And what's new here?
Churches used to burn people alive for heresy. Churches used to condemn the equal treatment of people other than white christian white men. Churches used to condemn the equal treatment of interracial couples. Heck, churches used to say that it was good to enslave other human beings so they could bring them closer to god.
The truth is every generation world churches will always find somebody to point fingers at and say "they're the enemy." It is now my belief that the true nature of religion is evil. Without doing something evil of some sort, somehow they feel insecured about their placement in heaven.
It's like "dude, we have to do something evil or god won't let us into heaven. We can start by burning witches. If they stop letting us do that, we can start enslaving other human beings. When people won't let us do that, we can start treating people of other races like crap. If they stop letting us do that, we can start condemning interracial marriages. If society moves on from there, we can always pick on the fags. As long as we do something evil, god will surely let us into heaven!"
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I'm willing to bet that the churches are secretly desperately trying to find extraterrestrial life, just in case society stop allowing them to pick on fags. Their plan is when that happens they can start saying "look, the aliens were created by the devil! Let us have another crusade and kill them all!!!" And what happens if people begin to think that aliens aren't the devil's children? Well, churches of the world will start building interdimensional ships so they can start mistreating beings that live in other dimensions.
So, in a way, we have the churches to thank for for our exploration. They are constantly in search of new people to bully.
This message has been edited by Resurrected Hector, 02-26-2005 15:35 AM