Truth and a Gay Guy

Whenever I read something about how bad being gay is or how evil the government is or even how the republicans are being big dicks I always remind myself a bit of wisdom someone once told me: "No matter what never think that you know the whole story about anything. There is always a piece missing. Even if you find it all it does reveals more missing pieces."

Fox ran a story titled "Christian Teens Say Gay Activist Made Girls Cry". I had already watched the video before on Reddit. At the time I did not think much about it. He was simply pointing some facts about a holy book that are true. Take it for whatever that means. Not to sound mean but faith does not really care much about the truth outside of its own brand.

The students walked out did so because, well they did. I do not like people speaking for me so I will try to do others the same. But the Fox News story does have one person who left explaining why they left. "Naman said he was simply following the prompting of the Holy Spirit." 

That's cool but it is not an answer. Okay it is one but it makes little more sense then saying I was simply following the prompting of my cat. If you have seen the video you see people leaving the room as soon as he says "The Bible".  

We are all people here and the thing about people is that we really do not like to be proved wrong. It is not self reflection but a truth. It is being studied and it is called the "argumentative theory of reasoning" more or less we care more about being right then truth. 

Christians think of their faith in glowing terms. It is the one true faith. God is real and Jesus loves you. All very old ideas. Modern Christians like to play up how fluffy and caring their faith is. Also, how mortal it is. They say the Bible was written by God and is the highest moral standard. 

But then some Gay Guy reads the damn thing and points out that is says it is cool to own slaves. It does not hint at it or mudded through it. Nope, it flat out says slaves are great own em. 

"However, you may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you. You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way. (Leviticus 25:44-46 NLT)"

Even the hipper New Testament is fine with the idea. In fact it says if your own is a Christian you should work harder for your master. 

"Christians who are slaves should give their masters full respect so that the name of God and his teaching will not be shamed. If your master is a Christian, that is no excuse for being disrespectful. You should work all the harder because you are helping another believer by your efforts. Teach these truths, Timothy, and encourage everyone to obey them. (1 Timothy 6:1-2 NLT)" 

But a lot of good people overlooked this part of their faith and the words in their own holy book. It is a fact that Quakers and a lot of other Christians fought against slavery back when slavery was legal and common. Risking life and limb to end it. But it is also a fact that Christians that owned slaves and used the bible to support them owning another person.  

Alright back to my point. Humans have this bad habit of hating to be proved wrong. It is embedded in us. Whenever someone points out that we are wrong we tend to react like this people did in the video. We leave unwilling to hear out the other side because we already are right and what they are saying is wrong so why even bother.

It is a habit that all of us need to break. We are all collectively dumb and helpless. Even the best Action hero does make their own guns or are self trained by wolves. Humans sorry we all need to get over ourselves, use our minds, and listen. We do not have to like what we hear and we do not have to hear everyone out but as a rule we need to start thinking more about why we believe what we believe and less about how right we are.

The truth is always there even if we do not know it. Truth is a solid point of reality. Even if we believe something to be true that does not make it so. Truth is just that truth it does not rely on our thoughts or opinion it simply is. We humans need to start driving towards truth and not avoid it.

Truth really does matter. Reality does not care about us. Truth is our only tool against everything. We are alone without a net spinning on big rock in the middle of void. We are just chemical reactions and electrical impulses. Truth is all we have. It why the houses we build do not fall in on us. It is why we know how to make fire. It is how we fight off illnesses we cannot even see.

We all have to stop trying to be right and comforting what is true.