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Lot’s of peace and love below, right? If they’re all so concerned with love, why do so many performative prayers and Jesus people promote a rabid bronze age hatred, with concomitant violence to back it up, of what other people do in their private beds?

“Take for example the new legislation that’s just been passed in Uganda, which introduces the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality”. It’s the culmination of almost 2 decades of campaigning by an organisation called International House of Prayer. They are an organisation (American…obviously) that believes the power of prayer can change the real world through prayer.”

-From another substack:

https://malcolmrichardclark.substack.com/p/has-humza-set-off-a-prayer-bomb?utm_medium=reader2

This is why secular society dislikes and is disgusted with aspects of religious subcultures. Repeating Old Testament bible quotes that promote an old storm god’s apparent derision of many classes of peoples human rights?

Yahweh was a derivation of an angry lightning/thunder god, more interested in punishment than love, who had a wife/consort, as most old gods did, so not even originally a monotheistic figurehead, certainly not of a love-based religion.

It doesn’t mesh with what ‘the Christians’ keep saying Jesus stood to say, so why fixate on them? Because he was Jewish and said something like ‘keep to the old laws’?

Surely, hatred and adherence to the irrational demands of a heteronormative war god weren’t included? Making movies about Jesus or compassionate pastors won’t protect the homosexuals, or the people who support them, of Uganda or any other country, not from many of Jesus’s followers.

If bible quoting Christians are so tired of being depicted in Hollywood as evil, how about campaigning against the Christian groups who promote violence and intolerance, instead of complaining about their image?

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