What matters most to the "believer" is NOT trying to empathize with others, but forcing others to accept that the "believers" beliefs are more true than anyone else's beliefs, and therefore must be accepted as the ONLY beliefs that are true, which means that all other beliefs are simply false. They do this, of course, becasue they fear hell, even though they tell themselves they really "love" the God who is saving them from hell by insisting their "beliefs" are more right than everyone else's beliefs. Heaven, as a result, will be full of people who are all convinced that they were right, who will all use the fact that they are in heaven to prove they were right to each other, and hell will be filled with people who are happy as hell they no longer have to deal with such spiritual supremacists.
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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