White Christians spreading the love in Uganda: "God wants you to stone homosexuals to death"
this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2025
958 points (98.8% liked)
Lemmy Shitpost
33814 readers
3514 users here now
Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.
Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!
Rules:
1. Be Respectful
Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.
Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.
...
2. No Illegal Content
Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.
That means:
-No promoting violence/threats against any individuals
-No CSA content or Revenge Porn
-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)
...
3. No Spam
Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.
-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.
-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.
-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers
-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.
...
4. No Porn/Explicit
Content
-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.
-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.
...
5. No Enciting Harassment,
Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts
-Do not Brigade other Communities
-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.
-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.
-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.
...
6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.
...
If you see content that is a breach of the rules, please flag and report the comment and a moderator will take action where they can.
Also check out:
Partnered Communities:
1.Memes
10.LinuxMemes (Linux themed memes)
Reach out to
All communities included on the sidebar are to be made in compliance with the instance rules. Striker
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Unfortunately Ugandans view lgbt stuff as neo colonialism. Most Africans are rather religious and traditional. If not Christian they are Muslims; both of which are none native to Africa and homophobic. Its hard to see how they will change their minds unless they come to the conclusion on their own.
Viewing accepting and supporting people that are different as (neo-)colonialism is just dumb. They deserve to be seen as equal and live a happy life there as much as anywhere else. Being African doesn't excuse you for being an asshole.
Funny that you bring that up. Most of Africa and West Asia got colonized when Victorian England was at its prudest point. They "civilizedβ the "savages" and taught them their Victorian moral values. This has a lasting influence until today. While you consider yourself civilized and educated and those others are the backwards ideas, in reality while your ancestors were living off their wealth they had the capacity to think about luxury like human rights (Iβm sorry, it shouldnβt be a luxury, but it is), while the colonized were busy trying to survive.
while the colonized were busy trying to survive.
Still are unfortunately
I wonder if the West having this new wave of anti-queer reaction will short-circuit this cycle. Hard to claim we are agents of neocolonialism and imperialism when the US is attacking trans people and is on the cusp of rolling back gay marriage rights.
That'd be... nice... but no. When it come to homophobia, people hate what they don't understand and then come up with reasons to justify it, not the other way around.
Misanthropy tbh
Hate has a material basis, it's not just something that emerges organically from human nature. The ruling class needs to maximize the reproduction of labor so it invented and promoted queer hate as a way to remove one of those obstacles. Its material basis is actually very similar to anti-abortion and anti-contraception and anti-feminist politics.
Maybe, but they view their religion as native, not foreign. And those have built in homophobia in the doctrine.
Doctrine and religion are always changing based on historical forces, so if the historical winds are blowing against "lgbt=colonialism" then this will have effects on religion and doctrine. The contradiction will need to be resolved somehow.
Contradiction with religious folk is often boiled down to "if I don't believe the contradiction exists then it must not exist!"
Source: whenever anyone brings up contradictions in the Bible
I'm talking about contradictions that can arise between religion and politics.
If their religion says to be charitable to the poor, but their politics say to starve the poor, they'll starve the poor. If their religion says to love their neighbor, but their politics tells them to hate their neighbor, they'll hate their neighbor. When there's a contradiction between religion and politics, they'll choose politics and then work backwards from there to justify it religiously.
I get what your saying, but I'm adding that even independently of that they follow abrahamic religions and that is homophobic. On one hand there is a niew of neo colonialism and on the other you might be asking them to be more secular. Both are very steep and somewhat independent hills.
Abrahamic religion isn't set in stone, it's capable of reform and has even done so in other historical contexts. This doesn't even require secularism, all it requires is that they read their books in a different way for different interpretations.
But secularism isn't impossible. As the colonizers become less secular and more religious, the historical currents begin to push against religion among the colonized. Perhaps less so among Muslims because they can deflect the contradictions onto sectarianism against the Christian colonizers, but African Christians will have to reconcile the contradiction between their anti-colonialism and worshiping the god of religious colonizers.
Or they'll convert to Islam. It's hard to say.
But there are lots of ways this can play out.
Fair enough. Just that coming from a fundie place I think the cognitive backflips might hold. Tho I hope you're right π
Alright, Iβll admit this is a plan for a story Iβm writing to help define who the bad guys are:
They hate the neighboring country, and homosexuality. They use puritanical thinking to frame the latter as an evil invention of the former; βThe men there are so fowl and heartless, they hate all forms of femininity, and prefer to bond with other demons like themselves. The women feel forced to find love with each other.β
Iβm starting to get curious if any one particular country might feel offended at my story when I someday write it.
Doesn't feel like a specific call out.
I want to live in a world where organized religion is no more π
Looks pretty disorganized to me as is.
10,000 denominations cannot be wrong
It's not just the white Christians, it's all of them.
"OH NO, NOT PEOPLE WHO AREN'T MY SKIN COLOR GAINING EQUAL RIGHTS AS ME!"
They're afraid of being treated the same way they treat others
Which is very ironic.
"The King will reply, βTruly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me." (Matthew 25:40)
"When you've lived a life of privilege, equality feels like oppression"
Cosmo, Wanda, I wish Christian Extremists behaved as though they actually believed in God
You got it!
Solitude. Filth. Ugliness. Ash cans and unobtainable dollars. Children screamibg under stairways. Boys sobbing in armies. Old men weeping in the parks...
What good does it do if all Christians are in one place? Not very manifest destiny of you Jesus.
But when white Christians want refugees and immigrants conform to these values they are racist and bigot.
They can't really do anything but lose with you, OP