After reading homophobic comments yesterday, it dawned on me

[Hellbound Hellhound]

47. I think both are man-made, for varying permutations of "Man Made".

Religion came about as a means to comprehend and conceptualize theories or concepts that had no clear answer. I believe even the modern Roman Catholic Church accepts this as true, in that "For everything we cannot prove, Religion and Faith answer". I paraphrase, but a quote like that was made fairly similarly but I can't remember where from. Anyways, religion, or rather the belief in an afterlife of some kind, was a way for primitive humanity to conceptualize the concept of death in a way that wasn't existentially based. In essence, early humans needed to find a way to justify their existence and in embracing religion (of some sort or another), they were able to eliminate the threat of existential dread and suicidal ideation, and only millennia later was religion turned into what we consider it today. See Stonehenge or the Pyramids for an example.

Likewise, it's my opinion and generally (but not universally accepted) fact that if homosexuality is genetic, AKA "Born this way", then it's a mutation, as modern understanding of evolution would classify homosexuality as an abnormal mutation of genes. Vast industrialization and medical modernization allow people like homosexuals to exist in a climate where, if left to their own devices, they'd die off due to lack of ability to procreate. Homosexuals as a whole are man made by virtue of population and mutation, but homophobia is not. This is only possible with a rapid and rampant reproduction of what would be considered "Straight" people, as mutations can only develop in breeding pairs (I.E., male/female interactions), therefore the higher the breeding population (And by extension, the more "artificial" the society and enabling of breeding) the greater potential for mutation. It's simply an "In group or out group" mechanic indicative of evolutionary traits in our early history, where it became learned to the genetic level that "out" groups don't belong. It's essentially racism, just based in genitals; "Us versus them." In this case, "Procreators versus non-procreators". "Humanity versus Inhumanity".

It sounds harsh but it's a strictly logical and historical analysis of what we currently know of human evolution. Religion came about as a method to quantify what could arguably be called a meaningless existence, and since people tend to try to justify the "Why" of life they embrace it wholeheartedly, while homosexuality came about as a function of rampant overpopulation and enabling of genetic manipulation through selective breeding and artificial genetics with the support of aggressive socio-economic policies.

One came about from society trying to understand existence, the other came about from random mutation and overpopulation. Both are technically man-made.