I think, it is paramount to be oneself completely and authentically. If we try to be something we are not, we become a "persona". A mask. A role. A charade. I think, God does not want that for any one of us. If he cannot love me as I am, I cannot love him as he is. It simply does not make any sense that he should "demand" me to be something I am not. Rather, I think to learn what we can, with what we become equipped with during our lives, is what the objective might be. If indeed there is an objective.

There are many religions which "demand" things from us. I find them all to be lacking. Some of them, I find to be downright harmful to the individual, and even to the collective. So much shame, guilt and fear has been imposed upon us, by religion over the millenia. So many of us has been made slaves to thoughts, to ideas, to religious leaders. So many people has been made to submit to other peoples wills.

No. I will not. I will honour the divine in myself, by being myself completely, unapologetically and authentically and not disfigure myself in the name of any religion.

Such a disfigurement would not be love, but instead perversion.

I am that which I am.