Blind Hatred

Hate is a cruel thing. At least in my opinion. Hate twists people and distorts reality. Though I suppose many things can distort reality. Hate constructs walls and makes people deaf. It makes people believe in the craziest things, skewing good things into bad. I know, if anyone actually reads this, they'll be wondering why I'm stating the obvious. Well, something that's obvious to me, but isn't apparently obvious to others. What brought this on, you might ask? (I feel a bit like Claudia atm) A week or two ago, I was reading an article on a blog that someone sent me and it had a link to a site. I went to that site, interested to see exactly what was on it. I was appalled and saddened and angered and felt hopeless, all at the same time. These people showed such a hatred towards homosexuals and people who didn't oppose homosexuals (there website is titled 'God Hates Fags'.) I couldn't believe what these people were saying, 'cause apparently "God hates fags", well, actually "God doesn't hate a person because they're fags, they're fags because God hates them" (paraphrased.) There entire website, while claiming to be a church of God and teaching his word, is just one big gay-bashing website. Apparently God hates Sweden too because of how liberal Sweden is with homosexuals. Their comments and beliefs just go on in this sort of tangent. I was seriously near tears at reading this. I should of just stopped reading it, but it was just too unbelievable for me to take in. How can people teach such hatred and prejudice? And hypocrisy. And to say that they're happy that 9/11 happened, and that the tsunami happened, and to wish that one would happen to America. Oh, and apparently "Canada and America are Homo-Fascist regimes of Nazi terror!" It hurts me even when typing this. And the kids that have to grow up with this. How can people live with such hate in their hearts? I don't understand it at all. And I know that this sort of hatred, a hatred of a certain group of people, I know that it occurs worldwide, that no place is free of this, but I still don't understand it.

I refuse to understand it.

I know I'm open-minded, very open-minded, about a lot of things. I know that I'm more open-minded on some subjects than other people. But I still don't see how people can be so closed-minded. I still don't see how being so hateful can be benificial. To anyone. Hate is an ugly emotion and it rips at the heart. There are no good side effects of hate. Period. Yes, I might be an idealistic fool, but that can't change the fact that hatred only harms. Everyone.

I could probably go on about this for a while longer, but I'll stop it here. I think everyone who would ever read this can get my point, what I'm trying to say, to get off my chest. I promise I'll try to have a happier topic next time. ^_^