Some Of You May Have Seen This, But I'm Sharing Anyway

[coldcazzie]

So, today a friend shared this on his facebook news feed. He actually shared the most recent response to it, but I couldn't read that without reading the original blog post, and it's something I strongly agree with and try very hard to live by. The responses to it are really powerful and I've been sat here for the last 90 minutes crying on and off because of the strength of them, so I wanted to share with you guys.

Here's the original blog post.

One week later: a selection of responses.

Two weeks later: some more responses.

Three weeks later: video of responses.

Four weeks later: another response worth sharing.

Men in Uniform respond.

Home at last.

He also did live readings for those who have problems with reading through really long blog posts.

And finally the most recent one, just when he thought it had all died down.

 

[Flubberlump]

I can't see them.

 

[coldcazzie]

You need to click on the links... they do take a while to load though.

 

[winkle]

I've never been a Christian. I was born into a religious family, but I never believed. I can vividly remember looking around in the middle of morning prayer at primary school (year 2 or 3) and suddenly realising that some people really, honestly believed that God made the world in a couple of days. That the J-man did some crazy trick with fish, bread and wine, walked on water and came back from the dead.

I thought it was so silly, it was unreal. I knew there wasn't a toothfairy; I'd worked that out, but put the tooth under my pillow anyway. I had worked out that father christmas wasn't real either, but I still hung my stocking up. I still prayed when asked to and sung hymns, but I never, ever believed that there was any invisible geezers up there listening in.

But I always shrugged it off as something that other people believed in, and was never particuarly bothered with it.

Years down the line I turned out to be at least a little bit queer and my first secondary school relationship was with another girl.

When gay marriage/civil partnerships were on the news my mum said "Gah! These freaks will have the same rights as us normal people soon!", when I was dating that girl at school at the time.

I was always absolutely astounded by just how much people had a problem with me being a lesbian. I'd never had a problem with them believing in an imaginary guy for whom the evidence for is not exactly obvious, or for living their lives as dictated by a book.

Years later that lesbian relationship went down the pan. Now my current relationship is with a guy, and yet more people's crazy views have come crawling out of the woodwork; talking about *WHEN* I have children, rather than *IF* I decide I want to have any.

It's a funny world full of some very, very odd people, who have misguided beliefs as to what involves them and what doesn't. I think Richard Dawkin's rabid dislike of Christians is probably not healthy, but whatever floats his boat.