Religion

Edit: This isn’t meant to be offensive, don’t take it too seriously. Trust me, you’ll know when I’m trying to offend :B

Back story: I have a friend who, like myself, started university this year. She, unlike me, is living in a dorm, so naturally, she’s frequently exposed to parties and alcohol and all the good things university life has to offer. Long story short, she was getting hammered every single weekend and hooking up with a zillion guys for a good half of the term and falling behind in her classes, but she’s cleaned up her act since then. So today, she was telling me about an email she received from her brother. Said brother is a very devout Catholic and lives at a monastery. Apparently, he had told her that he was really disappointed in her conduct and strongly advised her to break ties with any and all non-Christian friends that she had, because they will inevitably lead her to sin.

…Yeah, uh, what? Excuse you?

My philosophy is that I’ll respect your beliefs if a) they are not discriminatory and/or hateful and b) if you respect mine (or lack thereof). And believe me, the respect I have for this guy is deep in the negatives.

I’d love nothing more than to type a tl;dr response to this, but I’m afraid I’ll be too bitchy (religious fundamentalists hit all my right buttons) and I’m tired as shit so I’ll leave it at this: hey, at least I don’t need an invisible man in the sky to be my moral compass. I strive to be morally good not because I fear some deity or don’t want to spend an eternity in hell, but because I genuinely want to be. I recognize sexual orientation is biological in nature have nothing but contempt for those who denounce the “homosexual lifestyle”.

If that makes me a sinner, then I can’t wait to get into hell. I’ll bring the booze.