Conflicting Feelings

[Anonymous]

I would be completely ready to accept myself; I think in a lot of ways I am there and very accepting and what not but there is one thing holding me back and unfortunately for me it is a big issue.

It's my beliefs.

And before anyone jumps on the band wagon to hate religion just know that it really won't be useful for me. I believe because I want to believe and my religion means a lot to me. My faith means a lot to me and means more than I can probably describe. Just know I am not like a church going, anti-anything person. I don't regularly go to church and although I was raised Baptist I don't really subscribe to any set religion.

I was never taught one way or the other about homosexuality and religion. I was never taught it was wrong or right. I was just not educated on it at all. What I was educated on was that throughout life you would commit sins and that you would need to hold your faith and ask for forgiveness. To be the best person you could be in your daily life; just be a genuine good person -- something a lot of people who don't have faith believe in.

My issue stands at that although I have done things in the past that are wrong and acknowledged they are wrong and moved on and became a better person -- I don't know how to tell whether homosexuality is really wrong or not.

Is it unheard of to be gay and a christian... and if so is it something you accept as being wrong or right or indifferent. I just don't know what to think.

I know I am not willing to give up my faith, not to be with a man, not to be with anyone for that matter. So I am kinda stuck.

This is confusing right?

[sanguine]

I was never taught one way or the other about homosexuality and religion.

i was never taught being gay was against god either when i went to church also, the people that attended the same church on the other hand held a different opinion, and that opinion was never admonished at all.

To be the best person you could be in your daily life; just be a genuine good person

you dont need religion to be the best person you can be, that was taught by oral traditions by many indigenous tribes and races throughout history.

don't know how to tell whether homosexuality is really wrong or not.

no it isnt, think about it this way, would your sexuality really make a difference when your dead? and even in the after life if you believe in heaven, it wouldnt make a difference because no one cares, there is no suffering in heaven (i dont think spirits can have sex either, when your dead i mean)

I know I am not willing to give up my faith, not to be with a man, not to be with anyone for that matter. So I am kinda stuck.

the main point to "God" is love, obviously we live in a reality that follows duality, meaning two sides to everything, the main one being good and evil, we have the kingdom of god in all of us (heaven) thats where we want to go when we die, but in the process we create hell also, and its up to you whether you want to live a life of happiness or the hell you created all by yourself

[silverhalo]

I am not really religious but I know people that are, and I also know a few gay people that are still religious, I think that its totally possible to be gay and still be religious, you just perhaps have to find the right church and set of people if you want to share it with people. If god made us and loves us then he must have made us this way.