I was going to say how excited I was about adding what I hope looks like Christmas lights to my blog. ‘Tis the season!
My excitement was kind of hampered by the comment I got on this post. I appreciate getting the comment and I’m surprised I didn’t get one like it sooner. I guess it just makes me sad because I’m not good at expressing what I think, and because a lot of my opinions are shaped by the bible I naturally appear ignorant and bigoted to people that don’t care about the bible. The thing is I do care that people are living with and dying from diseases. I hate that health care becomes more and more difficult to obtain. It seems everything has a political and monetary agenda and in the end it’s never really about the customers, the patients, the people.
I guess that’s enough trying to express my thoughts for now.
They do indeed look like Christmas lights, and they are quite cute.
To say that I (or people who think or feel as I do) “do not care about the Bible” is quite incorrect.
I’d say that we care very much about the one quoted source of the oppression and judgment against us. The one document that has created the need for the politicization of health care for AIDS patients (at least in the US) is of supreme importance to us.
Just once, I’d like to hear someone make an argument against homosexuals, or gay rights that does not have its basis in scriptures.
It does not make us naive or ignorant to not believe in the bible as the word of god. It is completely possible to be quite knowledgeable about what the bible says and still not believe it. Just as I am quite knowledgeable about Hinduism or Mormonism, or Islam etc. Just because I don’t subscribe to the belief system does not make me ignorant.
Thanks 🙂 I think the lights are rather cute myself.
Like I said, “I’m not good at expressing what I think”. I meant that non-Christians do not “care” the way that I do, that it’s true. I’m well aware of and have had extensive conversations with people that are well versed in the bible and don’t believe it’s true in the way that I believe it’s true (although I’ve encountered a lot more people that don’t care at all than the people that care but don’t believe). I think that the second half of what I said still holds, I’ll appear bigoted to people that don’t trust in the bible because I believe the bible is the one truth rather than one of the truths.
If I were in love with a woman, I too would like to hear an argument apart from scripture. I can’t think of any, but I do believe what God had revealed about himself and his creation. Anyway, I’m sorry that bible believers have caused you pain.
Jester, I’m more interested in why you don’t believe the Bible. Is it because it is too far-fetched for you or because it goes against who you are? I’m not picking a fight here and I’m not trying to change your mind, I’m truly interested in your view.
I was a non-believer until I was nearly 30 years old; I’ve found my faith in God but realize that it was man that spread God’s word and much of it is colored by personal beliefs and interpretations – that doesn’t mean it is entirely wrong. One must look deeper than the mere words.
Nice lights! I like it! Very festive.
Although I don’t say it or write anything about religion or god on my blog, I must say that I am a strong believer and have strong faith in God. I know, as I have a lot of times strayed from the right path and my faith helped me get right back on course and I won’t be where I am today if not for him. Whether or not other people believe in him is not for me to judge on whether they are right or wrong — I have to much to worry about in myself and to try my best to be a good person than what other people believe in or what they do not.
I think your previous article was just taken out of context and writing things like that always has the tendency to be taken in either extreme direction. Keep blogging and writing from your heart — this is your blog and that is what makes each individual blog unique and not false. Not writing what you feel just cuts out the individuality that makes your blog special. Ofcourse there is that fine line between writing what you feel and being offensive but knowing you and reading your blog for this amount of time, I believe that you are not that type of person to cross that line.
Thanks 🙂 I’m feeling festive this year :party:
I’m glad you believe. I wondered about that and decided that maybe you didn’t because of one time that you were having a hard time and everybody left posts about listening to your heart and finding your happy but I think I was the only one to mention Jesus, or allude to him. Of course it’s not for me to judge anyone but it’s nice to know where people stand.