Sunday, December 27, 2009

The Religion Entry

I think I finally found a religion I can buy into.  I've been searching for many years, and all I've known is that I'm probably more Jewish than I am Christian; even though I've been raised a first Baptist Protestant. 

But this new definition I stumbled upon through a google search of, "What is a belief in ALL religions called?":

Omnism or omnitheism is the belief in all religions; those who hold this belief are called omnists (or Omnists). [1] The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) quotes as the term's earliest usage the 1839 long poem "Festus" by English poet Philip J. Bailey: "I am an omnist, and believe in all religions". In recent years, the term has been emerging anew, due to the interest of modern day self-described omnists who have rediscovered and begun to redefine the term.
Contemporary refinements have modified "belief in all religions" to refer more to an acceptance of the legitimacy of all religions. The OED elaborates that an omnist believes "in a single transcendent purpose or cause uniting all things or people".

This will help me in my new endeavor as an ordained minister.  I have a glossy ID card that proves I am CLERGY now, through the Universal Life Church's online ordination program.   I guess I got bored a couple days before Christmas and decided I wanted to perform gay weddings.  In college and shortly after, I photographed a couple drag queens as they went trough the metamorphosis, and I enjoyed the experience immensely.  My state has approved gay marriages, and I thought there might be a need for a non-denominational, non-judgmental preacher to provide marriage services.  Plus, I can snap a couple candid shots and call it a wedding package!  I hate posed shots, I only do action shots; I'm a photojournalist dammit, not a portrait photographer.

So there....yesterday I even created a website with my real name (yes, Delani Bleu is a pseudonym if you didn't know) and posted a little note saying I'm available for marriages of all kinds.  Now I'll get the word of mouth going, and might even hang a poster up in the gay bars announcing my services -- I haven't been out dancing in forever. 

I have a feeling this entry wasn't what most people expected.  Only Delani can go from religion to gay bars in the space of a few paragraphs -- and have it all make sense. 

Ahhhhhhh, Sunday mornings and Elvis and caffeine gets me going on deep, philosophical ruminations.  Wonder what most people do?

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