Is EVERYBODY wrong in the post ? POST : My family's always been pretty progressive and bookish.  My mother's a tenured professor of sociology at the local college and my father's a permaculture consultant.  So me and my siblings grew up in a pretty nerdy lefty/liberal/whatever environment.  We were always encouraged to find things out for ourselves, and look at things from an academic perspective rather than letting our personal feelings cloud how we saw stuff.  I remember my mother teaching us about the Aztecs and human sacrifice when I was like nine or ten, and telling us how we shouldn't judge the Aztecs by our standards and stuff.  So that's that.

My older brother married into a pretty heavily Christian family, and they have a daughter who's turning five this year.  I love her very much!  Her name is Katerina.  And because my sister-in-law is extremely Christian and very conservative and controlling, she's pretty strict about what her daughter's allowed to watch and read and stuff.  Nothing with magic or witchcraft, nothing with talking animals (because it implies animals have souls), nothing with witches or wizards, nothing with ghosts or spirits.  And church every Sunday, and eating fish on Fridays, and the \*Holy\* Ghost and all that - she's QUITE the Christian.

Anyways I was babysitting my niece and we watched some of the old Disney DVDs I still have lying around from when I was growing up.  And when my sister-in-law showed up to pick her up, we were watching Disney's Hercules.  Which has ancient Greek gods in it, and ghosts, and magic.  Needless to say, she pitched an almighty fit about it, basically calling me disrespectful and hateful, accusing me of always opposing her since she joined our family and wanting to hurt her because of her Christianity.  After she calmed down, we managed to have a bit of a productive conversation where she apologised for what she said and I said I didn't realise it would upset her so much; after all.

And then I said something like, "I don't see why you're so upset, it's not like Kat's gonna run off and start worshipping Zeus.  Ancient Greek religion was around before Christianity, so feeling threatened by it is a bit like how ISIS is blowing up those temples in Syria."

And she just ABSOLUTELY LOST IT.  Like, I mean screaming, crying, calling her parents and my brother and asking them to come get her, threatening to never let me see my niece again, claiming I was cursing her and I don't know what all else.  I didn't even mean it in a shitty way, I literally just meant that there's a commonality between Christians who are afraid of anything that even suggests or depicts non-Christian belief and ISIS blowing up anything that isn't strictly Muslim!