Or just watch the video for the heck of it.
But DO NOT just read this post.
Thank you.
Follow this link and watch the video. Feel free to read that article as well, but I'm talking about something else.
Disclaimer: PEOPLE IN THIS VIDEO SWEAR. So some of the following quotes also have swear words.
"No human should be treated the way that this human was treated."
"The fact that anybody could have this amount of hatred to his own flesh and blood..."
"I believe in the word of God."
"We will not support you any longer."
"I will not let people believe that I condone what you do."
"If your religion makes you feel righteous in kicking your own child out of the house over something that they have no control over then I don't need book to tell me that's wrong."
"You son of a bitch."
"You're a damn queer, you fucking shit."
"Listen to the hate and anger in those people's voices. Is that really what God wants?"
"My initial reaction is such anger towards this. I just wanna go fix it."
"Don't let people like this make you afraid to be who you are."
"I hope they realize how ridiculous they are."
This video infuriates me and it has nothing to do with the LGBTQ/Christianity conflict. So drop that bomb out of your mind and do not come to me with your opinion on that.
What ticks me right off is that I no longer want to admit to being a Christian. Christians are jerks. and judgmental. And cold and unapproachable. At least that is what a huge population believes. I was first confronted by people with this thought when I spent a semester in Guatemala during college. When I said I was a Christian I was automatically put into a box. Most of the qualities and characteristics they assumed were not true to me.
I do not want to be known as a person who hates gay and lesbians. Or thinks that abortion should be illegal. I do not want people to think that I never cuss or consume alcohol or lie. From my experiences, when a person thinks those things to be true of you, a relationship is limited, quenched, shut down. That is not what Jesus was about. I want people to get to know me and see love.
The man who posted this vlog is angry at the people who completely reject their own son. He says he wants to fix it. He points out that these Christians make people afraid to be themselves and that they are ridiculous. I think he is right. I am ticked at those Christians as well.
I am ticked that so many people claim the name of Christ, who was PERFECT, and slander it by doing garbage like this. Take this ugly, broken lifestyle of intolerance and hatred that you call Christianity and get out of my face.
So let's give the act of following Christ a new name. And while we are at it, a new face. Sure, we do not know everything about Jesus and what he did, but we have some of it. Read the gospels. Read about what Jesus did. Pray. Love people.
Listen.
