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In reply to the discussion: What do DUers that defend mocking religious beliefs think of these pictures? [View all]Zorra
(27,670 posts)of the way I was born. It continues to harm me every day of my life.
I'm female, and LGBT. Yesterday, the highest court, in the greatest country empire the world has ever seen, agreed to decide if it was legal for me to marry the person I love. How utterly insulting. And it's basically all because many religious people believe in an old superstition that tells them that I am evil because of the way I was born, and that I should not have rights and respect that are equal to theirs. So they are allowed, and have been allowed, to vote on legislation designed that prevents me from being equal to them under the law.
How ignorant, and dehumanizing, and insulting, is that? I can't help but see many religions as a vehicle for mean, ignorant people to justify and manifest their hatred for others, and their need to control others who differ from them in some way.
Religion based cultural mores have institutionalized the dehumanization of women and LGBT in almost every society on the planet.
I don't care what anyone believes, as long as it does not lead them to cause harm to others in any way. I don't deny the existence of an omniscient, omnipotent entity. I don't deny that there is an essentially correct, ethical and moral way for human beings to conduct their lives in a way that will result in their greatest happiness and satisfaction.
I do deny the rights of demented religions and religious leaders and their followers to use the law as a weapon to cause innocent people to suffer.
Rational people develop contempt for religions and the followers of those religions, when they see them using superstition based falsehoods to deceive themselves and others into causing harm and destruction to innocent people and the planet itself.
