst versions of themselves.” Or, you know, imposters. Quinn didn’t concede that.
Although almost anyone can be a “Christian,” according to a previous comment by Quinn. As one of the “five lessons” she learned as an editor, she once listed “God is what you or I or anyone else says God is.”
But she did search for an answer. “I talked to Christian theologians, pastors, and scholars because I truly didn’t understand where all this Christian hatred was coming from.” She concluded, “Perhaps they have bought into the popular notion that Christians are the new religious victims in this country.” Just a "notion," mind you.
She continued, “Maybe they feel guilty about their own sins. Maybe they are afraid of going to hell. Maybe they are frustrated because they have to actually act like Christians in real life and need a place to unleash their dark sides.”
As a result, she found “a big difference between being Christian and following the teachings of Jesus.” “In fact, sometimes those two things can be polar opposites, she stressed, because “our Christian haters clearly paid little attention to Jesus.”
Although she admitted receiving “atheist hate mail” of “more intellectual persuasion,” she has never received “any personal hate mail from a Jew, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Buddhist, a pagan, an agnostic, or a humanist.”
Quinn overflows with Christian charity herself – from blaming Christians for a military culture of sexual assault to claiming Pope Francis “could possibly have been involved in a scandal.”
what an objective piece of ‘journalism’ on display.
No agendas
No attacks
No twisted opinions
No cherrypicking
Just the “facts”
Fallacy of hasty generalization:
Just because a few individuals belonging to a certain category have a certain characteristic does not mean that all members of the category have that characteristic.
Conclusions should not be drawn too quickly based on insufficient evidence.
And look at how they vicitimize poor homosexuals, who just want to be left in peace to parade naked through the streets and bugger each other in bus station bathrooms.
Then there are the xenophobic racists who insist that the swarms of innocent children pouring across our southern border should actually be forced to obey our laws, not infect our native children, and be returned to their own countries and families. How callous can these Christians be?
Thanks for that enlightening article, Sally. It's so refreshing to read a columnist who has the courage to criticize Christianity. It's something one almost never sees these days.
LOL. You probably ought to define “fluffer” for the great unwashed who might not have a clue. Pretty accurate description you provide though.
Quinn is not a reporter.
“Hateful” = does not endorse baby killing or sexual deviancy
LOL. You probably ought to define “fluffer” for the great unwashed who might not have a clue. Pretty accurate description you provide though.
“Christians Spew the Most ‘Hateful Internet Speech’”
She was going to come to this conclusion before she did any “research”.
She uses a white supremacist website to represent all Christians - never mind the dubious conclusion that there is anything Christian about white supremacists.
I am virtually certain she hasn’t done ANY “research” into Islam - you know...those wonderful, loving beheaders of anything non-muslim.
Sally will call me a hateful Christian, but since she and her hubby got really, really old, they’ve been kicked off the Washington A list - which has been ceded to others - I want to say Margaret Carlson or somebody. So she’s got time on her hands to worry about online hate groups.
Islam kills and the MSM fears them. Christians don't so there is no fear.
If the actions of each religion were reversed they would certainly be
condemning Islam, but like bullies they go after the easy prey who will
not strike back.
I bet she purports to believe that jihadists are just some fringe element, and that Islam is really a “a religion of peace”.
It’s not accidental either, it’s intentional. She could go to a random Muslim site and find more solidarity in hatred.
A good many of the stormfront types are paganists or Odinists, and oppose Christianity as “soft” and “weak”.
I’m guessing she’s never looked a the “Democratic Underground” Forum. I haven’t been there for awhile, but I’ve always come away feeling the need for a shower.
Well since she believes that everyone that posts on the internet is who they say they are................I think it would be okay if someone else posted a cartoon of mohammed in her name.
If she wants to see hate she need look no further than her own editors.
US Jews furious over ‘Washington Post’ cartoon showing Netanyahu
http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=363403
This statement says more about the woman than anything else she wrote.
Sorry Ms Quinn, I just don’t value your opinion.
5.56mm
Stormfront morons are about as Christian as KKK idiots.
Righto. If God is just a POV, then he/she/it doesn’t exist in any meaningful sense.
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