Why are Americans so freaking sensitive

@HaloEliteLegend "A thousand years to man is a single day to God"

@Xanthe you evil white supremacist!

But seriously, this kind of stupid thought train of "Jim is a trump supporter, so he's a white supremacist because all trump supporters are white supremacists" is the kinda crap that's tearing the country apart right now. Same applies for calling the entire left "libtards" or saying they're antifa/ antifa sympathizers.

(1) Americans may or may not be vocal because of the enshrined belief in the First Amendment.
(2) Opinions are like assholes...
(3) "Back in my day..." Virtually everything I hear about "the current generation" and their word choice, their attitude, and the ways they find to be offended are old enough that I remember my parents generation hearing the same shit.
(4) Homosexuality, adultery, fornication, lying, graven images, etc are all sins. But apparently grossly inconsistent religious texts are okay--and here I'm talking about the many ways in which the Old Testament alone and the New Testament on top radical shift over time things like the focus of and the importance of different aspects of religious life. Consider exactly where "hell", "Satan", "Heaven", etc actually fits in the Bible. Or just generally consider the fact that you have to actually read and understand the Bible at all; you're not born with the knowledge and you're inherently beholden to your ancestors to have not intentionally rewritten the religious texts to their whim.
(5) Fun fact. Jesus was pretty much against marriage as well. The early church was very much a suicide (by lack of self-replacement) commune/cult that sort of went more long-term and wrote stuff down only after it became apparent Jesus wasn't coming back in their lifetime.

If you don't like what I wrote, well, you're "so freaking sensitive". Or, you know, (2) applies.

@kuwanger the bible went through so many people that it could have been altered and a lot of the plain and precious truths were removed. Also, you have probably never read the bible if that is what you get out of it.

The harsh truth is that the bible alone isn't enough to know all the truths of the Gospel.

Reason why, people get triggered if it goes out of their comfort zone.

Not sensitive. Idiotic. Very Idiotic.

@Felek666 it all depends on the context.

@Sheimi
Is it though?

maybe because im thick skinned, but I dont "triggered" going out of my comfort zone, or someone telling me to go out of it.

I really think people are just babies, They havent learned to take it, " Like a Man"
as in, deal with it.
your not five.

Everyone needs help, Even "Man"

@blujay The harsh truth is that language is so ambiguous that rarely is it possible to convey plain and precious truths. So, yes, the bible alone isn't enough to know all the truths of the Gospel. But it's rather hard to argue that any communication method would be sufficient to convey the truth of God. Which is why I brought up the whole "have to actually read and understand the Bible at all". I mean, honestly, the Bible is a really shitty text when it comes to conveying a lot of things. Even the Old Testament is pretty crap if you want to use it merely for historical chronology of things. If you read at all about the attempt to calculate the whole 6,000 year old Earth thing, it's heavily involved in trying to "as best as possible" reconcile known history outside the Bible with the Bible to get some scale of things.

PS - Yes, the honest truth is I have on repeated occasions tried to read the Bible and failed. I can't manage to get past even Genesis before the absolute absurdity and horribly inconsistent text of it just makes me give up on even attempting to try to understand it. It reminds me of 1984 and the discussion of double-think. The only way I can see myself really getting into it is if I were to take the Bible and do a sort of "let's try to cut it up into the 100s of narratives is contains and try to encapsulate them to sort of get an idea of which parts goes together". Like how plenty of Greek myths are diced up into parts and one invariably short of shrugs one's shoulders at the inconsistent mess. *shrug*

I'm an atheist, but for religion, I really like the Tao/Buddhist model. Humans are screw ups (they don't know how to live their lives), but they get unlimited chances to improve themselves. Basically, you act like a jerk, you are "rewarded" with being reborn as something else (not human) until you learn to fix that part of yourself. And people should be vegetarian because it means not inflicting pain on anything else.

I think my main problem with the Christian model is that humans are made "in his image" (eg. reflecting him). In that case, the Christian God is a judgemental, short-sighted, rage filled, being.

I think everyone's extremely sensitive now because people tend to have friends that reflect their same views. Hell, my group of friends all universally worry about Trump and frequently post lgbta+ things on my facebook wall. It's terrible and self-reinforcing (a "circlejerk" if you would), and I try to get different ideas from people. (I'm taking a class to teach English abroad and I spoke at length to a classmate who's Hindi and pretty damn religious. And I learned a lot about the religions and regions and the differences.) It's VERY hard to get an opinion outside your own views/circle.

You're so closed-minded. You're making a massive generalization. You'll find any and every type of individual everywhere.

God you're so ignorant.

There are sensitive snowflakes throughout the entire political spectrum in America, it's true. However, they're really a small segment of the overall populace who simply get more air time. Since Trump became president, we've even got Neo-Nazis crying that people don't treat them fairly. Again though, not a majority in any sense. We just need more comedians like George Carlin again to reality check some motherfuckers.

How can you come to the conclusion that Americans are sensitive in general with such a small sample? It's amazing.

Anyway, I was raised in an Evangelic household and apostated when I got older. Most Christians I met pick and choose whatever they feel like. Gay is bad, but it's okay to eat shrimp or pork. Go figure.

Im a sensitive American Snowflake.

You can't really make a credible claim about the Americans being sensitive if you don't ask all 323 million of them and find out that the majority of them are actually sensitive. Generalizations are dangerous. As others have already said, there are some extremely loudmouth minorities of people in the US whose words' and actions' intensity makes you believe this is the average standard in America. Thankfully, it isn't.

Because Americans are literally taught from the second they are born to the second they die, that America is literally the center of everything. In school I was taught that America is the "Center of Freedom," and taught to be "happy I was born here instead of somewhere else." Basically I taught that the rest of the planet is complete shit and everyone puts America on top of everything else.
(Answered the title of the blog)

Lilith, No idea where you went to school, but I attended school in 3 different states, and was never taught that "America is the center of everything", in any respect.

@Lilith Valentine

@Lilith Valentine All countries teach their own history and love of their own country. Back in India (where I'm from), the children are taught wonderful things about India. The US is just doing what every other country does, too. America is objectively the world's only remaining superpower and so in many regards, it can semi-accurately claim to be the center of many things. I was born in India, but I'm so glad I'm living here and not there. Americans have it very, very good and many tend to take their own country for granted. I'm a citizen here now and I love it. Also, nowhere in school (been in American schools since preschool) do they teach children that other countries are shit. They just teach things relevant to America, like how all the other countries teach things relevant to their nation. I believe I have a different perspective than you on this, since I'm not natively from here. At the very least, it's impossible to link this to a generalization about Americans being sensitive, because some of the most sensitive Americans are the Antifa anarchists that would love to see America fall.

@Thirty3Three
It's not as obvious as I made it sound (well except the for the part where I told I was "lucky to be born in the US,") a lot of it's just small things I started to notice when I began talking to people from around the world and really started to pay attention to everything around me. But it's these small things that slowly built this image that we are this perfect country and everything we do is perfect, all wrapped up terms like, "Patriotism."
Not to mention I can't say there's flaws with our country without getting told to "Leave it if you hate it so much!"