yall will straight up do absolutely zero research on something but be against it with your soul because it's the "progressive thing to do". damn shame. I promise a book will do miracles for some of yall.

all Imma say is….. the holy crusades

Westboro Baptist Church-

white radicalized Christian men shooting and killing multiple people in mosques and temples….

but they have nothing in common, right?
Legislators using biblical passages to promote slavery as a right? Ok 👍

ushistory.org/us/27f.asp

I don't think religion's bad but the connection between religious fundamentalism and anti-LGBT sentiment is pretty obvious, this article focuses specifically on anti-trans campaigners but there are a lot of people who see the idea of pushing back against LGBT acceptance as desirable because they percieve it as God's will

vice.com/en/article/7kxpky/leaked-emails-reveal-an-anti-trans-holy-war

dawg the nigga is trolling dont even bother

Argument is weird bro. People been queer forever from all types of cultures.

Like they’re using “indigenous” people as a mascot basically? I usually hear this from white hippies talking about african or native american tribes. Just rubs me the wrong way.

what he is trying to say is that civilizations and societies all over the world had gay people, trans people, non binary people etc. until europeans came over with Christianity that typically condemns homosexuality, and essentially assimilated those cultures to their morals and ideological framework

he isnt blaming indigenous people, he is saying that their homophobia isnt native to their culture, it was imported

he is mentioning that people were queer from all diff backgrounds to support the argument that being gay or some strain of LGBT+ isnt new, and not a part of some liberal gay agenda

buddy.. you're gonna lose your mind the day you have to accept religion isn't just some cult of people that are strictly following it in order to oppress and harm other individuals lol, that's all I got to say to you atp

"from anti-trans lobbyists and state lawmakers"
"because they percieve it as God's will".

I already addressed this. If your disdain comes from politicians using religion manipulatively to their benefit then there's no convincing you otherwise. I know you're not dense enough to believe the average person you meet feels that way... and yes, the average person you meet is religious.

good thread

particularly after the 1960s decolonization movements, it was the american evangelicals that started to make inroads to africa and other developing regions and they were supported by the “moral majority” GOP base of the time

i would like to say that things like homophobia, patriarchy, etc. are not purely western exports as sometimes it did exist within pre-colonial cultures but it was undeniably boosted by the west in its own image

burn this whole thread

I don't have disdain towards religion, nor do I think the average person is using it as a hateful cudgel, but I do think that there are hateful people in the world who are sincerely motivated by their interpretation of their religion, some people say 'People would have carried out those violent acts/held those hateful beliefs regardless', but I think that's a cop-out, you don't have to look far, particularly on the internet, to find people who want to limit people's rights because they genuinely believe it's what God wants

This might be a dumb and basic question but what did the west get out of exporting evangelical Christianity over there? And what do right wing American groups get out of sending 10s of millions of dollars to African nations to spread Christianity? Obviously them spreading and sewing seeds of right wing and oppressive evangelicalism is in their wheelhouse but what is it about that happening in Africa that benefits them?

(It sounds like I’m denying that this is happening by asking, I’m 100% not lmfao. I just would like to better understand the wests motive in doing this because I’m sure it wasn’t entirely philanthropic no matter how much the optics are ‘spreading faith’. I’m just having trouble finding the realistic reasoning)

dude no one is saying that religion is inherently bad or evil

What I am saying to you is historically using religion to solve the worlds problems has only created more problems than it started with

I grew up in church, I’m not talking from a place of 0 experience lol

Homophobia is the stupidest thing humanity has ever come up with

Imagine hating someone just cause they have a type lol

How did we even make it so far as a species with this type of critical thinking

there’s like 15 unique varieties of stupidity itt. Truly a marvel

(queers)

proving them pro choice niggas right tbh

F*** Uganda

It’s neck & neck with racism

I was just reading about sexuality in the Roman Empire. They didn’t have concepts of h****and heterosexuality. Alpha men f***ed both genders at will. Women and receiving men were betas. It was an alpha beta system not a straight gay system. Would have sucked to be a beta and have some alpha come f*** your face whenever he wanted

But yea no concept of gay. Men were expected to f*** men,

"Would have sucked to be a beta and have some alpha come f*** your face whenever he wanted"

yo son