RE: Another reason I agree with Hitchens.
May 1, 2015 at 1:37 pm
(This post was last modified: May 1, 2015 at 1:38 pm by Regina.)
Yes because homosexuality is the only "deathworthy" crime the bible mentions. They love just picking this one particular sin out.
Also I find that even when someone who is not religious is homophobic, it still comes from the inherent culture around them. It's a legacy of religion, like a psychological imprint that lingers even after the religion dies. It's also why misogyny still exists in the West despite religion losing it's grip. We inherit these mindsets from religion.
Also I disagree with the idea that pre-Christian society was homophobic, despite the need to procreate. In cultures across every region of the world, you find a general tolerance and passiveness about homosexuality before The Abrahamic religions appear on the scene. The Greeks, Romans, Vikings, Celts, Egyptians, Middle Eastern cultures, East Asian cultures, pre-Columbian American cultures, all these people accepted it before the Bible was thumped over their heads. There's more than enough straight people to procreate to make up for the relatively small amount of gay people, and there always has been.
Also I find that even when someone who is not religious is homophobic, it still comes from the inherent culture around them. It's a legacy of religion, like a psychological imprint that lingers even after the religion dies. It's also why misogyny still exists in the West despite religion losing it's grip. We inherit these mindsets from religion.
Also I disagree with the idea that pre-Christian society was homophobic, despite the need to procreate. In cultures across every region of the world, you find a general tolerance and passiveness about homosexuality before The Abrahamic religions appear on the scene. The Greeks, Romans, Vikings, Celts, Egyptians, Middle Eastern cultures, East Asian cultures, pre-Columbian American cultures, all these people accepted it before the Bible was thumped over their heads. There's more than enough straight people to procreate to make up for the relatively small amount of gay people, and there always has been.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
