For as long as intelligence of how the constellations of power move about and control society is held in popular contempt, and a great knowledge of a smorgasbord of trivial entertainments is upheld as the highest social virtue, from sports and soap operas to news and reality TV, so humanity will necessarily define it's religions by the idea that only a "God" can save them, for they have refused to grow up and learn how to save themselves, because they are a bunch of drug addicts, and their heroin their religions, and the hero's they provide - who by today's standards we should all see as a bunch of complete lunatics by now.
I grew up in a family that is about as homophobic as Phil Robertson and the Westboro Baptists, only they're not quite as boisterous about it; at least not in public anyway. They have also conveniently convinced themselves that their homophobia is really just their unique Christian ability to "hate the sin, but love the sinner" (even though these very same Christians adamantly refuse to accept that people can "hate Christianity, but love the Christian"). The sexual superiority complex necessarily relied on by such Christians is, of course, blanketed beneath the lambs wool of the Christian humility of serving "God." They interpret their fear of those who are different, in other words, as simply proof of their intimate knowledge and love of God. And the only thing such Christians are more sure about than that their own personal version of "God" exists, is that such a "God" would never want people to be homosexual - no matter how ma...
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