God forgive Christians, for no one else will.

I have been reading the gay news again (something not good for my blood pressure), and I have to say that I have not been surprised at all. These are some of the headlines:

Illinois diocese ends adoptions over gay rights law

U.S. house passes 3 anti-gay amendments

Schools adopt “don’t say gay” policies

Police in Granada arrest man for having gay sex

Brazilian leader suspends anti-homophobia campaign

Assault on Oregon gay couple “could” be a hate crime

Tennessee governor signs anti-gay law

And many more, ad nauseum, just in the last week.

So, I was thinking about all of this and I decided to get the bottom of all the hate against homosexuals, otherwise known as “gays” (by the way, gay is an adjective and not a noun, so “gays” is not correct; it should be” gay men”, “gay woman”, “gay dogs”, “gay rain”, whatever), “fags” (which, according to Merriam Webster, means “to work hard, to tire by strenuous activity; I know, being gay is a lot of work!), “fairy” (who would not want to be magical?), or many other pejorative names in many languages.

I speak three languages and I think I know more insulting names for gay people than how to properly conjugate verbs in the imperfect tense.

I looked up the word homophobia in the Merriam-Webster dictionary and this is what I found:

Homophobia

: Irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals

If you look closely at the definition, it does not say “the fear of”; it says “the irrational fear of”. Now if we look at the definition of “irrational” by the same dictionary, it says:

: not rational: as a (1): not endowed with reason or understanding (2): lacking usual or normal mental clarity or coherence b: not governed by or according to reason <irrational fears>

 So, if we follow this definition of “irrational”, and combine the two definitions, it would seem that homophobic people are not endowed with reason or understanding, are lacking usual or normal mental clarity or coherence, and to top it off, they are not governed by reason.

Well, this clears it up very well for me.

I think the Catholic Church had it right when they wanted only priests to be able to read the bible in Latin. But of course, Martin Luther had to stick his big nose in papal affairs and translate the bible in to the common language (german at the time) so that any lack wit, idiot, moron (Mormon), and your bigot neighbour next door, could interpret the word of god for themselves. So now, basically anyone could become an interpreter of scripture. Thanks Martin.

I just wish that these religious slaves would read up on history and realize that all of their religious holidays (as well as gospels deemed appropriate for the political atmosphere at the time) were decided upon the First Council of Nicaea with Emperor Constantine, and that it was pure politics in order to gain the support of the so called pagans of the time.

But I digress. It amazes me today how sooo many people can hear a fire and brimstone speech condemning everyone to hell unless you’re a Christian, and actually believe it. Yet these same people, who supposedly believe in the word of Christ, are the first to spit hatred at gay people, non Christians, and anyone who happens to live outside of their very small, very narrow universe.

If I were Christ, and I had died on some mythical cross to make human kind better, and I had asked my BFF Peter to spread my word of tolerance, I would be so pissed at him. I would be saying: WTF went wrong? I leave you to make a better world and you did what??? I taught tolerance and acceptance, and you created a church in MY NAME that tortured and killed people in MY NAME, and still propagates hate over 2000 years later??? WTF where you thinking? If I were the CEO you would be fired.

I think that if rapture was to come (sorry Harold Camping, didn’t happen), and I was the pope, I would be shitting on the papal throne, because if Jesus ever came back, there is no way in heaven I could explain the centuries of abuse and intolerance.

And if I were a Christian, I would be shitting my pants for supporting the same abuse and intolerance. I would not be able to face his forgiving smile, and especially not his forgiving frown.

I would finish this little tirade with “think about it”, but then I realize that Christians, by past proven experience, are incapable of independent thought.

As my mother would pragmatically say, “Oh well”.