User blog:AustinDR/Apologies for the Previous Blog

OK, I'd like to apologize for that one blog that I was going to make about religion. Now, I was born into a Christian household and my parents did think that I wanted to be a preacher at one point because I was pretty knowledgeable on the Bible and its stories. However, throughout my childhood years, one thing about my religion did not make any sense to me: why was it wrong to be gay? Sure, I did know what it meant to an extent, but I never felt repulsed by it, but my parents made it an effort to teach me that being gay was a sin. It got to the point that I once made a post on Facebook saying how I didn't think same-sex marriage was wrong; my parents discovered what I had said, and forced me to remove it saying that I would be ostracized by my church community. Though I felt they cared more about their stance in the church than what I thought. And then there's my pastor. Sure, I respect the man to an extent; he's a great teacher. However, that one time he said that if homosexual couples were made to marry, they would be putting lacks back into slavery, I was repulsed by his bigoted words. I wanted to just walk out then and there, but that would probably cause a scene. And then how my parents and grandmother would casually talk about how LGBT people were morally bankrupt didn't do any favor. My parents even exploited my love of my grandmother saying that she would get hurt if she were to find out what I had written on my Facebook page. And that's not even beginning to get into when I was in school, how my classmates or students would talk about how it's wrong, and use the Bible as evidence, even though it is a man-made book that was written by most likely single-minded people. I mean, I have several issues with the Bible that I will not get into, but I am getting sick of hearing the same rhetoric that "God said that homosexuality is wrong, so there's that."

Since then, I had been watching several videos and doing my own research on my religion, and I find myself slowly drifting away from it. Overall, I don't hate religion. If you are comforted by the fact that there is a loving deity out there who cares for you, by all means, have at it. I only really despise religion when it is used to indoctrinate hatred. Even then, while I am highly for Luna being a bisexual, I still have that nagging feeling that it should be wrong, but that was because I was taught to think that way.