Pray Away the Gay

[Chido-Wan Kenobi]

Really? We are now going to discuss issues accepting arguments based on a collection of myths and superstitions, supposedly dictated to a bunch of ignorant sheep herders by a fictitious man in the sky?

This is so stupid! Any of us could write our own Great Book, fill it with made-up nonsense and then claim that it is a perfectly valid reference to be used in a serious argument. The tactic is both very old and uncomfortably new (remember Ron Hubbard?)

Let me be clear about the way I feel about it: I believe that the Bible is an absolutely useless book. It would be useless in either of two situations:

a) God does not exist - some clever guy invented him/her, in order to make a living out of talking bullshit, instead of doing real work. In this case, clearly the Bible is useless.

b) God does exist (for the record, I don't think so). If he/she exists, the illiterate tribesmen who tried to put down his ideas in words just couldn't do it. Try this: explain how a reverse mortgage works, to a member of one of those tribes recently discovered in the upper Amazon river, and then ask him to explain it back to you. The result will be incomprehensible goobledygook, right? This would explain the severe inconsistencies about gays reported above. And don't even get me started about "they should be put to death"? This would mean that the Laws in 99% of the Countries in the World would actually - and legally - defy God? OMFG?!!!!!

So, at the risk of being rude to those Theists that are trying to prove whatever stupid point they have regarding gays: sorry... Your arguments are baseless, your ideas are wrong, some 7% of all mankind is gay, they are not going away and the Pope wears a dress.