Dang Tyra
I was channel surfing earlier today while I was getting ready and stopped on the Tyra Banks show because the title of today's show was "Hell to pay: Gay teen exorcisms." It was a little crazy, or at least these people that are performing these "exorcisms" were crazy to me. I am in no mood to actually delve into my real, serious thoughts on the subject, which seems like a pointless time to come to my livejournal to blog about it, but I just had to write it down. It makes me feel bad. I guess my attitude toward this weird extreme viewpoint about what is good and evil about sin and "God" and the world at large, is how these people approach things. Am I really going to evoke that ever instrumental phrase in anthropology? YES. Ethnocentric! Perhaps it is my schooling, the books I've read, the way I was raised, I don't know. But every time I see these people damn other people for their differences, I just wonder what their outlooks are on other cultures, other people, mainly people who have not been oh so "privileged" to have a Christian god in their life. Is everyone going to hell because they don't live the way you think they should? Seriously, this is a serious question, I want to know.
As I was watching this show though, and this exchange between the "exorcists" and a gay youth advocate, it was just again reaffirmed to me that it is nearly impossible to get through to some people. Especially without the presence of a shouting match. That's the sad part. Well there are plenty of sad parts about this situation, but a real sad fact to me is never being able to really find a common ground. Geez. I am hopeful about so much, yet at the same time sickeningly cynical. There will never be peace. How can we find common ground when we disagree so wholeheartedly about things, and who really is to say what is right and wrong, whose views are better? I mean, I don't believe that someone is going to go to hell because they're gay, and that they need to have the homosexual demons exorcised from them to be a truly righteous and good person. But hey, I don't really believe in religion either.
As I was watching this show though, and this exchange between the "exorcists" and a gay youth advocate, it was just again reaffirmed to me that it is nearly impossible to get through to some people. Especially without the presence of a shouting match. That's the sad part. Well there are plenty of sad parts about this situation, but a real sad fact to me is never being able to really find a common ground. Geez. I am hopeful about so much, yet at the same time sickeningly cynical. There will never be peace. How can we find common ground when we disagree so wholeheartedly about things, and who really is to say what is right and wrong, whose views are better? I mean, I don't believe that someone is going to go to hell because they're gay, and that they need to have the homosexual demons exorcised from them to be a truly righteous and good person. But hey, I don't really believe in religion either.