My heated journal

Dear friends,

Just a quick question. I've been feeling the heat lately. Of course! How could I not. I am confused by it. I was speaking with someone earlier tonight and it occured to me that people may be under the assumption that because I believe something to be true that I will then take that truth and judge people with it. I would like to take the time to say that this is my journal and it will be filled with my beliefs, especially when someone asks me what I believe. It doesn't mean that I want to force my beliefs upon you. It just means that I believe in something that you might not. Is this such a stretch? If I were Hindu, would that be such a problem? If I believed that it was wrong to kill anything living at all because it might be a reincarnation of one of my relatives, would that be a problem? Or is it simply because I believe that the Bible is 100% true and that makes me sound stoopid and stubborn? I'm just asking for some honesty. Please tell me if that's it or if it really is because somehow I am a bad person now.

In truth, I don't want people to believe in what I believe just because I say it is right. I prefer people to come to their own realization.

When I am talking to people, it just feels like there are questions or something else being held back. It hurts my feelings more to have my friends asking me the same thing repeatedly after I feel I have explained than to just be honest and truthful with me.

If you think I am stupid, just say so.
~Bas