Really? Cause I know that I have changed in so many absolutely positive and healthy ways and I feel that my life experiences have really given me a great foundation to go from but I have I changed in such a way that my foundational beliefs are not at all the same as those that were entrenched in my very being? Is it just me? Am I the one that is being closed off? Cause I don't think so.
I think those that know me have known for a long time that I am all about discussion and hearing other points and even, surprise surprise, changing my mind and opinion when I have taken the mature step to investigate on my own. It saddens me. Really hurts my heart. Cause I feel as if the differing beliefs and my strong personality of saying anything and everything is causing chinks in the armor. It's unfortunate.
I hope once the election is over, things can go back to normal. I have never experienced an election with this much at stake and this much difference between the candidates. I can't see any other option BUT Obama. So what does that say about me? Does it change your view of me? Do you think I am less intelligent or aware? Do you think I am cheering for the downfall of this great nation? Do you think I am completely naive to actual research stuff and read all kinds of sources and listen to all kinds of views? Cause I do admit, that's kinda how I see the other camp.
My first sense of detachment from my old life due to my disbelief in the Church and in the lifestyle of Christianity. And now I see those same gaps opening wider with this election. The election is not about religion - it shouldn't be about religion - but the mindset of the American church is absolutely pervasive within all of these discussions and I just do not agree that a segment of the population who believes in 'Christianity' should be the ways to make policy and laws that affect EVERYONE - not just Christians.
We are a country made up of so many amazing treasures and blessings from every religion - there is good and bad in all, but God is GOOD ALL THE TIME. He's got this! We don't have to fight over this crap! He's got it all under control. Chill out and talk about what matters when it comes to economics, healthcare, assistance, education, environment, military, war and what we are providing to the next generation.Leave God out of it!
I can't stand by and say that is ok. It is nto ok with me at all. Stick to the issues and stay out of everyone else's religion beliefs and lifestyles. Mind your own business! Deal with the issues within your own home and family. Teach your children the lessons and religious/spiritual teaching and share it with everyone in your life. Feel free!
Be a light out there in the world and a fisher of men. But take a look at how your Jesus ministered to the needy.
Look at how your Jesus flipped over tables in the temple when greedy business men took control of the house of worship to focus on money and profit and income.
Look at how your Jesus had a passion for protecting those in need - lepers, prostitutes, children, lame and even those jerks that killed him.
But keep your church and your Christianity out of my American citizen rights. Just because you don't agree/believe in gay marriage, DON'T get gay married. If you don't agree/believe in abortion, well tough cookies! It's one of the ugliest aspects of human life but it ain't going away. It is a reality and it is something that goes way beyond whether it's moral or ethical. And until YOU have had to make that agonizing decision, think before you speak. Was your pregnancy voluntary or maybe unexpected, but a happy thing? Was your child conceived in love, or in the dark dirty alley by a stranger or a drunk frat boy or even your family?
This may seem stupid - and yes, I've had TWO people call me stupid in two days - but this is what I believe. No one else has to. But when I am asked why I support Obama or why I am so fearful of Romney being in power, I am happy, willing, able, capable of answering and discussing.
And I have NEVER gone on anyone's Facebook page and called them out on their beliefs or harassed them or called them names. And what's interesting, it's been 'Christians' that have called me stupid for my beliefs.
Job well done!!!!! That is why more and more folks are resistance to having anything to do with Church and much less Christians. I have said for a long time, and this was echoed by someone else earlier today who comes from the same place I do, if I meet someone new and they tell me they are a Christian, they will have to prove themselves to me and I am way more resistant to allowing you in my life. If a mechanic or a landscaper tries to sell himself by saying he has a Christian business, I 100% will not use them.
While individuals may not intend this and feel it is unjustified judgement of 'all' Christians, it is a reality. And this election process is spotlighting the worst parts of what has always been intended to be a religion based on love, forgiveness, grace, kindness, patience, self control, slow to anger, quick to help, etc..
And don't call me stupid.
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