Why are people so averse to acknowledging that organized religion, almost ALL organized religion
is homophobic, misogynist.
I don't understand the hesitation in calling this what it is when it comes to Islam in particular. Seems most don't have a problem identifying this in the christian religions.
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Our own Protestant, let alone evangelical Christians, with about 60 times the population, are less accepting
And when you look at atheists and the so-called-agnostics you see religion surely has a major impact on GLBT acceptance.
despite the rather obvious fact that Seventh Day Adventists aren't gunning down the popoulation. 
That's the beginning and end of it, I'd say.
I agree completely with you, that all religion is equally contemptible, but a straightforward address of your question (hey, where's the question mark?) leads to what I said.
...are peaceful. And we give enormous leeway to letting people choose their philosophies for themselves so when tragedies like Orlando occur, we're caught between condemnation and recognition that it's a small subset of a much larger majority.
But yeah, some specific countries act on beliefs that are abhorrent to most people and it's hard to reconcile that with what we think of an individual's right to choose philosophies.
If it was possible to 'talk' people out of religion, I would be wholeheartedly for that but it's not. Maybe it's hard-wired in us, some more than others.
I'm trying to think of a female who is the head of a major religion.
Or that even treats women or LGTQ as equals. Some protestants are slowly catching up to the 20th century. But it's kind of like their stance on scientific discoveries. After a few decades, they eventually change their dogma to match reality.
Well, Hindus have a lot of Goddesses. But it still teaches that women are supposed to be subservient to men so that's not really all that helpful.
Good for her. 
Of course she's the head of a denomination that worships a male God with a male Son/savior and male Apostles from a book written by men chock full-o-misogyny.
If you accept someone's intense hatred of someone else's lifestyle (for argument's sake), it's still hard to understand why you would shoot a bunch of strangers knowing that you're committing suicide at the same time.
they never do terrorism, right? Jesus fuck.....
http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/10-worst-terror-attacks-extreme-christians-and-far-right-white-men
From Fox News to the Weekly Standard, neoconservatives have tried to paint terrorism as a largely or exclusively Islamic phenomenon. Their message of Islamophobia has been repeated many times since the George W. Bush era: Islam is inherently violent, Christianity is inherently peaceful, and there is no such thing as a Christian terrorist or a white male terrorist. But the facts don’t bear that out. Far-right white male radicals and extreme Christianists are every bit as capable of acts of terrorism as radical Islamists, and to pretend that such terrorists don’t exist does the public a huge disservice. Dzhokhar Anzorovich Tsarnaev and the late Tamerlan Anzorovich Tsarnaev (the Chechen brothers suspected in the Boston Marathon bombing of April 15, 2013) are both considered white and appear to have been motivated in part by radical Islam. And many terrorist attacks in the United States have been carried out by people who were neither Muslims nor dark-skinned.
When white males of the far right carry out violent attacks, neocons and Republicans typically describe them as lone-wolf extremists rather than people who are part of terrorist networks or well-organized terrorist movements. Yet many of the terrorist attacks in the United States have been carried out by people who had long histories of networking with other terrorists. In fact, most of the terrorist activity occurring in the United States in recent years has not come from Muslims, but from a combination of radical Christianists, white supremacists and far-right militia groups.
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5. The Centennial Olympic Park bombing, July 27, 1996. Paul Jennings Hill is hardly the only Christian terrorist who has been praised by the Army of God; that organization has also praised Eric Rudolph, who is serving life without parole for a long list of terrorist attacks committed in the name of Christianity. Rudolph is best known for carrying out the Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta during the 1996 Summer Olympics—a blast that killed spectator Alice Hawthorne and wounded 111 others. Hawthorne wasn’t the only person Rudolph murdered: his bombing of an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama in 1998 caused the death of Robert Sanderson (a Birmingham police officer and part-time security guard) and caused nurse Emily Lyons to lose an eye.
Rudolph’s other acts of Christian terrorism include bombing the Otherwise Lounge (a lesbian bar in Atlanta) in 1997 and an abortion clinic in an Atlanta suburb in 1997. Rudolph was no lone wolf: he was part of a terrorist movement that encouraged his violence. And the Army of God continues to exalt Rudolph as a brave Christian who is doing God’s work.
Leave those peaceful Christians alone!!!
They don't walk the talk. Some Christians do, you're right, and we probably do have blinders on when it comes time to criticize one of 'our' religions.
But no matter how much religion blinds us and kills us and maims us, we still give great deference to people choosing their own philosophies. I'm not sure there's any way out of that. It's not like we're going to outlaw religion.
