theprof00 said:
There have been numerous politicians and actors who have been against gay marriage and rights until their child "came out". When these kinds of people finally have an inlet of what it's like, they finally get it. It's so frustrating to know that these kinds of people are in power, where it takes a family member to convince them of something, and they can't just try and understand the situation on their own. Empathy is about caring enough about a situation to actively try to understand it....not about waiting until you get smacked in the face with it. |
When you're blinded by a two thousand year old doctrine which tries its best to explain the universe (for its time period) these things tend to happen. There is nothing about the bible that truly baffles science. At least they learned to back down to it a little bit. Even the catholic church today had to look reality in the face as it took them quite a while to get the picture. They used to kill people for even talking about science if it defied the word of scripture and now look at them. There is a lesson that we can learn from these great paradigm shifts in history.
Empathy is a big thing and it takes an emotionally strong person to wield it, that some people can only offer it to the like minded. Belief can create a wall where on a human level there should be an open field of space of understanding. Theres only so much time we get on this earth and its wasted sadly on petty squabbles from a book that a man wrote who obviously had very little understanding of the universe. Thats a big issue with humanity. It will take us years to get beyond it though. I can only hope that it happens in due time for everyone to understand the perfect imperfection of all that is us.
