religion: good or bad?
my landlady asked me to come out a while from my lovely space, and so i did..i was thinking that she wanted to chat with me about daily stuff since we hadn't seen each other for quite sometime..who knew it would turn to be a religion talk?
i have made it clear that i have no hard feeling to any religions, unless the religion is not meant for the wellbeing of people..but when it comes to be a believer, do you have to criticise others that do things differently from you?
she was a hindi, because her mother was too..but when her husband brought her to church for his baptism day, she was hypnotised!!she wouldn't speak stuff other than religion, and she kept asking me whether it was alright for her to change her religion..what could i say?i mean, i knew she wanted to do it so badly, not because of my incredibly good sixth sense, but because she gave mo thousands of reasons, i could puke if i heard one more..and anyway, seeing her life, i could see why she wanted the "new GOD" so badly..she was soo alone, her kid was(and still is) irritating, her husband treat her like a maid..good enough reason to want to embrace a new religion right?and so i said,"yes auntie, you can..you have a choice..and religion exists to help people, if it doesn't do that to you, it won't do you any good anyway."
and so she cahnged religion, but i am still wondering if deep down in her heart, she still fell the guilt of so-called betraying her own "GOD"?and i can't help but wonder, if she will be happy with her new religion when the reason behind it is not believing, when it is based on fear: fear of being alone, fear of not being loved, and fear of boredom, instead of trust?
i am personally fine with it..in fact, i am happy for her now that she has friends who care for her..but whe she talked to me just now, criticising about what others do, i couldn't help but asked myself,"She has only became a Christian for a week, and already she could criticise others so badly..what will happen in a few years time?"
it wasn't as if she was criticising about other religion, she was criticising those Christians who perform about Jesus's crucifix..she told me it was not suppose to be done, and that by doing that, they perform sinister scene..i was amazed by the hard feeling she got on that performance..when i wanted to explain that they do that because they want people to remember the path that Jesus took to save the human beings, the sacrifices that He made, that they want people to be touched by Jesus's love, she went beserk..she told me that they were not suppose to do so, that Jesus wouldn't want them to do so, that it was all in the past, and they should all forget about it..
i wonder now, if she was to say that in front of the priest, will the priest try to correct her?
well, none of my business, so i went back to the room, without wanting to make my life or her life more difficult..but she kept asking me to stay ther 5 minutes more, the time which i suspect she wanted to convert my way of thinking into hers because she kept asking me whether i have the same opinion as her..
what can i say? sometimes religion brings the good sideof you, like what happened to mu uncle when he turned to be a catholic..sometimes it's the other way round..
so what do you think?do you think religion is overpriced?
i have made it clear that i have no hard feeling to any religions, unless the religion is not meant for the wellbeing of people..but when it comes to be a believer, do you have to criticise others that do things differently from you?
she was a hindi, because her mother was too..but when her husband brought her to church for his baptism day, she was hypnotised!!she wouldn't speak stuff other than religion, and she kept asking me whether it was alright for her to change her religion..what could i say?i mean, i knew she wanted to do it so badly, not because of my incredibly good sixth sense, but because she gave mo thousands of reasons, i could puke if i heard one more..and anyway, seeing her life, i could see why she wanted the "new GOD" so badly..she was soo alone, her kid was(and still is) irritating, her husband treat her like a maid..good enough reason to want to embrace a new religion right?and so i said,"yes auntie, you can..you have a choice..and religion exists to help people, if it doesn't do that to you, it won't do you any good anyway."
and so she cahnged religion, but i am still wondering if deep down in her heart, she still fell the guilt of so-called betraying her own "GOD"?and i can't help but wonder, if she will be happy with her new religion when the reason behind it is not believing, when it is based on fear: fear of being alone, fear of not being loved, and fear of boredom, instead of trust?
i am personally fine with it..in fact, i am happy for her now that she has friends who care for her..but whe she talked to me just now, criticising about what others do, i couldn't help but asked myself,"She has only became a Christian for a week, and already she could criticise others so badly..what will happen in a few years time?"
it wasn't as if she was criticising about other religion, she was criticising those Christians who perform about Jesus's crucifix..she told me it was not suppose to be done, and that by doing that, they perform sinister scene..i was amazed by the hard feeling she got on that performance..when i wanted to explain that they do that because they want people to remember the path that Jesus took to save the human beings, the sacrifices that He made, that they want people to be touched by Jesus's love, she went beserk..she told me that they were not suppose to do so, that Jesus wouldn't want them to do so, that it was all in the past, and they should all forget about it..
i wonder now, if she was to say that in front of the priest, will the priest try to correct her?
well, none of my business, so i went back to the room, without wanting to make my life or her life more difficult..but she kept asking me to stay ther 5 minutes more, the time which i suspect she wanted to convert my way of thinking into hers because she kept asking me whether i have the same opinion as her..
what can i say? sometimes religion brings the good sideof you, like what happened to mu uncle when he turned to be a catholic..sometimes it's the other way round..
so what do you think?do you think religion is overpriced?
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