Don't censor me!
I am getting so sick and tired of people trying to tell other people what to think and believe. So I have this to say:
1. Stop expecting others to act the way you do if they don't believe the same things you do. Just don't expect it...it's not going to happen. They don't want you to 'change their minds' anymore than you want them to try to change yours. If you don't have a relationship with someone you have no right to comment on their beliefs or lifestyle. If you do and you are genuinely worried about their lives, then speak to them in love about why it worries you. Then, let it go. You are not in control of anyone's actions. Unless someone is doing something illegal, neither is the government. PERIOD.
2. Just like in feminism, any large issue that starts out with good intentions can swing too far to the other side. It is not okay to have felt oppression by being censored and then attempt to censor others in return. It makes no sense. Well, it does, because we are all hypocrites at some level. However, each and every person in this country has a right to express their opinions as loud as they wish. If we accepted this then maybe we would't gasp so loud when someone says something contrary to what we believe. We also wouldn't think such harsh things about them just because they think differently than we do. I'm sick of hearing people say things like President Bush is evil or that rap is an unredeemable form of music no matter what the lyrics say. It's just retarded. And I do mean mentally handicapped. It's like people are unable to accept that others see things differently than they do, like that part of their brain that allows for rationalization and seeing the other side of things has been permanately injured. Don't hate someone for hating you. You'll just end up on the same level of shifting sand they are on.
Let me end by saying something that may be shocking to some people. There are many people in this country who believe in something called Absolute Truth. This belief, at it's very least, promotes the idea that there are moral guidelines that apply to each and every human being on this earth. No matter what. This is the opposite of Post-Modernism or subjective truth, that says that each person makes up their own truth and they alone make the rules for their own little universe. These people cannot stand up and say that cutting the arms off a baby is inherantly wrong, because it is only wrong to them and they cannot tell someone else what is wrong for them. This belief cannot be a part of a country like ours, because we rely on people to hold to the truths of the Constitution as fact and undeniable. If you don't believe that anyone has any right to tell you what is right or wrong for you then you need to move some place where anarchy is acceptable and don't mind living in between a lady who is married to her 40 cats and a guy who tortures cats for fun.
We can take this too far and begin imposing right and wrong in very subjective places like who you can love and all that through our government. However, if someone believes that the Bible is true, then they have every right to hold to the belief that things like homosexuality and adultry and pre-marital sex are wrong because that is what the Bible says. They do not have the right to impose that belief on people who do not think that the Bible is true. If someone claims to believe the Bible yet picks and chooses what they like out of it and throws away what they don't like then they either are lying when they speak of their belief or they have not actually studied the Bible at any length.
In any event, don't censor me, damn it, just because I believe that there is a heaven and one way to get there. Don't make assumptions about me or others like me for what we believe. I don't care what other stupid people have done, we are not them and they are not us.
1. Stop expecting others to act the way you do if they don't believe the same things you do. Just don't expect it...it's not going to happen. They don't want you to 'change their minds' anymore than you want them to try to change yours. If you don't have a relationship with someone you have no right to comment on their beliefs or lifestyle. If you do and you are genuinely worried about their lives, then speak to them in love about why it worries you. Then, let it go. You are not in control of anyone's actions. Unless someone is doing something illegal, neither is the government. PERIOD.
2. Just like in feminism, any large issue that starts out with good intentions can swing too far to the other side. It is not okay to have felt oppression by being censored and then attempt to censor others in return. It makes no sense. Well, it does, because we are all hypocrites at some level. However, each and every person in this country has a right to express their opinions as loud as they wish. If we accepted this then maybe we would't gasp so loud when someone says something contrary to what we believe. We also wouldn't think such harsh things about them just because they think differently than we do. I'm sick of hearing people say things like President Bush is evil or that rap is an unredeemable form of music no matter what the lyrics say. It's just retarded. And I do mean mentally handicapped. It's like people are unable to accept that others see things differently than they do, like that part of their brain that allows for rationalization and seeing the other side of things has been permanately injured. Don't hate someone for hating you. You'll just end up on the same level of shifting sand they are on.
Let me end by saying something that may be shocking to some people. There are many people in this country who believe in something called Absolute Truth. This belief, at it's very least, promotes the idea that there are moral guidelines that apply to each and every human being on this earth. No matter what. This is the opposite of Post-Modernism or subjective truth, that says that each person makes up their own truth and they alone make the rules for their own little universe. These people cannot stand up and say that cutting the arms off a baby is inherantly wrong, because it is only wrong to them and they cannot tell someone else what is wrong for them. This belief cannot be a part of a country like ours, because we rely on people to hold to the truths of the Constitution as fact and undeniable. If you don't believe that anyone has any right to tell you what is right or wrong for you then you need to move some place where anarchy is acceptable and don't mind living in between a lady who is married to her 40 cats and a guy who tortures cats for fun.
We can take this too far and begin imposing right and wrong in very subjective places like who you can love and all that through our government. However, if someone believes that the Bible is true, then they have every right to hold to the belief that things like homosexuality and adultry and pre-marital sex are wrong because that is what the Bible says. They do not have the right to impose that belief on people who do not think that the Bible is true. If someone claims to believe the Bible yet picks and chooses what they like out of it and throws away what they don't like then they either are lying when they speak of their belief or they have not actually studied the Bible at any length.
In any event, don't censor me, damn it, just because I believe that there is a heaven and one way to get there. Don't make assumptions about me or others like me for what we believe. I don't care what other stupid people have done, we are not them and they are not us.
Labels: absolute truth, believe, Bible, Censorship, homosexual, postmodernism
posted by Kimberly | 9:44 PM
1 Comments:
I am sorry you got censored.. the part at the beginning about letting go of worry once you've told people seems very wise. like all wise things, it's much easier to know than to do... but how much that's worth doing isn't the same?
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