Ok, where was I again?

[scyllacat]

For the moment, I'm at Emily and Harry's house. I may go to bed early, as it's really exhausting trying to do stuff in the dark, and I've already filled up my trunk with stuff of mine to go to mom's house.

I've been ranting and raving at many of my friends because I wrote to a guy whose profile I happened to see (through one of their random generated thingies), because he was adopted. He wrote back to me, telling me about his experience with adoption, but I forgot everything he said when I got to the point about 2/3 of the way through the letter, where he told me that HE was married in a monogamous, heterosexual relationship with the mother of his children because that is "what God intended."

The vitriol boiled inside me. I'm allergic to Christianity, I tell you. Any other nutball from some other religion tried to sell me this shit, I'd just laugh.

My first thought was, So, if God wanted me to be doing something else, does that mean He's weak, or I'm powerful? Nyah, nyah, I'm stronger than God!

My second thought was, So, you've already noticed that God doesn't want me to have a family, because I tried doing it the way it was intended, and it didn't work. That must mean, since that's what was intended, that God Hates Me, right?

My third thought was to tell him about my friends who got knocked up at Beltaine and are now a beautiful family. Isn't it nice how the Goddess works things out?

I don't think I'll actually answer him, because there's no way I can impress on him how rude he was.

Comments

[argh-jim.livejournal.com]

Well, God DID allow six million of His Chosen People to die in the 1940s, so maybe he's not paying attention?

[scyllacat.livejournal.com]

Hey, nobody said what they were chosen FOR.

[argh-jim.livejournal.com]

Point made. Lesson here: don't come to God's attention.

[jackothegreen.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a fool of the first water. Perhaps the zen of a 2x4 liberally applied about the head and shoulders might bring him closer to the light. I'd ignore him...well, not actually: I'D bait the bastard just to watch him froth at the mouth. But you know I'm like that...;-}

[scyllacat.livejournal.com]

I think I'm going to ask him why he did that. I really do.

[happi-fic.livejournal.com]

Christians like that are why I don't attend church (despite my mother's unsubtle comments about "praying that God will convict my spirit"). I have no problem with being a Christian, or letting people know it, but I don't feel like I need to speak "Church-Speak" at people to let them know. I've always been a big fan of "They shall know you by your actions", and I don't think those actions should be simply that I go to church and listen to semi-scripted, hypocritical and usually ill-informed sermons every seven days, while spouting homilies and "praise-the-Lord"s in the interims. Nothing irritates me quite like driving by a church with "CH CH... What's missing? UR" on the sign.

Idiots.

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

I really wish more Christians were like you -- I wouldn't feel the urge to smack them upside the head with my giant iron pentacle so much. I studied some of the teachings of Christ, and to quote an oft-used phrase, "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians."

[happi-feet.livejournal.com]

I'm not a huge fan of "my" Christmas, either. I'm all about observing the birth and death and resurrection and all that, but I'd prefer to do it privately. The holidays and all their traditions have little to do with Christ and I find them fluffy, commercial and distasteful. I put up a Christmas tree and hide Easter eggs because my husband likes to watch the kids enjoy them. If it were up to me we wouldn't even do gifts. I can buy gifts for my family any day of the year, and do, but I usually end up stashing them in the attic for several months.

I think my brother described it best when he started telling people his "religion" was "Judeo-Christian-Pagan". I usually throw in a "Neo" and a "Buddhist" as well, but they're not technically religious tags so much as belief systems.

[happi-feet.livejournal.com]

Just so everyone knows, BTW, that was me above. I was fiddling with my fic-account and forgot I had changed my log-in.

[lindseylee21.livejournal.com]

I'm sooooo with you. :P Stupid christians!

Yeah!

[scyllacat.livejournal.com]

And while we're at it, what do you have against band geeks? What're you? a Cheerleader or something?

Your demonic sister in crime (and former band geek),
Annie Mayhem

[dragontdc.livejournal.com]

JHVH may not have you on his FL, but my God thinks you're hot.

Come over here while I invoke...


*grins*

[lihan161051.livejournal.com]

Eh, yeah. Wearing religion on sleeve as a political loyalty statement, or same thing with marriage .. ugh, shudder. Creepy, and not in a good way either. Never liked the unspoken message "..because that's what YOU'RE supposed to be doing too.."

I have to agree, while flaming him in the reply would feel good for a minute or two, there's no way it would enlighten him in any way, and it would be wasted effort .. which is a shame, but that's how it is ..

<flame>

[scyllacat.livejournal.com]

You're SO right. Since my profile says that I'm bi and poly and am seeking a father for my children who need NOT be my husband, I'm absolutely down-to-the-bone POSITIVE that is why he brought it up.

Trust me, I'm sure it was not MEANT to be an attack, because when you piss on your territory or bruit about your moral superiority, you're not attacking. You're warning everyone else not to bother messing with you.

(Not, of course, that you would know anything personally about stepping on people's toes in an effort to establish your claim on your territory.)

So, please, do not take my allergy to Christianity, or my appreciation for any people or beliefs in that system (and there are MANY) as being in any way contradictory to THIS guy being an asshole.

flame off.

Re: <flame>

[jackothegreen.livejournal.com]

But...but...that only leaves us the errant Zen priests to hound around the wheel. Well...anyway...I'm off to ride with the Wild Hunt. Shall I bring you back something radical and ghastly...;-}

Re: <flame>

[ranmasal.livejournal.com]

I'll partially side with you, and I'll partially side with Mul... You have great reason to suspect that he might be attacking you for the way he wrote what he did... Mul also has a point, you do have a preconditioned responce to Christianity, and you can't be 100% sure it was an attack based only on the evidence given... You should ask him "Are you being a dick because of my profile, or were you mearly letting me know right up front what you are all about?"

Just a thought...

Re: <flame>

[scyllacat.livejournal.com]

Hey, I admitted, I saw red. I admitted in the original post (!) that I wouldn't have responded as irrationally if it had been some other belief.

I'm willing to put the letter up for others to see. Nonetheless, I'm sure that however polite he is seeming to be on the surface, he is definitely pissing on God's Territory in His name.

You're welcome to disagree, but you won't convince me. :)

Keep watching this space, I'll go grab the letter and post it. (How make screenshot?)