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Christian Worldview And Bisexual Analysis

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Atheist and bisexual are rarely used to describe southeast Alabamians. I, however, am one of the few which such words describe. I know of no others. Living in the Deep South as a "closeted" bisexual and atheist is dishearteningly forlorn.
My upbringing was as Christian as imaginable in the twenty-first century. Perhaps it was even typical of a southerner. I was reared in a Southern Baptist family and church; I attended a conservative evangelical school from the first through the twelfth grade. Imagine the life: biblical literalism the prevailing philosophy, homosexuality an abomination, patriarchy as the norm, and evolution a dangerous devilish deception.
My sexuality first challenged me between the fifth and the sixth grade. What a weird …show more content…

Robert Grice. Worldviews exerted a greater influence on who I am today than any other class I have ever taken. In it, Dr. Grice hated on gays, Muslims, and as he put it, “Kumbaya-singing lovey-dovey postmodern moral relativists.” He held a Ph.D. from Liberty University, Jerry Falwell’s blessing to evangelical academia. The class, despite his ramblings, was engaging and informative at a profound level. Truth be told, his class consisted primarily of far-right wing Christian propaganda. His spin on the content was not the class’s highlight. Rather it was the curiosity it inspired within myself. Near weekly I watched debates facing off a “mad” atheist with a “moral” Christian. Some of my favorites pitted William Lane Craig and Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins against John Lennox. These debates became my version of football—weekly traditions simultaneously entertaining and intellectually stimulating. It was while watching these debates, panel discussions, and lectures that my confidence in Christianity …show more content…

Should my bisexuality and atheism be revealed to my parents, within their evangelical worldview, I would be damned to hell by God. They would fear for my eternity; and I honestly believe, based on the reactions of similar parents in similar situations, they would likely be willing to sacrifice our relationship in an attempt to redeem me for eternity. This is what I fear; this is what keeps me living secretly; this is what saddens me at an existential level. I want a healthy relationship with my parents, but how can I when our views and feelings are the polar opposite, mine even deemed

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