So then I told Jesus to fuck off

[The Valkyrie]

Good on you for dumping the delusion.

[Darwins Disciple]

And where are all these merciful caring Christians?

[T.J.]

The fucked up thing is there actually are gay Christians out there, and how they rationalize being part of a religion that openly bashes them everyday is beyond me. Then again, it hasn't stopped women and black people from being Christian, so why should it stop them?

Sorry to hear about the abuse. Glad you got through it all. Welcome.

[Gemini]

The fucked up thing is there actually are gay Christians out there, and how they rationalize being part of a religion that openly bashes them everyday is beyond me. Then again, it hasn't stopped women and black people from being Christian, so why should it stop them?

Sorry to hear about the abuse. Glad you got through it all. Welcome.

Thanks for the welcome! 

I guess LGBT Christians rationalize their beliefs the same way all religious people have to rationalize their beliefs. The world's leading intellectuals gave up on finding an objective foundation for theology centuries ago, and nowadays it's pretty much anything goes. Homophobes and racists help themselves to the parts of the buffet of bullshit that justify their prejudices, and liberal Christians cherrypick different doctrines. 

Anytime you want to believe something that isn't in any of the religious texts, you can just pull some "creative exegesis" out of your ass, like using Genesis 1:27 to normalize cisgender heterosexual monogamy. Or you can decide Jesus was gay (that's a thing, by the way).

Or you can be a prophet and issue your own religious pronouncements. I know a transgender woman who claims to have personally heard from God, and according to her, he supports gay marriage. She's my friend, and a beautiful person, but...yeah.

[T.J.]

Yeah, I know I don't sound like it too often, but I can still empathize since it wasn't that long ago I was rationalizing these same beliefs myself before abandoning them entirely. On the plus side, it served me extremely well in my fiction writing.

[Gemini]

Yeah, I know I don't sound like it too often, but I can still empathize since it wasn't that long ago I was rationalizing these same beliefs myself before abandoning them entirely. On the plus side, it served me extremely well in my fiction writing.

Oh what kind of stuff do you write? I write scifi/fantasy occasionally, though I don't have much time for it nowadays with two young kids. But religion is helpful for writing fantasy (I mean, that's basically what religion is...fantasy that people take a little lot too seriously).

[T.J.]

Fantasy. Right now the book I'm working on is in that genre with elements of Sci-Fi, Horror, and Supernatural thrown in. I need to get back to it too, I keep getting distracted by things.

[Darwins Disciple]

A religious tract is like a short comic book with religious propaganda in it.

When ever I am in a bookstore, I move the copies of the Bible to the Fiction section.

[robvalue]

Friction section would be even better. Might burn the bastards up eventually.

[The Valkyrie]