Today as I was walking into work there was a Jahovah’s witness passing out booklets, so I said “what the hell” and took one. As I was reading it I came across one passage from the Bible that read differently than I had ever read it before followed by a paragraph that went into extensive detail about why this was bad.
I Corinthians 6:9-10 Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.
This passage angered me. For one, who hasn’t been one of those things? No one can honestly say they’ve never done any of the listed things. But the part that angered me to the extreme were how they took out the Greek terms `malakoi' and replaced it with homosexuals and `arsenokotai.' And replaced it with sodomites. Just to let you know, both Greek terms the meaning are not really known. They basically went on an assumption changing these terms. Apparently it is written that way in many Contemporary English versions of the bible. This irritates me to the extreme. I’m a big supporter of anyone who is gay. I do NOT think that the God christians believe in would exclude anyone from his kingdom because of their sexual preference. Is there really unforgivable sins? Anyways, I’m harping on this because these booklet says ALL THE OTHER SINS MENTIONED ARE FORGIVABLE EXCEPT FOR HOMOSEXUALITY. That’s complete BS! You mean to tell me that child molestation and murder are forgivable sins and homosexuality is not?
Shit like this the one of the major factors as to why I left the Catholic church in persuit of a different spiritual path. Everyone is so hypocritical when they claim to be on this higher realm than everyone else. Let me ask everyone who thinks like this a question, if you are really the better person then how come you have to put everyone down to glorify yourself? I see no proof in anything divine or righteous in this sort of behavior. If anything it pushes me back toward the thought of a higher power is lovely, but I do not believe it to be true because I see no proof of it. If there is a God, where is he?
I live by this following passage by Thomas Henry Huxley:
I neither affirm nor deny the immortality of man. I see no reason for believing it, but, on the other hand, I have no means of disproving it. I have no a priori objections to the doctrine. No man who has to deal daily and hourly with nature can trouble himself about a priori difficulties. Give me such evidence as would justify me in believing in anything else, and I will believe that. Why should I not? It is not half so wonderful as the conservation of force or the indestructibility of matter...
It is no use to talk to me of analogies and probabilities. I know what I mean when I say I believe in the law of the inverse squares, and I will not rest my life and my hopes upon weaker convictions...
That my personality is the surest thing I know may be true. But the attempt to conceive what it is leads me into mere verbal subtleties. I have champed up all that chaff about the ego and the non-ego, noumena and phenomena, and all the rest of it, too often not to know that in attempting even to think of these questions, the human intellect flounders at once out of its depth.
I love the philosophy behind his words, however I still try to hold on to the hope that there is something more and that there really is a God. However, I believe idiocracy and hypocrisy are destroying that which would make such a God apparent in peoples lives. It makes you wonder why would this God say he will forgive his children of all their sins against him and discriminate against one?
People are so closed minded…..
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