Day 9 - Your beliefs

(This was taken in church!)

I don't know, I'm at the point where I'm not sure what I believe.

I'm christian and believe in God, but most of my beliefs don't necessarily match up with what most other Christians believe.

I believe that gay marriage should be legal and am pro-choice. I don't believe in waiting til marriage for sex. I think it should be ok as long as your truly in love and plan on staying committed to each other. I don't believe in shoving my beliefs on others, talking down other religions or judging others. I don't even like that a different religion may be wrong and that supposedly means everyone who follows it will burn in hell. Ha I used to hope that there was different heavens for the different religions. I do believe in separation of church and state. I don't know, I believe in a loving God that doesn't send someone to hell just because they love someone of the same gender. I don't believe I'm going to have to pay for my sins because I like Harry Potter. I enjoy reading Harry Potter not practicing magic. I don't believe in burning books or censorship. And most of the time I don't even like church or like to listen to people preach about death and burning in hell if I don't do everything right.

I would rather hear about all the good things God has done, about how believing in him can bring faith, love and compassion into my life. How having faith has helped others. I would rather hear about a positive loving God, than a God that flooded Katrina because of all of their "sins". I grew up believing in an all loving God and that's the God I have faith in.

I also really hope that animals have souls and that they go to heaven too, because I want to see my dog Molly again :(

My beliefs are a bit idealistic I know! But I like being optimistic about this.