"Devaluing, dehumanizing, hating or harming others are linch pins for suffering." 2:15 mantra, 6:45 contemplation.

Devaluing, dehumanizing, hating or harming others are linchpins for suffering.  Maybe, or they could be systems.  If our souls are in conflict with the universe, we want to explain, find a reason and then find a way to remedy the explanation or reason.  Often, we look to external factors.  Maybe we automatically decide that the non-sentient aspects of the universe are as they should be and have no means, desire or motive to make us suffer.  So, then we look to place blame on the sentient aspects, other people.  Of course, I would want myself to suffer, so it could be me, from within.  Therefore it must be caused by other people.  So, then if they are the cause, then they are to blame.  If they are to blame, then they are not what they should be.  So they are worth less then they should be, less valued.  They are not what humans should be, I dehumanize them.  I blame them so I have hate towards them.  I want revenge or punishment so I harm them.  Wow, it all kind of makes sense.  But, suffering really comes from within on how we choose to be in relationship with ourselves, with the universe and with those we encounter.  Suffering comes from believing we are not what we think we should be.  Once you realize that there is no should about how you are, that you are a natural beautiful part of the universe, then the reasons for devaluing, dehumanizing, hating or harming others fall away.  Few of us ever fully embrace ourselves as we are in the universe, so we are never fully free of our sin.  Of those who hate homosexuals, I imagine, they can fully accept themselves and hate others.  The behavior I see doesn’t contradict that on the surface of my thoughts now.  So what is the source of that hate.  Is it because if it is an abomination and God wouldn’t create abominations, then who is responsible. Or is it as a servant of God, it is their job to eliminate abomination.  There is conflict in thought there.  If God created the heavens and earth, why would he create creatures prone to abomination.  Then, why would he allow it.  Why would he need people to cleanse the abominations.  There is no love in that and God is love.  God is not hate.  Is the God aspect a rationalizing to fear of that which is different, what which is unknown?  And, is it a fear that if something is different, then it could mean that what they believe is suspect, that who they are is suspect, that they can’t accept different ways of being can exist in harmony with the universe, with God’s plan, that God wouldn’t create things so different, that he would create all things uniformly adhering to a single standard? Your sins are not symptoms of unworthy. You are worthy as you are.  They are symptoms of our fears.  Cure the fears, cure the sin.