Posted: Jun 21, 2019 5:15 pm
tuco wrote:"Drunks, homosexuals, adulterers, liars, fornicators, thieves, atheists and idolators - Hell awaits you."
Sounds peaceful, not involving violence or war, to me. But I guess it does not matter what he actually said as long as it can be labeled as "homophobic" which then is not peaceful by default.
I guess Theives, hell awaits you! is not peaceful either or? How about Theives, prison awaits you!, peaceful or not?
Prison is doubtless terrible, but what is that compared to eternal hellfire? With the understanding, of course, that the person declaring eternal violence on somebody thinks it exists. I'd say that declaring someone should be shot in the head has at least some connection to violence, wouldn't you?
The more relevant part, I think, is where you don't see the problem of associating thievery, an actual crime, with homosexuality. I'm not sure how you define homophobic, but associating homosexuals with criminals seems like a pretty straightforward example to me.