It isn't cool to believe in God anymore. It's just not. It wasn't ever really that cool. Honestly I've been made fun of for being Mormon my whole life. So it never surprises me when someone reacts in disgust to my beliefs. That doesn't bother me, it's always happened and it's always going to happen as long as I'm on this Earth. Maybe even after this life considering I believe people are going to have the same personality in the next life as they do here. However there is something that bothers me about the world lately. There is a complete refusal to accept anything that might be based in illogical reasoning. In other words people don't believe in fairies anymore.
Even religious people these days claim they can use reason to explain God. It's impossible but they try because being religious would be much more popular if you could prove there's a God. There's so many things religious people do that are just "because God said so". There's no good reason for gay people not to get married, it doesn't make sense to wait til you're married to have sex, there's no relationship between drinking and smoking and being a bad person. The only logical part of my lifestyle are the parts that agree with general ethics. Like not stealing, not killing, not lying, etc. These rules just make it so society can succeed as a whole. However There's no logical sensible reason behind keeping most of the rest of the commandments , and I don't see anything wrong with that. My favorite part of being religious is that I don't have to have everything figured out. I can just have faith. Faith that there's more after we die, that there's more behind cells than numbers and formulas.
So yeah you're right, I have no good reason to disagree with gay marriage. God said that's not what he wants for society and that's good enough for me. Does it suck for gay people? Of course it does.It also sucks for everyone that cares about gay people including myself. It also sucks God said I can't have tattoos. I'm an artist, i would love to cover myself in art. Are people that have tattoos bad? Nope! Am I going to be sinning if I get a tattoo?Yes. Does that pale in comparison with being expected to not marry who you love. Yes, and I know it does, but it's just an example of what it means to live by a different law. I'm ok with it. I really am. I want to believe in fairies, I want to be illogical when it comes to faith.
I'm ok with it because logic would say, after death there is only oblivion, after suffering there is only silence. Logically the brain stops and that's it. I'm not ok with that. It doesn't matter how much I think through it. I can't say I don't think there's more after this. No matter how much science I learn I still can't say, I don't think there's a God. It's hard to be religious, but I prefer it to thinking that after so many people suffer so much in this world, there's no greater reward for them in the next life. So go ahead burn me at the stake, I'd rather be hated than believe anything else.
