宗教到底是什么，是生活的枷锁，还是精神的家园。衣柜又是什么，是存放的空间，还是隐匿的场所。不知道何时衣柜成了储藏同性恋的场所，也不知道还有多少人坐在衣柜里以为人生本来就是生活在衣柜里的概念。对于我们每一个人来说宗教影响遍布四处，不论是信仰的本身，还是庙宇的威严，或是家庭的伦理，都是我们膜拜的方向。本期同志亦凡人我们采访到了5位神的信仰者和守护者。今天让我们一起开启上帝的衣柜，让神的守护者，跟随者来为我们揭开上帝衣柜中的风景。
我想在最后的审判中上帝不会问你“你和多少人上过床，你们都用了什么姿势”，而是问你“是否就救济贫困帮助他人”。—Pat Baumgardner
What is religion? Does it offer people a spiritual oasis? Or does it control people’s lives with rules and dogma?
Religion is everywhere and it enters our lives in a myriad of ways. Temples, mosques, synagogues and churches dominate the urban landscape, religious organizations work relentlessly to influence politics, and much of the world’s biggest problems find their roots in religious conflicts. A lot of us are religious disciples, and even atheists create their own spiritual system marked by worship for family, friends and comrades.
Religious theories often find it hard to incorporate homosexuality. It’s marked as a sin, a perversion, an illegality, something that hurts the family. Yet does God really hate homosexuals? In this episode of Queer Comrades, we talk to 5 believers who help us open up God’s closet to see if it contains a condemnation of queerness.
“In Matthew 25, in that scene that people label as the Last Judgment scene, there are no questions asked about who we sleep with or in what position. The only questions that are asked are if we fed the hungry, if we cared for people in need, if we visited the sick and the imprisoned, so if we tried to bring change to social structure.” — Pat Baumgardner
