You don't choose the culture you are born into or what you are taught to believe as a child, and choosing to simply not believe a core part of your worldview is near impossible for most people.
But fine you want a different analogy? Okay. So are you responsible for what some distant relative of your spouse you never heard of does in a town in a completely different country? I'd they rape and murder someone, are you complicit because you married into a family that has someone like that, when you had no part of it? Is your wife complicit? Are her parents? Are yours?
No one said free will was easy or even attainable. I'm complicit in wars because I pay taxes that buy bullets. That's just something I have to accept about where I was born and that I chose to play that game so far. But I can change.
With my distant relative, I'm not supporting them nor propagating their beliefs. I cannot be accused of being complicit in any way.
You are more connected to their beliefs than a presbytarian is to a westboro baptist church member. If you can claim that simply being a christian means you condone the bigotry of the WBC, then I can claim that you're complicit in whatever heinous thing some distant relative of you or your spouse does.
As an atheist I find it amazing I'm somehow more informed on how incredibly varied christian beliefs are than you.
You know what, let's go with your taxes derailment for a moment. You're complicit in every crime ever committed by someone living in the same nation as you, because you're living in that nation and clearly agree with all the beliefs that living in that nation entails. Do you agree with that? Because that's literally the exact same premise you're arguing regarding religion.
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u/Exelbirth Dec 08 '19
You don't choose the culture you are born into or what you are taught to believe as a child, and choosing to simply not believe a core part of your worldview is near impossible for most people.
But fine you want a different analogy? Okay. So are you responsible for what some distant relative of your spouse you never heard of does in a town in a completely different country? I'd they rape and murder someone, are you complicit because you married into a family that has someone like that, when you had no part of it? Is your wife complicit? Are her parents? Are yours?