Mixed Messages

During a recent correspondence with Calamareye, Ryuu made an interesting comment:

I confess that perhaps this battering at me - though my motives earlier was just to make it stop - is the means God would use to show me my own folly I've been refusing to see.

I did lawl pretty good at his use of "battering", but his ongoing habits of hyperdrama and self-pity aren't what make this comment interesting.

There really is something delightfully ironic about the idea that a blog run entirely by staunch atheists would be the meaty tools through which Ryuu's god tells him to STFU, and it's a little telling that this conclusion, though not terribly uncommon among the aggressively devout, is the one Ryuu comes to. It certainly couldn't be that people just flat out don't like his attitude, it actually has to be that this is some ***DIVINE PLAN*** advanced by no one less than the creator of the fucking universe, and it is only for this reason that Ryuu should listen when people tell him what an amazing twit he is. Because the opinions of mere mortals like us don't mean shit.

But even this isn't entirely what makes this comment interesting. Think about it for a moment.

Ryuu seems to think that he is religiously mandated by his god to hate LGBT people. Ryuu ALSO seems to think that our criticism of him is actually a lesson by his god for him to straighten up. But we've spent a considerable amount of time criticizing Ryuu's blatant hatred of LGBT people.

Wouldn't that mean, then, that his god actually wants him to stop being such a goddamn bigot?

Hmmm...