RE: religious friends
January 3, 2009 at 4:07 am
(This post was last modified: January 3, 2009 at 4:09 am by Uvirith.)
I would just like to clarify things a bit. I don't deliberately decide to sit in judgment on these people. It is just a reaction I have, and I can't seem to help it. It is really only when someone is overtly religious, talking about their God in every other sentence, really making it obvious that they are a True Believer. I just have that reaction, like if they told me they had a magic invisible unicorn in their pocket or something. I come to realize they aren't joking and it's like we are from different planets. I just feel weird and sad, knowing they really believe this and knowing I cannot relate to them very well.
I can hang out with them, talk to them, but there is just this gulf that makes it hard to connect. If they don't bring up religion much I can sort of not think about it, but if they do, then I seem to end up just not wanting to be around them much at all, even if they are otherwise nice and interesting and so on.
I can hang out with them, talk to them, but there is just this gulf that makes it hard to connect. If they don't bring up religion much I can sort of not think about it, but if they do, then I seem to end up just not wanting to be around them much at all, even if they are otherwise nice and interesting and so on.
And the Lord God spake unto them, saying, "A Great Fire be bound within all things, and know ye that be it unleashed, its energy shall be as like its mass, multiplied by the swiftness of the light, and so multiplied again." And they were much amazed. --II Physicists, Chapter IV, verses 5-8.
