EH ~! What is with those people ?? This guy totally messed up my morning ! I was outside the JRL library before it opened. So I sat on the concrete ledge and wait. Then this guy came over and say, "Excuse me, can i sit here?" I gave him a shrugged yes. He turned to me and asked me if I believe in God. DAMN ! Why does christians need to spread the word around? If Christianity was so true, then surely it will come to non-believers as natural that they want to learn more about it, without any prompting.
Okay, back to the basic question. Do I believe in God? For the one and only God, ah yes to some extent. To Jesus, as answering that guy who kept talking non-stop to me, I want to believe but I can't yet. For me, I just try to substitute God into all those situations and questions about life that no one can answer for sure, like what's going to happen after life? No one knows, because the dead will not come back and tell you which place he went. Life has many things science can answer, but not God and vice versa.
I really wanted to shoot that christian guy some questions man! But I held back. I would ask him, "what do you celebrate on Dec 25th?" He confirm say "the birth of Jesus...." and all the grandmother stories. Then I'll shoot back, "But according to the Bible, Jesus was born in March. So wth are we celebrating it in Dec?"
You want to know why? I dun really know whether to say or not because sources not really confirmed.
Because Dec 25th coincides with the ancient pagan holiday of sol invitus, Unconquered Sun. New religions often adopt existing holidays so that the annoucement of the significant day is not so appalling.
Actually not everything in Christianity is original, i'll rebut that guy this way. God-eating is adopted from the Aztecs.
Even the self-sacrifice of a young man to absolve the sins of his ppl appears in the earliest traditions of Quetzacoatl.
That should have stunned that guy.
And almost comically, he digged out a US dollar bill and explained to me why in the back it writes "In God We Trust". I didn't hear his explanation. But I was looking straight at the pyramid. Why? Because that pyramid with a medallion at its tip was suggested by allegedly America's founding fathers who were freemasons. There's lots of controversies around that eventually led up to the anti-church people inside the government who wanted to debunk the church.
Maybe those above were bogus facts. Now this is real. Get this into your mind god damn it. If you think terrorists are the servants of Satan, the church is no better in the eyes of the science world. Why did the church jailed Galilee Galileo during the 1600s? Just because he backed his own idea that the universe is not centered around Earth, but the Sun. Then why the church punish him? Because the church was selfish and wanted to push the fact that Jesus would not have created a universe not centered around Gaea, Mother Earth. Many decades passed and more papers published to defend the great scientist's findings, the church still refused to admit their wrongdoings. How fair is this?
I just don't like the way Jesus comes into my life, through random people who just interrupt your life and talk about spiritual/religious issues so lightly. They just come to you and just try to deliver to you quickly that God is there, blah blah okay? Because this...so your life...and must thank God. My original thought of going to church was like walking into a tiny church filling with rows of wooden benches, hearing the pastor solemnly. But no! My first church visit was CHC. Totally different. I didn't appreciate that. Not Jesus. So chaotic. Seriously I don't believe such bizarre display of God love will attract me to God. That visit make me run away from churches. Whatever, I will visit church again, but i'll choose which to go.
Whatever, that messenger of God just screwed my Saturday morning. I never really know how to leave that guy coz i'm a man of few words and always try to be nice. Nites everyone. Mug on.