Christians

"Christians," you know, the ones who wear the cross around their neck or tattooed on their skin, the ones who go to church on Sunday, the ones who invite you to church with them, the ones who will sit down and tell you all about "their religion" and judge you based on what GOD said.

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As I like to say, the ones who match their cross necklace or tattoo to the design of the alcohol label they drink every Thursday, Friday and Saturday (while underage) or the bong they just passed to the right. Or the ones who stand up in church on Sunday hung over from the night before to profess their love for God and tell how they strive to be more Christ-like but are at a party the next Thursday doing keg stands with their shirt off showing the Bible verse tattooed on their back or spreading their legs in a mini skirt in the middle of winter to show their vaginas to the world. Or the ones who tell you how they go to church and even post blogs, bulletins and notes, favorite books, music and quotes about their religious beliefs, yet a click away you can find hundreds of pictures of them with red cups, belligerent, smoking weed, half naked if not completely naked, using profanity, doing coke, tallying up beer pong victories, and being male and females sluts. Or the ones who don't "party" because it is against their religion but judge the people who do "party", or judge the gay or lesbian couple sitting next to them, or judge the pregnant teen in the grocery store or ask the pregnant women if she is married or getting married (as if it is their right to know) and when she says "no" glare in disgust as if they are sinless and perfect, or judge any person who does not do as they do. Or the ones who say, "Well GOD said" when in fact they do not know what GOD said, they were not alive. Nobody alive today knows what GOD said, if she/he even exists, and using the Bible as GOD's quote is hilarious to me unless you are fluent in the original language the original first copy of the Bible and have read it or have met the people in the Bible and know that their stories where portrayed accurate.

My annoyance and disgust today though, is the issue of so-called "Christians" disrespecting gays and lesbians in the name of God. Are you serious? Or is this a joke? Open and Closed doored churches? Really. Open and Closed. I thought God loves everyone. I thought God "told" us to love everyone also.

Most so-called "Christians" that I have encountered use Romans 1 as their moral fallback on homosexuality. So I read Romans 1.

24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.

26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

And then I read Romans 2.

1You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things. 2Now we know that God's judgment against those who do such things is based on truth. 3So when you, a mere man, pass judgment on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God's judgment? 4Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, tolerance and patience, not realizing that God's kindness leads you toward repentance?

11For God does not show favoritism.

12All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. 13For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God's sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous.

17Now you, if you call yourself