I have decided to have a bit of a rant on this blog as I am bit of over goody goody Christians even though I am one.
I have been doing a bit of thinking lately about many issues that our society and how Christians are reacting to it. I have notice that Christians are getting very good at wanting to stand up for what they believe and what they think is right. DOnt get me wrong I think as Christians we are call to adovacate for those who cant speak for themselves. But the problem is that Christians are trying to ban many things but are not offering soloutions. Christians against gay mariages, abortions, eunthasia. But are not offering alternatives.
The fact remains that abortion has always been around whether legal or not. But its funny how one of the reasons Christians are banning it cause women are being selfish by putting their careers ahead or because apparently a baby doesnt fit into their lifestyle when in fact it is more than just that. Often the families are pushing it esp if the woman is single or the pressure is coming from their boyfriends. Dont get me wrong I am prolife but prolife for all human life. Women will still get abortions whether its legal or not. I dont want to see a womans life destroyed or dead from a blotch abortion! I rather we look into how to decrease the abortion rate through counselling and offering women support esp for women who will lose all family support.
Gay marriages is another issue. The myth with that people who are same sex orientated sleep around and cant commit but in actual fact a lot of heterosexual people are the same. Then what you do with people who for whatever reason have decided to change their gender and their partners have decided to stay with them. Even though these couples could of have been married for years, once that person changes their gender, they are no longer married. Not divorce, just not married. What are we going to do with those sort of people. There was a case overseas where a guy for no medical reason, body just naturally started to develop in a woman at the age of 50. Yet his wife was standing by him. What about that runner who they have now found that she is a boy on the inside but on the outisde is a girl. She has been brought up as a girl so what if she then dates and marries a guy.. does that make them a gay couple? I realise that these are rare cases but the point is as Christians we need to stop adovcating to ban these things without offering solutions esp when we dont have all the facts and while we are looking at these issues as black and white when they are not! We need to put aside all our biases and start finding ways to help these people.
There was a couple recently who made a sucide pact cause the wife was dying and the husband didnt want to live without her. If someone just had seen the signs or there was another option one life might have been saved. ( im not advocating for euthanasia, but showing the otherside of it) What if by banning euthanasia, people think the 'dont not resucate' (whoever u spell it) is counted as euthanasia and want to stop that. People forget it could also go to that exterme too!
THe fact is when we critise and bring down these people esp from the pulpit we are sticking another nail in their coffin and all it takes is another stupid remark for them to be pushed to the point of sucide and I dont know about anyone else.
I rather not get to heaven for God to say "u know all those issues u were adovacating against and wasnt offering solutions, well this amount of people killed themselves before even turning to me!"
I rather look for solutions than ban things like gay marriages etc. I rather try to find the balance which is in the end is God than to go to one extereme to another. I rather seek God's wisdom before reacting to what I think is wrong. WHy? Because each and every person was created in God's image whether they realise it or not and that is what important and something we need to keep in mind!
