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The Queer Religion
Bring out your rainbow flags and bondage gear, it’s officially pride month! Expect at least three naked bicycle rides through your city and at least half a dozen parade floats stacked with men in speedos simulating oral sex on each other. Expect grown men in dog costumes, dancing drag queens, and hordes of progressive parents and their children there to witness it all. Of course, this isn’t sexual you bigot. It’s simply a celebration of the “true self” — the gay version of the “Holy Spirit”.
The United States is in the middle of another “great awakening”. But instead of tent revivals, and Christian marches on Washington, we’ve got pride parades, gender-affirming “care”, and the rise of the untouchable priesthood of the black trans woman.
Perhaps because we’re so submerged in it — we cannot visualize an object in its entirety when it’s an inch from our face — we don’t realize that we’re witnessing the ascension of a dominant new religion. The Queer Religion.
Something rather extraordinary has happened in the last few decades. The queers have created the first unified, global, belief system that kneels and worships at the altar of — wait… hold on…
A Gnostic Faith
Those who rightfully oppose the “queer” agenda — genital mutilation on children, the celebration of hedonism and unsafe sex practices, and the ephemeral identity of the “gendered soul” — have a blind spot. They assume that they are fighting a niche political ideology. This is not the case. The Gay Religion is a gnostic faith, a social reflection of what Nietzsche knew would happen in the aftermath of the “death of God”.
Abrahamic faiths submit to a monotheistic God. And their prophets reflect the will of God. There is a clear distinction between sin and virtue. Faiths like Christianity and Islam subjugate the individual under God’s divine law and protection. This is for our own good. We are fallible. Shortsighted. And prone to indulgence and evil. Most good people, religious or not, share a similar conceptualization of what is morally acceptable behavior. There are disagreements — even significant ones — but the humanist agnostic and fundamentalist Christian would not condone an old man walking in a public park with kids nearby wearing a leather thong.
The Queer Religion inverts this order, placing the self at the center of divine knowledge. Gnostics believe that within each human resides a divine spark or fragment of the truth. This spark is trapped in the material body and the goal of life is to achieve gnosis, or spiritual knowledge, to liberate this spark.
When someone says they are “Queer” they are referencing this sense of truth and liberation they believe they have found within themselves. “Queers” differ fundamentally in this regard from what we might call “normal gays”. Quiet, hardworking, and buttoned-up homosexuals or lesbians who have distanced themselves from “queer culture”. Hedge fund manager Peter Thiel is a great example. I had enjoyed and engaged with Thiel’s work for years before I knew he was gay. He keeps his private life separate like a normal, well-adjusted, adult.
On the contrary, the Queer Religion praises outward displays of socially unacceptable behavior as a form of worship. This is a symbolic act against the sense of moral and social normalcy that you or I understand and intuit without question. Worship, as it is for any believer, is also integral to the Queer faith. Pride parades are a public worship ritual, as are orgies, public sex acts, and “gender-affirming” surgeries. To act “normal” — to even commit to a shared identity as normal — is an act of sin for the queer convert.
“Is Queer A Religion?” — YES
Those who misunderstand what they are fighting cannot mount a worthy defense. Common objections to the faith of queerness often sound like this:
“If gays and trannies would just act normal and not parade around public spaces in fetish gear, there would be less homophobia.”
“I don’t mind that people are gay as long as they don’t try to push their beliefs.”
This is a naive frame. The era of the quiet gay is over. The Queer Religion — pulling the strings behind the “sensible policy decisions” of landmark gay marriage laws — has waited patiently for the right moment to take the queer spiritual revival mainstream. They’ve greased the grooves, they’ve changed the language, they’ve leaned on the language of “intolerance” and “bigotry” and now they're here for their intifada. Respectable conversation doesn’t work with Jihadists, and it’s naive to think it will work with the most fervent adherents to the Queer Faith either
Part of the reason why the Queer Religion has infiltrated our media, schools, politics, workplaces, sports, etc, is because people have been reticent to call a spade a spade. They have not lived through a religious awakening and have no frame or context for what to expect or do. If you object to the Queer Religion, you are, fundamentally, engaged in a spiritual war. This goes beyond policy and ideology. It is not an overstatement to say that what we are going through is comparable to the spread of Islam or Christianity thousands of years ago. But it is up to you whether or not this new faith, folds its hand over your cultural and moral values.
