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cbayer

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Thu Mar 5, 2015, 10:10 AM Mar 2015

My Transgender Life -- Where Is God?

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Posted: 03/04/2015 3:21 pm EST Updated: 03/04/2015 3:59 pm EST

I am not a religious person. There! I said it.

My parents were not religious either. They were first generation Americans born in 1914 and 1918 and grew up during the Great Depression struggling to get by in Brooklyn, New York.

I am a Baby Boomer, born in 1947, and really have no idea what life must have been like for them. I have no idea of struggling to get by. As a child, I had no idea I was not religious, because it was never present in my household -- there were no rituals, and therefore I was never "programmed" to have a sense of God and needing to follow some set of religious rules.

I was raised in the '50s and '60s and pretty much learned right from wrong by watching the early days of TV. Cowboys and Indians defined the good guys and the bad guys, right from wrong. It took many years to realize my programming was faulty.

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My Transgender Life -- Where Is God? (Original Post) cbayer Mar 2015 OP
This person has never read the bible, that's for sure. AtheistCrusader Mar 2015 #1

AtheistCrusader

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1. This person has never read the bible, that's for sure.
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 02:11 PM
Mar 2015
I will never understand how, in the name religion, people can allow themselves to discriminate against LGBT people and then work to make it legal. I always thought that the Golden Rule, "Treat others, as you would like them to treat you" appeared prominently in many religions to teach us the definition of right and wrong.

Discrimination in any form does not come from a loving God, or a loving person. Discrimination occurs when people travel the path of fear. This path is not freeing, it is confining. It hurts both internally and externally. I know this from the decades of hiding my own truth and living in shame and fear of discovery.


The answers sought, are in the book. For starters, it's not a loving god. And if it was, it still gave explicitly discriminatory doctrines, in said book. (obviously this applies to the Abrahamic traditions, not all religions.)

Said discrimination is built in the bedrock of the Abrahamic faith.
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