I guess god wasn't listening
Yesterday, someone I work with mentioned a prayer vigil he attended over the weekend. He said he went and prayed for something to stop equal marriage from becoming law.
I'm used to his lunacy. He has to drive his family to work and school every morning and it's a schedule that brings him to his own work a half hour early every day. So he does what any normal person would do with a half hour to kill: he reads his bible.(?) This comes as no surprise coming from the same guy who thinks homosexuality is a mental illness.
I remember one time when I wanted something more than anything else and I prayed for it. OK, OK, I was 14 and it was the only way I could think of get what I wanted. For the first time, I had a reason to suspect I was gay and I was horrified. So I prayed to be straight. Didn't work.
Maybe it was my spotty attendance record at Sunday school or my meager tithe (I only had a small paper route for god sake). Or, maybe it was my chronic habit of taking the lord's name in vain.
He did meet me half way, sorta. I was able to take advantage of the fact that I'm somewhat bisexual and I ignored a whole half of myself until my late 20's. But I finally had to accept my gayness whether I liked it or not. It wasn't so bad.
Anyhow, I'm not surprised that my colleague's prayers went unanswered. Either god wasn't listening or there was a homo somewhere praying louder and longer than anyone. I personally think god doesn't give a damn either way.
posted by Top_Dog at 6/28/2005 09:53:00 PM
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I'm not religious at all, in fact, I'm still recovering from my ordeal with forced Catholicism, but if there is a god, I don't think god gives a shit who you put your dick in as long as the individual consents to it. I've been reading a lot lately about the bastardization of christianity by .. evil evil people with control issues. Christianity, waaaay back when it first started, was based on compassion for others through self knowledge. Like, if you love AND know all your faults and assets, you can love the faults and assets of others. Tolerance and all that hooplah. And what Christians are asking people to do is not be themselves and are trying to prevent them from accessing basic human rights. Which ... heh, ain't very Christian in the true sense of the word. I think these people are LOUD and they have MONEY but they are NOT the MAJORITY.
10:56 PM
And, predictably, they are prepared to resurrect the issue come election time. The majority of Canadians voted for a parties that openly endorsed equal marriage as part of their official platform. But butthead Harper doesn't get the hint and will try again to make a wedge issue out of it. Why is it that people who nurture their faith neglect their common sense?
11:11 PM
Well, I think people think they are nurturing their faith by praising Jesus as loud as they can but what they're really doing is babbling out loud, not practicing faith. Faith to me, means faith in people, in humanity, and I'll admit to having very little. There is evidence that a dude named Jesus did walk the earth, but he wasn't going around telling everyone to have faith in him. I mean, why would people think believing literally in myths about a magic dude is morally better than having faith and loving and respecting your fellow human beings? Their kind of faith is really ignorance. There are sociologists who are concerned that if these people really get a grip, we'll all head back into a dark age. And I'll be burned at the stake. But anyway, sometimes, when I don't read the news for a couple of days, I actually start to believe that *most* of the people in this world wouldn't allow that to happen. That we will remain free to love who we want, to read what we want, create our own art, and respect each other. That's on good days tho.
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