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Haha, no problem! 😉 I forget to reply all the time and then a month later I’ll look back and be like “oops, forgot to reply to another one…” XD

As for getting involved with things like LGTBQA, I agree with you on that. I, personally, am not a person that is going to be swayed by other people’s thoughts, just because honestly half the time when it comes to people’s impression of me or what they think of me in relation to what I wear or what I like or what I believe, I don’t really care. Yes, everyone I know knows I’m Christian, and nothing they say is going to change that. At the same time, they can say what they like about what I wear(I wear a lot of black, so many people, Christians included, think I’m trying to be edgy or even goth, and I’m not, I just like dark clothing. It’s my thing, just like how some people like bright clothing.) or how I act(I’m a little… eccentric?). It’s just something that has never concerned me.

But at the same time, I understand that there are people who are not as… resolute? Firm? In their beliefs because they are new Christians or haven’t really faced any trials yet that will test their faith or whatever. And that’s fine. Like I said before, some people are given the gift of being able to tackle such issues, and some people are not. The problem, however, in my eyes is not the fact that people have different gifts and talents and some people can handle witnessing to LGTBQA people and some cannot–but that people shut out things they do not understand, like, or agree with. Christians especially–don’t like LGTBQA? Ignore it. Don’t like the president? Ignore it. Don’t like Muslims? Ignore them too. If you don’t think about it, the problem will magically disappear. 

*cough* Sorry people, but that’s not how the world works. If you ignore your taxes, they’re not going to magically disappear either.

On the topic of human rights–all it really boils down to is that in the course of humanity idealizing truth and trying to “find their own truth,” they’ve in turn idealized morality and turned it into a “choice”. Oh, you want to be considered a good person but also like doing obviously wrong and evil things? Don’t worry, just find your own truth!

*clears throat* Again, sorry people, but that’s not how the world works. There are consequences for everything you do, and you will pay for them. I think this is where most people go wrong–consequences. In modern worldview, people are told to do whatever the heck they want, if it feels good or makes them happy. Notice the focus on them. This is all about how one individual feels, and nothing more. It’s the epitome of selfishness–If I feel good, then everything will be alright. Great. Sex feels good, so that means it’s perfectly fine to go get a 14yro girl pregnant and then run off, never to be heard of again. Drugs feel good, so that means it’s perfectly alright to get high all the time. Alcohol feels good, so that means it’s perfectly alright to drink until your so wasted you can’t see straight, then drive home and on the way hit a family out for an evening drive.

That’s the way the world thinks, and to an extent, even Christians think this way–If I pray about what I want, I’ll get it. If I raise my hands while worshiping, God will be happy with me and bless me. No. That’s not what this is about. The world does not revolve around you, in fact, you’re so minuscule that only around 50 people probably know who you really are. Sure, the world knows who Billy Graham was. But how many people knew him personally? Probably fewer than you think.

That’s my main problem with modern worldview–it revolves around yourself and how you feel. It says that you can make your own truth, when in reality truth is just as unmovable and unchangeable as God. Jesus is the Truth, and if you think that you can change Jesus you’ve got one heck of a ride coming for you. Humanity is not powerful–morality is not optional. The only people who believe so are those that are so deceived by the world that they cannot see what is right in front of them.

In the same way, the church has problems with accepting things. I once heard a preacher say he could tell how good a church was by how many cigarette butts were in the parking lot–the healthy do not need to be healed, the sick do. If the church can’t pull itself together to help those in need, how can they expect God to help them? Back on the topic of my LGTBQA friends, I don’t accept their worldview. I don’t accept that they think it’s right to be LGTBQA, but I accept them. As people. As humans, that deserve to be treated with basic human dignity and that in truth are just as broken, complex, and needy of God as every last one of us Christians. And if the church cannot accept the broken, then I don’t think it deserves to be called a church.  Back on to the topic of treating everyone honorably–that is very true. The church thinks they can nitpick and whitewash the world into what they want it to be, just like people think they can decide truth for themselves. In return the church treats non-Christians like some sort of taboo cult, and the non-Christians treat the Christians like the uptight jerks they sometimes are. (More often than you think.) Then the church treats the non-Christians even more like taboo, and the non-Christians think the church is just even more uptight…. it’s a vicious cycle, and it’s not going to end if we Christians don’t get past our misconception that anyone doing anything outside of what the Bible says is just this evil, evil, stupid, taboo person that we must never treat with basic human dignity, honor, and courtesy. Last time I checked, Jesus chose sinners as his disciples, not Pharisees. If someone hadn’t witnessed to the sinners first, we would all be those evil, evil, stupid, taboo people that the church likes to blame everything on.

On to religion–exactly. Satan seeks to destroy us from the inside and out, so he has deceived people into defacing the Bible or altering it to fit their wants and needs. In a way, this leads back to modern worldview and the pursuit of truth–they think that they can change the only truth that is on this earth and decide for themselves what truth is, so they alter the Bible or just write their own. Even Christians do this to an extent–they pick and choose with parts of the Bible they like, and ignore the rest. That is not Christianity, or following God.

Honestly, I think one of the biggest problems with these topics is self-imposed ignorance. I think it just really comes down to the fact that people think that they can ignore things, or someone else will fix them, or that it’s not their problem. Newsflash, people, you live in this worlds so yes, it is your problem to.

(Really, more people need to watch the Lorax. UNLESS. Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. That about sums up everything right there. If you don’t try, nothing is going to change. No one is going to swoop in and take the problem on for you, you need to overcome your self-imposed ignorance and unwillingness and do it yourself, with the help of God.)

My two cents, version 2.0