Quote Originally Posted by Punish_her View Post
Thank you for bringing this up. This is one of the most infuriating things I've found about anti-religious people.
I'm not religious, but it is completely unfair to take one example and say "see how bad religion is!!??"
saying this reflects the average christian's mentaility is a crock of shit. has violence been done in the name of God? yes, in the name of Allah? yes, in the name of Yahweh? yes. Has it been done by staunchly anti-religious people? of course, but nobody says that because Mao, Stalin, and Hitler didn'tgo to church every nonbeliever is a psychopath. Even emongst animal rights groups you'll find violent, intolerant extremists
You certainly have a point in that, to the best of my knowledge, homosexuals are persecuted in Cuba.

But on the other hand, right now the pope is going great guns with tageting gay people, even to blaming nuns for taking care of the need and poor, instead of blaming gays for being gays.

"Her group was also cited in the Vatican document, along with the Leadership Conference, for focusing its work too much on poverty and economic injustice, while keeping “silent” on abortion and same-sex marriage"

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/us...roup.html?_r=2


Pope: Same-Sex Marriage Threatens “Humanity Itself”
http://www.care2.com/causes/pope-sam...ty-itself.html

Pope: Gay Marriage is ‘Insidious and Dangerous’
http://www.care2.com/causes/the-pope...dangerous.html

Hurricane Katrina: Divine Retribution Against Gays? Pope Doesn’t Object.

Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/hurrican...#ixzz1uDyr1iKV

Pope Tells US Bishops to Fight Gay Marriage, Cohabitation

Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/pope-tel...#ixzz1uDzVKdku


It is clearly the fundamentalist religious making all the trouble - but they do make themselves heard, not least now.

David Trosch : "Sodomy is a graver sin than murder.

Fred Phelps (Westboro Baptist Church)

"If you got to castrate your miserable self with a piece of rusty barb wire, do it."

"Hear the word of the LORD, America, fag-enablers are worse than the fags themselves, and will be punished in the everlasting lake of fire!"

"You telling these miserable, Hell-bound, bath house-wallowing, anal-copulating fags that God loves them!? You have bats in the belfry!"

"American Veterans are to blame for the fag takeover of this nation. They have the power in their political lobby to influence the zeitgeist, get the fags out of the military, and back in the closet where they belong!"

"Not only is homosexuality a sin, but anyone who supports fags is just as guilty as they are. You are both worthy of death."


Gary Potter (Catholics for Christian Political Action)
"When the Christian majority takes over this country, there will be no satanic churches, no more free distribution of pornography, no more talk of rights for homosexuals. After the Christian majority takes control, pluralism will be seen as immoral and evil and the state will not permit anybody the right to practice evil."


Jerry Falwell (1933 - 2007)

"AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharoah's chariotters."

"AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals."

And so on and so forth.