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In reply to the discussion: When did so many (not all) "christians" become hateful psychopaths? [View all]Occulus
(20,599 posts)denied me full and equal status under the law, called HIV "God's disease", made me afraid even to hold my lover's (NOT husband's, because of your religion) hand in public no matter where we might be at the time, forced me to live a lie for the first 19 years of my life, and forced me into "passing" for straight out of sheer self-preservation,
[font size="3"]If your religion had not, in a word, treated me like dead dogshit all my life,[/font]
I would never, ever have had cause to write any of what I have on this thread.
Note that I am NOT an atheist. I am an agnostic antichristian. Because of how your religion has treated me.
The only difference between then and now ("then" being when I very foolishly tolerated christianity) is that I'm just accepted enough in society now that I'm not afraid of being beaten or even killed, by christians and christians specifically and only, for speaking out. Your religion did not give me that- I and people like me took that acceptance, took our basic human dignity, in spite of your religion.
Please note that I have not ever been in fear of the same treatment christianity dishes out to me and those like me from Jews, Muslims, Bhuddists, Wiccans, or in fact any other religion practiced in the US. It is christianity and christians, and only christianity and christians, that have had the unmitigated gall, the lack of basic human decency, the lack of any semblance of morality, to commit this assault, to write that law, to condemn those HIV patients.
There is no reason, none at all, for me to continue pretending your religion is not a mortal enemy to me in every sense of the word. I have every reason to oppose your religion and all of its works, and I'm not going to be silent about it ever again.