outside of the Class of 1950 lecture hall there are always various booths for student organizations, vendors, or religion-pushers. today there was a table with a sign on it that said "fiction for fiction: trade in your religious texts for a good book." i have been eager for a theological discussion recently but i was late for class so i kept walking. even if my religious views turned out to be false i would rather believe in something than nothing. that is what i decided.
i do not get offended easily but sometimes i get a little upset when my atheist, agnostic, generally non-christian friends are hard on christians. sometimes i do not like to associate myself with the label "Christian" because i have many differing opinions than most christians but i guess that is the group i associate with the most. they (my friends) have been known to make fun of people who believe in God or Jesus or What-have-you and tell them they are wrong and try to change their beliefs. that is what upsets me. i have never once told someone his or her religious beliefs are wrong nor have i attempted to force my own beliefs onto them. i try to accept any religious views, well, except for Satanists because frankly i am scared of them. i have a lot of respect for anyone who can choose a belief and be passionate about it regardless of whether it is the same as mine.
this is why i went back to my room, got my bible -which, ironically, i stole from a church - and whopped "fiction for fiction" man on his bald, sweaty head. piss off, fat man.
just kidding. jus keedink.
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man, i sure know what you mean. it seems that most people in the music school and in the J school here at mizzou are very anti-christian. most of the people in the music school are that way because they don't really think about it alot, but then most of the people in the J school are they way because they feel that intellectually, they are "above" christianity. which is stupid. it's hard. i suggest seeking out some christian campus organizations and meeting people. i'm not saying get new friends, i'm just saying it's good to have a balance. that's what my mom told me recently when i was frustrated with my friends at campus church dissing catholicism all the time.
i sort of wish you had bopped him. christianity has withstood the test of time for a reason after all. it's funny that poeple like that call christians judgemental when in fact they are judging all christians. not really funny... annoying. anyway.
lately i've kinda been struggling with the whole, should i try to change my friends who have different faith? because it's kinda a command from Jesus to do so.
but i've decided to take a passive agressive approach by simply acting out my life in a way that people might notice and wonder or ask what's different. then i can tell them. but unless someone is curious they are never going to listen anyway.
maybe that's just the lutheran part of me coming through.
and if that stolen bible is the serendipity one, they ordered more so don't feel guilty- if you did.
also, on another slightly related subject. alli announced today that she is leaving. her and jaime are moving to davenport because he is going to chiropractic school there.
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