A Truth the world isn't ready to accept
"A cliché is a saying, idea, or element of an artistic work that has become overused to the point of losing its original meaning, novelty, or figurative or artistic power, even to the point of now being bland or uninteresting."
Clichés may or may not be true. Some are stereotypes, but some are simply truisms and facts.
A truism is a claim that is so obvious or self-evident as to be hardly worth mentioning, except as a reminder or as a rhetorical or literary device, and is the opposite of a falsism.
Clichés trigger our sense of pattern recognition. That said, there is a cliché—a repetition, an echo—that has persisted over the millennia. Ever since writing has existed—and most likely even before that. From the Sumerians to the Greeks and Romans, from the Middle Ages to the modern era.
In all cultures and traditions. The story of two men who loved each other above almost everything else, but because of fate and tragedy, one of them dies, the other suffers, and eventually dies as well—or spends the rest of his life feeling incomplete, hoping to be reunited, perhaps in the afterlife.
Now, before I reveal where I’m going with this, I want to make a few things very clear. There is no statement, inside or outside the Bible, that proves being gay is a sin. There is no direct word from God or Jesus that says so. In fact, there are only statements and actions that prove the opposite. Let’s start at the beginning. When God gave the Ten Commandments to the Israelites, He made it very clear that those were the only rules they needed to follow to prosper and be happy in God’s grace. But since those people were imperfect and destined to bring judgment upon themselves, what did they do next? “Screw the Ten Commandments—let’s make up our own rules!” (613, to be exact). Some made sense in the historical context they were in. Example: Don’t eat pork or shellfish because they carry parasites. And others that made no sense at all. Examples: Don’t wear clothes made by two different people (??? I guess they hadn’t yet realized that a monopoly isn’t good for the economy). Anddddd……… A man shall not sleep with another man! Maybe in their minds it made sense—“Ah, we need to multiply our people to populate the Promised Land!” BUT YOU’LL NEVER GET ANYWHERE BY FORCING PEOPLE TO CHANGE WHO THEY ARE! Anyway, the Israelites were punished for these and other transgressions.
And outside the Bible? Well, we have one of God’s perfect sciences: biology! For the same argument used, that transsexuality would be wrong—because it goes against God’s will, since He made us women or men for a reason bla bla bla—if He didn’t want a man to have a relationship with another man, He wouldn’t have given men an organ in their bodies from which they derive pleasure, an organ that women don’t even have. And now, for the bombshell revelation I wanted to get to with my introduction: Being gay is not a sin because Jesus loved one man above others, and as far as we all know, Jesus was without sin. Now, of course, I have no authority to speak about things I haven’t witnessed firsthand, but God has given me sound judgment and the ability to recognize patterns:
John is referred to in the Bible as “the beloved apostle, the apostle whom Jesus loved,”
At the Last Supper, John, in his Gospel, tells us that during the meal they were having, he was reclining on Jesus’ chest while embracing him,
John was present at all the crucial moments of Jesus’ ministry. From the miracles to the sermons, from being one of the three to witness the Transfiguration… to being the only one of the apostles to witness the crucifixion.
Jesus entrusted his Mother to John in his final moments.
Jesus’ love for John was so great that, for this reason, God allowed John to be the only apostle to emerge unscathed. One of the few requests a Son could make of his Father. A Father who loves his only Son, his beloved Son who had to suffer, so that his beloved might not.
The Gospel of John is unique among the others because John’s purpose was to explain to us both the greatness of Jesus’ divinity and how truly human he was. And for the same reason that the Israelites are condemned until the end of time to be persecuted for their transgressions, until the end of time gay men and women will be tormented by the Devil for being God’s most vulnerable children.
Do you want to know why “Tumblr girls” are “obsessed” with yaoi/BL? And why do gay men generally like “feminine” things and embrace drag culture? It’s not because of perversion or fetishism. It’s something deeply spiritual. It’s an unconscious connection—a bond of kinship.
The same sense of kinship shown during the AIDS crisis, when the afflicted sons were taken in and cared for by the daughters. Dear brothers and sisters, we must keep the faith and choose love over hate—and not resentment—for our own good. If you feel you cannot show that love, step back, let it go, and focus on yourself until you can. We cannot let evil win!
With love, a sister.
