As for gay people it’s already proven that a large percentage of them are republican senators, and other less prominent members of the religious right, and just in denial of their homosexuality, which to me is pretty much the most conclusive evidence that homosexuality is not a choice. If it's so attractive to be homosexual, why would you join hate groups like the religious right, and much of the Republican Party, and live a secret homosexual life?
The only thing wrong with
homosexuality is that the world doesn’t accept it and live and let live. The bible is a fiction novel (yes catocom, its true and if you want that debate I can prove it conclusively in one post, but as for convincing you I did well, who knows....). That is not to say the bible is not rife with spiritual wisdom that should be applied to one's life, no matter whether you are religious or not. Trouble is, its way to complex and dangerous in the hands of most people and is better left alone. The notion that it is the infallible "word of God" is one of the most heinous lies ever told. and perhaps also somehow oddly true at the same time.
Well actually let me clarify, a little more, "fiction novel" is a terminological inexactitude, and an extremely simplistic, and insulting (to some) way to label it, and not even close entirely accurate. More accurately it is a history and superstition book, with many cases of "divine inspiration" within it, that is just as subject to "revisionist history" as any other....Or at least it's the best I can explain my understanding of it.
And as for homosexuality being a sin? If it is, the people who wrote the bible did not know it was because there is no word for homosexual in the language in which the bible was written. It is only a misinterpretation, based on the bias of the people who authored modern language translations.
I know the Christians in here are probably thinking I just blasphemed, and that ok with me, because I consider myself a Christian by default, but I despise the label of Christian. I believe in the golden rule. My culture is by default Christian, and this is the Christian version:
Matthew 22:35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him,
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
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This is the first and great commandment.
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And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
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On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
That is the new covenant, and anything anyone tells you some "scripture" means, that does not pass that litmus test is bullshit. Of course that tiny section of the bible, being the only really relevant and practical spiritual wisdom anyone would ever need, requires deep study to even come close to making a good effort living up to it, and human beings are rarely capable of such perfection, because
it’s not just black and white, it's that and every shade of grey all at once.
I have Christian friends who are really worried about my "default Christian status", and they are always asking me questions trying to convince themselves I'll make it to heaven with them. Silly simpletons I think to myself, but never say. When I say default Christian, I mean that it’s my culture and the religion I know and I am comfortable in traditional Christian churches (catholic and Episcopal and Lutheran and the like but certainly terrified and rightly so of evangelicals). I believe that Jesus was a great man and teacher and he was of "god", but no more than you, I, the next person, tree, or rock on the ground. God is ALL, and nothing, all at the same time to me. That golden rule is central to every major known religion, yet religion is a major cause of evil the world over. What that says to me is that all religions are man's attempt to put "god in a box" and god doesn't fit in a box. It’s certainly possible to find ones way to god through any handy religion, but it’s equally possible to find it in
agnosticism. But I personally think one truly finds god, being a true
agnostic is the only real way to be. Because there is a god, I'm not it, and I know very little beyond that. I try to live by the golden rule and for me that’s more religion than I can handle.
