What a strange title for an article about homosexuality
and transgenderism. I think the Biblical story of David and Goliath perfectly
parallels the current public narrative about homosexuality and how the churches
are handling this. Read the story if you can squeeze fifteen minutes of time somewhere in
between (first pun) your social media and Netflix binges.
Churches, for the most part, have been tolerant of this
lingering giant for a few decades now. It is so very sick. Why does it continue to be
the constant elephant in our churches that not many are talking about, some are not acknowledging it’s presence at all? Or when the subject is finally
addressed, the methods used are archaic, worldly and ineffective. This is much
like the armor and arsenal Saul tried to dress onto David before he approached
Goliath. Useless tokens.
David shrugged the armor off and reached for his “go-to”.
He picked up five smooth stones from the brook to slay this giant. It only took
one of the five stones to kill the tormenting giant that had propped itself up
against the armies of Israel for forty days. David never used the other four
stones that day. Tradition says the reason he picked up five stones, is because there were
four other brothers just like Goliath. Perhaps, we will slay more than one giant
this day?
“Excuse me, while I whip this out” circa Cleavon Little 1974. That’s me pulling the first stone, pun
intentional, from my pouch. There’s four more in my arsenal, stones: NOT puns.
The first stone is a kill-shot. Let us call it what it is.
Homosexuality is a mental disorder. Transgenderism is a mental disorder. The
Bible, which is God’s Word to humanity, backs this up.
Let’s read it together friends, Romans 1:22-28
“For although they
knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their
thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they
claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal
God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and
reptiles.
Therefore
God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for
the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth about
God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the
Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
Because
of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged
natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also
abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another.
Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due
penalty for their error.
Furthermore,
just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God
gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.”
“Futile thinking, exchanging natural for unnatural,
depraved mind”, those sound like elements for a bone-a-fied (stinking puns
surfacing everywhere) disorder to me?. Homosexuality and transgenderism are
mental disorders that go against nature and the laws of common sense. A mental
disorder is truly a disorder when it does not follow the pattern of nature and
science, which both exponentially declare that there are repetitive
combinations of male and female in every aspect of life. Male and female is the
only combination of elements that can initiate reproduction in any realm, such
as: plants, animals, energy, microbiology and so forth.
Let us talk about mental disorders in general, since we
are categorizing homosexuality and transgenderism as such.
Allow me to list
some commonly known mental disorders by name:
Bipolar disorder – I know this disorder first hand.
Alcoholism and drug addiction – I’m well acquainted with these mental disorders
also.
Post traumatic stress disorder
Anxiety disorders.
Eating disorders.
Shoplifting disorders.
Gambling disorders.
Family disorders.
A disorder can be just about anything that attempts to defy the natural laws of
order. Homosexuality is a mental disorder that that goes against the order of
nature…duh!
Because you attempt to categorize homosexuality for
something different than what it really is, confusion abounds. Homosexuality
and transgenderism are mental disorders. They are NOT preferences, NOT
lifestyle decisions, not any genderisms. It’s a sickness, an illness, that is
what it is. ANYTHING that contradicts the pattern of nature is sick and ill, it’s
obvious. Homosexuality disorder is not an exception to the laws of nature.
Trandsgenderism is not an exception to the laws of nature.
So how is this information helpful Craig? It is helpful
to all of us collectively as a society and culture that are being confronted
with this debate and conversation about homosexuality on a daily basis, merely to
produce more confusion. This refreshed idea should bring clarity to the current
narrative in our workplaces, schools, shopping centers, churches, and even
bathrooms. You will now witness what can be easily accomplished once you turn
the lights on, versus solving an issue in the dark.
What is a mental disorder? According to Wikipedia, a
mental disorder is a behavioral or mental PATTERN that causes significant
distress, (there are some puns that I could interject here without rebuttal,
butt I will save that for another article) or impairment of personal
functioning. There is no dispute, homosexuality and transgenderism fits this
description of a disorder, like tongue and cheek.
So I have been diagnosed, by several doctors, as having bipolar
disorder. I have also dwindled a huge chunk of my life in the battle against
substance addiction, which is also a mental disorder. Do I want to put these
disorders on public display for the sake of special privileges? No. Do I need
special arrangements to be made and for people to embrace and accept my
disorders? No. Does nature comply with my disorders by making exceptions for
me? No! Do I do my best to keep these disorders under control so they don’t
affect my life, my family, and my friendships? Of course I do! It’s a constant
struggle, but I face it every day.
