‘The thing about Christianity is that I’ve always considered it to be a judgemental religion’.
I must say, it comes across that way sometimes. We have the absolute truth and the relative truth. Christians believe Christianity is the only truth. People who therefore believe something different and misguided and wrong. In comparison, I am a Hindu. Hinduism is a relative truth. I am fully able to believe, and do, that other religions exist and that there is one God worshipped by people through different religious media. The difference with Christianity is that Christianity, according to its worshippers, is the only valid religion. Whereas I admire the faith displayed by Christians at the classes I attend, I don’t know whether the case for Christianity is convincing enough. Religion is a man made concept after all.
Surely, tolerance comes when people have their own religious views but are also willing to accept that other religious beliefs may also exist and may also be true. Happiness within your own faith as opposed to happiness which you feel should be embraced by one and all is the true success of religion in my view. For if you have faith, then things are true. Is the Christian view religion true to its core, or is it judgemental?
It surprised me further when two of the ladies in my ‘group’ asked why sex outside marriage wasn’t permissible under the Bible. I would never have any such question for fear of being crucified myself, but when it was indeed asked, my ears plucked up as I’m sure you can imagine.
‘Imagine two pieces of paper (one blue and one pink she added, very kindly) stuck together with glue. This is what happens when two people have sex. Now, if I were to try to separate the two pieces of paper, some of the pink is bound to remain on the blue paper.’
Hmm, I think I understand. Though, sex, intimacy and love and completely different things. And I’m sure some people can tear themselves apart without single even a single trace of pink.
So, all in all, it was an informative session. The people are very nice I must admit, and so diverse. And it’s always nice to throw in a difficult question now and then.
I asked a lawyer who attends what made him come to these sessions.
‘I made a promise to my ex girlfriend who I now want to be my girlfriend again’ came the response.
We both moved swiftly on…
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I myself am a christian but I do not class myself as religous, I don't know that much about the Christianity but (through ignorance I think sometimes) I call myself a christian because I refuse to believe that some kind of life after death is non exsistent. i agree, it is a very judgemental religion, christians tend not to look towards themselves for faults.
As far as the pink paper/blue paper example is concerned, I can see where this lady is coming from, I do believe that you leave a little of yourself on (or in) every person that you have sex with, regardless of how small.
If I made a list of all the people I have slept with, i wouldn't necessarily rememeber what the sex felt like but I would remember a little something about them as a person. I hope these people would rememeber something about me too.
I for one am not a believer in no sex before marriage (obviously!!!) I believe that every person I have slept with before now has made me the lover that I am. I learnt something sexually from each one of them, whether its been how to do something or how not to do something in some cases!!!
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