http://www.godhatesfags.com/main/
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/politics/14034756.htm
Considerations of common decency and the total penis-headedness of protesting at a funerals aside for the moment, the philosophy behind these protests got me thinking. They claim that soldiers are dying in Iraq because of US "tolerance" of homosexuality, and not because they are fighting in a war. I realize the peerless Rev. Phelps by no means represents the majority of Christians (or, rather, his methods don't), but he does provide a good, if extreme, example of a phemomenon that seems to pervade religious communities.
My question is this: Why do you think certain people cling so desperately to ideology that places accountability and morality and definitions of "bad" and "good" outside themselves? Or: Why do ideas of "right" and "wrong" need to come from some Other Outside Force and not us or the world we live in?
2006-06-05
13:26:55
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