Are there times when I am embarrassed and even ashamed of
my behaviors that stem from those disorders of bipolar and drug addiction?
Many! I have many more victories than defeats in this arena, the past few
years especially, but allow me to explain why and how.
Being diagnosed as bipolar, along with the substance
addiction tag, introduced me to a plethora of medications, methods and ideologies,
in which none of them were effective by any means at treating or curing my
disorders. Merely bandaids on bullet holes.
No, I had to transform my mind, by
putting new ideas, new light, a different perspective, a higher perspective
through PATTERNS of repetitive affirmation into this mind, constantly until it
changed my physiology, my body chemistry, and the flow of my neurotransmitters.
This effect was produced, not by human generated medications, but by words and
thoughts in a constant repetitive method for a season. That is how I bridled my
personal mental disorders and it has worked for me very effectively up to this
day.
If you have homosexuality disorder or transgenderism
disorder you can apply similar methods that I used to cure and bridle my mental
disorders. First, you need to change your mind and your constant thinking
processes. Reprogram yourself with the truth. Don’t do it half~heartedly, give
your all to this, if you're serious. It’s the only way. If you commit yourself to
the process, it should result in a liberating experience, no more confusion.
Realign yourself with what is natural, and things will be better for you,
healthier for you. Even your feelings,
emotions and tendencies will change as a result of this process. That is what
you want, right? To be healthy?
Every individual comes to this earth packaged with a
disorder or illness of some sort. No one is exempt. So it is nothing to be
ashamed of. That’s how life is in its current status. Here is some good news,
many mental disorders can be managed without medication or even counseling.
They are managed and exposed to new ideas through words spoken and heard,
ideas, and reprogramming. Disorders are fixable things, not a permanent life
sentence. Homosexuality and transgenderisms are fixable mental disorders. That
is good news.
I will now address how this giant becomes even more
confusing when you place it in a spiritual setting, especially within the
churches of America:
Is bipolar disorder a sin? No. Can it easily lead to sin?
Oh, yes my friends, I could tell you many stories. Can bipolar disorder be
managed to the point where I don’t sin and function within societal norms? Yes,
most definitely! Is my substance addiction disorder a sin? No. Does my
substance addiction disorder initiate and fuel sin? Most definitely! Can it be
controlled to where I do not sin? Yes.
Is your homosexuality disorder a sin? No. Does your
homosexuality disorder lead you to sin? Most definitely. Can your homosexuality
disorder be managed to where you do not sin? Of course!
Now, to the churchianity hypocrites,
Do I love those with bipolar disorder? Of course!
Do I love those with eating disorders? Of course, I do.
Do I love those with homosexuality disorders? Of course I do.
Do I love those with transgenderism disorder? Certainly so.
Do I love the alcoholic, the junkie, and the prostitute in spite of their
disorders? Of course.
Do I love the mother who chooses to discard her unborn baby like trash (this is
also a mental disorder that goes against the grain of nature)? Yes, most
definitely.
Do I love the mentally ill doctor who helped that woman achieve such a thing?
Yes, I love him, he needs some mental help, that is all.
Do I love Winona Ryder with her kleptomaniacal disorder at a time when she had
enough money to buy anything she wanted? Of course I do, we all do, still to
this day.
And so are all of us, each with our own disorders.
Embrace those with homosexual disorders. Wish them good
health.
Embrace those with bipolar disorders. Wish them good health.
Embrace those with eating disorders, both skinny and fat.
Embrace those with disorders of any kind, this includes all of us.
Does my bipolar disorder require any special accommodations
or treatment that goes beyond the cultural norm? I think not. Does your
transgenderism disorder require any special accommodations or unique social
treatment that goes beyond the cultural norms? If you say yes,
I beg to differ and here is why:
You are a man who is confused about your sexual identity.
This confusion qualifies you as a candidate for the mental disorder
classification. Should we as a society be demanded to cater to your mental
disorder using the extremes that we see popping up through every realm of
society? We don’t do it for other disorders, why should we do it for you? You
are ill, you need to get some help, not more privileges. We are not going to restructure
every bathroom in America to accommodate your mental disorder. That is
ridiculous to even think of. Listen, you are a man with a mental disorder
therefore you should use the men's bathroom always! There is nothing confusing
about the matter. You are a man with a mental disorder. Now piss in the urinal like
all of us other men with our own mental disorders. None of us should be
confused about any of this.
Listen churches! Can you as individuals in the church
have a disorder that is not sin? Yes. So goes the homosexual. The sin is in the
act, not the temptation, stop being hypocritical about this.
