halcyondays
Worshipped Member
I believe the concept of hate speech entails abusive speech that targets a specific group / identity. Given that original sin is a condition that Christians hold all humans to suffer from, it's unclear how it could be in any way related to hate speech as we commonly conceive of it.
So you think frightening a specific group called children with eternal torture isn't hate speech? Then what of a specific group called non-Christians? Shit out of luck for being born in the wrong religion are they? Burned for all eternity because of it?
What of a specific group called women? Is it not hate speech to teach little girls that the first woman was created as a afterthought because the first man was lonely? That the creator god and his redeemer son are and always were male? That the universe was created for man not woman? That the curse of original sin is the fault of the first woman? That everything was fine until she duped the first male? That the gates of hell were opened because of her? That all women will birth children in pain because of her? That a woman's job is make babies and raise children while men run the household and the larger world?
If you don't then you don't know what hate or hate speech is. Or you justify it--the calling card of the religious. That pathetic, hate-filled myth still reverberates across the Abrahamic world today shitting on women and anyone who rejects the myth.