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Today I was excited for the possible opportunity to discuss relgion with the two people that i was sitting with in Spanish class today. The first person is Logan. He's quiet but very sweet once you start talking to him. I don't really know him, but he seems as though he would have a lot to offer amidst a good conversation. The second person is Eric. He's a funny guy who always has some ghettofied-gringo shout out in the middle of class. Still, a nice guy.
It started out by Eric saying that he was a pastors son and Logan asking him how often he frequented church. It slowly lead to me stating that i'm non-religious but would side with Islam if I had to choose. Logan said that he sided with/loosely followed Buddhism. We were starting to get into some details, all the while speaking very amenable about everything, when Eric has to start pushing his own adgenda.
After being into the intense Christian culture for a couple years i know that i was taught how to shut-down other ideas. How to find faults in all other religions except Christianity; All the while following Christianity, which has some of the deepest pit falls of them all. These quick and seemingly easy facts and figures they throw at "non-believers" are meant to confuse and shut-down that person and to allow the christian to swoop in and "save" this "lost soul".
When I really think about how twisted the history of every religion is I form this awful chip on my shoulder with every person with a Truth-Falsehood state of mind. It's really something i need/want to get over because, truth be told, these people are the people that I want to study and observe. It's pissing me off that even though i know where they are coming from and why they do and say what they do, i STILL can't stand people with closed-minds. I mean, where would the study of religion be without zealots? I just have to fight my personal views, hold my tounge, learn to listen, and to not becomie a zealot of my own personal adgenda, as well.
It started out by Eric saying that he was a pastors son and Logan asking him how often he frequented church. It slowly lead to me stating that i'm non-religious but would side with Islam if I had to choose. Logan said that he sided with/loosely followed Buddhism. We were starting to get into some details, all the while speaking very amenable about everything, when Eric has to start pushing his own adgenda.
After being into the intense Christian culture for a couple years i know that i was taught how to shut-down other ideas. How to find faults in all other religions except Christianity; All the while following Christianity, which has some of the deepest pit falls of them all. These quick and seemingly easy facts and figures they throw at "non-believers" are meant to confuse and shut-down that person and to allow the christian to swoop in and "save" this "lost soul".
When I really think about how twisted the history of every religion is I form this awful chip on my shoulder with every person with a Truth-Falsehood state of mind. It's really something i need/want to get over because, truth be told, these people are the people that I want to study and observe. It's pissing me off that even though i know where they are coming from and why they do and say what they do, i STILL can't stand people with closed-minds. I mean, where would the study of religion be without zealots? I just have to fight my personal views, hold my tounge, learn to listen, and to not becomie a zealot of my own personal adgenda, as well.