Tasha Frank
@NLOFrank · 4:59
Being lgbtqia in regards to religion. What are your thoughts?
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So I just wanted to open the discussion and ask if you felt comfortable talking about it, what your religious beliefs are or not, what they speak to you about LGBTQIA plus and whether you believe that religion and religious scriptures are actually speaking, that being LGBTQIA plus is a sin of or actually has been misinterpreted over the years again, do remain respectful. But I'm really interested to hear people's thoughts around this
Sontaia Briggs
@PKBriggs · 5:00
I'm a Christian, and I do not believe or receive the sadistic theology we'll call it of those who would use the Bible to separate queer people from their promise at the table of God. I'll say that I went to seminary, so seminary and graduated because I wanted to know God more deeply. And I wanted to know some of those questions. Like, what does the Bible say? Why do people believe these things?
Sontaia Briggs
@PKBriggs · 2:21
And then I put the link for Queer virtue, and essentially right. And she breaks it down really good in the book. Queer Virtue is when we believe this idea of this large God over everything over everything in creation and time, whatever the case may be. And if we think about what it means to be vast and unknowable and endless, that would be diverse, that wouldn't be like a binary. Right. This idea of how our diversity, our queerness is actually divinity
Tasha Frank
@NLOFrank · 4:51
I've had a conversation with somebody recently around, actually, how do people talk to the younger generation and move or use the teachings from the Bible and other religious books that were written so long ago and bring them into this century. And so I definitely think that there's going to be more discussion around this, more of a move. And I look forward to that. Really. So thank you. I've just been babbling. I'm not quite sure
Paul OMahony
@omaniblog · 3:29
Although in my opinion, he has almost certainly been influenced by some very influential people, maybe his mother, maybe his father, maybe both of them. Far be it for me to judge him because it's his life, his satisfaction, and his way of living a meaningful life. There are those, of course, who do believe that this world is a veil of tears, that their suffering is the natural state of life on this life
Tasha Frank
@NLOFrank · 3:33
But I always found it really difficult to accept that they accept him, but also at the same time having this belief that God is already condemning him for being who he is. Really I don't know whether there's some background into it
Although I don't believe in this God or these scriptures, it seems ridiculous. So it's almost like they're placing themselves above this person, this being this deity, I can't help but like, why? What is going on here? Why is it that somebody from the Bible, Old Testament or New Testament, whose sin do was imperfect but was loved so deeply is somehow someone you hold an esteem
And when I could look at these things that way, then suddenly it was like the threads began to unravel and the power that the words had no longer held the same weight for me. I'm not to say that I have escaped the things that I was brought up with, the things that are deeply ingrained in me because some of it is a constant battle, and I don't know that I'll ever escape it all together
Tasha Frank
@NLOFrank · 2:32
The translations might be different and the Bible was written and a lot of ancient religion scriptures were written in a completely different time and culture is different than it is now. Language is different, and I think that sometimes that seems to be forgotten. So thank you for sharing that and for sharing your experience. It's been really great to listen to
Tasha Frank
@NLOFrank · 1:48
Having paced with this obviously and have already said that I've had and have religious parents, and I've gone through a stage of my own of questioning my own Christianity about my faith in general and what I believe in. And my partner was brought up very strong Christina family, a very strong Christian, and she was very fearful of her sexuality and her own beliefs
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