So as I was attempting to get some
last minute swatting done this morning before my exam, I got to thinking about
God and religion. From just that one statement I know you’ve already started
drawing conclusions about what this post is about….
When I say I started thinking about
religion what I mean was I started to think about how our society views
religion in this day and age. I mean, I know personally, sometimes when someone
brings up God, I get slightly uncomfortable, and why should I if I consider
myself a Christian? No, I’m not ashamed of my beliefs but we’ve become so used
to the fact that whenever someone brings up religion…and in this case I’m
talking about Christianity, they expect a certain type of reaction from others.
Why is it that I should be afraid to tell you my beliefs or even be timid?
Nowadays, someone brings up God and they’re forcing their beliefs on you but
the moment an atheist starts up about how much they don’t believe in God and
how you’re wasting your time and effort by doing that, it’s called freedom of
speech and allowing them to express themselves and their beliefs. Like WTF?!?
How does that makes sense? How does me telling you about God and his greatness
equal bad but you telling me about how God doesn’t exist and the big bang
theory or evolution equals freedom of speech.
And God forbid I decide to invite
you to church or share a scripture with you….that’s a whole other side of stink
eyes and shade being thrown. And let’s not forget when you start cussing me out
about how I shouldn’t be shoving my beliefs down your throat and trying to
force you into doing something like read the Bible or pray. Like really? How do
you not see that this is just the beginning to a whole other form of bullying?
Since when is being a Christian or religious something to be ashamed about?
Since when is expressing your beliefs something that needs to be hidden for
fear of being attacked? Yes I understand that we’re living in the last days and
we’re supposed to expect most of what is happening now but you can’t be
preaching about equality and not giving Christians their fair chance of
speaking. Or wait, was that only equality among the sexes? Did nothing else
matter when you were preaching your heart out about how everyone should get an
equal opportunity in all walks of life.
Though I like to consider myself a
Christian, I’ll be the first to admit I’m not perfect and neither are you. Everyone
has their flaws and overtime we just have to grow to accept them but let’s not
be hasty to generalise all Christians as pushing their beliefs on someone and
therefore attacking them just like how we like to generalise all feminists as
being aggressive(that’s a whole other topic for discussion) for example.
Let’s just all learn to love, learn
and live
Xoxo
:)
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