It's election year, so religion and morality are big talk these days. There's some good talk. And then there are people who think that the election of a democrat will usher in the Last Days (in a bad way!!!). Doomsayers like this. To Mr. Kupelian and his probably numerous followers, liberalism is synonymous with sin.
But what sins? The best sins.
Mr. Kupelian lists the following, amongst others: homosexuality, tattoos, mainstream transsexualism, body-piercing, witchcraft, abortion.
Lets play make-believe for a minute and pretend that Mr. Kupelian's judgments are dead-on. God actually is pissed off by body piercing and homosexuality and God is right to be pissed off by these things. Here's what I still don't get: why are these conservative folks so bent out of shape about these "hedonistic" sins in particular?
Even if it is a sin to be gay, being gay can't be the worst sin. Even if you really hate the shit out of gayness, there's gotta be sins worse. No matter how much your religion hates gay sex, it must hate murder more. There's no two ways about it.
On the other hand, maybe the Mr. Kupelians of the world focus on gay-love and not murder because everyone already knows murder is wrong, but people are beginning to condone homosexuality. After all, 2% of our states (i.e., just Massachusetts) allows gay people to visit their partners after hours in the hospital. Maybe that is why such a disproportionate amount of lip-service is given to some sins that can't be the worst sins.
Still, there are tons of other sins that must be worse than homosexuality, that are given very little attention. There is a lot of discussion about why gays shouldn't be so goshdarn gay, but when was the last time you read one of these conservative-types railing against, I don't know, sex trafficking. Even if being gay is bad, dealing in sex slaves must be worser, right? But Mr. Kupelian probably doesn't write much about that. It's not even in one of his polemical sin-lists.
Some things Conservatives think are sins I can understand getting really bent out of shape about. If you really think abortion is murder, then it makes sense to get up in arms about Roe v. Wade.
But its hard to imagine that homosexuality, not to mention body piercing and tattoos, are up there with the worst.
Now, witchcraft, on the other hand, that's some scary shit.
This Kupelian guy has an irrational love for Reagan. Hum...could his anger stem from his unrequited sexual love for Reagan???
ReplyDeleteI think you already halfway understand why some nuts are railing against homosexuality, rather than murder or sex trafficking: because nobody in their communities is affirming (or even really condoning) those sins in a way that they find threatening.
ReplyDeleteBut what you're overlooking is that, in a spiritual sense (as opposed to in society), there are no varying levels of culpability. All sins are sins, and none are worse or better than others.
Of course, that's what makes it particularly ridiculous to rail against someone else's sins. Assuming that it's a sin to be gay, that sin is no better than murder, but it's also no worse than treating someone with contempt. So Kupelian is just as bad as those that he's judging as "sinners."