crfriend wrote:...Much of the bigotry and most of the outright hate in government is directly traceable to it...
Ahh, Jenn and I were having a discussion about that the other day, when she got into a small spat with someone on hatebook (facebook) running down a 10 year old boy who was posting a video on how to apply makeup. The woman in question started preaching dogma, how this is an "abomination" and a sin, so on and so forth. Jenn attempted to put the woman in her place. I explained while it was decent of Jenn to take on the "good fight", she was ultimately, wasting her time. As you
never will change a bible thumping bigots mind, and that her efforts would be better spent ignoring the haters and simply posting a little praise and encouragement on the 10 year old's wall...
I furthered my assessment of religion in America by explaining that in my opinion, organized religion has NOTHING to do with saving souls or bringing people to God, nor does it have anything to do with bringing any sort of peace or solace to anyone involved. It is nothing more than a means of CONTROL. That's why so many politicians enforce so much religious dogma, because they too have their own world view of what they want society to look like... boys dress this way and girls dress that way. I hold that God never said anything about what anyone was wearing, and may it strike me dead where I stand if I'm in error. No- those rules and laws were the works of the prophets of the time speaking on behalf of God. Was it genuine? Nobody in the present era can possibly know. So some rely on faith. Now if someone wants to adhere to 3,000 old laws then that's fine with me, but personally, I will resist any attempt to have my life ruled by people who died three millenniums ago.
Jane Doe Facebooker has her own world view on what society should look like. It's a vision that makes her comfortable in her own little world, and she uses "religion" to enforce her views onto everyone else. If she really gave a damn about the 10 year old boy with the makeup tutorial, she'd leave him alone and let him be. No- she doesn't care about him, nor his salvation, she is simply disgusted by the notion of a 10 year old
male child, or any male for that matter engaging in such a blasphemy as applying makeup to his own face, and so she
plays God and cast her stones in his direction.
Everyone's a judge....
...and those that adhere to many of the tenets of the Old whilst being ostensibly based on the New do not.
Ain't it though.... Many like to pick and choose which biblical laws to follow, ignoring their own personal shortcomings and using the bible to slam people who don't fit within their view of what a "normal person" should be, or look like. See the paragraph above- it's all about
CONTROL, and has NOTHING to do with God or any sort of divine salvation.
Astonishingly, gods are cowards when it comes to matters such as this. Well, they're either cowards or they simply don't exist.
Well, my door is still open. I've been waiting two years for this "God" of theirs to come down here and say something to me, but so far... nothing. And I don't want to hear that crap from anyone if I should come into a car accident, or get fired, or diagnosed with some bizarre cancer of flesh eating bacteria that this was "a sign from God". If this "God" of theirs has to completely ruin my life because I choose to wear something with one tubes rather than two, when a simple "tap on the shoulder" from above would suffice, then this God is not worthy of worship, and I sure as hell wouldn't want to spend eternity with such an entity. Satan seems much easier to get along with....