"You see, people don't say 'oh my Buddha', but 'Oh Christ' or 'Oh God'. That proves that Jesus' influence is stronger"
This is such a myopic and typical remark that made me want to laugh. Somewhere sometime, I heard that there are two issues that debators are not allowed to discuss, and that is politics and religion; most likely becuase it might offend people. Here, I will try to be as objective as possible
Don't get me wrong but I am not against Christianity or whatever. It's just that whenever I hear something like this, I wonder why the person who uttered these words didn't pause to consider that different people have different gods. God doesn't only imply Christian Gods. It is such a shallow and silly remark that I want to laugh out loud at the person who said it. Whom, by the way was someone who was standing in front of me in the MRT today. He is like the most irritating and attention seeking person I've ever seen. If I wanted to be impolite, I could call him a loser, or what Alex calls him, a poser.
Why poser and loser? He was saying how he wanted to be the an all rounder in sports and not be like those people who only specialise in one sport. Those are not good as they are not good in other sports, just their own. He says he wasnts to be an all rounder. Well, I think it's just a nicer word for saying -- He is a jack of all trades, master of none.
And what really irks me was his flippant remark about Buddhism and Christianity and how Buddism is not as influential as Christianity. He was also saying how people try to ban the bible but not the koran. His flippant tone over the entire religion matter is really irritating and while he says that, some unpleasant remark about past experiences I had with Christianity comes into mind.
I was invited by a friend to some church event (which i suspect is nothing else than some excuse to try to get me and other people into their church). And this guy came up and told us his reason why he joined the church -- "I know that I am saved by Jesus. I may do bad things in this life and while others not Christian are going to hell, I am sure that I will go to heaven. I have a sure ticket to get into heaven". I wanted to laugh. Was this why he joined Christianity? Because he was afraid of going to hell? That's what comes into my mind foremostly.
And I thought I was shallow. Here is a guy invited to speak about why he joined the church and all he comes up with is that "So that I can go to heaven". How shallow. How unlikeable. And the worst come when he said "Buddism says 'I will show you the way', but Jesus Christ says 'I am the way'. So who do you trust? Who is better?". I wanted to stand up then and walk out. How could someone compare religions like this and denounce another religion like that?
So what the guy said about Christianity being influential, I could not give a very accurate opinion on that, but where Christianity had come into my teenage/adult life, it had been quite unpleasant. What I miss was my Christian school when I was young, where god is love.
This is such a myopic and typical remark that made me want to laugh. Somewhere sometime, I heard that there are two issues that debators are not allowed to discuss, and that is politics and religion; most likely becuase it might offend people. Here, I will try to be as objective as possible
Don't get me wrong but I am not against Christianity or whatever. It's just that whenever I hear something like this, I wonder why the person who uttered these words didn't pause to consider that different people have different gods. God doesn't only imply Christian Gods. It is such a shallow and silly remark that I want to laugh out loud at the person who said it. Whom, by the way was someone who was standing in front of me in the MRT today. He is like the most irritating and attention seeking person I've ever seen. If I wanted to be impolite, I could call him a loser, or what Alex calls him, a poser.
Why poser and loser? He was saying how he wanted to be the an all rounder in sports and not be like those people who only specialise in one sport. Those are not good as they are not good in other sports, just their own. He says he wasnts to be an all rounder. Well, I think it's just a nicer word for saying -- He is a jack of all trades, master of none.
And what really irks me was his flippant remark about Buddhism and Christianity and how Buddism is not as influential as Christianity. He was also saying how people try to ban the bible but not the koran. His flippant tone over the entire religion matter is really irritating and while he says that, some unpleasant remark about past experiences I had with Christianity comes into mind.
I was invited by a friend to some church event (which i suspect is nothing else than some excuse to try to get me and other people into their church). And this guy came up and told us his reason why he joined the church -- "I know that I am saved by Jesus. I may do bad things in this life and while others not Christian are going to hell, I am sure that I will go to heaven. I have a sure ticket to get into heaven". I wanted to laugh. Was this why he joined Christianity? Because he was afraid of going to hell? That's what comes into my mind foremostly.
And I thought I was shallow. Here is a guy invited to speak about why he joined the church and all he comes up with is that "So that I can go to heaven". How shallow. How unlikeable. And the worst come when he said "Buddism says 'I will show you the way', but Jesus Christ says 'I am the way'. So who do you trust? Who is better?". I wanted to stand up then and walk out. How could someone compare religions like this and denounce another religion like that?
So what the guy said about Christianity being influential, I could not give a very accurate opinion on that, but where Christianity had come into my teenage/adult life, it had been quite unpleasant. What I miss was my Christian school when I was young, where god is love.
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