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It's June, which means that across America, it's Gay Pride Month!

Due to the culture wars that began in earnest with Republican Pat Buchanan in the 1990’s, and only worsened with the rise of former President Donald Trump's bigoted MAGA movement and his acolyte turned adversary, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, hardly a day goes by when some member of the LGBTQ community isn't attacked—or some Fortune 500 company, like Budweiser, Disney, and Target, is targeted by self-proclaimed “Christian soldiers” marching off to war.

To begin today's Hobbservations, in my humble estimation, many of Western Civilization's historical miseries occurred because one group's religious practices compelled the belief that their god ordained them with all authority to regulate the lands, lives, livelihoods, and love interests of another group.  

Consider:

When one thinks about the historical subjugation of women, one needs to look no further than the religious roots of Western Civilization. Whether it was women being deemed the property of their fathers and husbands in the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions, or, women being iced out from employment opportunities (including as faith leaders); women being unable to vote or serve on juries, or, women being unable to obtain credit cards well into the 1970’s, many of the lawmakers who made such rules par for the course did so because they believed that the Torah, Bible, or Qur'an fully instructed on the role of women—which was to be subservient in almost every way to men.

When we think about the bloody Crusades during the Middle Ages, hundreds of thousands of Christians and Muslims died all because the Papists in Europe believed that the "Holy Land," lands that encompassed Jerusalem in Palestine, belonged to them and not to the Islamic and Arabic peoples who inhabited the area during that time span.

When one thinks about the rise of Zionism in the 19th Century, and the implementation of a new Israel carved out of Muslim Palestine following World War II, one must acknowledge that the subsequent decades of fighting between predominantly Islamic nations and the new Jewish state occurred not just from political philosophies, but political philosophies tinged with the same religious dogma that fueled the earlier Crusades as to who should be the rightful owner of the Holy Land. 

When one thinks of "Christian" Europe's colonial conquests in Africa, one must acknowledge that the purported desire to "baptize" Black people that they deemed "savages" due to their Islamic or traditional faiths, was really an excuse to rape and pillage the land for its material resources such as gold, diamonds, ivory, and later oil—all the while kidnapping tens of millions of Black people to enslave in the "New World" in the Western Hemisphere. 

And speaking of that "New World," when one thinks of the Christian colonizers and their purported "Manifest Destiny," their theory that God the Father, Son, and Holy spirit wanted his European children to forcibly take all of the lands from the Atlantic to the Pacific from the indigenous people who had been their for millennia earlier, one must acknowledge that the genocide of those people—and the multiple trails of tears left en route to small reservations—was done because some so-called Christians swore that God almighty told them to do so!

The European Renaissance version of Jesus, one whose skin was not bronze or brass and whose hair was not kinky like lamb's wool, was the main symbol of Aryan supremacy for centuries.

Now, if you're thinking "but aren't you a Christian, Hobbs," the answer is an unequivocal "yes." But my understanding of the faith, coupled with my academic training, leads me to condemn the above mentioned horrific acts by those claiming my same religion.

My faith and academic training are the reasons why, in all humility, I realize that Christians should never throw stones at other religions and their purported atrocities, because our so-called Brothers and Sisters in the faith, from time immemorial, have been blood thirsty and oft times, pure evil!

Adolf Hitler (center), and members of the High Command sitting in front of a Christmas tree during a Nazi Party Christmas dinner celebration prior to World War II. Lest we forget that the same Nazi Lutherans and Catholics who celebrated the birth of Jesus Christ each year, were responsible for murdering over six million Jews who shared Christ's actual faith during the Holocaust…

Such is why I refuse to join in with the modern day Christian purveyors of evil, those who talk Jesus with their mouths, but are hot for Satan in their hearts! The ones that oppose abortion on one hand, but applaud police officers who kill unarmed citizens of color!

The ones who preach the Gospel of charity on Sunday, only to ridicule the poor and dispossessed seeking asylum and work in the United States Monday through Saturday!

The ones who read the scripture about God making man in his image, only to make laws that discriminate against those men, women, and trans men, women, and children who were made to have amorous feelings for the same sex, or made to identify in a gender that's opposite from the one assigned at birth. 

You see, my faith and my academic training have taught me, more than anything else, to be careful about assigning MY personal values upon the next person or group of people. I do so because in all of my personal talks and meditations with God, He has only told me to love my fellow human beings—not judge, condemn, or cast anyone else aside based upon some arrogant belief that I am the arbiter of His beliefs and justice on Earth.