I'm hopeful the past few years of "deconstruction" will help places of worship and people who worship to be kinder, more compassionate and abide by the verses that hold up love.
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TRANSCRIPT:
Hi, you're listening to Face The Sun. My name is Gaia, and I'm your host. Welcome to a show where I discuss matters of religion, belief and unbelief. I want to welcome you to the year 2022. Thank goodness we're here. I started this podcast officially in January of 2020. I started going to places of worship and then in March of 2020, as we all know, the whole world changed.
So I did some podcasts and different things and tried to get my footing. And it's been really interesting. What I found is that because I'm not technically savvy, I am going to, I'm going to change up how I do my podcasting, that I'm not going to put music at the beginning or end. Not that it should be that difficult, but I just moved my music around, like tinker with it...and I tinker some more and I get lost in a project of the music. Then I also get lost in projects of taking out silences or taking out every single itty-bitty hiccup. I decided...I've just decided I'm not going to do that because then I don't record because it becomes this massive headache and homework and massive project, and this is supposed to be a hobby and I'm enjoying it and I want to get back to enjoying it.
That's how I'm going to be doing my 2022 with this podcast - streamlining it, making it easier for me so that I can do more recordings. So we'll, we'll see how that goes.
Okay. So for this coming year, I am going to focus on...I am going to focus on a number of things. One of the things that I'm going to focus on is this thing that I'm hearing a lot about for the past couple of years. I'm chasing this down wherever I can - people who are deconstructing - those who deconstruct from the church. Because I was raised in the Christian belief, that's the deconstructionist that I'm following and I'm intrigued. I'm so intrigued!
They say a lot of things and I'm like, "Yes. Oh my gosh. Yes, yes, yes, yes!" But they're almost becoming their own little clique. I have hope, but also concerns. And...I don't know, I hope that that a lot of them can go from deconstructing to deconverting. Some look like they aren't, so I wish them the best and that they can make a healthier go of it than their predecessors did.
I'm also going to spend a good deal of time on things relating to the concerns that I have in regards to women and religious belief systems, as well as the LGBTQ community and the damage that can be done, but I also really want to focus on places that don't do damage. Um, wow, I almost started to cry there.
I want to go to places that don't hurt other people. Which, how about that? I just, you know, I just thought to do that, you know, what does that say about the damage that that belief can do to you, that religion can do to you that, um, I just thought I should stop going to places that aren't so, um, hurtful to who I am.
I think I found some places. I think I, um, I found some places. I went to some, I went to a church in the summertime and then I went to another place, another church in the fall.
It was the first time I've ever been to a church that had a rainbow flag in front of it. And it was the first time I went to a church that had a woman who was speaking. I mean, oh my gosh, what kind of world do I live in? You know what...I have to correct myself. I'm sure I have been somewhere - I'm sure I've been somewhere where a woman has been a pastor of a church somewhere.
I cannot for the life of me, remember when or where, but I can have vague memories. I think I do. It really struck me probably because I know Liza and I...and I haven't been in churches that much in, in, over the decades.
Yeah, it really struck me. And a lot of things have changed when you stay out of a church for decades.
Like, just...things have changed. And so
