I am going to go ahead and post a rant-blog today. I have started many in the past few months because I have been getting so frustrated about things in this day and age, but I couldn't bring myself to actually put them out there. This time, my kids are sleeping and my "push over" button is broken.So here you go:
This is why I don't like to engage with certain "religious" people. There is no way to communicate anything with them that the conversation doesn't turn into a big fight! If it's not bad enough when you do it in person or on the phone, they also want to go at it on Facebook for the whole world to see! Here is a little of what I am talking about:
MY BROTHER'S POST: pork chops are a lot harder to make than it seems...
MY REPLY: No. You're just doing it wrong. ;-)
HIM: haha well that would do it too...:P;
ME: Why didn't you just go to Chick fil a? I heard that this was "the day to go"... Bwahaha!
HIM: Lol I don't really care about that restaurant or what's going on with it.
There was another comment regarding the pork chops and then this post by my sister in law: That's fine that you don't believe or care about that issue Sondra but don't make fun of @ Laura, Breson, or me for standing up for what we believe in. And all of you should care about what's going on because you are/were in the Navy. If you don't care, then what the heck are you fighting for????
Seriously?! Where did that come from? If you know what is going on in the news about the whole "Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day" thing, then you know what my comment was referring to, but I didn't put it on there as a dig on anyone. I was just stating that it was something that was made into a much bigger deal than it should have been, in my opinion, and that was all. The comment that was made by someone that was not even involved in the conversation that I was "making fun" of people was just ridiculous, in my opinion.
After seeing this post that I viewed as an attack, because I feel that it was not instigated on my part as I did not "make fun" of anyone as the allegations state, I went to her page to see what other things she had most likely posted as a result of the media swell around Chick-Fil-A. You know as well as I do that people that post comments like that do not limit it to responses on other people's posts, it's part of the whole of who they are. There is one thread that stuck out to me on her page. There are 31 comments on it, and quite a few of them are long winded, so I will give the pertinent ones and sum up the rest of it. Here it is:
HER POST: I just got deleted from someone's Facebook because I support the same Biblical principals that Chik Fil a does, freedom of speech, and free enterprise. John 15:18 " the world hates you because they first hated me."
A bunch of people were going back and forth about how it was crappy that someone would do that, and not to let it bother her, and some of them were even attacking other people on comments that they made if the comments were not ones of sympathy of this "horrible thing" that happened to her. Then my comment:
MY REPLY: I just have one question which is in response to your uncalled-for outburst on a comment I made to my brother and your vague, topsy turvy retorts to comments in this thread: Is there anything that doesn't offend you in some way? It seems like there is nothing that doesn't ruffle your feathers, and furthermore, everyone doesn't believe the same as you, and while you are on your freedom of speech kick here's one for you: that's the right the rest of us are exercising too. Some people are just less belligerent with it. With that said, please stop pointing out that I do not hold Christoan beliefs like you do. It says plainly in my bio that I'm not Christian. It is offensive to me. Thank you.
HER REPLY (2 days later): First of all Sondra, before you were even a twinkle in Chris's eye, Breson and I were married. So if anything, Aaron is my brother, but still we are all Jenkins, so we are all family and no one is more family than anyone else. Second, I am
not vague in the least amount in this thread it is pretty clear where I stand on my beliefs. I am not sensitive to everything, despite what you may think. My response to you was not about you not being a Christian, it was about what you, Aaron, Chris, and everyone else in the military fights for, our precious freedom which was being attacked in this whole Chick-Fil-A thing. So who is the sensitive one?? And of course everyone doesn't believe the same thing as me. I am not naive to the fact that there are other religions/ beliefs out there.FOLLOWED IMMEDIATELY BY THIS REPLY: Your snide remarks and blatant digs are offensive to me, by the way.
It continues for a few remarks more about props to her for standing up for what she believes in, some Jesus talk, someone quoted a scripture, and then it is done for the time being. It just drives me absolutely crazy! She even had a couple of friends on there that don't necessarily agree with Christian beliefs and she, I guess, tried to say that she doesn't go all the way to one side in that the LGBTQ community has no rights or anything, while in the next breath stating that she upholds the beliefs that are in the Holy Bible regarding that way of life.
Here is another quote that bothers me: "If I can't equally stand up for my beliefs without judgement or intolerance, then we were never friends in the first place." To me it doesn't seem as though the other person is getting the treatment that she is demanding with this statement. I don't even think this person that is being referred to in that quote knows that this whole conversation is taking place and was sparked by them un-friend-ing her. There is a whole lot of intolerance coming from this thread. This quote I find kind of funny "If you want to remove me because I stand up for my beliefs, then fine. But ask yourself this, Who is really the intolerant biggot? Me or you?" Is this supposed to make her feel that she is not an "intolerant biggot" (I would say that she is an ignorant bigot as she does not even know how to spell the stupid word... Funny too how the word, according to Webster, is of French origin and comes from hypocrite. Food for thought.) because she is inviting someone to un-friend her instead of the other way around...
Anyways, I'm net even sure if this rant makes any sense or if it sounds like a big whiny, cry-baby blog made up of a bunch of bits and pieces of things... I just want to say that though I have had some people that really just do not like me over the years, I have never had someone that projects their emotions toward me as being mine, when there was no indication of it coming from me (unless my doppelganger has been walking about without my knowledge) as I have in the almost 8 years that I have known her, and I am putting my foot down and will not associate with someone that tries to belittle me every time I open my mouth.
If you have gotten this far, or scrolled to the bottom from the git-go, here is the link to the whole thread so you can fill in the gaps of what was being said: https://www.facebook.com/jennifer.jenkins03/posts/4278420437721
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