Post 14

I was going to shy away from writing this post but I feel like it will make a good post.  I think Emily’s editorial she wrote called “Separation of Church and Hate” was brilliant.  I think she makes amazing points in it and it is true that people hold stereotypes on people or have beliefs that just shock me.  I consider myself a Christian.  I believe in a higher power and I believe that Jesus is my savior.  What I don’t believe in though is the fact that just because someone is gay means they are going to burn in hell for eternity.  I thought the whole idea of having a religion and faith was for hope.  Hope that when you die something good comes from it.  I didn’t realize that it was to scare people away from it.  I walk to class some days and I hear those dumb Bible pushers standing in front of the AF trying to scare people into believing and I feel like smacking them.   That’s not the way to do it.  It doesn’t work at all.  It is the reason why I think religion is becoming more nonexistent in America.  The way these Bible pushers try to throw a religion on people is horrible.  I’m not saying everyone needs to believe in Christianity or anything like that but I feel things get labels now that don’t apply to everyone.  Gays get the label of being horrible people and that they are demons and evil and all that other nonsense by “Christians” and the press labels all Christians as these hardcore, throw the bible at them and make them believe, types of people and neither are true.  I’m never one that enjoys talking about having faith and everything else like that because I feel people judge me just because of that then.  They think “Oh, he is gonna judge me because I don’t believe” or “Well I’m not going to talk to him because he is going to throw all this bible talk at me” and honestly I’m not like that at all and it frustrates me that labels like that have to be made.  It was refreshing to read Emily’s editorial because it was nice to read kind of the same idea but from the other side.  She felt the same way.  She hated the labeling that she felt for being a gay American.  She felt that when she tells people she is gay they judge her and don’t want to be around her and I think it is horrible to realize.  The one thing that makes America as great of a country as it is people can be who they are.  The country was founded on individualism and it seems like people want to make everyone like them instead of embracing individualism.  It just frustrates me to no point and I’m glad Emily wrote such a great and wonderful paper on how she feels.