Boofehteh Boofeh (as my brother calls it)

[fahye]

Hurrah for Joss. Spike is cheering me up somewhat. He is so pathetically inept in matters of lurve. And the coat. Gawd, I will never get over that coat.

Xander: Or you could fight...
Spike: Yes, but I'm frozen to the spot with not-caring.

Have learned something that has made me given up on ever converting Maddy. This happened in maths:

Helena: Are those two guys kissing? *yes, they were looking through my diary. the two in question were tsuzuki and hisoka*
Maddy: That one's a GIRL, silly.
Me: Ah, no. They're guys.
Helena: *laughs*
Maddy: Um... then why are they kissing?
Me: Um. Because they're gay.
Maddy: Oh.
Me: In the actual anime them being together is just implied but I think this is fanart by someone who WANTS them to be together...
Maddy: But why would they WANT them to be gay??
Me: Why not?
Maddy: Because it's wrong!
Me: How can you say that! That's really narrow-minded!
Maddy: It's unnatural. God didn't create people to be gay.
Me: ... *not sure what to say to THAT. cross round her neck suddenly looks very large indeed. suddenly glad pentacle around mine is hidden*
Maddy: Gay people can't reproduce, and people were made to reproduce. *notices me looking slightly offended* It's true!
Me: Ok then! *changes subject*

*feels odd* Not sure what to think. I like Maddy. But I didn't know she was THIS Christian and... arg. Help. Bad.
Helena, though, loves Inuyasha, owns all of CCS in Korean and approves of animeness in general. Next time she goes to Korea I may ask her to get stuff for me.

I'm feeling very reality-detatched. I need to go and lose myself in a fantasy life where I can forget real things like chocolate cravings and pain and crazy religious friends. Why aren't there any handy, dammit?

Comments

[fahye.livejournal.com]

*waves hands frantically*
Yes. I agree that that kind of attitude is immature and incomprehensible to me. But I know how awful it is to have your religion mocked and if she's going to be homophobic purely because that's what her religion teaches her than it's her problem.

[sanguia.livejournal.com]

but how could you ever be so impossibly BLIND and SHEEPLIKE not to question such an obviously cruel religion? surely she'd work out that being intructed to hate someone simply because of the gender they love is seriously wrong?

[tammaiya.livejournal.com]

Personally, I don't think it's the religion itself. I think it's the socially blinded interpretation people have PUT on it. I mean, some people don't even try to think for themselves. They're SHEEP. Come on, people, even Christians don't believe everything in the bible (unless they're brainless fanatics, that is.) Just look at Adam and Eve, for Christ's sake. And have you ever read the bit with the destruction of Sodom? It is so unrealistic. I think the fact that even if God DID inspire people to write the bible, there was probably nothing stopping them from... elaborating. Colouring it with their own views, as it were. People only follow the bible religiously when it gives them an excuse to back up something they already believe, anyway. Someone may be homophobic and credit it to being god's will, but they generally don't accept everything in the bible. They only chose to pick up on the homophobic parts because the idea of homosexuality offends them PERSONALLY. Probably because of social conditioning, which sucks.
Um, I'll stop ranting now. ^ ^;