RE: Muslim Imam calls for Homosexual death 3 weeks before pulse nigh club shooting
June 30, 2016 at 5:16 pm
(This post was last modified: June 30, 2016 at 5:18 pm by Regina.)
(June 30, 2016 at 4:53 pm)Drich Wrote:Bishop, Pope, Priest, Deacon, the fuck does it matter? They're still representatives of The Church. And it doesn't invalidate anything I said. To think that Christianity is some benign "religion of peace" just because it's now (in the 20th and 21st Centuries) relatively less violent than Islam is jejune.(June 30, 2016 at 1:05 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: It's happened in the last month following Orlando. There were far-right Christians coming out the woodwoork all over the place to praise the attack. The day after Orlando, a white boy (presumably a Christian) was caught heading towards L.A Gay Pride with explosives and guns planning to blow it up.
Homosexuality has only become legalised in most Western countries within the last 60 years too. This has not happened because of The West's benign Christian religion, it's happened through secularism at the expense of Christian extremism (which is as barbaric, violent and abusive as Islamic fundamentalism). It's not that there are no longer Priests, Bishops and even candidates for The Papacy that believe homosexuality should be punishable by death, it's that they're not allowed to air those views in the 21st Century without an educated, rational, secular society charging them with hate speech. When the Muslim world eventually wakes up and does the same to their Imams and Islamic "scholars", their situation with human rights is going to improve too.
Bishops and popes moron bishops and popes...
As in when was the last time a bishop or pope (someone in leadership authority of a very large mass of religious followers) demanded the death or genocide of a specific group in the name of Jesus Christ?
And just because leaders of Christianity "only" oppose LGBT marriage instead of actively advocating for death as a punishment doesn't make them "progressive" either. It's not even just about gay people, we still have contemporary Popes and other leaders opposing abortion and womens' agency of their reproduction. Even if it's not "violent", that's a problem.
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