ON THE NOSE – PART 4
And so it
continues. Every time evidence appears that contradicts or discredits a claim
from the ‘no’ extremists, they dismiss it as “fake news”, the catch-cry of the
intellectually stunted claiming their ignorance is worth far more than any
actual knowledge on a topic. They defame and insult their victims to discredit
and vilify them, selectively use news reports and ‘research papers’, make unsubstantiated
assumptions, and if the evidence contradicts them and cannot be denied, they
make excuses for the behaviour and blame their victims even as they accuse
their rivals of the very same things they do.
There is rarely any
real argument or evidence to support their opinions. And all the while they
insist their rivals “respect” and be “grateful”, and limit their campaign to
places and methods where none can hear or see it while their own faction uses
every public avenue to spread their vile message of hateful fascism. It’s the
kind of behaviour normally found in thugs that inflict child abusers and
domestic violence: defamation, disassociation, projection, victim-blaming,
intimidation and justification.
One of the most idiotic
remarks (and there are so many to choose from) made by ‘no’ extremists is that
LGBT people need to remain silent and ask for permission to marry. Ask who?
Clearly the answer to that will be anybody who will tell them ‘no’. The
affected submissive is then required to go away, respect the answer, and be
grateful. Really? How has this worked out for LGBT people in the past? For
black people and women wanting equality and tired of the discrimination and
persecution? And then the ‘no’ faction is somehow offended and being ‘attacked’
when their victims get frustrated, angry, and protest.
All this from too
many ‘no’ voters claiming they are ‘Christians’. How did we get here? How did
they become Pharisees? How are they able to focus on the few indirect references
to homosexuality in the New Testament and ignore the other sins and rules to
demand those same rules they don’t follow be imposed on people outside the
Church, along with selected chunks of the Old Testament? Why are they defying
Christ and still claiming to be righteous? Why are they claiming they are real
Christians and those who rebuke them - with evidence of what Christ instructed
– are not?
This is not a
debate on religion. Still, to move forward, let’s have a look at it. Christians
do not follow the Old Testament. If you want to apply part of it to justify
persecuting the LGBT community and, in some cases support the vile demands gay
people be stoned to death, then you have to support the idea of stoning women
and children (even your own) too if they are accused of adultery or defy you.
You know, the kind of thing Islamic extremists do that those same Christians
insist is evil.
One of the best
places to start is 1 Corinthians 5 and 6. Problem is, it is listed with a whole
slew of other sins that most Christians have committed, and too often continue
to commit, yet none of these attracts the kind of discrimination, defamation,
hatred and persecution as homosexuality, which (according to Christ, was a form
of adultery, like divorce) isn’t even listed. And all of those people can still
marry. How are the puritans able to cherry-pick rules and justify these
hypocritical behaviours?
Didn’t Peter, Paul,
James, and even Christ himself warn against this behaviour? Matthew 7: 1-12
where Christ warned against hypocrisy. Matthew 23 where he railed against the
corruption of the then Church, conditions which are just as prevalent in the
Christian Churches today. John 8: 1-11, where he warned of judging others and
yet too many ‘Christians’ insist he only spoke to the woman, not to everyone
when he had spoken those words, and hypocritically use it to justify their persecution
of others!
2 Corinthians 11:
1-15 and 2 Thessalonians 3: 6-15 both warn of false prophets claiming to be
righteous yet leading people astray with twisted ideologies. The entire book of
James. 1 Corinthians 1: 10-17 warns of divisions in the Church over
interpretations. Didn’t Paul say “What business is it of mine to judge those
outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? God will judge
those outside. “Expel the wicked person from among you”?” Yet here we are, with
hypocrites remaining in the Church, judging those outside, and ostracising
those within who dare to question the hypocrisy.
And what has this
behaviour accomplished within the Churches? The attacks on those who supported
protests against the inequality imposed on women, the black community,
Hispanics, LGBT community, and anything inflicted by Trump and other right-wing
fascism, are all the same. They claim disobedience to Church rules and
inevitable social collapse despite the obvious hypocrisy and lack of evidence.
But worse, they have emptied the Churches.
The Churches are so
out of touch with their fundamental ideologies they have alienated young people
and those seeking hope. Too many are ruled with the iron fist of hypocrites and
bullies, false prophets who violate the very rules they preach and spin lies to
satisfy their own desires, and this behaviour taints the rest. Revelations of
decades of child abuse, domestic violence and paedophilia are compounded by the
efforts to deny, disassociate and project these evils onto others outside the
Churches.
In their efforts to
tighten their grip on power, as they unleash the very opposite of Christ’s
teaching to win this battle against those who would dare challenge their power
to impose their religious rules as State Laws, the Church has lost the war. In
their final death spasms, these hypocrites have damned all of Christianity by
engaging as an unarmed foe in a battle of wits, a war of attrition using alliances
formed with other rivals to adopt a scorched earth policy that will cause harm
for generations to come.
