Love thy neighbour!
You've heard it before. It's a popular sentence within the Christian belief. It also take different shapes, such as the teaching of "Karma" in Buddhism (among others). "Do to others as you wish be done to you", also a powerful statement. All these 'rules' or guidelines within religion, but all it boils down to is;
- Treat people without judgement, prejudice and resentment.
These messages do have a common thread, they encourage us to treat others as we hope to be treated. To see other humans and give them the same value we see in ourselfs, no less, no more. To not judge beforehand.
I'm not a believer in religion, but this message is one I strongly support. However, sadly, a lot of times it's not followed. 'Love thy neighbour' says the Christian belief, what if your neighbour is gay? And you follow the bible, cover to cover, and wish to interpret it the very same way a lot of other christians do - calling gays an abomination? Or what if your neighbour is a believer of another God than yours, or none at all? Would you no longer honor your neighbour, since he/she doesn't follow your path?
I saw not long ago on TV, a documentary about how 'The Salvation Army' exclude gay people from joining their 'peace-army', because 'being gay' doesn't go with their believes, and how they in a lot of countries put in much effort and money to stop the fight for equal rights regardless of sexual orientation. There was a man, in Africa, who strongly believed that gays should be given the death penalty, who got the question;
- So gay people are 'as bad' as murderers?
His answer puzzled me, it went something like this;
- You can't devide sins in 'small sins' and 'big sins', a sin is a sin, all of them are as bad as the other.
This blows my mind. Not the part were he thinks that gays can be put in the same folder as murderers, but his statement of 'a sin is a sin'. Christianity and Jesus, I thought, wanted to spread love and understanding, with 'Love thy neighbour' being a pretty powerful statement. But here we have a man, who feels so much hate for people who only want to share their life with people from the same gender, and to him, that's horrible. His hate, for something as beautiful as love between two humans, his struggle, against equal rights for all human beings, the discrimination he practices, the people he judge and condemn, is that not also a sin, according to his beliefs?
- Love your neighbour, damn it! ~HappyBoi.
xoxo
Happy kisses,
HappyBoi
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You've heard it before. It's a popular sentence within the Christian belief. It also take different shapes, such as the teaching of "Karma" in Buddhism (among others). "Do to others as you wish be done to you", also a powerful statement. All these 'rules' or guidelines within religion, but all it boils down to is;
- Treat people without judgement, prejudice and resentment.
These messages do have a common thread, they encourage us to treat others as we hope to be treated. To see other humans and give them the same value we see in ourselfs, no less, no more. To not judge beforehand.
I'm not a believer in religion, but this message is one I strongly support. However, sadly, a lot of times it's not followed. 'Love thy neighbour' says the Christian belief, what if your neighbour is gay? And you follow the bible, cover to cover, and wish to interpret it the very same way a lot of other christians do - calling gays an abomination? Or what if your neighbour is a believer of another God than yours, or none at all? Would you no longer honor your neighbour, since he/she doesn't follow your path?
I saw not long ago on TV, a documentary about how 'The Salvation Army' exclude gay people from joining their 'peace-army', because 'being gay' doesn't go with their believes, and how they in a lot of countries put in much effort and money to stop the fight for equal rights regardless of sexual orientation. There was a man, in Africa, who strongly believed that gays should be given the death penalty, who got the question;
- So gay people are 'as bad' as murderers?
His answer puzzled me, it went something like this;
- You can't devide sins in 'small sins' and 'big sins', a sin is a sin, all of them are as bad as the other.
This blows my mind. Not the part were he thinks that gays can be put in the same folder as murderers, but his statement of 'a sin is a sin'. Christianity and Jesus, I thought, wanted to spread love and understanding, with 'Love thy neighbour' being a pretty powerful statement. But here we have a man, who feels so much hate for people who only want to share their life with people from the same gender, and to him, that's horrible. His hate, for something as beautiful as love between two humans, his struggle, against equal rights for all human beings, the discrimination he practices, the people he judge and condemn, is that not also a sin, according to his beliefs?
- Love your neighbour, damn it! ~HappyBoi.
xoxo
Happy kisses,
HappyBoi
Previous blogpost: (Sex-story) Playtime with Davidv3! - Part 2.
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