I thought about doing this as a book, but I think a post will suffice.
In recent months, there has been a lot of love directed at trans people, and when one died after being bullied at school, there was a rather LOUD silence from the religious community, which makes sense... they are, after all, mostly committed to a religious body more than a loving God. It's not like they DID it after all... they just didn't object when it was done... or when a religious group showed up to spew hate in the name of their "loving" God. It's like when the Nazi's said they didn't actually participate in burning jews.. they just kept the trains running on time. One phrase that I recall that we used to learn typing when I was growing up was "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the world is that good men do nothing." And, the church has a long history of watching as evil was carried out in front of them, from the killing of Christ to the killing of witches.
But... that's religion. Recently, I changed my dating profiles to say that I have faith in God, not religion. There has definitely been some testing to the first part, but I have had no reason to regain trust in the second part.
I wanted to write a note towards the LGBTQ community, which I have some connection with trans family members and have written lesbian books in the past. When I studied faith, I was taught that the sum of the law is love, and many seem to have forgotten that, even if I have not. I don't want to base it on Scripture, as Scripture is... to be historically accurate... written by those with a religious direction purpose. Also, there is more original text proof of Socrates than there is of Christ, as there remains no original text from the lifetime of the person said to write it, and theology schools teach ministers across the country that what we have is a "majority text" which means most of the copies contained this or that with some additions from non majority texts. So, we don't in actuality know what was said. Even the gospel of John says most of what Jesus said was unrecorded. So, the next time that someone is thumping a KJV Bible written by a King that wrote a bible to allow him to get divorced, remind them it's all about love.
You are not wrong to want to love others or to want them to love you. Those that hate you are not speaking from God, and trust me...in a few years, you'll never see them, again. Also, those that hate you will continue finding someone or something to hate, so they will never be free from their curse, so pity them. There was a Christian book written some years ago that I liked called The Dream Giver. It focuses on how there are echoes of universal truth in books and stories through the world... not just the Bible. So, I want you to consider this. If you see a universal theme in stories of people fighting to be free to be themselves against those that demand you be a copy to validate them.. consider that it is just a reflection of the will of God, and you are not alone.
Believe in yourself. Love yourself. Go forward. When you are in the middle of the valley of evil, why would you stop? Forward.
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