Why do we hate things? What is it about humans that gives us that capacity? I can rationalize the reasons, of course. It's because of upbring, or lack of education, or more importantly fear. To me, being afraid of something is the weakest of all postions in life. What do you fear? I suppose this is a fitting question on Halloween...
Courage is understanding fear and overcoming it. When I was a kid I was terrified of rollercoasters. Well lots of stuff actually... The point is after I rode a few I fell in love. Couldn't get enough of 'em. That's the way with most things. Once you get to know something, you enjoy it or at least you begin to understand it.
The whole point of this story would be the story about the school administrator who made some very off color comments about gay students. What makes a person feel that way. What is it in his head that makes him feel like its ok to say that gay students should get AIDS and die. Can it really be a lack of education... fear... all of the above. It would be easy to rail on this guy. Break him down and turn on him the way he attacked his students. I don't want to be any thing like that guy. Those are the kinds of things that Klan members say.
God doesn't pick and chose His kids. He doesn't love one group more than another. He loves all of us unconditionally. I wonder what that administrator would do if his son or daughter told him they were gay? Would he condemn them with AIDS? Would he wish that on his brother, sister, father, or mother? And to those who would say that homosexuality is a sin... To quote your referance source "For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God." Moreover, "the punishment for sin is death". That means according to the book so many use to condemn others would condemn us all. This is not the time or the place for deep philisophical debates, suffice it to say according to most religious types we are all going to be punished for sin. If the gay man has to burn in Hell for being gay the you, me, and everyone else are just as damned. Luckly for you and me the good Lord I was taught about loved us enough to send us a way out.
We cannot understand what we fear. And we will always destroy what we fear. We have destroyed beautiful and wonderful things because we do not understand them. The Romans did it. The French did it. The British did it. The Americans did it. Even the terrorists on 9/11 did it.
I can understand why sometimes we behave this way. Its easy. And we, as a species, are inherently lazy. Like all primates, we want to take the easy way out. However, one of the things that seperates us from the animals would be our ability to work to make our world better, for everyone.
If left up to bigots, racists, sexists, and fear mongers there won't be anybody left anywhere. Regardless of what those kind of people fear, even if they get rid of it they will find something else to hate. So, to all you haters out there, the first step should be to learn a little more about what your afraid of. And if you can't do that, expect to spend the rest of eternity in the smoking section...
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