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I give up with these evangelists. Like I said on View from Fes, my mother always told me that there’s three groups of people that you can’t argue with, because they don’t listen - children, the insane, and missionaries. I could talk until I’m blue in the face, and so could they, but neither of us will ever convince the other, because there’s a fundamental difference - I’m not willing to tell another religion that they’re wrong/worshipping the wrong person/reading the wrong book. It’s not just Christian missionaries that I disagree with, either - I also disagree with Muslims who say that everyone is “born Muslim,” according to Mohammed, and they need to convert to Islam to find Paradise - or Jews that say they’re the “chosen people,” etc… the list could go on forever.

You see, evangelists irk me because I have a very close relationship with God, despite their insistence that I’m on the wrong path. (Actually, they’d probably say that it was Satan that I follow, knowing them.) It’s not something I write about here very often, because it’s personal - and that concept escapes them. One of the sites I read most regularly is Real Live Preacher, written by the pastor of the Covenant Baptist Church in San Antonio. His posts make me think, and that’s what I like. Am I a Baptist, or likely to become one? No. But he makes me really consider, on a daily basis, how to be a better person - and I try, and that’s how life goes. I’m not going to convince anyone to accept my view of God - just as my husband has his own ideas, and I appreciate them equally. He’s one of the kindest people I know, so he must be doing something right - despite the fact that a Christian evangelist would tell him he doesn’t know God, and Muslims bug him about not observing salat properly.

I’m not opening up comments on these type of posts any more - because I don’t care if you A. Take the Bible as Gospel, B. Say you have to accept Jesus to be saved, or C. Think there’s nothing wrong with telling someone else that their faith is wrong. We’ll never agree on this, so you’ll do what you feel necessary, as will I.

November 23rd, 2006 | Category: Personal, Religion, Morocco | Subscribe to comments | Comments are currently closed | Trackback URL