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In reply to the discussion: Why are so many Christians so obsessed with homosexuality? [View all]Hydra
(14,459 posts)I call it, "Making the world smaller." They want everything easy to understand, predictable and exactly a certain way. Anything outside of that makes them confused, uncomfortable and scares them. It's one of the reasons they are anti-science.
I didn't really understand this until one of my co-workers I was friendly with spit out that she felt all the problems in America were coming out of Berkley. She felt that if we all acted the same, thought the same, and believed the same things, everything would be perfect.
Once I could see that point of view, everything else fell into place. The desire for a clear gender differentiation, all men to have short hair, "christian" or "family" values, no "sexual deviancy," no science to tell them that all of that is artificial.
They just want to be able to wake up in the morning, know exactly what they are seeing and doing, and to have someone reassuring in positions of power to tell them that they are going to be safe.
For those people, we are dismantling their "safe" world, tearing down their illusions and making them cope with things they would really rather not.
Being in just about every category they hate, it's hard for me to have sympathy for them...especially since they make people suffer to accomplish their aims of enforcing conformity. That said, I do pity them for being afraid to come out of their belief built cages to see the wider and more amazing universe.