Now, all branches of Christianity tend to profess that they love everyone and will accept them no matter what. What I'm about to talk about does NOT apply to individual people, but the groups as a whole.
Yes, the Bible does have that story about Sodom and Gomorrah, where the two towns were destroyed because the people who lived within were homosexual. However, homosexuality was NOT the only thing that was going on in those cities.
With people being made more aware of homosexuality, asexuality, and transgender, out come all the people who say it's wrong and anyone who's homosexual, asexual, or transgender are hated by God.
Bullshit, good sir, bullshit.
If you're a Christian, and you've gone to at least SOME church or Bible related event, you know that God loves everyone, no matter what, and that He wants us to do the same. Yes, that means you should probably stop going around gay pride events holding signs that say "God hates fags," because that's NOT true.
Christians, well, EVERYONE for that matter, the world would be such a better place if we all just accepted that people have their own ways of life that may not fit in with what we think is 'right' and just minded our own damn business. In Matthew 5:44 we are told to love our enemies. Enemies, in this case, can be translated to 'any person whose way of life we disagree with in any way'. Matthew 7:1-5 says "Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgement you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, "Let me remove the speck from your eye"; and look, a plank is in your eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye."
Work on bettering yourself before trying to better others. Be there to support someone if they ask for it, but if they don't, once again, mind your own damn business. By constantly nitpicking at someone else's life, you make them feel like they can't do anything right. Most of the time, people just want to feel a sense of accomplishment. Don't look down on someone who's in a rough place in their lives. You may end up being in just as rough of a place, and if you looked down at someone and scoffed, that's all you can expect to get from them. Be willing to support those who are less fortunate than you are.
The church, as a whole, has a bad habit of pushing away people who are not already living their lives well and in a good place religiously.
Isn't the point of going to church to learn how to live your life to the fullest and in harmony with what God wants for you?
Why, then, push away someone who wants to learn and instead accept someone who has already accomplished this?
This closed-minded attitude is most definitely one of the reasons people are turning away from the church.
They hear church members claiming that their church is very accepting and loving, but when they go to learn, all they see is hypocrisy. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want to be in that environment, either.
I could go on and on with this post but I'd like for people to actually be able to finish it, so I'm going to end it here. You're all awesome.
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