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.
