Hey guys and girls,
Tomorrow is Wednesday so were halfway through the week (yes) I'm going to a play tomorrow to support the Arapahoe Band so its fun, My bro has a baseball game Grandview so lets hope and pray that they win.
Nothing new school wise so I WILL keep you updated the rest of the week.
"Cuz when your fifteen and somebody tells you they love you, your gunna believe them. . ."
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- Hi I am Trevor Ault. Every day I try to make Jesus my life and praise and respect him in everything that I do. I hope you enjoy my blog!!!!!!!!!
Excert from "The God Box" by Alex Sanchez:
ReplyDeleteI nodded and folded my arms, bracing for an argument. "You understand you're going to hell, don't you?"
"No," Manuel said, his voice confident. "That doesn't make sense. Ever since I first started going to church nursery school, I was taught that God loves me just as I am, jost as my mom and dad love me, no matter what. So ... why on earth would a good and loving God create ten percent of people with a sex drive oriented toward the same gender, and at the same time condemn them to hell for it?"
Her raised his eyebrows, waiting for my answer. I stared back, uncertain. I'd always been told that gay people were godless. Obviously, Manuel wasn't.
When I failed to respond, he filled in: "The logic of condemning people for whow they were born is just... just... backward. It's like when they used to blame lepers or mentally ill people, claiming that God was punishing them. Why should I believe that I'm sick or sinful or going to hell for something I didn't choose and can't change? I don't buy that."
It took me a moment to collect my thoughts. "It's not proven that people are born gay."
"Well," Manuel argued, "it's not proven that people are born straight either, but no one challenges them about it."
"But homosexuality is unnatural," I protested.
"Is it?" Manuel argued. "Do you know that homosexual courtship, mating, and parenting are scientifically documented in more than four hundred fifty animal species?"
"Is that really true?" I asked--even though I could recall times when I'd seen male dogs, or horses, or cattle mount each other.
"look it up on the Web," Manuel replied. "What's unnatural is homophobia. Homo sapiens is the only species in all of nature that responds with hate to homosexuality."
His comment made me think back to a psychology class where we'd studied how both hate and love were learned behaviors. And I remembered thinking how important it was that Jesus had come to teach us how to love.
"But what about AIDS?" I asked Manuel. "You don't think AIDS is God's punishment for gay people?"
"First of all," Manuel answered, "I don't believe in a sadistic God who thinks up ways to punish us. Is that what you believe in?"
"No. But I think he tries to tell us when we're doing something wrong."
"Through cruelty?" Manuel shook his head. "I think that's the wrong image of God, the one that Jesus came to correct. I believe suffering is just a sucky party of life--everybody's life. As Jesus said in Matthew: God 'makes his sun rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain upon the just and the unjust.'"
Once again Manuel's citing of Scripture confounded me.
"And as for AIDS," he continued, "it's hurt a lot more straight than gay people, including millions of children. And do you realize lesbians have the lowest HIV rate of any group? If AIDS is a punishment from God, then he must love lesbians!" Manuel grinned for a moment before turning serious again. "To link gay people and AIDS is simply..."--he paused as if measuring his words--"...ignorant."
There's my speal. I'm not doing this to spite you. I'm doing this to help you understand my beliefs. Trev, there is some higher being up there, but I just don't know what to believe with all these people shoving their religions in my face. I wanted to be your friend... I still want to be your friend. I don't know much, but I know I was happiest when I thought you were my friend. I would do anything humanly possible to gain that friendship back. Maybe you could even show me God. And. . . . I'm so sorry.