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Okay I've been seeing lots of stuff about hate towards straight and cis people lately.
Mostly going around tumblr.
Also just generally lots of discussion about homosexuality and transgender stuff and whatnot.
It gets me thinking about my faith a bit and how people are.
This is sort of a rant by the way.
I often hear people say that all us Christians are biggots and just hate people and we all think that "God hates fags" and all that.
Can I be the first to clarify that that is not the truth.
People misconstrue everything about what we stand for all the time because of one thing.
Yes, according to the Bible and what we believe it says that homosexuality is considered a sinful action.
The thing is we say this and automatically people take that as us saying that we hate gays and that they're all going to hell and that God hates them and blah blah blah.
Also not the truth.
Please keep this in mind about myself and other Christians (and by Christians I mean real honest followers of Jesus Christ, not the people from Westboro Baptist Church who are picketing around with "God Hates Fags" signs) that we don't hate you, and we know that God doesn't hate you or ANYONE else.
Hate the sin, not the sinner.
That is what we're taught. Not to hate someone who sins and to tell them how they're going to hell.
IF A PERSON CLAIMING THEY ARE CHRISTIAN IS TELLING YOU HOW TERRIBLE YOU ARE AND HOW YOU'RE GOING TO HELL BECAUSE YOU'RE A BOY WHO LIKES BOYS OR A GIRL WHO LIKES GIRLS OR REALLY ANY OTHER REASON, THEN THEY'RE NOT TRULY FOLLOWING CHRIST.
Of course that doesn't mean we should hate them either.
I'll be honest with you all, even though I know what the Bible says, the whole thing with homosexuality confuses me. I don't know how I feel. I have a hard time rationalizing it being a sin when for most people it seems that it's not their choice to even BE gay. Then there's the whole area of being transgendered and that's not even spoken of in the Bible. Probably because it may not have even been a thing back then. I don't know.
The point I'm trying to make here is this.
I'm a Christian. If you're gay or trans or straight or cis or black or white or male or female, if you hurt me, hurt someone else, hurt yourself, if you hate people because of some arbitrary reason like orientation or race or religious beliefs, if you are a freaking murderer, IT DOESN'T MATTER.
I'm still called to love you all just the same.
There are times I find that difficult (obviously it's not the easiest thing in the world to love everyone for a variety of reasons), but that's what we're called to do as Christians.
I haven't run into many issues with this whole negative stigma that surrounds us Christians personally, but I certainly see it all around me. I just figured people should know how I feel.
And thus ends my rant, it's almost 3AM and I should be asleep right now.
Peace out and God bless.
~
Mostly going around tumblr.
Also just generally lots of discussion about homosexuality and transgender stuff and whatnot.
It gets me thinking about my faith a bit and how people are.
This is sort of a rant by the way.
I often hear people say that all us Christians are biggots and just hate people and we all think that "God hates fags" and all that.
Can I be the first to clarify that that is not the truth.
People misconstrue everything about what we stand for all the time because of one thing.
Yes, according to the Bible and what we believe it says that homosexuality is considered a sinful action.
The thing is we say this and automatically people take that as us saying that we hate gays and that they're all going to hell and that God hates them and blah blah blah.
Also not the truth.
Please keep this in mind about myself and other Christians (and by Christians I mean real honest followers of Jesus Christ, not the people from Westboro Baptist Church who are picketing around with "God Hates Fags" signs) that we don't hate you, and we know that God doesn't hate you or ANYONE else.
Hate the sin, not the sinner.
That is what we're taught. Not to hate someone who sins and to tell them how they're going to hell.
IF A PERSON CLAIMING THEY ARE CHRISTIAN IS TELLING YOU HOW TERRIBLE YOU ARE AND HOW YOU'RE GOING TO HELL BECAUSE YOU'RE A BOY WHO LIKES BOYS OR A GIRL WHO LIKES GIRLS OR REALLY ANY OTHER REASON, THEN THEY'RE NOT TRULY FOLLOWING CHRIST.
