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There are plenty of ministers that are completely normal, decent people, and plenty of churches that are little more than community hubs for people who grew up going to church and still enjoy it. I’m not religious myself and have had plenty of negative encounter with people who are, but even I have to say these vast generalizations are absurd.

I think it’s fair game to criticize religion and the larger institutions in general, as well as certain manifestations of either, but when you get down to the individual and start saying “anyone who is ___ is ___” then you’re not much better ideologically than the worst of them.

EDIT: I should add, I see both posts above mine as examples of this. Two sides of the same coin.