I honestly don't know how I feel about religion, ngl. I was raised and born in a Christian household, and in my heart ive always loved it until I started growing up. I wouldn't say I had a epiphany or anything but like the more and more I read the Bible the more I realized weird it was. As a guy myself and one raised in a African household the stuff ive had to witness is inhumane, women are seen as tools and to make it worse the women don't seem to mind this fate, the bible says that God created humans in his image and that were all equal but this says the opposite..1 Timothy 2:11-12 says : "Let a woman learn in silence with all submission. If we're being for real right now Christianity or more so religion as a whole has caused the world so much problems, and im saying this as a Christian. The Religion of love but you will NEVER see them loving thy neighbor. Self proclaimed religious people who say slurs at the end of the day, self proclaimed religious people who believe they are better then other religious people. Like you'll see the most horrid comment of all time on TikTok js to see the Christian emoji in their bio ๐ซฉ. It gets to a point. Not to mention politicians trying to steal land because it was promised 300 million or whatever years ago, by causing MASS genocides.
Now to talk about the topic we all have debated about for Years. Homosexuality. The bible says in Leviticus 18:22, You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination."
So let's face it, God said it's a sin I mean he burned the city down for it. And I think from then on homosexuality has been seen more on a sexual scale and not genuine pure love. I'll be honest I used to be homophobic , I was a 11 year old boy who obviously didn't think correctly. I remember one day I was scrolling through YouTube shorts and I saw a gay coupleduring pride month they'd been together for about 20 years or something and the caption said "not a phase". And that changed my perspective of things so much, because those guys were happy, genuinely happy like a normal couple, and throughout that time my perspective on homosexuality changed alot I decided to educate myself on the history, and I learned that being gay has been around the world for years, thousands and millions of years the first ever story documented is believed to be one, in Greek stories, in animals, in ancient Egypt, ancient Rome Matter fact the men in Rome hated women so much they'd rather be Gay.
And so I wondered if God called himself love, why was he so against it? I mean God forgive me as I write this right now but he contradicts himself many times in the bible.
Exodus 20:5: "You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God..."
Deuteronomy 4:24: "For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God."
Joshua 24:19: "You are not able to serve the Lord. He is a holy God; he is a jealous God
But the ten commandments that HE made HIMSELF says otherwise for the very last commandment out of the ten says : You shall not covet. (Prohibits intensely desiring or being jealous of what belongs to your neighbor.)Then, in genesis he drowns everyone on earth, almost makes his most loyal servant kill his son JUST to test his loyalty,but the 6 commandment says You shall not murder. (Prohibits the unlawful and intentional taking of human life.) I mean who am I to defy or question the lord. I am merely human. But these things just don't click. then you realize a bunch of kings , popes or whatever thousands years ago could have just remixed, scribbled and edited the book to fit their own agendas, and when you think about it, doesn't it make sense? Look at the book of Enoch, which is bet 50 percent of people don't know is supposed to be in the bible was removed because Jewish rabbis and Christian councils it "introduced" doctrines that contradict the Bible, and lacks prophetic authority. Basically it was angels and humans having babies.
But anyway this was js a dumb rant bout what's been bothering me.
