The Gospel Binding

You know, it’s funny. I tell myself religion isn’t something I want to get into debates about. It isn’t worth losing good friends. But to say the truth, when you put something or someone on a pedestal, you will fight to keep it there. And when multiple people put something on different pedestals, they will try to tear the others’ down. That’s just how we work. Rise above! Why can only a few see that we are all connected?

            This is completely comprised of my own opinions. Please don’t hate me for it, and certainly don’t assume I am attacking you and your beliefs, fore I am neither. I am simply stating what I think is true. It doesn’t have to be the same as what you think is true, or different that you either. It can simply be. If you can’t accept that, just stop reading. No one is making you read it.

            That’s another thing I don’t get. You aren’t obligated to respond to what others say. Everyone’s opinions are simply that �" opinions. If someone states their opinion, why do you have to degrade their opinion to raise your opinion above it? It’s an even playing field. They are all equally valid. As long as no one is physically wounded by it, why does it matter? If you and a friend were arguing over your favorite colors, and you chose blue and he chose red, you wouldn’t end your friendship over it would you? No, of course not! You would agree that you disagree on the subject. So why can’t people do that with religion? Why can’t you sit down and say I believe this, and you believe that, and we don’t agree, but that’s okay?

            Now onto a specific issue that I’ve noticed going around. Gay vs. Christian. How does that even make sense? One is a religion, the other a sexuality. They shouldn’t even be argued as opposites. They aren’t. There are gay Christians, and straight Christians, and gay Muslims, and gay Atheists, and all the other religions too. Why must people be for one or the other? Why not both?

            People argue that it is immature to degrade opinions. But by defending their own, they are degrading another’s. Isn’t arguing over which opinion is ‘better’ immature in itself? Although, in all seriousness, isn’t what I’m saying right now immature too? I don’t deny that.

            But if you think about all of this with an open mind, you might see what I have to say with some validity. We are all people; we all use the same water, breathe the same air and live on the same planet. Why must we always tear each other apart for our differences, instead of build each other up for our similarities?

            And this, my dear friends, is why, as much as I love every living thing on this planet, people are at the bottom of my list . . .