As far as leaving the fandom if one only sees bad influence in it, that's absolutely fine. There are some sub-groups that are really rotten within furry (but this is true outside furry as well). If one finds themselves within those groups, then no furry fandom at all can be better than staying.
However, I would definitely have an adamant disagreement with your interpretation of Corinthians 13:11.
I think in my mind, the childish thing is to sit around and expecting others to take care of you or to teach you instead of being an adult and being responsible for yourself, your friends, and your family. It has nothing to do with cartoons, or anthro-characters. There are many adults who act as children by giving up any sense of autonomy and expecting someone else to do things for them. To me, that is what that passage is discussing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
So the childish things they are saying to throw away are the following as indicated by 1 Cor 13:4: Envy, Boasting, Dishonor, Delighting in Evil, lying, selfishness, being quick to anger, and keeping score of the wrongs in others (probably for purpose of vengeance).
But you want to know what the creepiest part about the passage of Cor 13 above? It is almost a prophecy of this very day, and this very comment, where I am explaining this passage to you. Look at the 2 lines before 13:11. They seem to know that the passage of 13:11 would be taken out of context by society in the future.
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.
In other words. Anyone who uses the passage of 13:11 to point at an activity as childish that has nothing to do with what is listed above are using the passage in part, but when someone comes along to give it the full context, then the real message of what is being said is put before you. What you believed when you only quoted the one part disappears. You put away the childish thing, that believing the the childish thing is cartoon animals and not the sins listed prior.
Hope you're doing well.
As far as leaving the fandom if one only sees bad influence in it, that's absolutely fine. There are some sub-groups that are really rotten within furry (but this is true outside furry as well). If one finds themselves within those groups, then no furry fandom at all can be better than staying.
However, I would definitely have an adamant disagreement with your interpretation of Corinthians 13:11.
I think in my mind, the childish thing is to sit around and expecting others to take care of you or to teach you instead of being an adult and being responsible for yourself, your friends, and your family. It has nothing to do with cartoons, or anthro-characters. There are many adults who act as children by giving up any sense of autonomy and expecting someone else to do things for them. To me, that is what that passage is discussing.
The popular interpretation that 1 Cor 13:11 is discussing cartoons, furry art or stories, or fandom conventions and community because those things are what are deemed as childish (in Western Society) is to completely ignore the words around that very passage and remove the context on what the Bible deems as childish instead.
So the childish things they are saying to throw away are the following as indicated by 1 Cor 13:4: Envy, Boasting, Dishonor, Delighting in Evil, lying, selfishness, being quick to anger, and keeping score of the wrongs in others (probably for purpose of vengeance).
But you want to know what the creepiest part about the passage of Cor 13 above? It is almost a prophecy of this very day, and this very comment, where I am explaining this passage to you. Look at the 2 lines before 13:11. They seem to know that the passage of 13:11 would be taken out of context by society in the future.
In other words. Anyone who uses the passage of 13:11 to point at an activity as childish that has nothing to do with what is listed above are using the passage in part, but when someone comes along to give it the full context, then the real message of what is being said is put before you. What you believed when you only quoted the one part disappears. You put away the childish thing, that believing the the childish thing is cartoon animals and not the sins listed prior.