The attack at a gay night club in Orlando recently has left roughly 50 people dead and even more injured. Some people want to condemn "radical Islam" for the attack, because the shooter, Omar Mateen, dedicated his savagery to a bunch of religious savages. But Islam is not to blame for this crime, and neither is ISIS. This crime cannot be laid at the door step of Christianity either, or any other religion. It is simply the result of a person who chose to "believe" that homosexuality was a sin against an invisible God, and then chose to augment that belief with the beliefs of others who believed the same thing.
He believed this because a book was written thousands of years ago, by an ancient people, who wrote about committing such mass murders all the time. Today, that book is the single cornerstone upon which the three major religions all draw their divine knowledge about sex, love, and sexuality.
In truth, however, this book simply reinforces our fear of those we do not understand by treating the writings of other people, who similarly feared all those they did not understand, like the word of God himself; and by so doing, kindling our love for an imaginary God into a raging hatred for all those who refuse to understand just how obsessed with God we really are. We're not F-ing around, in other words! That's why we kill those we do not understand, for their failure to understand us, and the supreme importance of our God-based morality.
Such attacks are nothing new to those who's sin we hate but souls we love. Such sufferings have been "God's gentle caresses," as the famed stigmatist Padre Pio once put it, designed as part of "God's plan" to teach homosexuals across the ages, just how much God loves them for who they really are.
Homosexuals have been the targets of intolerance and persecution for probably longer than any religion or even race. Prior to the shooting in Orlando, for example, an arsonist set fire "to the Up Stairs Lounge, a gay bar located on the edge of the French Quarter in New Orleans, LA, on June 24, 1973. The result was the largest gay mass murder in U.S. history." This corresponded with the culmination of the War on Gays campaign that was being run for decades by J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI.
In fact, homosexuals have been hunted and murdered by everyone from the FBI, to the Nazi's, to the Catholics, to the Muslims, to nearly everyone else, in one way or another. And yet in this abusive relationship between homosexuals and their heterosexual partners in society throughout history, the latter too often takes no responsibility for how much their condemnatory words produce such terrible, real-world consequences. Instead, they immunize themselves from accepting any blame for their own refusal to accept homosexuals, by blaming not their own beliefs, but the beliefs of homosexuals.
The problem is not the condemnation of homosexuals, as far as such moral stalwarts are concerned, it's just that Islam leads its unhinged masses to take that condemnation beyond the moral parameters of people who believe and love the one true, merciful God. Ya know, the one who orchestrated numerous genocides, famines, and wars in the Old Testament; who threw a tantrum when his "ant farm" wasn't working out like he planned and decided to pour water over the whole thing, killing nearly everything on the planet; and throws people who disagree with the logic of his ideas about "love" into a lake of fire for all eternity? Yeah, that guy.
He believed this because a book was written thousands of years ago, by an ancient people, who wrote about committing such mass murders all the time. Today, that book is the single cornerstone upon which the three major religions all draw their divine knowledge about sex, love, and sexuality.
In truth, however, this book simply reinforces our fear of those we do not understand by treating the writings of other people, who similarly feared all those they did not understand, like the word of God himself; and by so doing, kindling our love for an imaginary God into a raging hatred for all those who refuse to understand just how obsessed with God we really are. We're not F-ing around, in other words! That's why we kill those we do not understand, for their failure to understand us, and the supreme importance of our God-based morality.
Such attacks are nothing new to those who's sin we hate but souls we love. Such sufferings have been "God's gentle caresses," as the famed stigmatist Padre Pio once put it, designed as part of "God's plan" to teach homosexuals across the ages, just how much God loves them for who they really are.
Homosexuals have been the targets of intolerance and persecution for probably longer than any religion or even race. Prior to the shooting in Orlando, for example, an arsonist set fire "to the Up Stairs Lounge, a gay bar located on the edge of the French Quarter in New Orleans, LA, on June 24, 1973. The result was the largest gay mass murder in U.S. history." This corresponded with the culmination of the War on Gays campaign that was being run for decades by J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI.
In fact, homosexuals have been hunted and murdered by everyone from the FBI, to the Nazi's, to the Catholics, to the Muslims, to nearly everyone else, in one way or another. And yet in this abusive relationship between homosexuals and their heterosexual partners in society throughout history, the latter too often takes no responsibility for how much their condemnatory words produce such terrible, real-world consequences. Instead, they immunize themselves from accepting any blame for their own refusal to accept homosexuals, by blaming not their own beliefs, but the beliefs of homosexuals.
The problem is not the condemnation of homosexuals, as far as such moral stalwarts are concerned, it's just that Islam leads its unhinged masses to take that condemnation beyond the moral parameters of people who believe and love the one true, merciful God. Ya know, the one who orchestrated numerous genocides, famines, and wars in the Old Testament; who threw a tantrum when his "ant farm" wasn't working out like he planned and decided to pour water over the whole thing, killing nearly everything on the planet; and throws people who disagree with the logic of his ideas about "love" into a lake of fire for all eternity? Yeah, that guy.
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