Reply #29: The first time I was accused [View All]

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(yer a secular humanist, aintchee?)I was surprised. I had no idea what a humanist was. I was holding forth on a subject with which I felt familiar: that the seeds of homosexuality and heterosexuality are in all of us. I had made my point that god exists, not really, and that any thinking person who had any inclination toward self examination would question his/her own sexuality and be willing to entertain a frank, honest answer--in private, of course. My thinking was that people were powerful and capable and if there were a god, she had a perfectly good reason for creating each person exactly as they are.

I had gotten through the part about "perfect" not meaning ideal, which it does not, but meaning "complete," which it does, and all of of are perfect as we are, not needing anybody's meddling to make us any different, when this lady (who'd evidently been recently talking to her pastor about me) came up with this curious question. She also informed me that she was not going to speak with me any further, as her minister had advised her not to. This proved to be just BS, because she started calling me again, a few days later (she wanted to get into my jeans something fierce.)

It took quite a while and much questioning of my religious acquaintances to determine what the hell she meant and to find out how grittily I'd been insulted. Yuck! Religious dogmatists can be such ______________. I can't fill in the blank; my mind won't deliver such stinky epithets.