Where The Love Is At
Goddess, this is pretty disgusting. (Why is it everytime I read something online, it is something distressing?)
The poor kid ... I can't even pretend to imagine what he's going through. The Flypaper Theory's post is titled (partially) right - some christian folks really dig torture. But then again, most people should've caught the bloody clue when them christians adopted the Roman crucifix - a torture device - as their emblem, no?
And it's more than a little ironic that all these brain-wash programs designed to "convert" non-heterosexuals to heterosexualism are so (grossly mis)named - "Love In Action" and "Choices" (my grotty 'lil island's own perverted program). I don't understand these christian people - why the cruelty, why the intolerance, why the vicious hate? Is their bible good for nothing else but promoting fanaticism and bigotry?
Okay, so I haven't really read the entire new testament, but I've tried (and it's really the thought that counts, right?). It's just that my eyes and attention wouldn't cooperate, and I never got past the first two lines in genesis. And spending six of my formative years in a methodist girls' school means I've sung my fair share of hymns, and attended enough chapel sessions (a half hour every week for six years) to have been corrupted by them pretty thoroughly.
But the heart knows. The heart knows when it doesn't feel right; the heart knew when everything that I was being preached to didn't seem right, and always ended up as an indigestible lump choking my throat and upsetting my tummy. Even as an impressionable seven-year-old, christianity felt wrong, no matter how hard and long I tried at being a good little methodist girl.
My mostly-aetheist parents had the right idea - "You can choose your own religion when you're older, but not now" - I think that's pretty cool now, but when religion was just another means to fitting in with the peers, I was pretty pissed off I weren't allowed to get properly converted. Thank Goddess for my parents.
I wonder how they would react to homosexuality though - especially if it hits really close to home. While I'm pretty confident they won't be like poor Zach's heartless parents and force their kid into joining some utterly shite christian brainwashing program, but how accepting will they be, being the traditional Chinese parents that they are?
Being gay is never a bad thing. Really. It only seems like a bad thing when people who think it is a bad thing say and do horrible things to gay people. Being gay is not a matter of choice; so why is it being gay can hurt people when a gay person hasn't done anything hurt to the ones who are hurt?
Sometimes, I don't understand people at all. It'd be a horribly depressing and dull world if nobody were gay - so why the bigotry and discrimmination and hate crimes?
The poor kid ... I can't even pretend to imagine what he's going through. The Flypaper Theory's post is titled (partially) right - some christian folks really dig torture. But then again, most people should've caught the bloody clue when them christians adopted the Roman crucifix - a torture device - as their emblem, no?
And it's more than a little ironic that all these brain-wash programs designed to "convert" non-heterosexuals to heterosexualism are so (grossly mis)named - "Love In Action" and "Choices" (my grotty 'lil island's own perverted program). I don't understand these christian people - why the cruelty, why the intolerance, why the vicious hate? Is their bible good for nothing else but promoting fanaticism and bigotry?
Okay, so I haven't really read the entire new testament, but I've tried (and it's really the thought that counts, right?). It's just that my eyes and attention wouldn't cooperate, and I never got past the first two lines in genesis. And spending six of my formative years in a methodist girls' school means I've sung my fair share of hymns, and attended enough chapel sessions (a half hour every week for six years) to have been corrupted by them pretty thoroughly.
But the heart knows. The heart knows when it doesn't feel right; the heart knew when everything that I was being preached to didn't seem right, and always ended up as an indigestible lump choking my throat and upsetting my tummy. Even as an impressionable seven-year-old, christianity felt wrong, no matter how hard and long I tried at being a good little methodist girl.
My mostly-aetheist parents had the right idea - "You can choose your own religion when you're older, but not now" - I think that's pretty cool now, but when religion was just another means to fitting in with the peers, I was pretty pissed off I weren't allowed to get properly converted. Thank Goddess for my parents.
I wonder how they would react to homosexuality though - especially if it hits really close to home. While I'm pretty confident they won't be like poor Zach's heartless parents and force their kid into joining some utterly shite christian brainwashing program, but how accepting will they be, being the traditional Chinese parents that they are?
Being gay is never a bad thing. Really. It only seems like a bad thing when people who think it is a bad thing say and do horrible things to gay people. Being gay is not a matter of choice; so why is it being gay can hurt people when a gay person hasn't done anything hurt to the ones who are hurt?
Sometimes, I don't understand people at all. It'd be a horribly depressing and dull world if nobody were gay - so why the bigotry and discrimmination and hate crimes?
posted by s at 20:18
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