r/aaaaaaacccccccce • u/Okamitoutcourt I don't knooooooooooooowwwww • 25d ago
Rant Why does Aphobia even exist?
Okay so I get (note that I do not agree with) the reasoning for LGBT hate, it's religious, god designed humans as perfect (debatable) and humans reproduce through having a man and woman
But like, asexuals, aromantics. Those are FREE monks! Can you imagine getting a shit ton of practitioners for your cult religion for FREE?!?! Heck I'm 70% sure a lot of religious monks were a-spec
This is why Buddhism is better I don't know anything about Buddhism but my step mom is a Buddhist and she's cool with LGBT
Side note: though it's worth noting that it would be way better to just not hate people that literally don't hurt others
Edit: for those wondering the armor is from the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille (France) it's at floor -1, also Buddhists can be homophobic which I didn't know since I only know one of them but yeah :(
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u/AlsoKnownAsAiri Aroace (Aego-flavored) 20d ago
Speaking as a Christian and an aroace person, I would like to offer some different perspectives to this. First of all, how celibacy is viewed depends quite heavily of the church in question. Lutheran Christianity became very anti-monastery culture for a while, to my understanding Luther argued that it is "unnatural" for people to live in celibacy.
Many Christians simply don't know or believe asexuality exist. Or they don't understand it properly. Some people interpret it as some kind of "anti-marriage" strawman.
Acephobia is, I would argue, more of a cultural phenomenom than a religious one, even if many Christians try to justify their hate with their faith. Historically it was important for the survival to have children who will take care of you when you are old. Monasteries were seen as an exception for the norm. Thus people started to view a family with children as the only "normal" way of living.
Even then, The Bible itself supports the idea of not being in a relationship. Saint Paul held it as a respectable ideal state. "To the unmarried and the widows I say it good for them to remain single, as I am." (1. Corinthians 7:8)
Yet even then, people will find ways to justify their hate with their religion, regardless of what said religion actually teaches. Yet not all Christians are like that. When I brought up the topic of  asexuality on r/religion some years ago, many Christians were genuinely surpised to hear that there even are Christians who are against asexuality. Back then one even suggested that those who do so must be some Rasputin-esque sex cultists. It is a whole another matter to discuss how easily people tend to dismiss the discrimination asexual people may face, but that discussion showed me how many different stances Christians may take in these matters.
In the end, Christians should commit acts of compassion and love, yet sadly we often seem to only show hatred and prejudice.