Thread by @AlexandraErin

@AlabamaAmigo @beth_doc @C_Stroop Literally everyone does what's right in their own eyes. It's your eyes looking at the text and deciding what parts you see are being "illuminated" by God. That's why other people can look at the same text and have different conclusions, which they were equally led to "by God".

@AlabamaAmigo @beth_doc @C_Stroop You have made yourself the arbiter of truth and morality, deciding for yourself that there is a God, that the concept of God you prefer the most is God, and that the way you choose to read your preferred version of the Bible reveals that God's will.

@AlabamaAmigo @beth_doc @C_Stroop But it's you making all these decisions.

The only difference between you and someone who is aware they are doing what's right in their own eyes is moral conviction.

They have it.

You lack it.

@AlabamaAmigo @beth_doc @C_Stroop You've given yourself a moral alibi, a moral security blanket or teddy bear you can hug close when the dissonance between the things you want to be true about the world and the things your senses (physical and moral) tell you about it gets to be too much.

@AlabamaAmigo @beth_doc @C_Stroop Somebody who doesn't have a spiritual stuffy of this sort, if they're forced with a hard moral decision, they have to make it, knowing that they're the one making it. Knowing that they are responsible for what they choose.

You have the luxury of play-acting that it's not you.

@AlabamaAmigo @beth_doc @C_Stroop The unvarnished hatred in this tweet, the desire to imagine someone you don't even know being punished forever, for *disagreeing* about something...

That's you. That's your human hatred, your human anger.

But you can pretend it's not.

https://twitter.com/AlabamaAmigo/status/1468212002598313986