I must warn you that it is rather extensive and also potentially offensive to those who strictly follow a specific religion.
I just want to get something clear before I delve into this. I don’t follow a religion. I grew up going to a Catholic school and my aunts, uncles, cousins, grandma, and pretty much my entire family besides my parents were religious. So I had people shoving jesus down my throat all the time. But I never felt anything when I went to church. I never felt a spiritual connection when I was praying in a pew or singing the gospel.
I’m not saying those that claim otherwise are lying or deluded. I respect everyone’s beliefs and faith as long as they aren’t using it as a way to convince themselves that immoral practices are justified because of their religion. For example, sacrifices. If your religion states that you are entitled to sacrificing babies every full moon whilst performing a sacrificial dance, then no respect from me.
That being said, I guess it’s necessary that I give you a little insight into what I believe. No, I don't believe in a god. I don’t see an omniscient being sitting in the sky controlling the universe. No. I believe this genderless deity is something beyond human comprehension. I don’t believe in a heaven and a hell or an afterlife. None of that stuff makes sense to me. There are so many unanswered questions that come with religious beliefs and there really is no proof at all.
What do I believe? Nothing, really. I'm not the type of person to believe in anything like that. The most logical explanation for after we die to me is that we just poof out of existence forever. Like a lit candle that's suddenly blown out. Nothing.
Yes, I know that isn't pleasant thinking. Because how terrible is the idea of leaving forever? Becoming nothingness? Merely a body buried beneath the ground? Of course people want to believe in something. The idea of living on after we leave isn't as scary as being buried underground and left there to rot forever. Believing those that leave us are in eternal paradise awaiting our arrival makes death less upsetting. I do try to understand why other people have faith. But sometimes its hard to understand religious people. The kind of religious people who try to shove their opinions down your throat, quote the bible constantly, tell you that you're a sinner because of who you love or how you live your life?
Which leads me to homosexuality.
What kind of god would punish those who love? What kind of being would look at irrelevant, petty things like gender and orientation and curse them with the same eternal suffering that those who kill the innocent are given? The bible says it’s a sin, does it? The bible also says lying is a sin. That being envious of the things other people have is a sin. Premarital sex. Being lazy. Swearing. Drinking. Tattooing. Smoking. How many of these things have you done? Just look at this. It goes on for ages. Yes, yes. We’re all fucked, aren’t we? It’s all pointless mortal engagements that mean absolutely nothing in the midst of this endless universe we exist in. Please do not preach to me. I am not degrading those that follow the word of the bible. Anyone who choose to live a moral life is fine by me. But I will not sit here and believe that your God actually takes into consideration something like who we choose to love when determining the purity of the soul. I cannot grasp how people give god human attributes like that. Homosexuality is not wrong in the eyes of the universe. Sexuality is about as integral as what my favorite color is. There are much darker things you can do to your soul than fall in love with a member the same gender as you. It simply doesn’t matter.
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