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>fuck the concept of GodI gather that the way you envision God to be, should He exist, is very spiteful and cruel. I've been there for many years. With how mainstream religions seem to characterize Him, it only makes sense, honestly. Mainstream organized religion makes God seem like He put us in a catch-22 existence where everything sucks, but anything that quells the suffering for a moment is a sin worthy of eternal torment and we're supposed to see this as a good thing. As lgbt people, this is dialed up to 11, as mainstream religion makes it seem like we were intentionally made to be born with holes in our hearts that we can never fill and the only option is to die alone or live a lie. This concept of God? Yeah, fuck that. This is a concept of God made by scared, hurt people that then go to inflict it on others, making them scared and hurt, too. And it's very damaging when they do so. But when you peel back the dogmatic nonsense and tune out the noise, you can look past all the bullshit that scared, hurt people peddle and find something beautiful, hopeful and deeply fulfilling to the human soul. Something that's bigger and more loving than just fear and punishment that breathes life into our reality and consciousness.
>The only difference between you and me is I believe in one less God than youI didn't claim anything else. In fact, I think it's quite likely we have much in common when it comes to our experience of how religious people have treated us and how it affected us.
>Only nutjobs think that their one religion is correct out of the multitudes of existing religionsI don't believe this. I think love, spiritual growth and moral development are the important parts of faith and this comes in many different packages. You don't even have to be religious or a theist to develop, experience and live these things.