Thursday, March 11, 2004
It started out like a boring blog
I am in a slight dilemma, I have some tough choices to make the next few weeks, regarding work, finances and future opportunities.
I was discussing religion with a small group of people today, it was interesting because in that particular groups there were Catholics, Anglicans, Jehovah Witnesses, and many other denominations of various "Christian" faiths. We were discussing the Passion of the Christ, which I am hoping to go see on Sunday, and other aspects of religion and common misconceptions about certain religions.
I have been pondering my own faith lately, what do I believe in, how that coincides with what I was brought up to believe, how I can believe in something that some people have twisted so much that they believe being gay is something unforgivable and will banish these people from their places of "worship". Yet these people commit adultery, go to prisons looking to redeem murders and rapists, and allow child molesters to commit their crimes in their churches and schools for YEARS!
It's disgusting!
It shakes me to my core, these people who choose to make one sin worse than another, where it quotes in the Bible that all sins are created equal. To love thy neighbor, yet in Ireland they both believe in the same damn book and they kill one another constantly! DUMBASSES!
It's amusing to me, I quit attending church when I had pre-marital sex, I didn't want to be a hypocrite, I didn't want to go to church every Sunday, after having slept with my (then) boyfriend the night before, it seemed wrong to me. I used to be friends with people who went out partying on Saturday night, and sand in the church choir Sunday morning, now, I am far from perfect, but I just could not do that.
I am struggling to make sense of a world, that is completely senseless. I have so much compassion, I get so frustrated with this society we live in, the lack of consideration human beings have for one another. I really am a stupid tree hugging hippie you know, it's sad and pathetic, but I find it amusing how we spend more time and money on killing and caging one another, than we do on feeding and sheltering one another.
I was discussing religion with a small group of people today, it was interesting because in that particular groups there were Catholics, Anglicans, Jehovah Witnesses, and many other denominations of various "Christian" faiths. We were discussing the Passion of the Christ, which I am hoping to go see on Sunday, and other aspects of religion and common misconceptions about certain religions.
I have been pondering my own faith lately, what do I believe in, how that coincides with what I was brought up to believe, how I can believe in something that some people have twisted so much that they believe being gay is something unforgivable and will banish these people from their places of "worship". Yet these people commit adultery, go to prisons looking to redeem murders and rapists, and allow child molesters to commit their crimes in their churches and schools for YEARS!
It's disgusting!
It shakes me to my core, these people who choose to make one sin worse than another, where it quotes in the Bible that all sins are created equal. To love thy neighbor, yet in Ireland they both believe in the same damn book and they kill one another constantly! DUMBASSES!
It's amusing to me, I quit attending church when I had pre-marital sex, I didn't want to be a hypocrite, I didn't want to go to church every Sunday, after having slept with my (then) boyfriend the night before, it seemed wrong to me. I used to be friends with people who went out partying on Saturday night, and sand in the church choir Sunday morning, now, I am far from perfect, but I just could not do that.
I am struggling to make sense of a world, that is completely senseless. I have so much compassion, I get so frustrated with this society we live in, the lack of consideration human beings have for one another. I really am a stupid tree hugging hippie you know, it's sad and pathetic, but I find it amusing how we spend more time and money on killing and caging one another, than we do on feeding and sheltering one another.