Homosexuals! You are not sin. Sin is in the thoughts you
embrace and the actions you take, but you are not sin. You are God’s creation.
You have within you the ability to change your feelings, your emotions, and
ultimately your body chemistry and desires. It is possible and has been done by
many with their disorders, yours is no different.
Now let’s say you sin in the fashion of homosexuality through
your actions, words, or thoughts, does that mean you have a homosexuality disorder?
No. Do the users of drugs and alcohol at any party become those with drug
addicted mental disorders? No, but they could easily develop it if they
continued in that pattern of behavior. Experimentation and curiosity breeds
sin, but it does not necessarily mean you have the mental disorder.
Homosexuality is no different from that.
Another reason confusion abounds in this matter, is
because relationship and love is involved with homosexuality. This is not the
case with many other mental disorders. Many disorders affect the subject and
there are some rippled shockwaves that go out to friends, family, and
coworkers. When two men, or two women are involved in a romantic, sexual,
loving relationship, this becomes cherished and it roots itself deep into the
psyche and soul of of both individuals. This is a very difficult thing to
untangle once the bond has formed. When the bond becomes threatened or
disrupted by outward opinion or law, the immediate response is usually
defensive and protective.
“How dare you suggest that this relationship is wrong?”…
My offended friend, they don’t even have to say it’s wrong. Nature already
declares it. Physiology already declares it. Science already declares it.
Common sense declares it. Don’t be upset with people for agreeing with what is
already declared. Humbly admit that you are wrong in your thinking so that you
may be healed of this disorder.
Allow me to address pronouns for a moment. Who would have
ever thought that we would be addressing and manipulating things such as basic
pronouns that were a no-brainer in preschool and kindergarten. But here we are,
it is the times we live in.
Asking or demanding me to call you “her” instead of using
the obvious pronoun “him” is asking me to lie. You have no right to put me in
that situation. So, I will continue to call you “him, he, man, male” because
that is what you are – a man with a sick mental disorder. Even if you go so far,
or not very far at all, as to cut your penis off, I will still call you a man.
However, I do feel bad for you if you are a man without a penis. Really, I’m
saddened by it. You have been robbed and deprived by your own thinking, deprived of something
wonderful.
Alright, let us cut off from this portion of the
conversation to explore the use of these other stones in David’s arsenal. Way
too many puns. I think there are some other giants still standing.
Second
stone
I
see the coronavirus. Shame on you pastors for closing the doors of your
churches and cancelling your events, out of the fear of COVID-19. Have you
ignored the mandate of the Bible, which is still God’s Word to humanity, that
says the sick people among you should call for the elders of the church to lay
hands, gloveless hands, on them so that they may be healed, and their sins will
also be forgiven them. How is this even possible with your compromised, contactless,
virtual church services? The very thing that these coronavirus victims need is
prayer to be healed, and you are depriving them of that?
Have you not read or heard multiple times of the story
how God Supreme brought several million people on a journey without hand
sanitizers, masks, outhouses, cars, etc. through a dessert and not even one of
them was sick among them? Think of Coachela times ten and traveling. He would
have never cancelled that event because of a virus. I’m sure there were plenty of
germs around at the time. “Not a feeble or sickly one among them!”
What about Psalms 91? Is that still in the Bible? It was
last time I checked, a thousand will fall at your side and ten thousand at your
right hand, none of this or any plague shall come near your dwelling. Shame on
you for your unbelief. Perhaps the Almighty is not your shelter? Perhaps you
don’t even live under the shadow of the Almighty. If this is the case, you
should quarantine yourself because you are doomed to get the coronavirus. The
unbelieving children of Israel did better than you while crossing the Red Sea
under pursuit of the Egyptian chariots and armies. Yet, they had no diseases,
not even one among the millions was feeble! It’s pathetic to see the pastors
who don’t believe the very words they preach from their pulpits. Shame to you!
Third
stone
Puns everywhere. As I am writing this article, over the past twelve hours, I
have consumed about six grams of high grade medicinal marijuana and maybe even downed
some hallucinogens as a chaser. What are the churches and pastors going to do
with the previous content I just gave them, now that you have this new tidbit
of background story? I suppose that many would discard this article immediately
at this point. Bye, bye, you fools. Yet I will proceed to expel truth from my
intentionally structured Cheech and Chong environment.
Take this quiz you foolish Christians!
