Okay, here's the thing. I know there are a lot of jerks out
there who use their Bible (or Quaran or Tanakh or any other religious text) to
justify their rights to be bigoted, intolerant assholes. I don't like them,
either. But at the risk of coming off as a whiny #notallchristians post,
it does get a bit tiresome being lumped in with the haters all of the time. I'm
about as flaming liberal as I can get. I also believe in God. The god I believe
in isn't Santa Claus, and hedoesn't have any interest in who wins the Super
Bowl or Survivor or finding your lost iPad. He's also not spending all of his
time damning people to hell for their sins, bc I don't believe in hell. My God
is, however, a source of comfort to me, as is my belief that we have souls that
continue after this life is over--in what realm or plain, I have no idea. And I
get that--my faith is just a source of comfort to ME. I'm fairly certain none
of my friends who are atheist or agnostic would ever say I've tried to convert
them to my way of thinking. But as another friend posted recently, it does feel
lately as though if I admit to having a faith, I'm opening myself up to
ridicule. We don't all suck, okay? And I will never, nor have I ever, told E
she has to be good bc SIN. And I still love a good sacrilegious joke. Peace.
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