If you are still on the fence about whether or not “Queer” is a religion, let’s apply the same method we would to any belief system
The Queer Belief System:
As stated above, the Queer Religion is a gnostic belief system. It is a celebration of “self-knowledge” and a spiritual activation of the “queer” self. All converts to the queer religion believe there is a hidden layer of queerness within all of us, and that society and constraints of “heteronormativity” have forced us to subdue this inner truth. This inner “queer” inner sense, is why queers believe that small children can be transgender, and why “cis” [heterosexual normal people] do not exist. For the queer, everyone exists on a spectrum as they do, but only those who listen to and manifest this inner truth will ever become enlightened.
Queer Sacred Texts:
Queers have a religious canon that lays the groundwork for their belief system. In particular, two thinkers — Michel Foucault and Judith Butler — have built the majority of the queer theological identity. These are the prophets of the queer religion.
Michel Foucault — The History of Sexuality (1976-1984)
Foucault’s post-modern philosophy “deconstructed” the concept of sexuality and examined how it is socially constructed and controlled. His theories of power, discourse, and the social history of sexual norms were foundational to the queer theology
Judith Butler — Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990)
Butler's work introduced the concept of gender performativity, the ludicrous idea that we are all “performing” a gender role. In Butler’s eyes, a man who likes to wear “masculine” clothes, is playing a part that he has been conditioned to play by a “heteronormative” society.
Queer Rituals and Worship:
As expressions of a liberated mind, queers will tell you that they practice and express their “queerness” throughout the day. More specifically, queer rituals and worship revolve around activities that you or I might consider taboo or strange.
Removing body parts or having the body surgically altered as a right of passage into queer religious identity.
Engaging in strange sex acts and sexual role-play that are considered outside the bounds of normal sexuality, often in public spaces.
Hedonistic acts of public indecency — also known as “pride” parades or pride celebrations.
Queer Moral and Ethical Guidelines:
The morality of the Queer Religion is unconstrained and childlike. If written, the “queer commandments” would be as follows:
One shall not shame another for expressing their “queerness” in a different way than you.
One shall not discriminate against someone based on their sex, race, gender orientation, physical ability, or age.
One shall never prohibit someone from exploring or finding their queerness and will provide a “safe space” for others to live or find their authentic, fluid, queer selves.
Queer Spiritual Experiences:
Queer religious conversions require a series of mystical and spiritual awakenings. Similar in practice to a Christian baptism, “coming out” as queer is the first form of spiritual salvation. This is typically a community event and an open-arm welcome ceremony into the Queer faith. Because queers see queerness in everything: animals, nature, infants, etc… cathartic spiritual experiences can be had anywhere. This is similar to the animistic beliefs of the Japanese Shinto religion.
Queer Symbols and Sacred Objects:
We are all familiar with the iconography and symbols of the Queer Faith. The constantly evolving “pride flag”, is given a new monstrous geometric slashing each year, representing another awakens identity under the queer umbrella. Because the “gnosis”, or knowledge, of the Queer Religion, is found inside one “fluid” soul, rather than in a holy book, the queer individual is elevated to a symbol of personal sainthood. That is why the Queer faith places such a heavy emphasis on representation. The panoply of Queers in media, art, business, government, etc, are all affirmed and regarded as sacred. Inanimate objects like sex toys, bondage gear, and strange clothes are also regarded with a sacred reverence. Without these, the queer individual is without the proper tools to express their queer faith and belief to its full capacity.
Queer Religious Leadership:
Queers placed a heavy emphasis on victimhood. The more boxes of “not-normal” you check, the better. Queers have a delusion belief that they are persecuted (while controlling almost every major Western institution) and those who they have deemed to be most at risk of this persecution, are therefore elevated to a leadership role within the queer faith. This is why such emphasis has been placed on the holy, “Black Trans Woman”.
As always, thanks for reading. I know this one was a doozy.
-Joe
Joe thanks for writing this article. You managed to paint the bigger picture of the ever changing rainbow religion. When you take a step back and see how hideous this spiritual plague is its truly terrifying. Ay God help those poor confused souls who have been led astray by Satan and his minions.
All of Critical Theory (and Marxism in general) is a gnostic faith: abolishing worldly distinctions to reunify the world in the pleuromic oneness… but Queer Theory is the most radical and unsettling because it concerns itself with normalcy and sex and sexuality… and children.
https://jmpolemic.substack.com/p/social-justice-as-a-gnostic-cult?r=1neg52
https://jmpolemic.substack.com/p/a-strong-warning