i have this frustrating tendency to get into arguments with random people on
the internet. I personally try to keep in civil, but I get discouraged by all
the insults and obnoxiousness.
Many of the arguments are about religion. I encounter a lot of so-called
"internet atheists" who seem to design their arguments to provoke people and
make self-congratulatory statements (although I wouldn't call them all trolls).
They spare no religion, citing examples of Buddhist violence or badly
misrepresenting concepts to make them sound like so much babble. (I have some
Christian beliefs, but they are not very orthodox, which they find hard to
understand and therefore I get a lot of "why not just give it all up?")
So why do I feel the need to argue with these people? Why does my ego make it
so I feel the need to confront everything they say, not give them the "victory?"
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