I appreciate your journey towards understanding the nuance of religion but as a trans woman this was just a waffle of an article. There will always be good people that interpret religion in their own way and act positively towards the lgbtq+ community. But they are by far the minority.
I have experienced people wielding religion as an axe against me and to assert that religion is not in itself violent as part of that is like saying the knife in a murder plays no part in that act of violence.
I do appreciate that using religion to take the blame for a lot of other institutions is a really valid and unique perspective I haven’t heard before. But that should not offer acquittal for the crimes religion is firmly to blame for. This feels prescriptive and distant from actual lived experience, which is common in academia (I’m currently studying sociology).
Looking forward to tomorrows piece, but this defence of character article for religion feels like betrayal.
I appreciate your journey towards understanding the nuance of religion but as a trans woman this was just a waffle of an article. There will always be good people that interpret religion in their own way and act positively towards the lgbtq+ community. But they are by far the minority.
I have experienced people wielding religion as an axe against me and to assert that religion is not in itself violent as part of that is like saying the knife in a murder plays no part in that act of violence.
I do appreciate that using religion to take the blame for a lot of other institutions is a really valid and unique perspective I haven’t heard before. But that should not offer acquittal for the crimes religion is firmly to blame for. This feels prescriptive and distant from actual lived experience, which is common in academia (I’m currently studying sociology).
Looking forward to tomorrows piece, but this defence of character article for religion feels like betrayal.