For me this is painful.
I became a born again christian in my first year at University. I thought I’d found god…
Of course there was slight problem. I knew I was gay, and wondered what to do about it.
Nothing seemed to work, whatever I did, I was always gay.
Then it blew up in my face, and an incident occured at University. Shortly afterwards I walked away unable to reconcile what happened and being gay. I just wanted it all to go away and leave me alone.
Eight years later, I had the opportunity to sit down with a therapist and discuss what happened. She helped me through it, and I found an answer that made sense.
I stopped fighting being gay and came out.
My therapist was paid for by the company I worked for, who believed in gay rights. The company closed a long time ago, but they were called Digital Equipment Co. Ltd, a branch of Digital in the UK.
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Yup. If religion solely informed what people did themselves, I’d have way less of an issue with it. You can’t have bacon because your god says so? Carry on. I can’t have bacon because your god says so? Now we have a problem.
I would likely still take some amount of issue with the way it encourages anti-empiric thought as a defense mechanism, and think that it’s not good for people, bit I generally don’t go around complaining about people smoking at home or overeating.