Sometimes people randomly drop insults to Christians on LJ, and I feel like I'm not allowed to point out that it's me they're insulting because if I call attention to the fact I'm Christian, people will decide I'm here to fight with all the gay people on LJ in spite of never having done so. You sound way more liberal than me, and in fact I do believe that gay sex is wrong (along with a lot of straight relationships), but I really don't care what other people get up to and I can be friends with people who disagree with me. I certainly don't think being gay makes anyone a bad person. And harassing people? Definitely a bigger sin than breaking the rules about who to have sex with. But because there's this loud group out there of people calling themselves Christians and then using the Bible to make themselves feel superior to everyone else, the rest of us get screwed. Those people, not gays, are "the enemy" of the church.
I'm also sick of people making posts like the one you quoted that imply that you have to be tricked into believing in God as a child in order to ever be religious, and that it's some sort of evil conspiracy that causes us to actually tell our own children about our most important beliefs. It's insulting.
People (on both sides) just enjoy feeling oppressed, because that makes them righteous. I'm sorry you're getting stuck in the middle of it all.
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Date: 2011-03-06 12:03 am (UTC)I'm also sick of people making posts like the one you quoted that imply that you have to be tricked into believing in God as a child in order to ever be religious, and that it's some sort of evil conspiracy that causes us to actually tell our own children about our most important beliefs. It's insulting.
People (on both sides) just enjoy feeling oppressed, because that makes them righteous. I'm sorry you're getting stuck in the middle of it all.