Hooray for Fanatacism
Elle suggested to me today that I should post a bit more often on here, so I shall be a bit more diligent about such. Originally I had meant to post about this today, so I will make a second post regarding it.
Polyamorous Percolation's blog, Poly in the News, posted an interesting article about religious followers and poly. I made a brief comment on the site, but I'd like to extrapolate on the topic a bit more.
Why is it that people feel they need some justification for doing something? In this case, why do people think that they need to be supported - or perhaps in their circles, protected - by the crutch of religion? (I'm sure I'll get a horde of emails regarding that comment, but honestly spirituality and religion are two different creatures, and I am of the former grouping.) There are few things that I find the Bible relevant for, and one of them is not backing my choice to be polyamorous. It is a book of life-lessons that ought to be with some notion of mythology and open-mind because much of it is allegory and conjecture. It seems unnecessary to go to it to prove that you're right when it comes to polyamory. What you do with your life is your business. It's your choice to go down the path of polyamory, and it seems to be ludicrous to assume that God - or any other higher power - would look to such an out-pouring of love as being a bad thing.
I also made mention that use of the Bible does definitely hinder the gay/lesbian movement for same-sex marriages and rights. If a group of poly folk can make a case for the Bible supporting their cause, then they can equally make a case of saying that the Bible also says homosexuality is a sin (which it doesn't). There's always a way to interpret something if you want it to say what you need to get out of it. That's part of the problem with circular logic.
Just some thoughts.
