Oh no! you dipped your religions into my scientific theory.
My theory is that science advancements allowed more babies to be born in the last 60 or so years, babies that would not have survived without the new medical science advance. From RH factors in blood to hormonal drugs, recreational drugs and other environmental factors many babies born in that last 100 years or so have been exposed to so many contaminants that may have altered these persons in ways science still does not understand. Religions have led people to believe that homosexuality or ->-bleeped-<- is somehow against God or immoral in some way and even if scientific evidence were produced to show that these conditions were actually something a person was born with and had no choice over, most religious people would ignore or choose not to believe that scientific fact. Some fundamentally religious persons may even say that had scientists not tried to play God and influence and aid the birth of so many babies that we would not be filling the earth with abominations. Some very extreme Religious / Scientific people might even say these abominations should be destroyed in order to preserve pure humans. People comparable to Hitler. What we are talking about here is birth defects and most sensible people would show compassion rather than blaming someone who is afflicted or condemning them to hell. Too many people see it as a reason to harass or harm someone who is different from them, if anything this is where Satan would be playing a role. There are some that want to help, but do not understand the affliction and the attempted help can actually destroy people. Conversion therapies, prayer, electro shock treatments, and I am guessing even torture (shudder) have been used to "fix" people. Religion has not taught many of its followers compassion, instead it has taught them intolerance, hence all the fighting between different religious groups for thousands of years. I don't think any religion should be trying to fix these people, only accepting them , as they are, as God made them. I feel that a ton of religious people need to look inward and remember that God is the only judge. If they decide to judge a person they are just invalidating their entire religion. I like Science, I like Theology. Whenever someone I know who is religious starts saying so and so is bad, so and so is going to hell, this or that is the work of the devil, well its just bla bla bla after that. Same way when someone starts spewing off incorrect information about known scientific facts, its all bla bla bla once they invalidate their knowledge of the subject matter. You see, I know God accepts me, I don't have to prove that to anyone. It is people that are not accepting, when will that change? Only when the majority of the religions stop casting judgement and accept us as we have accepted ourselves. We exist, and in a lot more numbers than in the distant past. Maybe back then we could be stifled but our numbers and our will are high now. There is no pushing it back into the closet.
To sum it up I think religions need to accept what science and God has created and stop trying to fix everything. Enjoy the variety and the beauty and be kind to everyone of Gods creatures.
-Jade
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