In audio released Friday evening, senators and representatives from Ohio and Michigan revealed the "endgame" is to ban transgender care "for everyone."
I’m gay. I was raised Catholic, and everyone around me made it crystal clear that God hates fags like me.
I desperately tried to cling to my faith without coming out, “faith alone gets you into heaven”, “only the Old testament talks about being gay as a sin and that’s only binding for Jews”, but every time I tried to reconcile my faith with who i am, the church, my dad, friends, family, neighbors, all were sure to come down hard on that position and make it super clear that you can’t get into heaven if you’re a faggot like me. Full stop.
Eventually I left Catholosicm, thinking I could find another denomination that would accept me. Did you know there are over 40,000 denominations of Christianity? If you look into them, you find that they all proclaim to be the singular source of the word of God and everyone else is going to hell, including Christians of every other denomination. Then you look back at Catholicism and it’s all the same shit the other 40,000 are spouting and that doesn’t look any more real either. And once you’re detached from the notion of Christianity, the entire religion looks exactly identical to every other religion out there. It’s impossible to pick a “right” religion because they are all fake.
I’m sorry that you had to go through what you did. I left Christianity behind over 20 years ago for various reasons. I’ve since just been happy embracing the ineffable.
Some Christian denominations are liberal, LGBTQ-friendly and not at all like that, such as United Church of Christ and Unity.
Haha.
I’m gay. I was raised Catholic, and everyone around me made it crystal clear that God hates fags like me.
I desperately tried to cling to my faith without coming out, “faith alone gets you into heaven”, “only the Old testament talks about being gay as a sin and that’s only binding for Jews”, but every time I tried to reconcile my faith with who i am, the church, my dad, friends, family, neighbors, all were sure to come down hard on that position and make it super clear that you can’t get into heaven if you’re a faggot like me. Full stop.
Eventually I left Catholosicm, thinking I could find another denomination that would accept me. Did you know there are over 40,000 denominations of Christianity? If you look into them, you find that they all proclaim to be the singular source of the word of God and everyone else is going to hell, including Christians of every other denomination. Then you look back at Catholicism and it’s all the same shit the other 40,000 are spouting and that doesn’t look any more real either. And once you’re detached from the notion of Christianity, the entire religion looks exactly identical to every other religion out there. It’s impossible to pick a “right” religion because they are all fake.
Fuck religion.
I’m sorry that you had to go through what you did. I left Christianity behind over 20 years ago for various reasons. I’ve since just been happy embracing the ineffable.