In response to tonight's abrupt ending, I feel compelled to add, for those who were there, greater clarity to the situation.
While the experience of being cut-off midset is degrading, and hurtful, regardless of the circumstance, I do accept, and understand why it happened, and blame no one. Jake seems pretty rad.
Although, I'd like to share, because, in between being cut off, and explaining on stage without a microphone, the content of my message was almost inevitably lost. The verse read as:
"That's conformity to pray to a god your parents told you to.
That's hypocrisy to wage war based on religious values.
That's discrimination to claim to love gays, yet, hate what they do in their private lives.
That's insanity, to take The Bible's word, as something it was never meant to.
But, regardless, someday, we're all going to look out that window, and in unison, sing,
THERE IS LOVE!!! THERE IS LOVE!!! THERE IS LOVE!!!"
The doctrine expressed within religious text, is often abused by a small minority to serve as a foundation to justify discriminating practices, or hatred, throughout the world. I recognize this dogmatic, anti-love/compassion perspective manifest itself in nearly every corner I turn, against almost every group of people I know of. It kills me, and I will not accept it. These words were words of love, and were meant to recognize certain elements of main-stream faith (not JUST Christianity, but, Islam, Judaism as well) which inhibit freedom, taint the passionate meaning and purpose of religion, and wrong the names of all its saviors, and martyrs, prophets, and gods.
-Jamie
