Indeed, and religion is primarily about delusion and submission to (male) authority. I'll never forget the time I was cultivating a friendship with a Catholic nun. Long story short, I learned that she accepted the doctrines of the Catholic Church that defined me as a person who commits acts of grave depravity and who is intrinsically disordered.

I sent her an email filled with fierce disdain and disrespect toward her delusional religious beliefs. She seemed to have a hard time wrapping her mind around how I could display disrespect toward her delusional belief system and toward herself as a person.

She seemed to presume that because she based her hateful beliefs (she insisted her beliefs are not hateful, but that's part of her delusion) on something called faith, that I would simply have to tolerate it.

I told her to go fuck herself.

Because what she calls faith is really just superstitious delusion. Lots of people are delusional, and I wouldn't ordinarily care, but when you wrap your identity up in a religion that's all about treating queer people like shit, then I get personally invested.

My late partner and I lost about 40% of our friends to AIDS. That photo of David above is deeply meaningful to me, because I lived in that world at that time.

And he was absolutely right to point out that society was killing us on purpose.

I am so sick and tired of religious delusion that made that possible and is still making it possible today.