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Okay so basically this time last year, I was content with my spiritual life/self. Then the Christian Ed teacher left and was replaced by a much keener teacher: Miss Grady? lol I think that's her name. (Why do we even have Christian Ed as a subject anyway? It's not a catholic school, and we live in Australia for God's Sake! Seriously, we're as multicultural as it gets! We should have Religious Studies instead!!) Woops..side-tracked...
ANYWAYS, Mr Tav - our first CE teacher, was more easy-going, and wouldn't mind us slacking off. He'd basically put on a nice christian movie or something and tell us a bible story every now and then. But Miss Grady is more interested in seeing that we are all like, saved from Satan. Once she came, I found myself getting all annoyed at Christianity and the ways of it. Before I knew it, my faith in God was slipping and I found myself asking all different kinds of questions in class.
"Apparently God loves us unconditionally, but everything sounds like a heck of a lot of conditions to me."
Miss Grady was also telling us about her church friends who were off in Iraq or something spreading the word of God and converting people. I was appalled by that because sure - it may be acceptable for people to do that in Australia or America even; where the nationalities are more diverse, but in a country in the middle east? Who's to say your religion is the right one? If someone came to me and tried to tell me that my beliefs were wrong and theirs were right and they have proof - the Bible - I would slap them across the face. There is no right or wrong. People should leave other religions alone instead of this converting crap. This is why wars break out. Usually in "God's name" or whatever. Dudes - if you are doing this for God, do you think he'd really want you to murder other people? And for him? It's one of the ten commandments anyway. Geez!
But what really led me away from God was the lesson we were having on relationships, and Miss Grady said "when Sin entered the world, so did things like rape and homosexuality". And I was all "hellooooo? You can't just say those things in the same sentence!!" Seriously. It made me so mad that those two things were basically being linked together in God's eyes. And I believe, that people are BORN with their sexuality. It may just be realised later in life.
Miss also told us that she had a friend who was a homosexual and he is currently taking therapy to change himself and be right in the "eyes of God" so that he can go to Heaven. And I'm all; sure. That's his choice, but can you actually imagine changing whatever your sexuality is just to be right in someone else's eyes?! I think it's pathetic. God should love us for who we are, not who we can be (I love that saying). So yeah I'm not actually a lesbian but I still think this is wrong and this shouldn't be taught at our public schools and stuff.
If anyone would like to try help me understand all this stuff about God and his views on us being the perfect lil un-sinners then feel free to comment and try help me see this from another angle. But before you try to do this, I recommend reading "Change of Heart" by Jodi Picoult. It is a true test for faith - and don't worry. It is written in multiple minds so it's not biased. Like, there's a catholic priest, a man claimed to be the re-incarnated Jesus, an atheist lawyer, and her father; a Jewish rabbi. It was such a good read and it, is my "Bible".
Apparently God loves us unconditionally, but everything sounds like a heck of a lot of conditions to me.