The Christian
Churches will reap what they sow. Few of them will survive. Only those who have
thrown their support behind equality, even as they maintain their disapproval
of all sin, because Christ preached both. One does not negate the other. Should
the ACL and its sycophants repent, it will still be difficult to recover what
they have lost, if they even can at all. Despite the claims from those opposed
to Marriage Equality, the devil is not in the detail, it is in the souls of
those hell-bent on inflicting injustice.
It was
supposed to be a simple vote about allowing same sex couples to marry so they
could benefit from the same legal rights as hetero-sexual couples. The ‘no’
campaign, amid all the personal attacks, diversions, defamation, insults,
bigotry, ignorance, hypocrisy, and general demands and dishonesty used to
silence the ‘yes’ campaign, have claimed a civil-ceremony grants this. It does
not. The ‘no’ faction insists a simple Will and Power of Attorney grants this.
It does not.
In fact,
these are time consuming, expensive, confusing, and open to all manner of legal
challenges that can be avoided by people who are married. Somehow, this
devolves the act of marriage to a money grab, and dismisses concerns over who
has the decision and responsibility of carrying out final wishes and custody
for the care of any children. LGBT people are suddenly all about the money.
Heterosexual couples who already have these rights, on the other hand, are all
about just the love, although divorce rates and legal disputes over children,
assets and alimony would suggest otherwise.
Marriage,
according to most religions (including Christians), is about two people and
some spiritual link. Nobody else may break the links of, or enter, that
triangle. When they marry, the couple are no longer beholden to their parents.
When they have children, those children are raised within that triangle until
they are adults. Yet here are ‘Christians’ and other self-righteous arseholes
inserting themselves into the relationships of people they do not know, telling
them what to do, obsessing over the lives and sex-lives of others as if it is
their right! Wtf is that?!
As it is, we look
at the very worst extremists, Islamic fundamentalists (who are an embarrassment
to other Muslims just as the ACL is to Christians) and those who spew hate and
bigotry at people who believe in any religion, and cannot tell them apart
because they are no different to every other freelance dickhead who feels
compelled to interfere in the lives of, and inflict themselves upon, others. The claim that sexual orientation is a choice
is idiotic and has been disproven by science, yet the megalomaniacal,
obsessive, fascist behaviour of the mentally ill ‘no’ extremists doesn’t even
rate a mention.
When Tony
Abbott and his lunatic followers demanded Macklemore be banned from performing
at the NRL Grand Final, even from the country, the popularity of his music
increased. George Brandis said the demand was “bizarre” and “I thought Mr
Abbott believed in freedom of speech”. Since when?! Only if it is his own or
supports his opinion. And that kind of idiot thinking hasn’t just seen an
exodus from the Churches. Have a look at the fall of the television networks Ten,
Nine and Seven.
All three
have made serious errors in judgement. They pushed fascist ideologies under the
likes of Bolt and Newman, or allowed sexual predators to violate women or
children. In the case of Seven, these vile behaviours were concealed and
enabled while the victims were fired, silenced, defaming and vilified. It’s the
same thing in the US with networks owned and run by the same people. They have
all suffered huge financial loses and haemorrhaged viewers because their
behaviour is out of touch with society.
In response,
rather than adapting to the market, those networks have doubled-down in typical
Trump style to force their fascist ideologies on the public, incorporating an
attack on the ABC (and even SBS) with accusations their reports are subjective
and favour the left. The evidence has demonstrated this to be a lie. The
majority of the public are smart enough to know this and have responded by
seeking out the ABC or other forms of media for consumption.
People are
tired of hearing all the fear inspired hate designed to manipulate us to help
desperate, greedy, scared little bullies hold onto their power over others for
just a little longer. People are tired of being told they have to sacrifice
people they care about by denying them the dignity of the very same rights
bullies are terrified of losing because the disadvantaged and minorities aren’t
‘normal’, only the ‘normalised’ behaviour of acting like a bunch of spoiled
pricks is… but the age of the dinosaurs is over, no matter how they gnash their
teeth, stamp about, bellow and bully others in their death throws.
Yet here we
are, with some of those dinosaurs desperately trying to drag down everybody
else into the tar-pits and barren, blasted wasteland that heralds their demise.
They continue to use the same, tired, vile tactics, hypocritically projecting
their own worst flaws onto their victims to blame them for all the problems. A
half-wit calling itself Wayne Robinson commented on social media that “We have
seen the yes campaign people actually Get nasty and attacked people on the nose
side” and from there the rest of his comment went from barely literate to
outright stupid.
Once you
untangle the scatter-shot approach to spelling, grammar and common sense of
that barely literate rant, you realise that the ‘no’ campaign thinks the way it
does because it is founded upon the support of far too many ignorant people…
who are getting a vote on what people they don’t even know can do with their
lives. But you still can’t help but agree with the unintended message within
the idiocy of his comment: the violence and bad behaviour over this issue really
is on the nose.
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