20180609 1834 - DC Pride - parade - drummers, Damien Ministries - 20180609183424.mov

People drumming, dancing, and giving out highfives.

I'm glad it makes other people happy, and fosters more aceptance... But in my personal opinion: It's actually pretty gross to me the way churches are all over anything pride-related, sticking out their rainbow flags, trying to grasp more people in the maw of religious delusion. They are only interested in us now because they are desperate to revive their declining membership. Why? The numbers are out: Religion is declining worldwide. It's going away. Churches are having trouble keeping up their membership. And good riddance!

The corrupt and harmful power structures didn't magically have a change of heart; they are merely following the programming they've always had: To stay alive and replicate, like a virus. It's simply a repeat of the whole Pagan issue: When the church was losing membership to pagans, they became tolerant to pagan tradition.That's why we have christmas trees and wreaths and celebrate Yule. None of that is about christ, that all came from paganism. They then sprinkled some Christ on top -- sort of like everyone's favorite party snack, Christ On A Cracker. And boom, we got "Christ"mas instead of Yule. Political parties do the same thing: They are against something... And then when their membership declines, they are suddenly for it. It's not about a change of heart. Power strutures don't have hearts. It's about a structure doing what it needs to do to keep propagating. It's a viral mutation, nothing more. That's how viruses work.

The only reason Pride parades even exist is because we have something to be proud of. Proud of surviving of hatred and bigotry that THOSE SAME RELIGIOUS POWER STRUCTURES created. And still create. And the hateful bigots that are held together by these communities. And the not-actually-innocent bystanders who do nothing to challenge their hateful bretheren -- they are just as guilty. Anyone who actually pays attention can observe for themselves that hateful comments are heavily correlated with religious people, or with organizations or locales or ideologies that have high levels of religious people (i.e. republicans, conservatives, veterans, people from the bible belt, trump supporters). This is no coincicence. This is a direct result of the hateful power structures that spread this hate (and a bunch of rape, too, but that's another story). Religoius people are more likely to be Trump supporters, and supporters of hateful ideology. That's reality. And that's NOT a coincidence.

I legitimately feel pity for LGBT people who still embrace the power structures that created their hate. It's not like the bigots just went away: They merely stopped voicing themselves as much. To take part and give power to the very illusion that created their hate is a traitorous legitimization of those same harmful, viral, hateful power structures. I can't even imagine the level of ignorance and/or self-denial that it must require for one to take that position. But then again, religious people are fundamentally ignorant and in self-denial, if they think a sky fairy is out there plucking up their soul and judging them, and someone realizing they are LGBT isn't going to necessarily cause them to realize any of this.

But hey, you do you. Me? I'll do me. And at any Pride event, I will always enhtusiastically take as much of their swag as I can, and then throw it all in the trash just to waste their money.

BTW: Comments trying to debate me on this will be summarily deleted, with the posters blocked. This isn't a debate club meeting, and this isn't your soapbox. Go preach in church and have a conversation with your imaginary sky fairy on your own time. I'm uninterested. Kthxbye.

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Christians, Damien Ministries banner, gay pride parade, lei, pride flag, trans flag, truck.
LGBT. LGBTQ. Pride. people.

P Street NW, street, Washington D.C.

June 9, 2018.

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