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Nice condescension here. I'm not some teenager who's just discovered leftism, I've known my own mind for a long time and I'm just happy vocalising it now. If you see that as judgemental then that's your own problem. I'll leave it to my friends and family to decide whether they find someone standing up for what they believe in a bad trait or not.
Also you do realise you just preached at me in a judgemental fashion about preaching in a judgemental fashion? That's the real irony* here.
No, you're not some teenager who's just discovered leftism. And neither are all the born again christians I've met teenagers who've just discovered christianity. An area I'm fairly sure I have more experience of than you do, having been both on the outside, inside and outside.
Also: Not being judgmental. The word 'abandoned' in their should have given you an idea as to my main issue - it was certainly the most carefully chosen. And it's neither with you of your beliefs. (Bear in mind that while you might find Born Again Christian to be some sort of pejorative*, I don't.)
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Idly standing by and letting others be casually misogynistic and racist (often without realising) does nothing to challenge their beliefs and so the status quo remains. You are complicit in your inaction.
Shades of grey - there are things inbetween inaction and direct challenge.
Lead by example? Just looking/behaving confused or disappointed by such things tends to discourage it I find much more than any direct challenge. Challenging beliefs and values typically has the opposite effect - argument back and the consequent searching for new counter arguments that are then taken on as new values (See: Creationism and its ilk)
It's at this point I wish I'd kept the links to the studies done on the outcome of arguments, as my google-fu is weak. Although I'd hope it's not a huge surprise to find that the outcome of "One or other party changed their mind" is very, very low indeed. Otherwise, you know, people wouldn't go on believing things like certain vaccines having certain effects long after proof otherwise. Or whoever that guy was that floated trumpets through the power of his arms.
Some people seem to like constant arguing, although it does appear to break them in one way or another.
* - I don't know. I'd hope not.