Why I love Charlie.

I read this comment he made in slacktivist's blog and was about to post it to him when I realized he was the one who wrote it:

Wakboth: "That "everybody is a RTC in their heart, but they're ignoring God because they're EEEEVIL" thing is something I've never, ever been able to comprehend. How can anyone with any genuine experience with other people - especially people who aren't like you - believe that, even for a moment?"

Even having grown up among them, as one of them, this always struck me as some blind-spot of mine, until, I finally got it:

In their minds, these are not beliefs, these are facts, as concrete as phi, pi, and the speed at which falling objects accellerate; and there are only 3 kinds of people in the world, these being the Innocent, God's People, and the Unconverted. "Those Who Knowingly Embrace Evil" are not people to them, they are demons in the mask of humans, humans who have willingly invited their possession - they are The Enemy, every bit as much as "Satan himself". It is the burden of God's People that they must continually hammer away at The Unconverted until they convert & join God's People. This effort only stops in the event that an Unconverted convinces one of God's People that they will NOT convert, and are NOT interested in revisiting the conversation in the future, so keep it to yourself, thanks.

In their world, they have just shown themselves to be - admitted themselves to be in "Satan's" service, and God's People (or, at least, *that* one) will avoid that person and pray for their destruction.

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Wakboth: "That "everybody is a RTC in their heart, but they're ignoring God because they're EEEEVIL" thing is something I've never, ever been able to comprehend. How can anyone with any genuine experience with other people - especially people who aren't like you - believe that, even for a moment?"

Even having grown up among them, as one of them, this always struck me as some blind-spot of mine, until, I finally got it:

In their minds, these are not beliefs, these are facts, as concrete as phi, pi, and the speed at which falling objects accellerate; and there are only 3 kinds of people in the world, these being the Innocent, God's People, and the Unconverted. "Those Who Knowingly Embrace Evil" are not people to them, they are demons in the mask of humans, humans who have willingly invited their possession - they are The Enemy, every bit as much as "Satan himself". It is the burden of God's People that they must continually hammer away at The Unconverted until they convert & join God's People. This effort only stops in the event that an Unconverted convinces one of God's People that they will NOT convert, and are NOT interested in revisiting the conversation in the future, so keep it to yourself, thanks.

In their world, they have just shown themselves to be - admitted themselves to be in "Satan's" service, and God's People (or, at least, *that* one) will avoid that person and pray for their destruction.