Life should lead you to question your faith.
It is only through the situations without the easy answers in which we find the most meaningful of questions. And if you bypass those questions, you are left with a life lived within very fragile boundaries.
For you see, the intersections of science and religion, of monogamy and love, of desire and fulfillment, are where we find those answers that guide all of mankind for generations to come. In shirking away from our duty to question the accepted paradigm, we condemn future generations to a world built upon contradicting foundations, which inevitably collapse, especially as they go to build further upon them. When science and religion appear to disagree, we are simply moving from one method of explaining the world around us to another. Long ago we have rejected the hypothesis that the Bible is exactly and particularly correct in every word it has written. We have even accepted that many of the morals and ethics it teaches are wrong, or unfit for our current world. Just try reading through the book of Numbers, or Leviticus, and you will find hundreds of Biblical teachings we have long ago rejected. Yet, when science proves that gay people are born gay, we reject it, because it must mean that either the Bible is wrong, or that God created some people incorrectly, which proves that the Bible is wrong. We take three or four vague passages, and rest our entire case on them. Why do we overlook the nearly conclusive proof of modern science for a couple of words written by a single person thousands of years ago, and then translated and rewritten and lost and rewritten and retranslated dozens of times before the earliest known copy, all of which is a history lesson written decades after the actual events?
Sorry, I ranted. I'm just really, really confused as to why some people refuse to accept new facts. If two people I don't know want to kiss, that means absolutely nothing to me. I just don't understand why gay anything is an issue. Who I kiss should not affect your marriage, and who you kiss certainly will not affect mine.
I just don't understand why people refuse to accept a widely proven fact that does not affect them at all. But they do. And the faults of my own species annoy me. Possibly because it challenges my own beliefs in the capabilities of evolution. But we're also destroying those powers by supporting people who would die on their own. We are corrupting evolution. And yet, all men are created equal, and I am certainly not one who would be able to consign millions or billions to avoidable deaths.
Sorry, I'm getting scatterbrained, and turning a simple bit of insight into a rambling post covering several lethally contentious issues. But if any of you would ever like to sit down and talk through them with me, explain your insights that both agree and disagree with mine, I always love to hone my opinions, and expand my factual base of understanding.
preston
