Soooo…. Youtube has somehow recommended me some channels and videos from far-right media and personalities and it caught my attention how apparently for this movement left = evil. I decided I wanted to understand why. I advocate for LGBTI+ rights and fight against racism so the question came: “how can make you care about others and having the willingness to give up some Individual freedoms for a greater good, evil? I actually fail to see why someone would find ‘evil’ a person who loves someone of the same sex. By navigating through this content I think I partially found the answer.
You see, apparently for some christian extremists the battle between good and evil isn’t in the earth itself, but within us and our human nature, according to the bible. Our human nature dictates that we all feel sexual pleasure and look after it, but if you want to be a good person you must find a way to supress the desire and follow god’s path which is staying virgin until marriage. That view, to me, explains why the far right sees homosexual people as degenerate evil people. It seems that for them homosexual people cannot and have no intention to fight this battle of supressing their human nature and be ‘good’, thus, are against god and his will.
I have three problems with such view tho:
1) Apparently we all have different spiritual battles, since this battle is not the same for the white straight male than for a lesbian. Basically they want some people to make an extra effort to fit their concept of good.
2) That concept of good. Why is ‘evil’ to accept our humanity to begin with? what’s the LOGIC behind? I mean, just because a 2000-year-old book tells so I am supposed to accept that concept of ‘good’? … no way. For me is quite simple. If you hurt someone or put someone in a bad situation for your sole interests, then you’re being evil. I’d like to deepen that view tho.
3) Since rarely someone comes virgin to their marriage, it means you haven’t been able, as christian, to fight your own human nature, which would make you evil… not to mention all the sins according to the bible; so who are you to ask someone to achieve something you couldn’t?
I think I still have a lot to learn about this interesting wicked world, but for now, those are my conclusions.
