For those who don't know me very well I was raised to believe in the Catholic faith. I feel as a person I have grown past that.
Over the past several years I have gathered a vast knowledge of other religions, beliefs and customs.
I have discovered that nearly everyone that I know believes is something. Sometimes to the extreme where they think others will suffer horrible judgement at the pearly gates for not believing in what they do.
Today I write about this because about a week ago I went to lunch with my dad and he was really quite ashamed of many of his co-workers in his age group 60+.
His employer recently had open enrollment for their 2012 insurance benefits.
The company he works for decided to change the definition of spouse to significant other so that people living with brothers. sisters. disabled parents, or a lover non-married in status can be covered. The plan also allows ANY lover. Gay relationships and Lesbian relationships included.
My dad felt ashamed of his co-workers because they complained and griped about how gays and lesbians do not deserve the same rights as everyone else. That's right. My dad's older age group mostly believes that gays and lesbians are not following the natural order of the world and therefore defy god.
You see, even though I grew up with the Catholic faith I was taught at a very young age that age, race, religion, and sex preference is not up to us. God/mother earth/ etc has made everyone in "its" image. Just because I was raised believing in god and still do doesn't mean that my definition of god is correct. Only "it" knows the real story. How the world was made. How man came to be and so on.
Many could argue this by saying the Bible is correct. Well if that is the case why is it that almost every religion has there own version of a great flood? Pre-A.D. literature includes many stories which have been added to many different religious books. A good example is the story "Gilgamesh" written in the 7th century B.C. While on a journey Gilgamesh meets the oldest man in the world. He is believed to be hundreds of years old and is therefore the grandfather of man. There was a great flood and the gods had instructed him to build a giant boat out of sheets of slate. He was then told to take two of each animal and load them onto the boat. Sounds familiar right?
So with that being shared........
I believe in anything good. Do good in your life and treat others the way you would like to be treated you are therefore doing god's will (God to me). There is no such thing as a right religion, or a wrong one. This is because we are not god. We don't know what (it) considers as a correct religion. Therefore we have no right to judge anyone. That is god's place.
God controls who your parents are, how you are raised, what race you are. He also in my and my dad's opinion decides who is gay, lesbian, or straight. What is right for me isn't necessarily right for everyone.
So next time you hear someone judge someone harshly for who they are and how they were made remember this: We were all made in god's image. How would you feel if it was you being judged?
What if you were in danger for your beliefs and lifestyle and no one would stand up for you and help? What would you do if you saw someone being beat to death on the side of a unpaved road?
Being a good person is what it all boils down to. To be what we need to be as a human race we need to learn to be more tolerant of others. Lets teach our children this. Lets not continue on as the older baby boomers have. Let's teach our children how to make the world a better place by helping abolish the belief that there is only one right religion or that being straight is the only way to be.
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