Okay, pardon my rant

I'm just sick of people right now. Right-wing Conservative Americans, in particular.

Every news feed I check is full of hatred towards gays, minorities, the poor, and women these days. Every one of these people will claim to be a Christian, too. Yet they consider people who have a different skin color, gender, or sexual orientation, or people who are living in poverty to be subhuman and not worth any sort of legal protections.

Okay. I'm not a Christian, but I used to be. I've read the Bible, cover-to-cover, five times in my life. So, these people who claim that their hatred is based on the Bible, apparently haven't read it. At least, not all of it--there's an awful lot between Leviticus and Revelations. Look, you call yourself Christians, right? Why? Is that because you claim to follow Christ? Then, why don't you? Just read the damned book for yourself, and then do what Christ is supposed to have said. And, if you decide that what's in that book is not what Christ meant, or if you decide that this is not what your religion is all about, then you need to call yourself something else, because you are not Christian--you aren't following what you claim to follow by your own definition.

What really baffles me is all the hate directed at poor people. While Christ never addressed homosexuality at all, he did address poverty. For the record, he was against it. His position was diametrically opposed to the opinions I'm seeing from the people who claim to follow him. Go and read it for yourself.

The sad thing is, the people the above rant is directed at will not have any clue that it applies to them. That, in the end, is what makes me feel so tired, down to the very core of my being--the hatred directed towards other human beings, with some stupid religion as justification, and the complete blindness towards the hypocrisy of it.

I'm climbing off my soapbox now. And, no, I'm not interested in debate. So, if this pisses you off at me, piss off yourself, because I'm not interested in your opinion.