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How to keep MLP religiously neutral?
5 years ago
The brony fanbase has helped many of different religions find common ground -- to share the love of friendship.
If I weren't Christian, I wouldn't care about friendship or forgiveness. In trying to be inclusive, I hope the staff doesn't forget about bronies such as me.
I feel much like Spike in Season 2. I'm caught between a right-wing group that definitively rejects me -- and a left-wing group that doesn't properly understand me.
The ponies think I'm one of the dragons. The dragons think I'm one of the ponies. I feel almost without a home.
If I am a dragon, then I'm one wishes to include others the way I want to be.
Like Spike in Season 6, I want to be an ambassador of friendship. There are changelings starving for love -- and some of them long to see the light. There are some dragons feeling the same way.
When we return hostility with hostility, we do nothing good. We only generate defensiveness, resentment, and rage. And then we ourselves start bullying one another.
With the "Season 10" comics, I accept inclusion of different people. I just hope new issues don't virtually demand me to endorse things against my religion. Then I would be excluded.
Given the Christian basis for friendship and forgiveness, that would be a great shame. If MLP is to remain truly inclusive, we cannot make relatively decent people feel left out for being "heretics".
If I weren't Christian, I wouldn't care about friendship or forgiveness. In trying to be inclusive, I hope the staff doesn't forget about bronies such as me.
I feel much like Spike in Season 2. I'm caught between a right-wing group that definitively rejects me -- and a left-wing group that doesn't properly understand me.
The ponies think I'm one of the dragons. The dragons think I'm one of the ponies. I feel almost without a home.
If I am a dragon, then I'm one wishes to include others the way I want to be.
Like Spike in Season 6, I want to be an ambassador of friendship. There are changelings starving for love -- and some of them long to see the light. There are some dragons feeling the same way.
When we return hostility with hostility, we do nothing good. We only generate defensiveness, resentment, and rage. And then we ourselves start bullying one another.
With the "Season 10" comics, I accept inclusion of different people. I just hope new issues don't virtually demand me to endorse things against my religion. Then I would be excluded.
Given the Christian basis for friendship and forgiveness, that would be a great shame. If MLP is to remain truly inclusive, we cannot make relatively decent people feel left out for being "heretics".
Hawkfang
~hawkfang
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