My religion

I grew up with a God.

I grew up thinking that I hated being at Gay pride even though my aunt forced me too and I was only fourteen. I grew up around loving Gay uncles, Gay friends who acted more like family than my own mother and art that secured me in my place when my family, my Catholic family went to shit.

I'm listening to a preacher right now, his quotes from the bible are being used to examine and give options to how to live your life in a christian manner. I am a follower of Christ, of God, of love and I have always found ways to use the bible in my life to interpret how I should act.

Humble, loving and forgiving. (I'm working on the last part.) Vengeful always seemed to come with great consequence, with destroyed homes and faces. I couldn't really succumb to hating so much that you told them how to live their own lives.

believe me I've had that enough in my life..

The reason I bring this up is because there was a sermon he did. This gentleman named mark, he preaches here in Seattle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctQOmzsvisQ

Feel free to judge or interpret for yourself. This one is particularly about Videogames and laziness. From one blogger to a speaker, im intrigued and saddened by him.

I've been surrounded by loving people who prefer one gender to another. God made them, and in my eyes they are perfect.

I could never imagine forcing my friends to be with someone they do not love or forced to live a life of solitude. I refuse to renounce my religion, I also refuse to give up what I believe in and so im stuck in this odd little angle. There are so many interpretations, which thankyoumen has given me this stubbornness with what I believe.

I love my gay friends.

I am a Catholic.

I would die before having them be scorned or hurt because they chose a life that was better suitable. Like any other human being they can experience love, they cry and try to understand how the universe could make them this way when so many people are telling them that how they feel is wrong.

Some aspects of this speaker I agree with. Some I dont. I can look at his preachings with open eyes now and also the wise words of my non-christian friends.

The point is; I can manage in this world even if people dont have the same religious views as I do. I love them just the same and I am happy as they are.

They open my eyes just as I do them. Not all Catholics think you're going to hell.

Not all atheists are going to attack me on what I believe.

Someone made the fun mistake on youtube of saying that God has never changed.

Haha. Little one, have you bothered reading the bible? He was a new God indeed, a vengeful one that sought to eliminate those who opposed him so that the others might live in peace. He learned that he loved his people more than anything and sacrificed his son.

(This is what I believe, if you dont alright.)

Point is : Uh, yeah he did. He changed a whole bunches..because if that weren't the truth we wouldn't be having overzealous christians pointing the finger and condemning people to hell here left and right.

I know I'll raise my kids just as I was, to be compassionate, to have an open heart and mind and to be patient with people who dont immediately understand why they are who they are.

I think I'm rambling.. anyhow.

Blessed be.