Wow . . . there's something about the thought of God making a guy gay, then choosing not to save him and instead watching him suffer and die that just makes me want to kick God in his spiritual nuts. What the fuck is up with that? These guys worship the aspect of a deity that didn't take its meds in the morning. If that was the case (and I know in my heart it isn't, but let's just pretend that it it, for the sake of this sentence), then God is one cruel and sadistic fucker.
Though as for the rest of this article . . . it's a good thing. More than one person I know is guilty of assuming the worst about all Christians, and hell, even I was guilty of that at one point, because I was in my self-righteous, "Christians abuse stuff and are so self-righteous and their teachers are just stolen from a bunch of other religions anyway, so why should I listen?" stage. (Thank whatever deity you believe in that my teenage years are over, huh? :p) But then I met a bunch of actually cool Christians. The kind that didn't tell me on a daily basis that I was going to hell because I didn't believe that the bible was the absolute truth of the world. The ones that made spiritual belief a big part of their lives, but didn't have it filling them so much that they forced it on others against their will. My first real introduction to Christianity was in the form of an overzealous old friend of mine, and she actually made me start to fear Christians to an extent. After all, I didn't believe what they did, so I'm going to hell, so they all hate me, right?
(Except that no, they don't, and cool people set me right, and for that I thank them. ^_^)
It is a shame how only the worst and best examples of everything are trotted out for the public to see, and the majority of the people, who are somewhere in the middle, get lumped in with the rest of the extremists to a point where they can't even speak their own views without being called liars, or worse. I wish more people had this guy's opinion, that the worst doesn't stand for everybody.
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Date: 2005-01-07 04:26 pm (UTC)Though as for the rest of this article . . . it's a good thing. More than one person I know is guilty of assuming the worst about all Christians, and hell, even I was guilty of that at one point, because I was in my self-righteous, "Christians abuse stuff and are so self-righteous and their teachers are just stolen from a bunch of other religions anyway, so why should I listen?" stage. (Thank whatever deity you believe in that my teenage years are over, huh? :p) But then I met a bunch of actually cool Christians. The kind that didn't tell me on a daily basis that I was going to hell because I didn't believe that the bible was the absolute truth of the world. The ones that made spiritual belief a big part of their lives, but didn't have it filling them so much that they forced it on others against their will. My first real introduction to Christianity was in the form of an overzealous old friend of mine, and she actually made me start to fear Christians to an extent. After all, I didn't believe what they did, so I'm going to hell, so they all hate me, right?
(Except that no, they don't, and cool people set me right, and for that I thank them. ^_^)
It is a shame how only the worst and best examples of everything are trotted out for the public to see, and the majority of the people, who are somewhere in the middle, get lumped in with the rest of the extremists to a point where they can't even speak their own views without being called liars, or worse. I wish more people had this guy's opinion, that the worst doesn't stand for everybody.