Religion is simply a method of rationalizing the things we do in anger as acts of justice. And the reason Religion has such trouble with science, is because Religion is the very opposite of a method of investigation that attempts to understand anything and everything there is to understand; an investigation that can only start honestly when a person admits there is no such thing as a divine yard stick by which all are measured, and especially by any church or religion claiming a god given authority to apply it, with all the omniscience of divine infallibility.
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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