This article is about fundamentalist religious belief. It mentions homosexuality, but the point has nothing to do with homosexuality.

A preacher once said that gays are mentally ill and God will punish them forever in hell.

Now put yourself in the mind of a fundamentalist Christian sitting in the pew. He hears “Gays are mentally ill” and his heart nods in agreement. He hears “God will punish them forever in hell” and his emotions agree.

His emotions have spoken. They agree. But his mind is sleeping and dormant, the habitual state of some fundamentalists Christians.

Now, imagine his mind awakes. He puts two and two together and gets four. That is, he puts “homosexuals are mentally ill” together with “God punishes them forever in hell,” uses elementary logic, and arrives at the obvious, logical conclusion: “God punishes the mentally ill for being mentally ill.”

Ba Zing Ga. The Awakened Mind Attacks! Attacks? Not really. Rather, the mind is merely doing what God created it for. It’s doing what any healthy mind would do. It hears two and then another two and calculates, almost automatically, the answer: four!

Elementary logic destroys some Christian belief. Who knew? Fundamentalist religion is often emotion-based and makes no logical sense. Christianity: The story of God impregnating a woman who wasn’t his wife so he could sacrifice himself to himself to save us from himself. Maybe it should be called “Funny-Mentalist” religion?