Days 18 and 19

Day 18 – Your views on gay marriage.

I worked in Hospitality for 8 years and some of my best friends are gay.  Do the math.

Day 19 – What do you think of religion? Or what do you think of politics?

Toughie.

Let’s go with religion, politics bore me.  

I was raised in the NG Kerk and am what you could probably call ‘lapsed’.  I respect the religions and am fascinated by it.  Living in Cape Town you can’t not learn about the Muslim religion for example.

For me though I have my concerns about organised religion for myself and our children as much as I know my husband would like to start going to church regularly.  I want them to believe in a God of Love.  I don’t want them to sit in a church Sunday after Sunday because they hate being there and I forced them to be there.  I want them to believe what they believe now, all the amazing stories from the Bible and about love and forgiveness and faith.  I don’t want to taint them with stories of a wrathful God that punishes as that is not what religion should be about, surely?

I don’t have it all figured out, but I’m getting there.  This I know for sure:  

There is a God.  

He is a God of Love.  

He has a Son.  

Who died for our sins.

We are about to celebrate his birth. 

Surely that should be enough for a start?