It doesn't come from Love

Brianna Myers for Race, Gender and the Media

At church today, we had a guest pastor and for some reason right now her name is slipping from me. When she first started speaking, I was like "woah I really like this woman, she's so strong and powerful." But then she continued...

In my time here in college, I have very much struggled with my religion and feminsism and my political views and race issues. It's really hard to talk about one without the other, so then I try to start bringing it back to basics and just view everything from the point of morals and even that is hard. It's hard to have discussions with my mom, a very strong raised traditional Christian, about certain topics. How mainstream media have completely confused everybody about what a woman "should be" and what children "should" learn about certain topics.

Back to this morning at church, the woman came out guns blazing from the start about how she wasn't going to put up with anybody's crap. I was with her until she took it to the extreme. She was talking about how a 50+ year old man came out recently saying that he wanted to identify as a 6-year-old man. How we as Christians have been scared into saying how we truly feel and we cannot educate the public about why this is wrong. She kept saying that if we say it from a place of love, we should be very vocal about out beliefs.

Let me tell you what is wrong with this:
1. This is a very extreme case. A grandpa deciding that he wanted to identify as a child. In every day life we are just talking about people who are uncomfortable in their own skin. If we want to be truly honest and take this back to Christianity, God knew this was going to happen. He knew the human he was creating.
2. A LOT of Christians do not come from a place of love. No, they think they're doing the world some kind of favor by shaming those who feel they need to make some changes in their life to feel fulfilled. More times than not, it comes from a place of hatred and fear and that's where the real problem is.

All these things send my mind into a frenzy. I just want to make a whole chart to just kind of figure out what I think is right and wrong but I have to remind myself that this is not a black and white world. Although I believe in the Bible, there is not a end-all tell-all script about how to make it through this life.