Jesus is God.
Jesus is God, God is Jesus.
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.
That last sentence was spoken by Nietzsche, a man of philosophy (though really you could argue a man of many things) who wrote about it in Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883 - 1891), though was first used in The Gay Science (1882). Of course, this idea could have been sparked by many others - Nietzsche was the first to really speak of it in great lengths.
Religion is always a touchy subject for many, I'm quite open in my beliefs. Raised as a "be whoever you want to be" but with the influence of my paternal grandparents and their forceful nature, I grew up pretty Christian. Baptised under Anglicanism, my parents were married in a church (with both parents divorcing and remarrying with the religious ceremony replaced by a non-denominational wedding officiant), my maternal grandparents were raised in The Church of England (Anglican again) and it wasn't until I was in my teens when I thought "you know what, maybe I'm agnostic" because we don't really know if God is real, we understand Jesus was a person but maybe he wasn't Jesus Christ Superstar Jesus.
I have friends of many different faiths, and I'm not an arsehole who goes around "your faith isn't real, your faith isn't real, what up my agnostic dude, your faith isn't real." Because really, you're just an arsehole if you do that. The world is different, and if we're all the same there's no fun in that. A lot of people like to think that there's a God and there's an afterlife, and that's okay, we all have our different beliefs (except for Scientology, it's a scam and a cult and you can't change my opinion).
I think religion has its place, but if you force it on others it just ends up messy. When you take the scripture, and you take the word of God and Jesus and mould that into something else, to mould it and say that LGBTQ+ people are evil, that Muslims are evil, that women are evil. Then you're fucked up. When people say they're against LGBTQ+, I ask where in the Bible does it say that. Because we're talking Leviticus which is Old Testament, and in the Old Testament it also mentions that slavery is okay, that letting your daughter marry her rapist is okay, child brides are okay. But you must not wear clothes from different cloth, that you must not eat pork, and you must not do this and that.
People who are ultra-Christian (though they're not Christian, because they take away the real meaning of faith) can't pick and choose what they believe, the reason why there is an old testament is because one guy said "mmm, this is a bit too much, let's make a new testament about love!" and everyone went "yep, good idea Jim, let's go to the printing press!" (printing presses weren't invented when The New Testament was made, and there might not have been a guy named Jim back then too). Thus, when religious folk (Christians) take on the words of The Old Testament, they're picking and choosing what to believe, and if you do that then you can't call yourself a Christian, because Jesus said nothing about gay people, he was a Middle-Eastern dude, hanging out with (roughly) 12 dudes, some tax-collectors and a bunch of sex workers so...
If I had to become religious, I would choose Anglican. The group likes the gays, and everyone in between and is chill. Though I had recently learnt about Quakerism and I probably like that religion a little bit more. Jessica Kellgren-Fozard is who I learnt Quakerism from and she's cool. Disabled and gay, and very very cool. Religion is touchy, but I think, if we learn to accept everyone's religions (except scientology, cult and scam) then the world might be better (might be).
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.
That last sentence was spoken by Nietzsche, a man of philosophy (though really you could argue a man of many things) who wrote about it in Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883 - 1891), though was first used in The Gay Science (1882). Of course, this idea could have been sparked by many others - Nietzsche was the first to really speak of it in great lengths.
Religion is always a touchy subject for many, I'm quite open in my beliefs. Raised as a "be whoever you want to be" but with the influence of my paternal grandparents and their forceful nature, I grew up pretty Christian. Baptised under Anglicanism, my parents were married in a church (with both parents divorcing and remarrying with the religious ceremony replaced by a non-denominational wedding officiant), my maternal grandparents were raised in The Church of England (Anglican again) and it wasn't until I was in my teens when I thought "you know what, maybe I'm agnostic" because we don't really know if God is real, we understand Jesus was a person but maybe he wasn't Jesus Christ Superstar Jesus.
I have friends of many different faiths, and I'm not an arsehole who goes around "your faith isn't real, your faith isn't real, what up my agnostic dude, your faith isn't real." Because really, you're just an arsehole if you do that. The world is different, and if we're all the same there's no fun in that. A lot of people like to think that there's a God and there's an afterlife, and that's okay, we all have our different beliefs (except for Scientology, it's a scam and a cult and you can't change my opinion).
I think religion has its place, but if you force it on others it just ends up messy. When you take the scripture, and you take the word of God and Jesus and mould that into something else, to mould it and say that LGBTQ+ people are evil, that Muslims are evil, that women are evil. Then you're fucked up. When people say they're against LGBTQ+, I ask where in the Bible does it say that. Because we're talking Leviticus which is Old Testament, and in the Old Testament it also mentions that slavery is okay, that letting your daughter marry her rapist is okay, child brides are okay. But you must not wear clothes from different cloth, that you must not eat pork, and you must not do this and that.
People who are ultra-Christian (though they're not Christian, because they take away the real meaning of faith) can't pick and choose what they believe, the reason why there is an old testament is because one guy said "mmm, this is a bit too much, let's make a new testament about love!" and everyone went "yep, good idea Jim, let's go to the printing press!" (printing presses weren't invented when The New Testament was made, and there might not have been a guy named Jim back then too). Thus, when religious folk (Christians) take on the words of The Old Testament, they're picking and choosing what to believe, and if you do that then you can't call yourself a Christian, because Jesus said nothing about gay people, he was a Middle-Eastern dude, hanging out with (roughly) 12 dudes, some tax-collectors and a bunch of sex workers so...
If I had to become religious, I would choose Anglican. The group likes the gays, and everyone in between and is chill. Though I had recently learnt about Quakerism and I probably like that religion a little bit more. Jessica Kellgren-Fozard is who I learnt Quakerism from and she's cool. Disabled and gay, and very very cool. Religion is touchy, but I think, if we learn to accept everyone's religions (except scientology, cult and scam) then the world might be better (might be).
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