Call me simple-minded and conformist, but why would anyone belonging to any so-called progressive movement want to be associated to a religious institution.
I have always believed that religious institutions exist and survive because they are able to preserve their fundamental tenets. Regardless of whether I agree with them or not, I cannot pretend to impose external notions and change them because that would make me feel more confortable.
I remember (and I think I have told this anecdote before) some years ago in one of my chidlren's lit classes at Universidad de Oriente, here in Cumaná, some gay students were trying to argue that nowhere in the bible were they condemned.
I asked them if they had read the bible; obviously they had not.
I invited them to bring a bible to class next time, which they did not do, so I used mine.I showed them some of the places where homosexuality and other forms of "dexual deviations" or transgressions are punished or frown upon. I tried to raise awareness about the fact that most religious would accept them, only once they have "renounced their wicked ways". So, they had two options, either they stopped being gays or they moved on with their lives outside any of the main monotheistc a religions we know.
The gods on which mainstream religions are founded does not tolerate sexual deviations. We cannot change that. We can make up our own liberal religions, like some people have done, but we cannot pretent to force religion to accomodate to every single liberal demand.
I just can't undertsand how a liberal-minded person can still conceive some form of organzied religion and not find it contradictory to whatever life style they pursue.
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