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Jan 22, 2007
Quickie Link: Using Religion to Justify Discrimination: The Ungodly Work of Rev. Don Wildmon in America and Archbishop Peter Akinola in Nigeria
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By vanrozenheim
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The tale is an old one. Throughout history some of the most evil humans have used religion to justify their actions. “I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord,” wrote Adolph Hitler in Mein Kampf. Substitute “homosexuals” for “the Jew” and you have the theofascism advocated by Wildmon and Akinola. People who pervert and use religion for their own evil purposes will probably always exist. But what is it about the dogma of organized religion that compels so many otherwise sane, humanistic people to abandon reason and common sense and embrace hate and discrimination at the bidding of “religious leaders”?
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