12 Mar
2013
12 Mar
'13
11:41 a.m.
>>> [...], though Lowes insist on being homos
lately.
>> "homos"? [...]; none of the meanings I've come up with make sense
>> in this context.
> It's hate-speech. Short for "homosexual" and used as a generic
> insult. His excuse being that his magic sky-pixie tells him to hate
> gay people, making both him and his religion loathsome.
Even assuming you're right, that's only a little more loathsome than
dissing others' religions[%] with terms of ridicule (which is how I
read "magic sky-pixie" here).
[%] Whatever _that_ means - see below.
I have the same magic sky-pixie. Said sky-pixie
doesn't tell ME to
hate gay people.
Then - assuming that the quote above is an accurate assessement of why
the word was used in the first place - it's obviously not the same one
after all, no?
BTW...Religion is not the same as belief.
No. But "religion" is a term with almost as many different intended
meanings as there are people using it. I've seen/heard it used to mean
practically everything from "any dogmatically-held belief" to "one of a
small class of widely-popular subsects of the Abrahamic belief systems"
to "any belief in a nonphysical reality". So I'd be very careful
tossing it around in a discussion, especially an acrominous (or
potentially acromonious) discussion, without making it clear which
meaning is intended.
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