The simple fact is many people of numerous religious faiths claim to speak for 'God' when in essence they should only speak for themselves and let any persons who wish to find a relationship with 'God' have said personal relationship for each person's selves.
In an imperfect world, persons who may read which ever book of scripture as black and white are doing a disservice to the variety of human life and our collective imperfections. Those who wish to live life to the often literal and often black and white words of any book of scripture should only do so for each of themselves. To pass one's own bias of judgment unto others is a representation of arrogance. Add the fact that many who profess perfect knowledge of and enforce onto others to their interpretations of faith and of written scripture, also for most if not all fail to see their own failure as persons, these people often fail to live by said scripture.
Many say God is all loving, but as such God should be all understanding. People who live life trying to be fair, decent and productive people, should not suffer wrath of God for their personal traits and idiosyncrasies. So to the fundamentalists of any faith I say when you attain your perfection under God and you live life after rooting out your maybe not so good traits and idiosyncrasies, then and only then can you wag fingers and cluck tongues to the rest of us flawed, failed and sometime oddly idiosyncratic human sheep. But being flawed and all does not mean we have no worth, no love nor any moral decency to be better persons under our 'God'.
So...STICK A FORK IN IT!
Morals and ethics can be traced to a person's faith and as such help keep us on a better plane in life and in human decency, but using one's own vision or thoughts of morals and ethics, wrapping them up speaking for one's own 'God' to judge and often persecute others is IMMORAL AND UNETHICAL!
IE; The often religious ideal about transgendered people. The two genders in our world are as clear as day. But 'God' must be allowing those who do not fall into either gender to feel a need to TRANSition to the other gender. These people are not mentally ill, they have a disorder, not an illness, they are abnormal only to the idea that they are not typical to what? 99.8% of the population. Being abnormal is not a sin, nor is it a point to be persecuted for. I'm abnormal as a crossdresser, I do not lie to myself as to such. Stats claim about 3or4 % of the male population are some form of crossdresser, I'm ABNORMAL! I'm ok with that as that is a fact. As a Cder I do not have a mental illness for I function as typical in society as most any other persons do. I'm fine by saying I have a disorder, maybe not one to change my gender identity to that of the other, but in that my mind has me needing to express my feminine self though my crossdressing. I am not evil, I do not go about hurting others even as a cder, any relationship I have with my 'God' I have squared that circle with and I could not care less what finger wagers and tongue cluckers may say to me.
Same goes with my view on transgendered people. God has given mankind the medical, scientific and psychological abilities to help these persons with their gender dysphoria, to find what is right for them to lead better lives.
I read and hear from the 'self-righteous', "But, but, but, God does not make mistakes, so if your birth gender is a boy or is a girl, you are a boy or a girl."
OH REALLY!!! No mistakes, then please explain a host of child birth defects right back to birth and even before birth (ever hear about heart surgery on a fetus?)?
Cleft tongues.
Missing or deformed limbs
Damaged organs
Very severe mental defects.
blindness
deafness
ON AND ON AND ON!
Children born with these, are to be left alone, not to utilize our wonderful ability as to THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH to be able to learn, understand and attempt to correct or alleviate many of these defects?
Even our 'self-righteous' finger wagers and tongue cluckers would all be on board with science and medicine to help with and/or correct these birth defects, BUT somehow a 'birth defect' if one likes to say of being of some form of gender dysphoria one that often is not so clear or able to seen until most who suffer from it are older and usually around puberty based on FACTS! (About 80-85% of said to be gender confused youth are fine with their birth genders by the time they reach puberty) is all JUST BULL SH*T! GOD MAKES NO MISTAKES! the self-righteous claim... Well tell that to the remaining persons who suffer some form of gender dysphoria that it's all a figment of their own imagination.
Well maybe God makes no mistakes, but God makes each of us who we are and us such allows fate to maybe create for all of us to have our own 'hangups' 'issues' 'problems' and as such we learn to become OURSELVES and hopefully be better people for said issues, hangups and problems. Maybe 'God ' in all his perfection lets humanity BE IMPERFECT! This makes life more diverse and through our flaws, BEING HUMAN. But again 'God' gave and gives us the minds to learn, study, reason, understand and even fix or help alleviate life's issues for all of us, some of us have a bigger bucket of these, others luckily less so, NONE OF US ARE PERFECT! So maybe all of those who are self-righteous up to even the [imposter] Pope should again stick a fork in it!
