Awesome Comment Award: “I Am Angry”

From time to time, I try to post a comment I found particularly interesting, thought provoking, or meaningful. I haven’t posted one in a while, but my readers leave so many insightful comments that I’m going to try to be more regular about it. Today’s “awesome comment award” goes to Mythbri for a comment on the post where I shared my regrets about my teenage anti-equality activism.

Mythbri

I’m sorry, too, Libby Anne, because I was raised to be a bigot, too, and I know that I hurt people because of it.

But you know what I am more than sorry? I am angry. I am angry that the people who made up the religion I was raised in took advantage of their position to teach me about the world in order to tell me lies about my fellow human beings. I am angry that when I repeated those lies, I got positive attention for it. I amangry that because I was taught to believe those lies, when I was confronted with the truth it really shocked me. I am angry because I spent years in anguish and confusion, trying to reconcile what I’d been taught to believe with what I discovered for myself to be true. I am angry because the fact that I chose the truth over lies brought judgment and scorn upon me from the same people who had been so happy to see me act like a bigot. I am angry that my change of mind is seen as weakness of mind instead of strength. I am angry I was basically set up to fail in my religion and then blamed and censured for it.

What would you add?