Ah, that I can understand. Almost as a survival instinct, you adapted the hate to romance - or romance to hate - centuries ago.
Damnation and sin...Those are religious ideals in base, however can be applied outside of such restricting and preposterous beliefs. At the basic core of these words - and as such the basic core of humanity - everything rotates around the axis of right and wrong.
When one commits a 'wrong', it is considered an act of 'sin'. An act of evil, an act against 'God'. You become tainted and impure, and therefor - unless you repent for what you have done 'wrong' - you are damned. A person who is damned is, by tell of religion, cursed to inhabit the torturous underworld known as hell once they've died, living the rest of their eternities suffering for the 'sins' they committed and did not seek forgiveness for during their living life.
This leads to yet another reason why hate as a romance is hard to grasp, because hate is viewed as a sin.
Those 'pure' and 'worthy' of God's love could hate no living thing. They would be incapable of it. This is why hate is hard to associate with romance, as romance in human culture is based on the feelings of love, and love is all that God supposedly offers to us. The idea of basing something 'holy' around something so blasphemous as hate is absolutely preposterous in the eyes of most.
The reason I say that the culmination of humanity is ever walking in such unholy light is also based around their beliefs in God. As years go by, the 'word of God' is twisted further and further in favor of the most hateful of humans. They preach that God loves every man, woman and child alive to draw you in, and then inform you that if you are outside of their set guideline of how humans should be, there is no salvation for you. If you cannot conform all of who you are, what you love, and what beliefs you hold, to their mold, you are doomed to suffer. To rot in Hell as you so truly deserve.
This, Karkat, is why homosexuality is a "thing" for us. Because, in the eyes of God - whom loves every man for whom they are - loving and fornicating with one of the same gender is an unforgivable sin. Man was put on earth to love Woman. Woman was put on earth to entertain Man, and to bear his young. Women cannot bear the children of other Women, and Men cannot bear the children of other Men. This is viewed as going against the will of God, and therefor one of the most unholy sins you could commit, aside from killing his creatures.
I suppose what this all boils down to is thus.
It is human nature to hate. If you cannot hate a person for who they are, you will most assuredly find a physical feature to blame. The color of one's skin, hair or eyes. The shape of one's face. Their height, or weight. Whether the male is well toned or not. Whether the female has large breasts and hips. If one has too many freckles, or too few. They wear glasses. They have less than perfect teeth.
Anything can be used to spurn hate for another. And everyone will hate someone.
And yet they are simply too blind to accept this, further pulling themselves from reality to hide within the safe arms of their 'God', who will forgive them if they ask, yet strike down those whom they continue to hate.
It is all a farce. A lie. A twisted web of deceit in which they only continue to spin as years drag on. There truly is no hope for our race.
Well. Beyond the apocalypse brought about by Sburb. If that weren't there to wipe them out, the crumble of all the safe walls they built to shelter themselves and their young would surely do it's job.
...And I believe, thanks to what you just explained, I now understand why he found it embarrassing to speak with me about. Dave Strider does not shriek like a girl, and would be horrified if I found out, I am sure. Poor thing.
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Damnation and sin...Those are religious ideals in base, however can be applied outside of such restricting and preposterous beliefs. At the basic core of these words - and as such the basic core of humanity - everything rotates around the axis of right and wrong.
When one commits a 'wrong', it is considered an act of 'sin'. An act of evil, an act against 'God'. You become tainted and impure, and therefor - unless you repent for what you have done 'wrong' - you are damned. A person who is damned is, by tell of religion, cursed to inhabit the torturous underworld known as hell once they've died, living the rest of their eternities suffering for the 'sins' they committed and did not seek forgiveness for during their living life.
This leads to yet another reason why hate as a romance is hard to grasp, because hate is viewed as a sin.
Those 'pure' and 'worthy' of God's love could hate no living thing. They would be incapable of it. This is why hate is hard to associate with romance, as romance in human culture is based on the feelings of love, and love is all that God supposedly offers to us. The idea of basing something 'holy' around something so blasphemous as hate is absolutely preposterous in the eyes of most.
The reason I say that the culmination of humanity is ever walking in such unholy light is also based around their beliefs in God. As years go by, the 'word of God' is twisted further and further in favor of the most hateful of humans. They preach that God loves every man, woman and child alive to draw you in, and then inform you that if you are outside of their set guideline of how humans should be, there is no salvation for you. If you cannot conform all of who you are, what you love, and what beliefs you hold, to their mold, you are doomed to suffer. To rot in Hell as you so truly deserve.
This, Karkat, is why homosexuality is a "thing" for us. Because, in the eyes of God - whom loves every man for whom they are - loving and fornicating with one of the same gender is an unforgivable sin. Man was put on earth to love Woman. Woman was put on earth to entertain Man, and to bear his young. Women cannot bear the children of other Women, and Men cannot bear the children of other Men. This is viewed as going against the will of God, and therefor one of the most unholy sins you could commit, aside from killing his creatures.
I suppose what this all boils down to is thus.
It is human nature to hate. If you cannot hate a person for who they are, you will most assuredly find a physical feature to blame. The color of one's skin, hair or eyes. The shape of one's face. Their height, or weight. Whether the male is well toned or not. Whether the female has large breasts and hips. If one has too many freckles, or too few. They wear glasses. They have less than perfect teeth.
Anything can be used to spurn hate for another. And everyone will hate someone.
And yet they are simply too blind to accept this, further pulling themselves from reality to hide within the safe arms of their 'God', who will forgive them if they ask, yet strike down those whom they continue to hate.
It is all a farce. A lie. A twisted web of deceit in which they only continue to spin as years drag on. There truly is no hope for our race.
Well. Beyond the apocalypse brought about by Sburb. If that weren't there to wipe them out, the crumble of all the safe walls they built to shelter themselves and their young would surely do it's job.
...And I believe, thanks to what you just explained, I now understand why he found it embarrassing to speak with me about. Dave Strider does not shriek like a girl, and would be horrified if I found out, I am sure. Poor thing.