In Other Words

Religion?

So I’ve managed to catch the same bug as Liana. Not surprising, really. We always do get the same illnesses. Must be the toothpaste. Took a half day leave yesterday (as I might well have mentioned) and went to see ‘the whole ten yards’. Liana feeling guilty the whole while because she thought she should be at work, yet knew she was useless. Yada yada, the whole shebang. I don’t think I even want to talk about it, go look at her blog for a most enjoyable rave about work, life and me. Guess I’m not the perfect boyfriend, thank god for that, it would be absolutely horrible to be the perfect boyfriend. You would have no time left for yourself! Or any money, for that matter. I’m also semi-allergic to pollen so I would probably end up sneezing all the time cause of all those bloody flowers and all.
Not that I’m not sneezing enough, I think I’ve got a bit of brain in one of my hankeys. That’s all right though, I prefer thinking with my dick anyway. Easier, less effort and more predictable. ‘Hey look at that’ ‘is it a woman?’ ‘No…’ ‘Wake me up when it turns into one’
I guess people might look at you odd though when your pelvis is always the first thing to enter the room. I guess that’s still a step up from being gay and thinking with your ass. It would give you a damned crick in your neck having to look over your shoulder all the time.
Still supposed to be working on my Christianity thing. Not working too well so far. Can’t seem to get my mind around this god thing just yet. The only thing that I’ve managed to conclude is that if I can get away with it I’ll have to put in the quote "Dear Lord, please save me from your followers"
Its quite funny, I just did a search on that quote on the Internet to find out who had written it and I ended up on some Christian’s website. The site talked about how the writer had seen that sticker on somebody’s bumper sticker and how sad they felt and how they wanted to reach out and touch that person and make them feel better.
Exactly the type of person that the car owner wanted to be saved /from/ wanted to reach out and help them out. Ironic. Also interesting that this writer had absolutely no concept of the humour and irony that this statement was meant to evoke.
There was directly talk of how this person must have been hurt by faith and need healing and help. The implicit assumption being made that a person that does not want anything to do with God’s followers must be unhappy and scarred rather than just irritated and annoyed.
Why can’t strongly religious people understand that those of us that don’t believe or believe differently can actually be happy, satisfied and comfortable in their own lives? I accept that strong believers can feel that way, why do they then have to dictate how I have to behave?
Alright, never mind, going on a bit of a rant. I guess all I’m trying to say is:
‘If you believe, that’s fine. I just really don’t want to hear about it. I don’t believe in loving my neighbour just so that I can get into heaven. I’ll love my neighbour because I want to and because I think she’s cute. I will do good because I want to do good. I’m not in it to score heavenly brownie points. So thank you, but no thanks.’

posted by Symbol @ 17.7.04