"We all have a lonely, bloody path to greatness. Maybe God just forgot about my finish line. He seems like a busy guy."
"You believe in God?"
"He and I have an... interesting relationship."
"Well, I'm gonna be here all night."
"Okay, well... I was taken to church every Sunday, and I was a little girl. I believed. It went like that 'til I was about twelve And I was still expected to attend, just found a way out of service every week so I could schizophrenically hate God. A couple years later I met a girl pretty enough to distract me, so I started going again. We hung out every week, and I was too afraid of my sexuality to have a personality. So it didn't really go anywhere. A few years after that, the girl moved away, she didn't bother to keep in touch, so I jumped into the worship band at church. Not as pretty, but it got the job done. I tried to force myself to believe in God, and repress any crushes I had. Until I got tired of it. Then I stepped down, stopped attending altogether, and came out to all the people that matter to me. But then last week, I had an epiphany."
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah. I realized that only something like God could give us all individual fingerprints. It's so simple. Nothing else in the world, literary or otherwise, can explain that. Therefore, I believe that there is a God."
"But a god that gave us all individual fingerprints is the God from The Bible."
"Yeah..."
"So if you believe in that God, don't you have to believe in everything that He is?"
"Yeah. I believe He exists, so I have to believe in all the judgment and the hate. I have to. You know, I don't know if I, or Elton John, will get into Heaven when we die. And I don't really care. I'm sure if I'd felt Hell, I'd start dating guys or something. But I'm tired now. Of hiding, and answering stupid questions, and being someone I don't know. You know, I'm young. I'm relatively healthy, and I adore women. I'm not gonna marry some man and have his babies just because my fingerprints are different than yours."
"Get It Right The First Time" - The Stranger (1977) - Billy Joel
February 26, 2011
"You believe in God?"
"He and I have an... interesting relationship."
"Well, I'm gonna be here all night."
"Okay, well... I was taken to church every Sunday, and I was a little girl. I believed. It went like that 'til I was about twelve And I was still expected to attend, just found a way out of service every week so I could schizophrenically hate God. A couple years later I met a girl pretty enough to distract me, so I started going again. We hung out every week, and I was too afraid of my sexuality to have a personality. So it didn't really go anywhere. A few years after that, the girl moved away, she didn't bother to keep in touch, so I jumped into the worship band at church. Not as pretty, but it got the job done. I tried to force myself to believe in God, and repress any crushes I had. Until I got tired of it. Then I stepped down, stopped attending altogether, and came out to all the people that matter to me. But then last week, I had an epiphany."
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah. I realized that only something like God could give us all individual fingerprints. It's so simple. Nothing else in the world, literary or otherwise, can explain that. Therefore, I believe that there is a God."
"But a god that gave us all individual fingerprints is the God from The Bible."
"Yeah..."
"So if you believe in that God, don't you have to believe in everything that He is?"
"Yeah. I believe He exists, so I have to believe in all the judgment and the hate. I have to. You know, I don't know if I, or Elton John, will get into Heaven when we die. And I don't really care. I'm sure if I'd felt Hell, I'd start dating guys or something. But I'm tired now. Of hiding, and answering stupid questions, and being someone I don't know. You know, I'm young. I'm relatively healthy, and I adore women. I'm not gonna marry some man and have his babies just because my fingerprints are different than yours."
"Get It Right The First Time" - The Stranger (1977) - Billy Joel
February 26, 2011
