While religion can bring comfort to some, it can bring fear to others. Imagine being a person who is dying and believes they are going to hell. I don't imagine they find such comfort in their religion. Especially someone who's only 'sin' is something like being gay, or having 'bad thoughts'. Sure, a lot of people (even those who are despicable, like Jerry Falwell Jr.) believe they are going to heaven, even if by their religion they wouldn't be. But not every religious person has that confidence. (Often because other people, like Jerry Fallwell Jr, convince them they are broken)
I wouldn't take faith away from someone who is dying and finds comfort in it, but I also wouldn't let it be used to harm other people who are alive.
I wouldn't take faith away from someone who is dying and finds comfort in it, but I also wouldn't let it be used to harm other people who are alive.
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to woman is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
