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I feel really good today. It is a stark transition to most days in my recent life (and by recent I mean the last year or longer...yeah.) I did some community service work at my parents' church. You might think it was the do-good feeling that has put me in this mood, but it isn't. It just feels good to interact with people who are genuinely nice and warm. Sometimes I question the variables that go into the Christian equation to make them that way, but no matter my doubts about the reality of what they believe, the overall effect is quite often very pleasant. I can't say that of all churches, or Christians I have encountered, but at this church it is the rule as opposed to the exception...that everyone is really sweet.
Which is the main reason I have been attending Sunday school and church throughout the past few months. Certainly not for the sermons, which are mostly focused on salvation, and God's work, and heaven...the parts of the story on which I am a bit skeptical. But the power of a group of people who all feel the same way about it...seems to show how important a common sense of purpose is to social health. People at work, random people...can have a completely different set of values, and intentions. And we can all coexist easily enough, but God-fearing folk sure do seem to be happier, and easier to read. I've always been drawn to the products of Christianity, like the music and the congregation...it's just all these assumptions about history that seems pretentious to me. So anyway, I think I will continue going, just to satisfy my social desire to be around kind people. Yes.
Which is the main reason I have been attending Sunday school and church throughout the past few months. Certainly not for the sermons, which are mostly focused on salvation, and God's work, and heaven...the parts of the story on which I am a bit skeptical. But the power of a group of people who all feel the same way about it...seems to show how important a common sense of purpose is to social health. People at work, random people...can have a completely different set of values, and intentions. And we can all coexist easily enough, but God-fearing folk sure do seem to be happier, and easier to read. I've always been drawn to the products of Christianity, like the music and the congregation...it's just all these assumptions about history that seems pretentious to me. So anyway, I think I will continue going, just to satisfy my social desire to be around kind people. Yes.