There's a man...

He friended me on Facebook I don't know when. Same last name but I don't even know if I've ever met the guy. Every other post is either an overly happy or cringe inducing Jesus meme, or Islamophobic "news" about how terrorists are infiltrating the US, and your typical anti-muslim fear mongering. He is pretty much everything I hate about right-wing Christianity.

He is my gauge. He is a standard of sorts. What for? The kind of people I should avoid, or a constant reminder of the kind of people I don't want to be? Or is he the test of my patience, wearing away little by little until I get sick of the whole idea of Christianity and devote my life to atheism.

Maybe, as a person who was raised believing similarly strong religious beliefs, I want to see the kind of person I would have become had that path been the one for me, where hatred gets twisted and warped until you can say the most heinous shit about a people, and still have a deep down belief that what you're saying is "love", and that any sort of rational argument can be easily thrown asides temptations of a devil, who can do everything he can to seem appealing.

Maybe everything you reject isn't the devil, by virtue of how unappealing you find it, and you are in fact falling trap to very evil you are trying to fight?

In anycase, I keep him friended, and only a few times have I been compelled to click "I don't want to see this". As long as I can scroll passed his schlock, actively disagree and move on with my life, regardless of whatever else is going on, I feel a little bit saner.