Religion Update
For me, holidays mean spending time with family. And spending a weekend with family always brings up the question of whether I'll be attending church with my parents. My parents are Catholic. The "Big RC." I was raised Catholic, and consider myself recovering from all that brainwashing and guilt. Inevitably, when I start thinking about religion, I ask myself the following question, which I often pose to friends:If you added up all the good things that have come out of religion (education, art, cathedrals, charity works, monks storing books during the dark ages, etc.) and you put them on one side of a scale, and then you took all the bad things (holy wars, the inquisition, terrorism, abusive marriages, oppression of gays, etc.), which side of the scale would outweigh the other? Really, think about it.
And it looks like I'm not the only one to ponder this question... What do you think?
A few articles crossed my inbox lately that explored the intersection of religion and gay issues. I've linked to them below the fold.
1 comment:
religion doesn't bother me as much as it seems to bother other non-religious gays. i think all of those wars, etc. (or at least a lot of them) would probably have found some other reason to happen anyway. and i think religion can be a good thing for some people. if being active in your church keeps you off drugs, keeps you out of jail, or keeps you from putting a bullet in your head out of loneliness or desperation - go for it.
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