I mean, I get it. Today is all hearts and romance-y things, but seriously. Angry and envious of someone else's good thing? Why would I be? I have plenty of my own to be thankful for all year long, let alone today of all days. Why does all of that disappear from view the moment a "holiday" pops up? I'm sure sex is awesome, but is that a good reason for all of that?
Is not being romantically tied to someone a good reason to be depressed? I have enough going on in my life as a single person right now. Why would I want to involve another person in this hot mess?! That's nonsense at its finest and I'm not doing that.
Aside from this, I have other things that I am just as much in love with as a person:
- martial arts and the spirit thereof
- Jesus (hello....)
- art (written, visual, and physical)
- beauty
- friends
- family
I could spend this whole day being miserable, but there is too much for me to love to be bothered with that nonsense, so I'm going to continue enjoying and being happy and loving the way I would every other day of the year. To do otherwise or even feel otherwise is foolish and bad for the heart.
Moving on to another topic, I was reading this today and it got me thinking about some things. I agree with this article almost completely. I say almost because there are references to people in it that I don't know and don't follow and have no real reason to right now.
I agree with most of the content, though. Before you go apeshit crazy on me (which you will anyway), I'll just write my thoughts. Read them, then come back to me. Here's what I'm thinking. If being a Christian means following Biblical teaching as closely as possible -- and it does -- then I cannot do things that are clearly written NOT to do on purpose and still say I'm trying to follow. In that area, I'm not. It's a clear rip in the structural integrity of my faith... and yours.
I am not going to sugarcoat this. Hell, I'll even use an exact quote: "If you love me, you will obey my commands." I am a man of courage, so I have to deal with this truth head-on. No turning my head, no closing my eyes, no wishing it were otherwise worded or trying to go all the way back to the beginning of this language thousands of years previous to get the "real meaning" of blahblahblah. If I cross that line, then I'm in the wrong there.
Am I going to say that you are not a Christian because of a gap or even many gaps in the integrity of your faith? No, because that is presumptuous. Neither I nor the person that wrote it is perfect nor is our faith perfected. We are all broken together and the thing that makes a difference between us all being broken is that there are those that want to be repaired and others of us that don't.
Am I going to say you're a bad person? No. I'm a bad person when you get down to it. At the least, I'm not always good for sure.
Am I going to say homosexuality -- the topic covered in the article -- is bad? If I am a Christian following biblical precepts, I have to. I repeat: I have to. To do less is to -- and pardon my crassness here -- be a little bitch and try to make the Bible say something it doesn't give me authority to say. Namely, changing it to make myself or others feel better. I'm not about to do that bullshit. Either I'm going to do this or I'm not. No being a punk about it.
Are homosexual people bad? Should they go to hell? Should I stop being friends with them or being associated with them in anyway to evade their influence on my life? Should homosexual people be treated as lesser people? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, hell no, fuck no. I think the NOH8 message should be about just that: not hating. If they start falling into hate over things like what happened with Chik-Fil-A, then they are both wrong and hypocritical and that is bullshit again.
We know they are a Christian organization. We've known since they opened the shop. We know the founder is a Christian. Why are we surprised by this? We shouldn't be. Not at all. Not even a little and for people to be like, "OMG THEY SUCK!!!" is proof of how much bullshit we are really on. We act like we agree with every person's opinion that we come across. I don't agree with my atheist friends on things, but if they have kool-aid in the fridge and I'm at their house, I'm drinking kool-aid. If you like Chik-Fil-A sandwiches, then get a damn sandwich. They don't have to support your marital decisions; it's not like their giving people money to donate to heterosexual couples or to promote more heterosexual marriages.
As a side note: there are heterosexual couples that live together and have babies that ARE NOT MARRIED anyway. Hello!!! Aside from that, if you really want to be with someone that badly, you're going to be no matter what Chik-Fil-A or US law have to say about it, so people need to stop crying about it.
Whatever.
Getting back to main topic. If we're trying to do this whole Jesus thing, then let's do it and not try to make it fit us. If we're not doing it, then we're not. Consequences follow either way. Don't sugarcoat, don't justify, just do whatever it is that you are going to do. In the end, God will guide us and if we are stubborn He will correct us. In the end, He will judge who is wrong and right and that will tied to the commands He's given us.
You can freak out on me now.
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