From one of my forum posts:
"I realize this is a touchy subject to get into, but i'm going to give it a try and see if i can avoid any shrapnel.
I am not for gay rights, but what I mean by that is that I am not for a government sanctioned bill of gay rights, or for gay marriages. Yes, they are people, but they are people who have chosen a lifestyle which is contrary to God's law.
This is one of those "Love the sinner, hate the sin" situations where we must accept that they have chosen to be gay, and that we cannot force them to change, but rather show them that we will still show them God's love.
Likewise, I don't think that gay people should try to force us to accept them. It only shows that they are insecure in their choice and that if they are accepted as gay, that defines them. It will also push farther away the people who do not accept gays in any way, shape, or form.
I'm also seeing God dragged into this as a horrible, judgemental dictator who will smite you if you step out of line. That is not true at all. Even if you are the most despicable person on earth, who has broken every single one of his commandments, he will still love you. The only problem is, people seem to view Christianity as a one-step fix: "Okay, I accepted Jesus, now I'm set." Also not true, although if you accept Jesus for real, you will go to heaven. Christianity is not just a choice, it is a choice that you make every single day: Whether or not to attempt to live as God wants you too. If you screw up, that's fine, as long as you're sorry for the sin and try not to make the same mistake again. And yet everyone thinks the moment they step out of line, they step out of heaven. Think of it this way: you were born again in Christ. When you are born, can you be unborn?"
Somehow I got from gay rights to a sermon on God, but it felt right at the time and I feel a great sadness whenever I see people with a warped concept of God and his image.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Homosexuality
Posted by C J Powers at 11:57 PM 0 comments
Labels: life the universe and everything, my problems with society, random stuff, religion, thoughts on God
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Evolution
The ONE THING that pisses me off more than anything else in the world is evolution, and the fools who tout it as fact. The only thing that pisses me off more is the people who claim to believe both in God and in the fact that we all evolved from a random gathering of amino acids. If I recall correctly, the simplest protein in the world is 124 amino acids, and the average protein has several thousand. And if even one amino acid is off, the whole protein is useless, because its not the right protein. Apparently, if you were to try to create ribonuclease, the simplest protein in the world, by accident, the odds would be 1 in 10 to the 152 power. That's like drawing a royal flush 19 times in a row without missing a card. The chances are so frigging remote I just can't believe how idiotic some people are. Then they tell me that I came from a small organism, which spontaneously evolved into a fish, which became a frog, which turned into a lizard, which became a monkey, which became me. Um, excuse me, but there is no way I am going to believe that. The complexity of life is so intricate, so unfathomable, that there is no way I will ever believe that evolution is a plausible, no, contemplatible, theory. And that's all it is, a stupid, uneducated, full of holes theory that holds water like a sieve. And people actually believe the garbage being shoved into their brains, with no room for argument. It doesn't help that everyone who questions evolution is ridiculed and ejected from the "respectable" science community. Because evolution teaches that we are no better than animals who by a freak accident became the way we are today, there is no value for human life, and more value is placed on real animals. People spend millions of dollars to help the cute little seal get back to his natural habitat, while around the world, thousands upon thousands of children are dying from hunger and disease. Everyone needs to take a stand, because as Ezekiel 3:18-19 says:
"When I say to a wicked man, 'You will surely die,' and you do not warn him or speak out to dissade him from his evil ways in order to save his life, that wicked man will die for his sin, and I will hold you accountable for his blood. But if you do warn the wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his evil ways, he will die for his sin; but you will have saved yourself."
I pray to God that one day, when the heavens have opened and the trumpets resound, that I will be able to say to them, "I told you so." But more so I pray that they will find the truth, so that they will not have to suffer the torment of Hell.
Posted by C J Powers at 10:22 PM 0 comments
Labels: my problems with society, religion, things that make me mad
Thursday, February 19, 2009
It really makes me sad
It has always depressed me when I look at how far our society has fallen in terms of beauty. It's as if no one can be "beautiful" unless they are so skinny they are practically skeletons. It drives so many already beautiful girls to do such desperate things, like anorexia and bulimia. Everyone is overly obsessed with their weight. I'm not saying that we shouldn't care about ourselves, but rather that we should look at ourselves in a realistic light. We will never be as skinny as those supermodels; I mean, let's face it, they have ribs removed in order to look like that.
It would be wonderful if everyone could see what they look like through God's eyes, because then we would realize that everyone is the most beautiful person in the world.
Posted by C J Powers at 8:18 PM 0 comments
Labels: my problems with society, things that make me mad, thoughts on God
