October 16, 2012
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Blog Entry
Interesting. I was thinking about writing about this subject yesterday. Today the topic popped up in my subscriptions.
A religious (or at least moral) lifestyle
In my own life, I have a certain fallen from grace quality. An unwed mother can never truly be viewed as completely moral. Really, I might as well attach a red 'A' to my left saggy mom boob. Add my tattoos. Add my fondness for drunken dancing at the gay bar. Add my fun use of vulgar language. Add the books I read. My career in itself can be viewed as sinful. I drive too fast. Ah, screw em. All this being said. I am a good person who only wants to help others. I am nice and give my time and money freely. That's what is important to me. Sex, tattoos, alcohol, those things are not important to me at all.
A person who lives an 'overly religious' lifestyle however, looks at my life and only sees sex, tattoos, and alcohol. They live their lives shunning these specific wrongs, and never understand it's completely unimportant. Abortion is wrong, sex outside of marriage is wrong, cuss words are wrong, tattoos are wrong, dancing is wrong, drinking is wrong. They spend their time looking down on people for faults they perceive them to have. They miss the good in the world. It has always seemed such a negative lifestyle to me. Don't do bad things! rather than, Do good things! And by good things, I do not mean shove your beliefs down another person's throat. I mean support people without requiring them to change to your point of view.
I guess all my blog entries have the same message. Look at people! See them for what they are, not what you judge them to be.
Yes, I believe that "sin" brings you down. It has negative consequences. I can feel it. One thing is a gateway to a worse thing. People should strive not to do bad things. But through all of this striving not to, people got lost. They started shunning. They started judging. They started hating. Hate is the worst thing a person can do in this world. If you are going to hate someone, hate yourself for breeding such negativity. Hate yourself for the ignorance you teach your children.
This type of people are abundant around me.
Leah K.
Comments (4)
Well put! This is how I feel too. It's easy to overlook the positive and focus on the negative. But once people open their eyes and see people for who they are, with an open caring heart, everyone would be so much more accepting of eachother. Maybe, at that point, we could even learn from eachother.
Ah, the downside of living in the South. Something about fair weather that makes people apt to judge.
Oh what a day to read your post. Unfortunately I'm currently on a hate day. Typically I would totally love this post and be like - exactly! But I really don't feel it today. It seems people are just another pattern and they repeat themselves. I cannot see the hope in not judging when people we've helped keep using my husband and I then dumping us. I can't keep taking each person as a new individual when they keep turning up to be just like the last person we called friend who then just stopped being our friend without even a reason why.
@FalconBridge - I can understand where you are coming from in your situation. I think it's really disappointment, I have a lot of those feelings too.
@mr_white_tie_affair - It's the one and only thing I do not like about living in the south. @lovepeacecalm - Thanks for commenting!
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