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Writing from the perspective of a person who literally had a life ruined by religious ideology impairing the mental judgement of parental figures. This is literally one of the best things I've read in my life. Going to be unpopular opinion because of people indoctrinated into freedom of expression but why not. Religious ideology has done more damage than terrorism to LGBT people. The result has lead to suicides and the law has done nothing to remedy the people abused. The people running the "faith" systems are nothing more than celebs to people who desire their fix and when it develops into a mental illness of pushing upon others.. people look the other way. Since "who has all the money" gets to keep the show running. No compassion exists in this world. Just agenda pushing by who has all the finances.

Not only LGBT, religion (not only Christianity) had done an enormous harm to women in all times (and still does).

It could be argued that the opposite is true - that Christianity required its adherents to respect women.

The only religion that I can think of that doesnt do that is Wicca.

Even Buddhists, along with Shakyamuni as this source, laid down much more restrictive rules for women adherents to Buddhism.

Edit: go figure. Mention facts and you're -1'ed to currently -3. And it wasn't even demeaning or harassing.

When I was young I served Yoshino-kimi, the granddaughter of Tōfukumon'in, a disciple of the imperial temple Hōkyō-ji. Recently she passed away, although I know that this is the law of nature, the transience of the world struck me deeply, and I became a nun. I cut my hair and dyed my robes black and went on pilgrimage to Edo. There I had an audience with the monk Haku-ō of the Obaku Zen sect. I recounted to him, such things as my deep devotion to Buddhism since childhood, but Haku-ō replied that although he could see my sincere intentions, I could not escape my womanly appearance. Therefore I heated up an iron and held it against my face, and then wrote as my brush led me:

...

Formerly to amuse myself at court I would burn orchid incense;

Now to enter the Zen life I burn my own face.

The four seasons pass by naturally like this,

But I don't know who I am amidst the change.

...

In this living world

the body I give up and burn

would be wretched

if I thought of myself as

anything but firewood.

- Ryōnen Gensō

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