Why religious whackjobs are dangerous nuts and other fun...

[jsbowden]

A friend pointed me at another fine example of just what Christian Love and Tolerance actually means.

It also made me aware of Fundies Say the Darndest Things, which is a nice little slice of humanity at its finest.

I don't care if you're Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Toaist, some flavor of pagan, etc...it doesn't matter...if you're so damned blind in your beliefs that you'd suppress or kill others who don't meet your standards, do the rest of us a favor and go take a long fucking walk off of a short fucking pier with cement shoes on.

We.

Don't.

Need.

YOU.

And us atheists are the 'dangerous' ones. Fuck all of you.

Comments

[itlandm.livejournal.com]

I thought that was just a stereotype, but since you say it I feel secure that it is a scientific fact. I haven't read any research on the connection, nor have I seen it in real life. (Gays seem to avoid me in the flesh, perhaps because I look so obviously Chonservative?)

I have however heard about the increased suicide rate in children who have been bullied (a topic of personal interest to me) and have learned that the typical bullying victim has displayed unusual behavior from early childhood. In fact, bullying victims are generally more different from their classmates than the bullies are. This implies that there are fundamental differences in personality, possibly on a neurological level. Could this also be the case for gay and lesbian teens?

For another example, extraordinarily creative people and their close relatives seem to be prone to bipolarity and also higher suicidal rates.

[selki.livejournal.com]

I have read studies that the suicide rate among gay teenagers is significantly higher than among the general teenage population. I don't have any handy cites, though, and I don't know how that rate compares to teenage bullying victim suicide rates.

[thette.livejournal.com]

It's enough of a fact to have the RFSL worried about it. They did a survey a few years back, but I can't find it or their press release about it on their website.

Creativity and mental illness does go in families. I wouldn't link that to non-hetero sexualities, though.