Religion, and theology more specifically, is designed to make smart people feel stupid, and stupid people feel intelligent, by convincing the former they lack the intelligence to understand what cannot be understood (because "God" is an infinite abstraction), and the latter that they have a special "knowledge" and understanding of something (that they are taught to believe amounts to infallibly"divine wisdom") that effectively operates as nothing more than an elaborate ink blot.
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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