Bullcookies.

This is what religion ever was, will be, ever, twisting, turning, through the, never. When the entire proposition is based on halfwitted lies and outright fairy-tales, it has always been "damaging rhetoric" and the history of religion -- even in America since its founding -- is one of doom, gloom, hatred, bigotry, and intolerance.

And anyone who doesn't subscribe to fictions about a cruel, vain, capricious, genocidal rapist sky-wizard sees it.

Are you seriously saying Christianity promoting sexism homophobia, racism, and so forth is a new thing? 'cause if so, well... Tell me you know nothing about history, without telling me you know nothing about history. And seriously, study states south of the Mason-Dix from around 1780 to 1970.

No matter how many tools and fools spewing falsehoods use the WORDS love, tolerance, and enlightenment, all that's peddled from every pulpit is hatred, bigotry, and ignorance.

As I've often joked, everything I need to know about the fairy tale that sprang forth from the wellhead of Abraham, is that the character who gave us knowledge and punishes the wicked is portrayed as the villain. Whilst we're supposed to be on hour knees offering never-ending praise to a inconsiderate, abusive, torturous, mass murdering psychopath... and the child abusing pedophilic fear-mongering whackjobs claiming to represent them.