My mom belongs to a church that actively organizes against marriage equality. I hung up on her after she told me that I "hate religion." She has told me in the past that I "hate God," as if her church is the equivalent of God.
I almost hope there is a Christian afterlife, because then they can hear how depraved that is from Jesus himself. I don't beleive that is how it works, though.
I just wrote her a letter and I am going to mail it before I change my mind. Here it is:
Dear Mom,
I feel sorry for you. You belong to a church that actively works towards discrimination - a goal fueled by hate.
By suggesting that I "hate religion," you are projecting the church you embrace (hate and all) onto me.
I am not on the side of hate. You are. Yet you are blind to it, because that is how hate works.
I hope you will be able to salvage a spirituality that is not poisoned by the hate of your church leaders - but it is a long shot.
I am sorry that you have been blinded by hate, and I am sorry that you have been brainwashed into hallucinating hate in others who stand against it, while utterly failing to recognize that your implicit or explicit defense of hate puts you on the side of hate.
You are deluded, and I am sorry for you.
The devil works in clever ways - never underestimate the depravity of evil.
-signed
She is a progressive, but she is thinking like a teabagger. I can't even get into the conversation we had, it makes me sick. She isn't gay, it doesn't concern her, she isn't going to get involved with all the "yelling and screaming."
No, she's going to sit in the pews every Sunday, beaming with approval, brimming with spiritual satisfaction, putting money in the collection plate, convinced that she's got nothing to do with any of that "hysteria."
I did tell her that good people shrugging their shoulders in response to evil is the real face of evil - that is how evil works in the world most of the time.
Her response - "if you hate religion, you don't have to go to church."
She's been lost to some kind of brain wasting social virus. My own mother.