Uganda enacts life in jail for gays

Local Christians as mad as the maddest of Muslims are behind this.

Wikipedia blames colonialism, white people, and Christianity for what black natives have done with their religion 50 years after independence.

[Who do they blame when it's Muslims? Colonialism, white people, and Christianity.]

Interesting question, why some peoples at some times are so exceptionally receptive to a religion or a politics so drenched in such extreme malevolence, such naked and joyful hatred.

So often we displace agency and responsibility with it from people to the doctrines they embrace, for the horrors these people - but we say "these doctrines" - insist upon.

As when we blame Christian beliefs for Hitler's pursuit of a "final solution to the Jewish Question in Europe," as well as for the German people's support for him and his projects.

The saw goes, "Religion is a good thing for good people and a bad thing for bad people."

But perhaps the truth is that religion, though always a delusion or a deception and generally an imposition, is relatively benign in the hands of good people and sometimes spectacularly malignant in the hands of bad people.

Not that it's good or bad for people, but that it's in some ways good or horrifically bad in their hands.

Not that we couldn't say the same for purely secular ideologies or beliefs like Marxism or socialism.

Or even beliefs as apparently remote from politics as materialism.

See Dostoyevsky or Turgenev.

P.S.

Which side of the culture war in Uganda would Pat Buchanan want to be on?

I ask because his anti-interventionism lately seems to be trimmed to fit his basic political sympathies.

And these in turn?

He doesn't care for Jews, non-eurowhites, or indeed people who are not conservative Christians in faith and morals.

Does that explain all of his politics?

Or only most of it?

P.S. 2

Accordingly to the Wikipedia piece to which I link, above, a theme of the infamous conference of Christian leaders in Uganda was that "'the gay movement is an evil institution' whose goal is 'to defeat the marriage-based society and replace it with a culture of sexual promiscuity.'"

To which one is very tempted to say, at least in foro interno, "Well, what of it? What's it to you?"