I Knew You Were Coming.... So I Baked A Cake

We are religious in our own way.  Our religion is ACCEPTANCE.

We certainly don't and will not ever not bake a cake simply because someone is gay or has a gay spouse.

Love is Love

and it comes in many forms.

Our current Supreme Court is not a fair one. It has been over-powered by a President who does not believe in the same rights for everyone, and because of that he is working diligently, just waiting for any level headed judges to retire or die so that he can make the Court one that those who voted him into our White House, mostly people who have twisted the words in the Bible and cherry picked it to pieces, in order to live in a backwards 1950's kind of moral world.

I have vivid memories of that world when in 1963 my eldest brother passed away suddenly at the age of eleven.

Our family was devastated and it is a loss that my mother never recovered from. 

 Her burden could have been eased, even if only a minute, but her wishes to have a Methodist hymn that she had grown up with played in St. Paul's Lutheran Church in a small Iowa town, were dashed to the ground by a Pastor who never saw fit to give my mother the gift of 'love and empathy' at a time when she so needed it. 

I was only nine years old when my brother died, and I watched year after year for my mother to show signs of recovering from this loss.  She never truly did, something she and I discussed when I was in my early forties.

Trying to talk about the loss of my brother even 30 some years later still brought her to tears.

So my question is, why are Christians and many who purport to being Christians, so mean to their fellow humans who perhaps are different from them?

Why can't they put the issue of a song or hymn aside and just let a grieving mother have it played and sung at her son's funeral?
Why is it that so many of them lack the empathy gene?

And why can't they just bake a fucking cake for a wedding?

Just mix the ingredients, put it in the oven, and then frost it nicely.

Since when has it become so difficult for Christians to simply be nice to others?

They are heartless and would stab someone in the back with their cake frosting knife rather than do the humane thing and just bake the cake.

My mother never recovered, and by the time I was in my early teens she and I had both turned away from the church and all of the insane rules it holds so dear that do nothing more than hurt people.

She, nor I, ever forgave the pastor, and I hope that he was questioned about his action towards my family when he arrived at those pearly gates that he and all of his sheep believe in.

The simple act of baking a decorating a cake has now become an issue for them, 

and they see Donald Trump's Supreme Court's decision as a sign from their un-forgiving God, who Himself created gays,

as a win for them.

How twisted is that?

Oh, and here a a few photos of cakes we have baked in our home that we have shared with anyone who enters our atheist home. 

 We love. We share.  We bake.

{this image from Pier One, but I do own the bunny cake stand)

Fools Should Learn To Love

 

Do I look a bit like a teacher?

Okay, so I'm not a teacher, but there are a few things I want you to know about some upcoming holidays this year, and also perhaps something you don't know about what the Bible teaches.

It's a book I was raised upon as a child, it's lessons that is, and although there is a lot to the book that I no longer believe, it does have some significant lessons in it about how we are to treat other human beings.

 Okay.... so every year Christians all across the United States and around the world celebrate Ash Wednesday, and it's from the Bible... their holiday when they run around town with a smudge of black on their foreheads....it's ash people.  Not dirt, but ash.

The ashes, generally spotted on the foreheads of Catholics, symbolize the first day of the Lenten Season and when applied by the priest, they are reminded by his words that they are dust, and to dust they shall return.

I get that part, because considering that I plan to be cremated, I will be dust before I even hit the ground.

 So, the Lenten Season leads up to Easter, which marks the day that Jesus, their son of God rises up again, after having been crucified on Good Friday.

It's all about him having died for their sins, which means they can now get away with any bullshit here on earth that they do or say, because they are forgiven for their asinine  actions.

Hence.... why they love Trump and want all DACAs returned to the countries their parents came from, even though the Dreamers had nothing to do with their coming here, being raised here, and having no memories of ever even living in another country.

Oh, but 'Send Them Back.  Send Them Back'.

Back to what??  They came here as BABIES.

Even your god would be sympathetic to THAT!

Many Christians obviously just figure they are already forgiven for being assholes to other people.

 There are MANY verses in their Bible that speak to the power of loving others... it's what their God demands of them.

There are many verses that speak to the power of hating others, and let's just say that their God has a lot of thoughts on this issue also, and so I ask myself why it is that these Christians who walk around with ashes on their foreheads come the Lenten Season choose to follow a President and a political party who tries to do so much damage to the very people that their God and their Bible says that they should love and not hate?

Does anyone have a good and realistic answer to the conundrum?

 As caucasian humans, we love, we marry, we have children and we spend the rest of our lives together loving those around us.  People of other colors do the same.  We all just want to live our lives with harmony in our families and with those around us.

Sometimes our children adopt children of other races, or in some families people of a darker color even marry into a white family or vice versa.  It's all good.  It's all harmonious.  We are all flesh.

 I'm not sure the conundrum can be solved, and I shake my head daily at people who don't support the Dreamers, children who never chose to be here in the first place, who 30 years ago were carried across the border of our country in their mother's arms before they could speak any language, and are now woven into our country as educated, hard working young people.

Is it right to punish them for an action they had no choice in making? They didn't devise a plan to dig a tunnel or hide in the back of a truck or find a coyote smuggler to get them through the deserts of Arizona.... they had no choice.

   They are now grown and they pay taxes. They speak English.  They serve in our military.  They too are now having families of their own. 

Do the people against them even know what a Dreamer and what DACA is, or do they simply see it as a color issue?

Do they only watch Fox News and never turn the channel so that they have thoughts from both sides of the political aisle?

Well, for those who believe the Bible and pray to God, their Ash Wednesday is on Valentines Day this year.

A day of love.... and I want to remind them of that.

A day of love.

And their Easter is on April 1st.... April Fools Day,

and I want to remind them of that, since they are all acting a bit foolish if you ask me.

I hope they all Go home and read their Bibles today and understand what it is that their God asks of them,

because they make no damn sense to me.