I've argued a number of times that the reason the Christofascists hate gays so much and would happily see us exterminated - or at least "cured" is because we threaten their fantasy world based on an all too fallible Bible. How so? Because, if the Bible is wrong about gays and homosexuality, then the entire house of cards begins to collapse and for those with a sick psychological need for certainty and the ability to feel superior to others this prospect is simply terrifying. A post at SBC Voices highlights this reality:
What we cannot do, without sacrificing everything we believe in, is say that their sin [homosexuality] is not sin. . . . . The Bible is clear that homosexuality is sinful. We cannot, without denying everything we are, accept homosexuality as okay.
In the next breath, the author then leaps in to persecution complex mode and whines that Chrisofascists are becoming an oppressed minority:
"But our world is not satisfied with this. It demands that we not only love and accept homosexuals as human beings, but that we approve of their behavior. So, we are now becoming an oppressed minority. "
This is a free speech issue. Are Christians, who stand against the views of now-majority culture going to be allowed to speak our minds? Or will New McCarthyism . . . . try to intimidate us into silence?
It's stunning to see the admission that merely accepting gays as human beings is a threat to these self-centered psychologically insecure people. In the upside down world of the Christofascists, the one doing the victimizing always becomes the victim.
Further illustrating the mindset of these people is one comment that implies that they wish Joesph McCarthy's reign of terror on liberals had been more successful:
"Not to take us very far off topic (seeing as it is in the title) but consider that if McCarthy was able to be successful in his attempts to permanently rid this country of Communist/socialist influence, we very well may not be in this position we are today, given that it is the socialist/communist leaning electorate in this country that are advocating the most for pro-homosexual, anti-Christian views today.
These are indeed scary people. As science disproves more and more of the Bible and more and more Americans walk away from the Christofascists' toxic form of religion we can expect them to become ever more strident and potentially violent. We are not talking about rational people.
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One of the laughable aspects of them calling themselves Christians is the fact that Christ despised these kinds of people. He was a friend to the downtrodden, not to the oppressor.
I was raised Catholic but find that I have very little use for church doctrine, or the bible for that matter.
These are scary individuals indeed. They remind me far more of Hitler and his ilk than Christ.
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