Oh no, I don't deny it's used as a tool for opression and discrimination againt LGBT folk. I'm disagreeing with this statement "There is an obvious correlation between religious observance and right-wing politics". I mean just look at Europe, religious observance is going down year on year in many if not most European countries, yet the far right parties are winning elections left and right. If religious observance and right-wing politics were correlative we would thus expect to see more progressive voices take the reins over time, but we see the opposite.
If there was truly a correlation between religious observance and right-wing we would expect the most atheist countries to be the most progressive, yet I wouldn't call China or North Korea progressive or LGBT friendly.
Maybe we’re talking at cross purposes. The Catholic Church, which has dwindling support in some countries, nonetheless fights against rights for LGBT people tooth and nail, every time. That has an adverse effect on us, but it doesn’t stop all gay Catholics from continuing to practise their religion.
The Catholic Church is an enormous cultural web. Fascinating, as long as you let your conscience be your guide. When I was 14 I pondered becoming a priest for all of ten minutes, then spent a whole afternoon wondering what it would be like to be a simple Franciscan monk working with the poor. Of course I was never anywhere good enough for that.
There's a big difference between atheist nations as a matter of personal belief, and and state sponsored atheism.
Communist/Socialist/Fascist governments typical remove spiritual religions, adopt a state religion based in nationalism/government/or the leader. (I.e. Nazi ideology of Arian purity, CCP sponsored Buddhism, North Korea cult of personality around the Kims.)
In the void of power is anarchy and a power grab, in the void of organized religion are personality cults, bastardized religions, and government sponsored nationalism.
You write in English perfectly well, Olarista, but it’s not something to worry about. Portuguese was a language used here occasionally in earlier days because one of our officers was from Brazil. In real life I live in Spain and people have to listen to my less-than-perfect Spanish.
Thanks for the compliment! Very cool to know that there was a Brazilian here. Spanish is difficult for me to understand when speaking orally, but in writing I can understand it well.
I am not going to deal with this individual Gay Pope/Protestant Pope any more. His telegrams to me are the problem. I don’t want to waste any more time on this.
The most popular leadership age group is 25 to 34 years old with 6 votes, but there are 11 votes for the various age groups of people over 55 (some old enough to remember the Pyramids). There were 23 votes in all, a good turnout.
Why was Gay Pope banished? It was a continuation of the Liberfreedomia drama. I’ve un-suppressed those posts from last month to keep everything in the open.
There was a torrent of telegrams from him yesterday. It’s all been settled and I wish him well. I asked Union of Christian Nations to get involved, which reluctantly they did. These unpleasant experiences on the internet don’t happen to me often, but boy, can they spoil your day.
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