Q. Who made weed? A. Jesus (John 1:3)
Q. Who made magic mushrooms? A. Jesus (John 1:3)
Q. Who created ayahauska? A. Also Jesus (John 1:3)
Q. Who created peyote and mescaline? A. Yup, Jesus (John 1:3)
You fools! You have forbidden and even criminalized these things to a point of religious
confusion that is very difficult to untangle (that is unless you are also using
these substances – then it is easily untangled). You have withheld these things
from the people that most need them. Meanwhile you are taking your man-made,
doctor approved, zolofts, ativans, prozacs, wellbutrins, etc. to unsuccessfully
manage your own disorders, with many side effects that complicate and confuse
your lives and preaching to people that weed and hallucinogens are evil and
destructive. You are so, so, backwards in your thinking. May you be healed of
this ignorance. Have you even researched the matter? Or are you trusting what a
man with degrees and pharmaceutical-backed commission checks is telling you? Telling you what you
are, and what you need to take? This is what class-A hypocrisy looks like in the
churches of 2020 America. And you are pushing these unnecessary drugs and
experiments onto your young children. Shame on you! Repent. I think the Pharisees
of A.D. 0033 will have it easier on judgement day than the multitudes of the
churchgoers today. Seek the truth! Who
made this stuff and why? Until you can answer that? Keep your personal prerogatives
to yourselves please. I personally have won many more people to Jesus staring
down the barrel of a blunt, than I have gotten them saved walking them down the
aisles of your cold, impartial churches. Nuff said ‘bout that friends.
Fourth
stone
Whenever, I write an article or begin a creative project that the Lord puts
into my queue, I always begin with the soundtrack. I create a playlist of
songs, albums, and artists, then I put on the headphones and create. Allow me
to give you a peek at the music that set the background for this very article:
The Battle of Los Angeles –
Entire album ~ Rage Against the Machine.
Fair Warning – Entire album ~ Van Halen
In the Arms of God – Entire album ~ Corrosion of Conformity (Best thrash metal
album ever made to this point)
White Iverson and Rockstar – songs only ~ Post Malone
A.I.R. – song only ~ Anthrax
How is it, while listening to this music, smoking some
strong weed, and maybe ingesting some hallucinogens, that I am able to pen an
article with clarity and morality straight from the Bible? The churches (most
of them) don’t know how to handle or receive such a teaching. Your traditions
(not His traditions) make the Word of the Living God powerless within YOUR churches
and YOUR church culture.
I am saying all of the above to get to this point: Jesus
said to go into all of the world and share the good news. You churches and
pastors have this all backwards! You should be in the culture, in the continual
flowing narrative, and in the current conversation. Shame! Get your priorities
straight!
You fools! You are isolating and excluding the very
people our Lord and Master has commanded you to reach! Foolish and counterproductive
to the Kingdom of Heaven you are, unless your goal is truly to maintain your
own puny kingdoms, I suppose you are a little productive in doing that to no
avail, hmmm? Repent, you idiots trying to harvest these lush beautiful fields
from the comfort of your barns! It can’t be done! Go INTO all the world!
Fifth
stone
James said it so profoundly already, as did our Lord in the Book of Revelation,
as did Peter in his books, all of them have a similar message and theme.
James 5:1-6 (from The Message Bible ~ Yeah it’s still
legit)
And a final word to you arrogant rich:
Take some lessons in lament. You’ll need buckets for the tears when the crash
comes upon you. Your money is corrupt and your fine clothes stink. Your greedy
luxuries are a cancer in your gut, destroying your life from within. You
thought you were piling up wealth. What you’ve piled up is judgment.
All
the workers you’ve exploited and cheated cry out for judgment. The groans of
the workers you used and abused are a roar in the ears of the Master Avenger.
You’ve looted the earth and lived it up. But all you’ll have to show for it is
a fatter than usual corpse. In fact, what you’ve done is condemn and murder
perfectly good persons, who stand there and take it.
This already so eloquently defines many of these 2020 Fox News brandishing,
often grossly obese, self-righteous, comfort seeking, egomaniacs that proclaim
to represent our Lord Jesus on the earth. You are nothing like Him, you greedy
self absorbed wretches. You resemble the Master in no way, shape (gluttony pun)
or form! In fact, you appear as quite the opposite. Repent, humble yourselves,
and just maybe you will see a glimpse of Jesus for who He really IS,and not the
figure you so pathetically and currently portray Him to be! This is shame. Go
back to your first love, immediately!
I do believe I have put these stones (final pun) to good
use? The conversation will continue, that is for sure! Peace.
