(June 28, 2015 at 12:27 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Let me see if I can help Lek out. He's married and now if gays can get married he thinks that somehow makes him gay.
It's a little like when someone points out that Hitler was a vegetarian and all the vegetarians go apeshit because no one wants to be in any club that Hitler was a member of.
Well to be fair, the Christians in this case are not claiming something demonstrably false, like Hitler being vegetarian or Hitler being an atheist. It is actually true that gays can get married in their country now and they actually are in the same 'club', if they choose to think of it that way.
Personally, I am offended that if I get married I will be in the same 'club' as theists who have such bizarre notions about what marriage has been, is and should be and which couples don't deserve to get one. But I'm not going to get all pissy about it and demand that theists get something other than marriage to protect my fragile sense of identity, because I'm not an overgrown child who wants to stop the kids I find uncool from playing in my team.
"Faith is a state of openness or trust. To have faith is like when you trust yourself to the water. You don't grab hold of the water when you swim, because if you do you will become stiff and tight in the water, and sink. You have to relax, and the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging, and holding on. In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe becomes a person who has no faith at all. Instead they are holding tight. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."
Alan Watts
Alan Watts