Of course that doesn't mean we should hate them either.
I'll be honest with you all, even though I know what the Bible says, the whole thing with homosexuality confuses me. I don't know how I feel. I have a hard time rationalizing it being a sin when for most people it seems that it's not their choice to even BE gay. Then there's the whole area of being transgendered and that's not even spoken of in the Bible. Probably because it may not have even been a thing back then. I don't know.
The point I'm trying to make here is this.
I'm a Christian. If you're gay or trans or straight or cis or black or white or male or female, if you hurt me, hurt someone else, hurt yourself, if you hate people because of some arbitrary reason like orientation or race or religious beliefs, if you are a freaking murderer, IT DOESN'T MATTER.
I'm still called to love you all just the same.
There are times I find that difficult (obviously it's not the easiest thing in the world to love everyone for a variety of reasons), but that's what we're called to do as Christians.
I haven't run into many issues with this whole negative stigma that surrounds us Christians personally, but I certainly see it all around me. I just figured people should know how I feel.
And thus ends my rant, it's almost 3AM and I should be asleep right now.
Peace out and God bless.
~
Life update and temporary comic schedule change
So the comic is going to be going down to one page a week for a while. At least throughout May.
The reason? I'm supposed to be looking for an apartment and moving. In fact I've SUPPOSED to have BEEN looking but with everything going on and my mental state in shambles, I haven't been doing that. I'm working on recovering that however and in order to do that, I need to move forward and hopefully be moved out by June.
To make this happen though I need to take the workload off of me for the time being. I have pages ready for me to upload every Tuesday for three weeks already so you can expect updates regularly then. Hopefully I'll be able to ha
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IF I Updates Tomorrow !
Hey guess what?
IF I is finally coming back tomorrow !
Here's the game plan right now.
I'm working on uploading all of the pages onto comicfury.com (http://if-i.thecomicseries.com/)
I'm up to chapter 6 on the site which means I got 4 more chapters before comicfury is caught up. So this week, aligning with the chapters I'm going to upload on comicfury, there'll be a new page update here! That's four pages this week!
Those four pages will finish out Chapter 10 as well and should end on Friday at the same time that comicfury is caught up!
So this week you can expect a page Monday, Tuesday, Thursday AND Friday!
After that I'll be returning
Back!
So first of all, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
I'm back!
It's been a difficult road. My life sort of fell apart, and while there's things that could still go wrong, I'm coming back with a newfound confidence. I've been in therapy and on medication to keep myself balanced and find myself out. There's been months of self-reflection and I'm happy to finally start posting again!
You might've noticed all the gift art I've posted. I wanted to come back that way, letting my friends know how much I appreciate them. It's important to me that everyone knows. I wouldn't be where I am, both mentally and in terms of my art, if it weren't for ever
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Agreed. It's the action, not the person, that's the problem. And while one may not choose to have homosexual urges, we still have to choose what we do with them. The causes for the urges themselves are probably unique to each person, yet... I've noticed that a lot of homosexuals seem to have had problems with their fathers. I'm not saying it's always the cause, only that it may be related somehow. Correlation does not equal causation, yet that doesn't mean it's not a potential cause.
In any case, I find that the Bible has yet to state that loving someone of the same gender is wrong. It just seems to have this hang-up of turning it into something sexual. And with my own experiences online, I find it's a lot easier to keep a relationship non-sexual than to fool around a bit before stopping the behavior entirely. We are creatures of habit. We should be cautious as to which we pick up.
In any case, I find that the Bible has yet to state that loving someone of the same gender is wrong. It just seems to have this hang-up of turning it into something sexual. And with my own experiences online, I find it's a lot easier to keep a relationship non-sexual than to fool around a bit before stopping the behavior entirely. We are creatures of habit. We should be cautious as to which we pick up.