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So far I have asked 2 very religious friends, and one of them even asked a priest...

and nobody has a very good answer.

The Catholic priest stated the following:  Read More »

Do Our Parents Cause the Cycle of Hate to Continue?!?!?

I was born:

A white male in an upper-middle class family

I was brainwashed to believe (by my parents, relatives, my surrounding community, and through private schooling):

That I should play it safe and not talk to African-Americans as most are dangerous.
That interracial marriage was wrong.  Read More »

***ATTENTION***This is about a 10-20 min. read, but If you TRULY care about the issue, regardless of your position, then take the time to read some real legal, psychological, and social data. If you cannot take the time to read the whole article, then your comments deserve the same amount of attention that you have given to my article***  Read More »

OR WHAT PURPOSE DOES "GOD" SERVE FOR US?

When you read this, do not take it as a personal attack. I more or less had some thoughts running through my head, and I wanted to put them out there.

***IF YOU POST YOUR VIEWS, BE CALM AND RATIONAL, PLEASE***

For what reason does "God" exist?  Read More »

So here's the story:

I met my friend "Mark" junior year of high school. I had known that I had homosexual feelings ever since puberty, and for some reason my "gaydar," as many people call it, went off whenever he was around. By the end of senior year we had "come out" of the closet to one another and were secretly pseudo dating.  Read More »

So I am curious here.

If god can do anything, then why did jesus have to be sent to suffer and die on the cross in order for Christians to be saved from hell and absolved of all of their sins?

If god can do anything, then why does he create a world with deadly storms, famine, war, etc. if he can prevent it all?
Is this just a big game? Why make humans and then let them suffer?  Read More »

So I recently started dating a guy from my college (I am also a male). He is my first boyfriend and I've noticed that he doesn't like to hold hands or anything like that in public. I wasn't exactly sure why until we recently went to a concert and people were staring at us and giving us dirty looks for just holding hands.  Read More »

Over the past two years I have had a fairly large change in religious beliefs and in my outlook on the world in general. In my opinion, I went from being optomistic, religious, narrow-minded, and opinionated to being more open-minded, disappointed in our world, and more accepting of others in general.  Read More »