Hello All;
Scottie asked me a bit ago why I’ve not been posting much. Well, I don’t have a lot of time, and – well, maybe I don’t have a lot of time for some of the crap I find myself having to make time to accomodate.
A ‘for example’ is that I’ve grown weary of having to justify my very existence to people who feel so self-righteous declaring my very life an abomination. That a man and woman would come together in love to bring about a new life is fantastic and magical, but it isn’t the conception of the new life that is amazing to me – it is the true love.
Then I hear people, perhaps those who seek popularity through any means available, say that marriage is only for people who can conceive, and if the individuals are men then they can’t conceive and therefore their love and marriage are invalid. I can only assume that they conflate the ability to make a baby with love, though many rape victims can tell us that isn’t accurate. I would speculate that such people don’t understand love. Perhaps the reason such people can’t understand the difference between an abomination and love is because they go into a room of strangers they call brothers and sisters and fear that who and what they find most attractive and fulfilling will be ridiculed by others.
Perhaps dressed in their “Sunday Best” they focus overmuch on the show they are putting on for each-other. Perhaps they are too fond of the judgement of others and too afraid of the sincerity and honesty of themselves.
Truly, I am finding myself tired of having to demonstrate that life is not so simple as the script they have written only for others to follow.
I am truly tired of having to demonstrate understanding to ignorance, patience to racism, peace to violence and love to spite. I’m tired of having to express myself in private for fear of offending sensibilities that are insensible and hurting the morality of those whose morality is first tested by convenience. I’m tired of fearing the “love” of the “Christ-like”.
Hugs.
Scottie's Playtime 
Hi. Randy grand post and timely for what is going on right now. Kim Davis who has been repeating married and divorced who is on her fourth husband from three men felt so Christian she couldn’t give a legal marriage license out to 2 men. It would soil the sacredness of marriage. Think on the hypocrisy that takes. Her Christian foundation lawyers who fund raise on fighting to make the entire country live according to their church doctrines has gone to the SCOTUS demanding they save this persecuted Christian woman by overturning the same sex marriage ruling. At the upper level I am not sure whether it is about piety or more about money in the donation plate. At the lower level it is entirely the emotional feeling of being in the correct group that they are sure the correct deity loves. But the truth of both groups is the entire thing is driven by a not wanting to be compassionate to those that feel different than they do. Seems that was what Jesus preached, compassion to those living different kinds of lives. Plus the excuses they use are also not true as the examples they use would be more on churches they support than drag queens. The idea of live and let live seems to have died in the tRump theocratic country where the upper level leaders don’t have to live under the rules they demand those lower than them live by. But the real question is why do people care about how others live if it doesn’t directly affect or harm them? Ron and I are married and have access to the nearly 1,200 federal rights that married people have. How does that harm any other person? Christians claimed that gays being allowed to marry would destroy marriage and no straight people would get married. But they still are. These same people claimed that other forms of marriage would be made legal, many dealing with those that can not give consent like animals. But why should it be fearful if more than two people want to be in a relationship. Let’s make sure that the laws provide insurance that no one is forced against their will and all agree. Then get out of the way of how others live. If five people are happy in a relationship it doesn’t harm me or anyone else in any way. Why should I care? Hell they might throw grand backyard cook outs I would love to be invited to. Hugs
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Hi Scottie,
One of the things that stands out to me about religion, specifically Christianity, is this presumptive assurance that they are so very holy. It was not the Roman occupiers that reportedly killed Jesus nearly so much as it was the very self-righteous religious people. Why? Because he threatened their “exalted” position, he challenged their faith, he demanded they look beyond the law and seek the Spirit of Truth.
Now days, much like history shows over and over, people convince themselves that if they do this task, give this money, pray this prayer, genuflect this way, sacrifice this animal/slave/child/? then God will be happy with them. Irony is that God told them what makes Him happy: Love your neighbor, Love God – the rest will fall into those two. But what do we see: that the way to love our neighbor is to lie, cheat, steal from them, to beat them over the head with their holiness and self-sanctification; and the way to love God is to go to church in their Sunday Best then live like a horror on Monday again.
I’ve been blessed to have had a few teachers in my life who were humble, loving, caring people – some were of the cloth and others were not – who showed Christ’s Love even when it was difficult. They made me want to be a better person, to live a better life. Kim Davis most assuredly does not.
Hugs;
Randy
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