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Originally Posted by peter12
So you've changed. He is now a marginalized gay man tortured by a religious upbringing into perpetuating an incredibly cruel act against the very people who had openly accepted him into their arms?
Or is he a bigoted religious monster who saw two men kiss, and decided to act out his revenge?
Or is he a normal church goer with access to military-grade assault weapons who just woke up one morning, and decided to make a statement?
Or is he bi-polar? Did the religious imagery he had been exposed to become the twisted backdrop for his crime?
Or is he a simple jihadist - radicalized on the Internet - and motivated into making this massacre a political symbol for ISIS?
All of this is hypothetical. All of it is made-up. But everyone wants to stick to the ridiculously simple notion that 100 gay people were shot up in the worst mass shooting in US history because ... religious people hate gay people. How brutally simplistic is that. How terribly bigoted, and dumb. It does absolutely nothing but to divide, and destroy.
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All of your scenarios include the existence of a religious background pushing him in the direction of hate.
And no, no one has said all religious people hate gay people (at least not from what I've seen). But, specifically Islam and Christianity, have shown to perpetuate the idea that they are not welcome within their spiritual community. And both very much need reform in this regard (Christianity is further along in this regard IMO, but many of the followers still believe in such nonsense).