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and today I had probably planned some kind of video-game based topic or movie
topic to discuss. However something big in the political sphere has occurred
and it’s worth talking about. It’s a big step for the United States and
possibly mankind as a whole. It’s the fact that homosexual marriage (now just
marriage) is in fact a legal thing nationwide as decreed by the federal level
of government. I’m not gay myself but I fully respect the right of people who
are to finally celebrate their love in a way equal to any other couple and pay
higher income taxes because of it. But, that being said, there are people who
are against this notion. I’m not here to tell them they’re wrong. I’m here to
talk them off their ledge and hopefully get them to see the world isn’t going
to Hell and they’re just going to have to learn to accept the changes taking
place.
First off let me ask you a question. You live in a
neighborhood and there’s a couple five houses down. You never really talk to
them and you maybe see them in passing once every other day (at most). You
don’t really shop in the same places or work in the same places. Their names
are Adam and Eve (to keep the names simple for our biblical folks to follow)
and they’re about to be married. Does their potential engagement affect your
life in any way, shape, or form? No, not at all. That’s a ridiculous question.
Same scenario, but let’s say the people in this example are
now Adam and Steve. You still barely see them in the neighborhood, never at
work or shopping ,and generally have no connection with them other than you
live within a mile of them and would never know they exist (realistically
speaking). They’re a gay couple planning to marry. Does their potential
engagement affect your life in any way, shape, or form? If you said yes, can I
ask how? Or why?
That’d be like if I told you a man next door to you was a
vigorous masturbator, but you never knew because there was never any indication
that he had porn to wank to or even heard him performing the self-satisfying act.
His wanking doesn’t affect you in any way. You just don’t like to know other
people wank and you don’t like to know other people are actually homosexual.
But fact is they do and they are but doing so doesn’t change your life in any
realistic way. All that said, let’s get to the heart of the issue here.
The main issue is that this goes against the word of “THE
BIBLE” somehow. I’ve never read the bloody thing, so I can’t say whether it
does or not. I’m not going to make specific quotes to prove or disprove my
point. But I can say this, I don’t trust whatever “THE BIBLE” could tell me.
Yes, it’s a large book of moral-lesson-based stories designed roughly 1800 years
ago to teach kids how to be a good person with some all-powerful “god fearing”
stuff to keep them from getting too cocky.
In its original print, “THE BIBLE” was not written in
English. Depending on which version of “THE BIBLE” you want to consider “the
original. There’s the Hebrew version (Old Testament) originating with the
Jewish people (which are where the Christian faith technically comes from).
There’s also the first Christian-specific New Testament version of “THE BIBLE”
and it’s original language was that of Koine Greek. But neither of these were
directly translated to English right away. In fact, English as we know it today
didn’t even exist yet. It was translated to many languages before English
include (and probably not limited to) Latin, French, German, Old English (which is
nuts), and various Mediterranean languages I won’t get into here.
I’m not sure if you’re familiar with the process of
translating documents at all. But let’s take MODERN DAY Japanese and MODERN DAY
English. Just between TWO languages alone, lots of things become lost in
translation due to slang, idioms, and just archaic words that fade away over
the course of decades. Certain concepts, sentence structures, and phases DO NOT
translate from one language to another properly. And we’re talking about a book
written by a collection of different authors who may have had their own agendas
in mind when writing the original book. And that’s ignoring the possibility the
various translators didn’t have their own agenda during the process. Words and
phrases may have been changed to better reflect the church’s stances at the
time of writing, making it impossible to determine just how accurate the
current-day version of “THE BIBLE” truly is to the original intended words from
the original text centuries ago.
So if whether or not “THE BIBLE” says that homosexuality is
a sin is irrelevant. Fact is, I can’t take a single word of that book as truth
or as sound advice to live life by because it’s simply unreliable in its
production. To me, “THE BIBLE” is just a book someone wrote centuries ago that
people have taken way too seriously, in the same vein as Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Spider-Man. And at least Spider-Man kept its moral lessons simple
with the whole “Great Power – Great Responsibility” thing.
Of course, the other argument that always gets brought up
that really grinds my gears is that “God” hates homosexuals and that they’ll
burn in Hell for their sinful ways. And, fine, believe that if you want. But
there are two problems I see with it that everyone stating this fact seems to
be ignoring. First of all, Jesus and “God” were technically the same thing /
person (as is my understanding of the story anyway). And Jesus always preached
about loving thy neighbor and treating people with kindness and respect. Ergo,
I have a hard time believing this supposed “God” hates anyone for their
lifestyle unless they choose to be the next Hitler or something.
But more to the point, you say God will punish these people
in the afterlife. If that’s something you TRULY believe, then why make their
life a living Hell now? Why deny them the right to enjoy their supposed
“sinful” life the way they want? You have no right to pass judgment on these
people and condemn them to Hell. That’s your God’s job, not yours or mine or
anyone else’s. If you are correct (which I don’t believe you are) then “God”
will deal with homosexual people in the afterlife and you can life your
afterlife happy that you were right all along.
But since YOU are not dead (at least I hope not, or that’d
be weird) and there are still plenty of homosexual people alive, can I ask one
thing? Can you please treat these people like people and give them the
slightest modicum of respect? I get you don’t understand their lifestyle and
are afraid of it. That’s perfectly fine, you don’t have to understand it or get
it. People don’t fully understand or get why I love video games so much, but I
don’t let their hate or disrespect keep me from enjoying them. People didn’t
fully understand African-American people for the longest time (for some reason)
but that didn’t stop African-Americans from living, developing their own
sub-culture within the American-culture, and branching out and doing big things
around the country (and world). This is kind of the moral lesson taught by the X-Men. People fear what they don't understand and they act like violent and irrational people. But were the X-Men bad people? Maybe Morph, but otherwise, no.
Basically, what I’m saying is get off your
holy-fucking-high-horse and stop using “THE BIBLE” and “THE WORD OF GOD” as
weapons to attack people who just want to live their lives in the ways they
feel most comfortable. From what I understand, “THE BIBLE” is also meant to
teach us how to respect one another, love each other, and basically be good
people. But when I see people telling other people they are not allowed to show
their love for one another, I don’t see good people. I don’t see respect. And I
don’t see the same love “THE BIBLE” supposedly teaches. I just see hate, fear,
and disgusting behavior from people acting like their world got
flip-up-turned-upside-down.
And, besides, the SCOTUS ruling only affects the legal
“CIVIL MARRIAGES” and not the church’s decisions to perform marriage ceremonies
for homosexual couples. It’s not like your sacred houses of holy hypocrisy will
be forced to deal with the taint of homosexuals kissing and marrying at your
altars. They can just go down the bloody courthouse and get all they need. Plus
who needs the ceremony when you can put that money towards your first house or
first baby coming in? So, as I said previously, this SCOTUS ruling will not
affect your lives in the slightest unless you go out of your way to LET IT
affect your lives. So be a goddamned adult and just live your life the way you
have and you probably won’t notice any changes whatsoever.
And that’s really all I have to say on the matter. Marriage
Equality was a brilliant thing when it dealt with Civil Rights (race-specific)
and now it’s just as brilliant with the sexuality equality kicking in. It’s a
sign that, yes, we can change and grow and become more accepting of the
lifestyles of other people. Many of us have yet to learn this lesson, and, if
current racist topics in the news have taught us anything, it’ll be a long time
before said people will learn the latest lesson. But I’m done with serious
topics because now I’m going to go to the house next door to you and vigorously
masturbate without you even knowing about it, just out of spite and insanity.
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