jessicaaa1983

So many people dismiss any aid work that goes into “saving africa”. They say that one person helping will make no difference, the country is still poverty stricken, the people are still hungry, the children are still sick.

Please let me ask you, if an aids epidemic occurred in America tomorrow, and poverty struck in a way no one had seen before, if it was your daughter who needed medicine, would you tell her that she did not matter because she was just ONE small person? That sending funds would not make a difference? No. Because it does make a difference. That one life would be made better. That one girl would have a chance.

If you could only help one person, isn’t that one person worth it?

I have always believed in God and in Jesus. I believe in the teachings of Jesus and have decided to live my life accordingly (to the best of my ability). However, being from a catholic family it has always seemed necessary to me that once one “finds God” they find a faith, a group, a system that they fit into to. After a long time of fighting with what I believe and what that particular Church teaches, I came to realise that I do not belong. I am not a Catholic, I am not a Muslim, I am not a Jehovas Witness. I am me and I have my own faith. This came about as I pondered the following things (please bear with me).

God, our Creator, our higher being, and Jesus, the all-loving, sacrifical lamb who died for the WORLDS sins, are claimed to decide on “Judgement Day” who goes to heaven and who goes to Hell? Jesus, who healed lepers, Jesus who had unconditional love regardless of race or health, is going to “judge” us? I can’t say I believe this. I believe Jesus took on the sins of the WORLD when he died on the cross, not just the sins of the Catholics etc. Would Jesus truly discriminate upon those who chose a different path? Would those who chose say zen buddhism be sent to eternal damnation because they didn’t choose the “right” way? I think not.When you have unconditional love for someone, you love them regardless of religion, regardless of sexual preference or race.

Also, it is a commonly accepted belief that God himself carved out mankind. If God made people, he made gay people. He made transgendered people. He made people of different colours. He did not do this for his own comic benefit. If God created gay and transgendered people (it is my belief that some people are born gay, and some are born believing they are in the “wrong” body) he did not rule them out of heaven. I do not believe that God only loves those who are in same raced marriages with legitimate children who are regular mass attendees. God loves people. ALL people. To consider that God is prejuidice is ludicrous.

Organized religions use fear as a way of administering control over a people. Some religions use Jesus and God ase a scapegoat for their own shameful prejuidices against the people of the world. A religion who claims homosexuals, transgendered people and people of colour are going to hell is simply and plainly stupid.

I hope that when deciding upon where to find God you think carefully.

And From, Lust To Dust.
In Your Sweetest Torment,
I’m Lost…...

Oh ville, you are beautiful, in every sense of the word.