Stupid Goes a Long Way
Oct. 7th, 2007 02:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annundrielThis morning I was debating about going to church because I felt like crap, but I went because I didn't go last week and I won't go for a couple of weeks after this. Plus, Mom gave me the good drugs. But, wow, I really shouldn't have bothered.
It was...really frustrating. At the end of mass we always have announcements, but lately we've been getting really unimportant, can't-this-wait-until-later kind of talk. (Do we get new carpet or new tile?) Material better suited for chatting over your coffee and cookies. Today someone, the same someone who brought up the carpet/tile issue, brought to our attention something that was anti-Catholic and pro-homosexual in San Francisco. Which was fine. I mostly stood there and listened and wondered when it would be over.
But then someone else got up and started talking about San Francisco being a "city of sin" and the "gays, or the devil, trying to take over the world" and starting there. At this point Dad left. If I had the guts to just leave like that, I would. But I care too much about what people think of me to just be like, "You know what? Forget this."
I just...I understand that homosexuality isn't something that the Catholic church supports, but I just don't understand this belief in evil. Or even mild badness. I will never understand why we're taught to love our neighbor as ourself, and then shown to only do it when they're like ourselves. It's like that whole "all men are created equal, but some men are more equal than others." And this isn't even just sexuality, it's other religions. Or any differences.
When it comes down to it, and this is the part that could get me into the role of hypocrite regarding other practices, I can't believe in a God that punishes you for loving someone.
Does this all make sense now that I've typed it out? ::shrug:: Who knows. I needed to rant a bit. And I don't mean to be offensive or anything here, and I really do believe in everyone's right to their opinion, but I had to get that out there.
Of course, little do they know what I write in my free time. And that makes me laugh.
It was...really frustrating. At the end of mass we always have announcements, but lately we've been getting really unimportant, can't-this-wait-until-later kind of talk. (Do we get new carpet or new tile?) Material better suited for chatting over your coffee and cookies. Today someone, the same someone who brought up the carpet/tile issue, brought to our attention something that was anti-Catholic and pro-homosexual in San Francisco. Which was fine. I mostly stood there and listened and wondered when it would be over.
But then someone else got up and started talking about San Francisco being a "city of sin" and the "gays, or the devil, trying to take over the world" and starting there. At this point Dad left. If I had the guts to just leave like that, I would. But I care too much about what people think of me to just be like, "You know what? Forget this."
I just...I understand that homosexuality isn't something that the Catholic church supports, but I just don't understand this belief in evil. Or even mild badness. I will never understand why we're taught to love our neighbor as ourself, and then shown to only do it when they're like ourselves. It's like that whole "all men are created equal, but some men are more equal than others." And this isn't even just sexuality, it's other religions. Or any differences.
When it comes down to it, and this is the part that could get me into the role of hypocrite regarding other practices, I can't believe in a God that punishes you for loving someone.
Does this all make sense now that I've typed it out? ::shrug:: Who knows. I needed to rant a bit. And I don't mean to be offensive or anything here, and I really do believe in everyone's right to their opinion, but I had to get that out there.
Of course, little do they know what I write in my free time. And that makes me laugh.
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Date: 2007-10-07 11:27 pm (UTC)I was just thinking today as I was waiting for the stupid baseball game to be transferred from TNT to TBS [which cut into the movie I was watching!], how close minded people are. Then I flip the channel to some news show [CNN, Fox, one of those] and they're doing a quick story on that navy building that's in the shape of a swastika. OH NOES! TEH EBUL BLDG! Anyway, after laughing at those dumb people protesting it, they say "and up next!" which is a story about a man who USED to be a Nazi during WW2 and whether he should be allowed to live in America or be booted out. My initial thought? GET AN EFFING LIFE PEOPLE! Okay- maybe he was teh ebul man during the war. But unless he's raping children, skinning kitties and pushing his ideas of a skinhead, Aryan race and world domination through killing all Jews, he's just an old man! Maybe he was forced into it at a young age. Maybe he didn't want to be. And if that's the case, he's going to be persecuted because of something that wasn't his choice? Much like gays, they don't have a choice. They are who they are, or were who they were and no matter what, everyone is still a human with human flaws.
Except for the irratus bug human hybrid people from "Vengeance" - they're just demon spawn who should be allowed no love whatsoever. And John hates those things.
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Date: 2007-10-09 10:30 pm (UTC)As for the former Nazi, as you say, maybe he was forced into it. I mean, the new Pope was involved in some sort of Nazi party when he was a boy. Something about everyone of a certain age being involved? (I'm awful with facts and can't be bothered to look this up.) Also, I can't help thinking, "What about all the evil people already in our country? Huh? What about them?"
And, yes, those bug-hybrids are allowed no love. John has a serious phobia. He makes Rodney smush the spiders he finds. Wasn't it funny how John was focused on the movie Alien? (And in "Submersion" he's focused on The Abyss.) And Rodney's "D'you think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?" makes me laugh and laugh.