Foreplay and Fangs

knightspendid:

jathis:

momo-deary:

jathis:

I’ll see you there, motherfucker.

I’ll see you there.

I wasn’t baptized under their beliefs, so I apparently can’t go to hell but to purgatory :o Which is supposedly an enormous and endless blank canvas that you can fly around in~ BRING MARKERS AND PAINT!!! <3

Well I’m apparently the worst Catholic ever so…unless the Pope rearranges the afterlife again I’m “screwed”

Things Jesus never said jack shit about: homosexuality.

Things Jesus repeatedly warned against: judging others.

“Christians” who tell anyone that they’re going to hell are in serious danger of literally drowning in hypocrisy.

WORD.  (emphasis added).

I am happy to keep the fate of my eternal soul between me and my God, thank you.  And MUAH! to all the gay, lesbian and transgendered folks out there.  I fully support and encourage you.  <3 <3 <3

innerchrist:

…you’d think it would have been easier for him to make people straight rather than rely on the nonsensical hatred of his most loyal sheep.

Just sayin’.

I’m reposting this because it’s the second time in as many days I’ve seen this brought up.  A friend on Facebook recently posted that his mother felt the government ought to be “stopping people from getting into Sodom and Gomorrah”.  Which I’m going to assume means homosexuality, since that seems to be the common interpretation of what Sodom and Gomorrah boils down to.

Now, first off, part of me thinks there’s more to the Sodom and Gomorrah story than just, “people were acting gay”, but that’s beside the point.

I believe in an all-powerful and (more important) all-LOVING God.  I vehemently adhere to the belief that God is Love, and in his omnipotent power, he has every chance to “make” people straight, or Christian, or whatever he may “want” them to be.  I’m very much into the idea that a person’s identity (in all aspects of their personality) is the sum total of all God desires for them in order for them to be capable of achieving happiness and fulfillment.

If that means a particular individual — or several thousand individuals in a population — find themselves attracted to/falling in love with members of the same sex, or if they at some point in their life seek to become transgendered, or whatever interpretation one wants to apply to “getting into Sodom and Gomorrah”, I personally believe that must be part of God’s plan for them.  As long as they are being true to themselves I don’t see any evidence that a God of Love intends punishment or damnation for this.  I mean, frankly, IF God really had such a problem with this, why WOULD he need “followers” to carry out his will in the matter?  If one takes the story of Sodom and Gomorrah at its most basic interpretation — which I don’t really endorse but for sake of argument let’s go with it  — one should expect that God could “stop people from getting into” it just fine himself.  I find it supremely arrogant to assume that WE, as God’s followers, would be required to act in ignorance and hate to achieve His will in a manner that could just as easily be resolved as the above poster suggests, by God himself shaping their being as he desired them to be.

Therefore, I must also believe that if God desires someone to find happiness and love in relationships with people of the same sex, then he can damn well do that.

And I also believe that the greater sin is being untrue to oneself and the path God desires for you to walk.  If that path means finding yourself attracted to and loving members of the same sex… I say embrace it and celebrate it.  I shall also do so.