What is it about pregnancy that makes me want to rant? Hmmm? Seriously, I can usually control the urge to open my mouth but that goes right out the window when the hormones are flowing... Let's get right to it.
I have to know, why, WHY would someone post a question on Facebook instead of just Google-ing the answer? These are the questions I mean... What is the telephone number to ____? ... When are (insert town name here)'s firework display? ... What are the hours for ____? ... Seriously. How lazy can you be? First of all, you are already on the internet! No really, you are. Just open up another tab and type your question into the search bar. Chances are 1. You are going to get results much faster than waiting on someone to answer it for you (on a side note, they probably GOOGLED it for you!) and 2. It's going to be accurate. Seriously next time someone asks for a telephone number I'm going to list a number for China. Or some kind of hotline. Yea, that'll teach you.
And. Breathe.
Next. Oh my. I can feel my blood starting to boil. Emoji. When did emoticons become an acceptable form of communication? It's like electronic Ebonics. I've noticed this has become increasingly popular with the older Facebook and/or texting generation. Please stop. Please. I'm begging you. If I get a text from you and it's full of roses, anchors, hearts, cakes, smiley faces, tear drops, cats and umbrellas, I delete it. I don't want to look at that ridiculousness. Please don't send it to me. Ever. Again. And I do mean EVER!
Why are there sidewalks? Seriously. Why? And bike lanes? They make no sense to me. People ride their bikes down the MIDDLE of the street, and I'm not talking about my residential neighborhood. All over base, on the main streets of Aurora, people just ride their bikes wherever they want, but not on the side walks. Why would that make any sense. And please, since you are riding your bike in the middle of the busy street, let's please, please put in both ear buds so you can make sure you can't hear someone honking their horn at you, because you're about to ride out in front of their car.
I have a religious rant also. I'm seriously not trying to get people all upset. But the whole thing with Christians and gay marriage is really starting to bug me. First of all, gay marriage is not Biblical. It's not. And since God invented marriage I believe that His definition should be the end all. When we say we know better than God, we are inviting His judgment upon us. Again, completely Biblical. I believe we should love all people, regardless of sexual preference. (Biblical) What I am having issues with is people saying the gay community are like the modern day prostitutes and tax collectors Jesus hung out with. Um. No. First of all, homosexuality is not new. Remember Sodom and Gomorrah? (Just in case, that's Old Testament, Jesus is New.) There were homosexuals when Jesus walked the earth.
Now, I'm not I'm blameless, Romans 3:23 "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,"... I sin, I admit it, I gossip and lie, I complain and judge, I am prideful, I am many things the Bible says not to be. But Jesus did not condone sin, in John 8 a woman caught in adultery is brought before Him. The Pharisees want to stone her, and Jesus says, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw the stone at her."(7) Jesus is standing among all these men, and He is that man, the ONLY one without sin, and yet He does not throw a stone, He does not condemn this woman, but He tells her, "Go now and leave your life of sin." (11) Leave it! Sin no more!
What are we saying as a church when we neglect to preach against a sinful lifestyle? The Word has become so watered down, we have lost our saltiness and we are so concerned about what the world around us will say if we preach against sin! Would you attend a church where the Pastor is openly living in an adulteress relationship? The church is a hospital for the broken. Yes. Definitely. But why are we so afraid to say, stop living like that? Romans 6:1 "What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?" People say equality of rights is a "good" thing. All I can think about is Isaiah 5:20 "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil..."
The bottom line is homosexuality is a sin, and we as a church think in order to love gay people we must condone their lifestyle. That's just not true. Jesus walked this earth sinless, blameless and He loved everyone but He never said to keep on sinning. He challenged everyone He met to repent (which does not just mean to say sorry and keep living however you want to, it means to completely turn away from, do a 180, go in a new direction). Why are our churches not preaching or neglecting to preach the same?
I should just stop. Religion is hard. People have such strong opinions about what's right and wrong. But hey, it's my blog for a reason. I didn't force you to read my opinion, you chose to. Do me a favor though, if you disagree, write your own blog, don't post it on Facebook where I am forced at least once to read it before I 'hide' it. (Love that new button!)
I totally agree with #1 about asking dumb questions you can just look up yourself, it gets me too, also when someone just asks me something (ie, where is such and such located and how do you get there?)and I'm like, I can google it just as easy as you! haha!
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks for the religious rant, I don't think the "supreme" court or anybody else has any business defining what marriage is, like who do we think we are?
Totally agree with #1. People are just ridiculously lazy nowadays!! I still have no idea how those emoji things work and why people fill their statuses or texts with them.
ReplyDelete#3 While I don't necessarily agree with you, I think you did very well at explaining yourself without being obnoxious. My biggest gripe with religion is with those people who are all "I know so much better than you; I must be a better Christian than you." Ugh...your points were/are valid and well thought out. So even in your overly pregnant hormonal state you make more sense than most people!! :)
Love ya girlie!