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Re: Jesus wouldn't like preachers
by bettie_x (strangersangel@hotmail.com)
on Sep 16, 2002 - 01:21 PM
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see? Even if you think someone is wrong, you can still respect their stance and way of life. It's a big difference between you and lots of others out there. *I* don't want to change anybody's mind. *I* just want to be left the hell alone.
Perhaps I just have the look of someone who needs to be saved...dunno, this happens to me a lot.
ANyway....
Islam, Judiaism (spelled?) and Christianity have the same roots. Their God is one and the same, only with different characteristics and their ways of worship. Mohammed is in their way, a sort of christ figure, only for them to call him the son of god is blasphemous, as to them god is higher than man. The accept Christ not as a savior in the flesh, but just as another GREAT and important prophet in God's history. And conversely, Jesus was a Jew. A main difference in the split between jews and xians (besides that other half of the bible) is that xians already had their messiah and are waiting for a second time, whilst jews still wait. Christianity started as a "cult" devoted to God's SON. God, Yawey (spelled?) and Allah all have the same root, the same ideals, but are worshipped and treated differently. Perhaps not all the "same" but all sharing the same roots and principles.
And with all major religions, conflict arises BECAUSE of these cultural perceptions.
Even something as simple as which branch of that religion you follow.
Remember Ireland in the 80's. The catholics in northern Ireland versus the Protestants.
SAME god, slightly DIFFERNT worship, but enough for them to kill each other for years over it.
It's messy, and to me it's positively stupid. I never assume I'm right in the matter. *I* dont' know any more than they do. They can BELIEVE, they can feel within them that it is GOOD and RIGHT for THEM, but NONE of us will know until our heart stops beating and our last firing synapses flicker out. I can accept that I may be wrong...but I can FEEL that I"m right. But that doesn't make me want to run about convincing everyone else, unless they ask.
I had a friend once start in on religion, and that she felt she's lost her way and kept going on and on until I finally just said "honey, do you realise who you're talking to? I am the LAST person in the world to bring you back to Jesus. Find your way back yourself, if it's meant to be, as I've heard that God is internal. If it's there for you, you'll find it."
I could have told her that her eyes were just finally opening after years of brainwashing. I could have told her that she was finally seeing herself as a human animal and not a devine creation under the laws of an unseen puppetmaster. I could have told her I was happy she wasn't going to church anymore and was seeing things through unclouded eyes.
But I didn't because her faith is none of my business, because her life is not mine, and her mind is her own, and her beliefs are not mine to change.
I told her either she would find her way back to her god or she would find another path.
She had a tendency to bring god up quite a bit, which was irritating, and thankfully she's gotten so into herself and into "the scene" that I don't talk to her anymore....she's twice as irritating now as the scenester, the gothster, the drama queen and the ubersnob than she ever was as a lamb of god that used unsuccesfully "subtle" dogma to bring me to god. I could shut her up then. You can't shut up a scenester.
Oh well. I haven't seen him in days, but I'm sure to get stuck with him again. I'm going to wait it out and see if it happens again and either stop it myself or talk to his boss.
This got a lot more attention than I though it would...hmmm.
Oh hell who could resist something that would turn into a religious debate?
*snicker*
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