a religious treatise
it seems as those God Himself has posted comments on my last two posts. while normally this would not be something i would reference, it comes at a slightly ironic time. the reasoning behind this is that i've been quasi-dumped using the religious excuse. i say quasi because we were never really dating, just hanging out, but i was informed that
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i doubt you're an israelite. the mosaic laws also say that you can't mix wool and flax (i think). things change. this is a bigger world. so what if you don't think the same about things? leave it to some bible-thumper to be so afraid that the tiny grasp they have on their faith will be loosed by one argument that they shy away from the rest of the world and comdemn it for not being the heaven on earth they want it to be (that's why they want israel around, because it fulfills a prophecy in revelation and christ will come back to them, who by the way is white if you ask them). that's bascially cultism, and i don't think that it's even worth it to be interested in those people. i know what it's like...down here in the bible belt you'll meet some person, not even in a dating context, and they'll be ok. they believe in god, to some extent, are generally good people. then you meet them like 6 months later and they've been "saved" and/or declare themselves a "soldier of the lord" and that god will now fix everything in their lives. when he doesn't, or if everything goes great then some big tragedy befalls them, their fundamentalist mindset keeps them from seeing things in perspective, and so they decide in the wake of that tragedy that god has abandoned them, so they abandon god. they go from normal to annoying to fucking maniacs. i've seen it a million times. "devout" does not mean literalist, or being prejudiced against people. it means maintaining your faith in a real world context. try to bring christ into your life only, because despite what you people may think CHRIST DOES NOT LIKE BIGGOTS. cultists. i hate them as much as i hate socialists. don't get me started on them.
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On the issue of whether or not you "think the same about things" is a big deal, I would say it is. Mind you, not b/c of the specific doctrines, but b/c of what your belief in them means about your overall thought process. It says that you're not thinking for yourself, or thinking critically about what you're being taught. It means you will choose to follow rules based off of a literal interpretation of an ancient book that's been translated numerous times till what we have now is probably not much more than a vague approximation of the original. And that way of looking at and interacting with the world is quite likely to come into conflict with someone who values reason and critical thinking and a willingness to accept not having all the answers.
p.s. - I'm Jeremy's gf, and he says you're absolutely awesome. And please don't think if I argue with you I'm being pissy, I love Jeremy to pieces and I argue like this with him all the time. :-)
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jeremy is teh r0x0r.
i am teh drunks.
my g/f is a jewess, a yid-maiden, so...i got ya. it's ok...she thinks racial slurs are funny. so do i. so spiritually we agree. noah is a juden, so talk to him about the torah/moses, king of the fighting rabbis! unless of course you count joshua. he done fit the battle of jericho. btw, my girlfriend is jewish (not really practicing but whatevs, ask noah about if your mother is jewish) if you didn't get that through all the blatant racism.
finally:
jeremy is quite right. i am a bad ass.
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