(September 22, 2015 at 4:03 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Hello and Welcome (yellow winged?) BlackBird!
My view on your mom's post, don't give it to much power. Shit, look around at some of the rantings posted here. It's easy on the net, much more difficult in real life.
Just curious. Does this have something to do with your name selection?
That was my first thought, too. Had you not already posted the video, I was going to, and tell her to "take these broken wings and learn to fly".
As MTL said, your story is more the norm than an oddity among us. (I grew up in an evangelical Christian home so TrueChristian™ that we had no cable for our television so that my folks could control what we watched on the VCR, thus ensuring that cable, which was, quote, "Satan's way of sneaking into the home", would not influence us.) So you'll fit right in. Don't be shy.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
