Saw someone say being religious and queer is a form of sh. I argue otherwise.
I personally believe in the Lord and I don't discriminate those who doubt him, or even those who vehemently loathe him. In fact I understand them! I wholeheartedly have faith that God gave us humans the power to think critically for a reason. To understand, to criticise, to become our own. It'd be boring leading a flock of mindless believers, I'm sure. I think He'd be prouder of those who decided their own path even if they don't believe in Him. He'd understand— which is exactly what makes him so godly, so infallible, and so divine, in comparison to the short-minded man who thoughtlessly abuses those with differing faiths or the lack of one. He'd be proud of those who yearn to understand how the world works, those who don't simply believe what they're told. The mind was bestowed upon us to be used; to abandon the act of thinking would be equal to blasphemy. Now imagine how He would consider those who have criticised the way of the religion—much more one so discriminated in said religion—yet persisted in their faith.
‘So long as they are not doing others harm’ is a phrase oft neglected when the conversation shifts to sin. We are fortunate now that we live (though in a world of chaos and discord) with the ability to not worry of extinction from the lack of offspring. We needn't fret of bearing children the very moment we turn 18. We can shift our views to other matters such as politics, economy, and identity. Back then it was not so. Long ago humans had to reproduce at all times, for there was so little of us on this wide and precarious Earth, hence why the religions of yore would usually forbid homosexuality. Not to mention the lack of sanitisation back then turning the act of loving into an act of harming both the lover and oneself, with nothing to be received but the passion of the other. There was no child to make up for the risks. Passion could not prevent extinction.
Yet now, look at us— nearly every part has been conquered. Some parts of the world, even, are so overpopulated that the air chokes you. Homosexuality is able to thrive, actually needed now more than ever— for if everyone is reproducing there will be no time to wait for the elders to die. Especially, seeing as how we live longer than our ancestors did. It would actually be dangerous for us to keep on having children with a vigour while the older generation still feeds on Earth's produce. Soon enough there may be no more space left. Already presently there are starving children at every corner, with no parents. Who else (this applies also, to those who are infertile) would care for them if everyone's off having their own children? Same-sex lovers are the little break from such a world we needed.
Notice how I have not once mentioned transgender people? Indeed! I wholeheartedly believe that all the words which forbid transgenderism were written by mankind. Perhaps it confused them way back when they ought to keep on reproducing, I don't know. But of course I don't know, of course you don't know. It was back then. Why, you ask, do I believe it was all written by man? To you I ask, why would God have us humans be this way, when (as aforesaid) it brings harm to nobody? It was the hateful heart of man who wrote it. Why did God create humans to be hateful? Well, he didn't exactly, but he gave us free will and a critical mind. Some people don't use the latter, hence why.
Religion was created by man. One can have faith (be "religious") without truly believing in the created religion itself. I personally am Catholic, but that's that. I don't believe in the bigoted parts. You can say I "cherry pick the bible" the way that bigots do, except I have my reasons to cherry pick, I choose my cherries which are not rotten to share to the world. They choose the crumpled dying cherries and say "this is how God sees you!" They do so out of hatred, bitterness, and cruelty. They do not think. They do not criticise what they believe, and what I believe is that God's mighty disappointed in them.
To all religious queers, I wouldn't say you're not a sinner. All humans do sin, that's what makes us human. Animals are not sinners; they do not have the mind for it. We are human, and that's alright. God will forgive us for our sins. Our queerness, however, is not one of those sins. It is who we are, what we are. It is a part of us intricately woven by the Lord, can't be chosen by ourselves. It's the way of life. Never beat yourself down over it.
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