Fuck Uganda. Fuck Christianity. Fuck Islam.
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Republicans furiously taking notes.
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Shouldnât this be in âPoliticalâ?
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Fuck hatred.
Iâve seen lots of hateful Christians but also have seen some who I think are thoroughly good people. Itâs always a spectrum with the significantly religious. Lots who talk the talk but forget the âJudge not lest yeâ or the âthat you did for the least of my brothersâ or âLove one anotherâ.
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I expect The Book of Mormon to change their script
Moderating:
Yup. I just moved it.
John, please keep the politics in the poltical section.
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I hate it so bad!
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Note that there are Christian denominations that are extremely liberal, and have no issues with non-cisness.
Unfortunately, you canât find too many such folks in Africa between the Sahara and South Africa.
The Episcopal Church USA had several parishes and one diocese secede and reaffiliate with Anglican churches in sub-Saharan Africa in part because of their phobicness. Of course, Anglican churches in sub-Saharan Africa are making further schismy noises because they think Anglican churches elsewhere are becoming too liberal on such matters. 
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True, though the liberal churches I know tend to be borderline agnostic.
The more that people take religion seriously, the more they tend to be in uneducated, isolated, homogeneous, conservative, impoverished communities.
Wonder if that will change, or if it will just get more weird. Will Christianity be mostly African, the way that Islam is now. Will America be as secular as Europe is now? (And similarly conflicted with African immigrants). And will Rural America somewhere in between?
I know some very religious people who are wealthy and educated and hang out with a variety of other people. I donât think that blanket statements like âreligious people are uneducatedâ or âBlack people are poorâ tend to be very helpful.
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Helpful or not, are they factual? If yes, then thereâs no problem there. If anything, we can talk about why that is and how to solve it. The worst thing you can do is avoid talking about it, or worse, censor it.
I mean, obviously there are a lot of unhateful Christians.
I guess Iâm mostly wondering if some new sect will develop to allow for community or religiosity among progressives. And/or how churches in subsaharan africa and the bible belt will converge/diverge.
Sure, just not enough. And probably not even the majority worldwide.
And Christianity is probably the direct cause for some people being vehemently homophobic.
Thatâs what I thought when I was younger. But I have lived in different places and was surprised at the number of educated, intelligent people who were also quite religious. I still have a difficult time bridging the gap between these individualsâ logic and religion and my logic vs. religion thoughts.
When I was younger, I went to a top college and various progressive friends/girlfriends would invite me to their churches and I would pray with them. But I think theyâve all shifted away from Church, if not God. Now I donât know anyone who frequents church and takes God both seriously and literally, though I suppose that could just be my social circle shrinking.