Professional Christians - It's Really All About Money and Intolerance

I write a great deal about religion and the professional Christian set - most of it pretty negative - because I increasingly see the toxic form of religion they peddle to be a force for evil with little or no redeeming aspects. They are defined more by who they hate - gays, Jews, blacks, Hispanics, non-white immigrants, non-Christians, etc., etc. - than for being followers of the supposed Gospel dictates of loving one's neighbor and helping the poor and oppressed. In truth, these professional Christians make the Pharisees so roundly condemned in the Bible look downright upstanding. Brody Levesque who authors Brody's Notes and Scribbles, a daily news blog, has a guest post at The Bilerico Project that summarizes the reality of the groups after first noting SPLC new list of hate groups. He makes a great comparison of Tony Perkins, Brian Brown and their peers with Joseph Goebbels inasmuch as much of the professional Christian anti-gay propaganda is based on the NAZI formula used against the Jews. Here are some highlights:
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I am tired of the non-stop barrage of hatred that spews out of the mouths of these high priced Washington D. C. based lobby outfits, whose sole purpose is predicated on their belief that their God calls them to interfere with the private sexual lives and reproductive rights of their fellow citizens.
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There is the unspoken truth that organised religion will not discuss. Its the proverbial elephant in the room, as most religions have stopped being a force for good and a loving outlet to ease a human's path through life and instead have become big business. Which, I need to add, according to considerable recent study of this issue by a group of pollsters and journalists, has spent an amazing $1.4 billion dollars on just waging a war against the LGBTQ citizens of the United States since 1977. *Imagine if that sum had been spent instead on food, medicines, housing, clothing, or some other form of charitable work.
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These people use religion as a weapon and as an ongoing business concern. The focus of what was once the basis for the message preached by that young Jewish carpenter has literally been lost in the translation. So much in fact that I doubt he'd even recognise his message of 'Love Thy neighbor as Thy self' in the onslaught of the propaganda put out by these groups and individuals.
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The Nazi Party minister of propaganda, Josef Goebbels, would be impressed by this lot, in particular Perkins & Brown. They're slick, well funded, and stay on message never straying far from insuring that Americans see the supposed inherent evil of Gay & Lesbian people. Oh, and I must not leave out the bathroom battles over the Trans folk. . . . They truly are not much different that the hardcore Nazi party propagandists that flooded the German republic with tales of the evils of the Jewish people.
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I cannot adequately express the level of disgust I have when viewing the never-ending parade of garbage that flows from these people. They do not like to be held accountable for their inflammatory rhetoric that directly influences other people to take actions that do lead to the injury and sometimes death of LGBTQ human beings. Every-time another Gay teenager or young adult takes his life or her life because of incessant bullying-the direct cause is the FRC and their ilk.
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The truth is that the only way to end this madness is to cut off the many heads of this creature, this modern day Hydra by eliminating their sources of revenue. The most effective way is precisely what the SPLC has done by exposing them for what they are- hate groups. Tony Perkins? Brian Brown? You folks want an apology? No, I think not. Rather I think that you two and your viperous organisations should be investigated for crimes against humanity although that's just wishful thinking.