This is going to be a very controversial blog. I have been called a straightlaced person for quite a while and some people to this day think that since I don't drink, don't smoke, don't do drugs, don't watch many R-Rated movies, and am Christian that I am a Republican. Those people don't know me. I am an unconventional Christian and one of the most open-minded Christians you will ever meet. Here are 3 of my more unconventional beliefs:
1) I am a feminist (believer in equal rights for women) and am 100% full gay rights: I believe that you can't tell a women what they can do when it comes to anything, including abortion. While I believe that a woman should never choose abortion when it isn't necessary, it is sometimes necessary. When a woman has been raped, incested, or when the baby is going to die immediately, it is traumatic to carry it to term. And I am fully supportive of woman rights in everything else too. Gay rights is another issue that I love. People are born gay, it is not a choice, it is not a lifestyle, and if someone says that they are gay, bisexual, or lesbian, they are- there is no way that someone who says they are would be lying because there is so much backlash that these people see. And the whole God hates gays myth is damaging- I know several gay couples and some other gay Christians and they are just as much, if not more faithful to God and each other than some heterosexual married couples.
2) I don't believe in hell in the afterlife: I believe hell is a personal thing that people experience on Earth and that I have seen it several times- getting bullied everyday and having an oppressive teacher? that's hell. Feeling unsafe somewhere due to preconceived notions? That's hell. But as far as the hell afterlife thing, I believe that there is heaven and there are some people who are just destined to stay in the ground. And as a disclaimer to my belief on heaven, I don't believe that Jesus Christ is a one-sized fits all ticket to heaven: I believe everyone has a fighting chance except for rapists, murderers, and people who are pedophile sex offenders. Everyone else has a fighting chance in my estimation.
3) There were probably bi/gay/asexual people in the Bible but we don't know and some of them are celebrated: Because sexuality wasn't openly discussed in Biblical days, we don't know who was straight and who wasn't. But there were some inferences to King David being bisexual, Jesus never being married (that we know of), and a few lesbian stories here and there. These are mostly read between the lines of liberal Bible studies. Call me a blasphemeous person if you want for me making this claim, but homosexuality in the Bible? There was no word for it, it was all lust and prostitution in those several inferences on homosexuality.
I know I'm going to lose friends for these claims. At this point, I could care less, this is what I believe through my thousands of hours of studying the Bible and Christianity. Stay tuned for my next blog: College Education Saved My Life. Coming after my 3-week class.
