Atrias, I've been thinking a lot about what you've brought up in recent years. It's kind of this long process of discovering what I believe is right.
Everyone always tries to make it out as being The Christians versus The Homosexuals, but you and I are both evidence that this is an inaccurate generalization. Not to mention the chaplin at my church at school and the Episcopalian bishops who are gay and hundreds of churches around the country that are totally accepting of homosexuality.
Certain people in the church make it out to be such a big deal, but honestly, there are 2 verses in the entire Bible that denounce homosexuality. There are thousands telling you to being loving towards others and hundreds that say that only God can judge people for their supposed sins. I just can't see how enforcing those 2 verses makes disobeying the thousands of others okay. Basically, I've chalked it up to the fact that *they* have lost site of what Christianity is truly about and instead, focusing all their efforts on current hot-button issues like gay marriage and The Da Vinci Code.
I still go to church every Sunday when I'm home, and when I can when I'm at school. There's still a lot I'm still questioning and considering, but I know I'm not giving up Christianity, because I've realized that it's the individual Christians that are the problem, not the religion itself.
Anyway, that camp sounded a bit odd. I've seen things like that on TBN and stuff. From what I can tell, it's more about showing off as having a spiritual experience than actually having one. I've been going to church for 21 years and I've yet to see someone collapse during the worship, so the fact that it happened multiple times at this one event...makes it seem like they would fit in great at your theatre camp as well.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never
knowing how
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