Reply #114: Absolutely! [View All]

[Pied Piper]

I agree with the above poster (#43) because as a gay man, I will never be accepted in all of Christendom. Don't bother telling me about this or that denomination which is more or less accepting. The truth is that that unless the ENTIRE scope of Christianity accepts me as one of their own, then none of them really do.

I was raised Presbyterian (a fairly white-bread form of Protestism, if you ask me), but there are too many Christians who won't have anything to do with me for me to believe that the subversive denominations really matter. And the truth is, I gave it all up. And I am much more the happier for it.

You feel sad for me because I haven't seen the power and the glory of your Lord and His Mighty Acceptance and Love for me. Piss off. I believe that Sunday church services bring together like-minded folk to share in each other's fellowship. Nothing wrong with that. However, I also have found ways in my personal life which give me the same sense of "belonging" and "community", and I won't have you disparage any of it.

So you can take your condecension and shove it. I was brought into this world to walk my own path and no one other's. It's not my place to tell someone they are on the wrong path, and it's not their place to tell me that I'm on the wrong path. Those of us who are truly tolerant will accept the fact that each of us is on our own journey. I've been fortunate enough to know many on their own paths which are diffrerent from mine, and we've learned great lessons from each other. I have dear friends who are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Agnostic, and Atheist, and none of them judge me the way that Evangelical and Fundamentalist Xtians do. Fuck them.

End of rant.