Disappointed and Disturbed

[cantdog]

You shouldn't let it bother you Lou.

People are people and those devoted to a cause have a way of warping events to fit it. He probably sees the terrible events as an opportunity provided by god to get the word out to those who don't know him yet.

I know in many churches, the prostelitizing fever seems to rise when there is a natural disaster. People need to see meaning in events, and for the devoutly religious evangelical, anything that makes people question is an opportunity to spread the word. It also engenders a strike while the iron is hot mentality that seems to overrule decoroum and allowing people time to deal with disaster and to heal.

People overcome with this missionary zeal, tend not to see the damage they can do, both to themselves and to the religion they are so devoted to.

In 1979 a flood wiped out entier neighborhoods in my town. oUrs among them. I have never seen so many religious people, from jehova's witness, to mormons, to just the good folks from your church up the street. Att hat point in time, going through our possessions, throwing out things that had deep sentimental value, and facing the prospect of a home gutted down to the bare studs, the last thing any of us wanted was a sermon. I'll be forever grateful to the Salvation Army. they sent trucks around with hot food, pased out clothing, blankets, canned water, and cokes. Never once, during the entire time we were rebuilding did any of those people ask me about my god. They just helped. And in that help, I saw more of what christianity is supposed to be than in all the lecturers combined.

Some people just don't get it and never will. Thankfully, they are the minority, in both christianity and islam and judaism and every other religion.

*HUGS*

The best missionaries let their deeds speak.

 

[scheherazade_79]

Good for you, Lou. I don't think it's just a Christianity thing - there are fools like that in every world religion. The only religious people I respect are those that keep their religion to themselves and don't go around trying to convert everyone within a 50-mile radius.

Under the circumstances I think you were incredibly controlled. I dread to think what I might have said to him. Jehova's Witnesses have now stopped calling round my house...

 

[English Lady]

Most religions (not all) would cast as out as unrepentent sinners for frequenting Literotica.

We can't be truly repentent because we keep coming back, like dogs returning to their vomit, or murderers who must revisit the scene of the crime.

So, we would be greeted, not with a welcome, but with imprecations as miserable sinners in love with their sin.

I think wherever Lou goes is likely to be a suitable place for all of us.

Og

PS. I expect that, wherever that place is, virgins will be in short supply except for reconstituted ones who are as like the real thing as powdered egg is like real egg. (What do you mean? You haven't eaten powdered egg? Take it from an expert - there are some tastes you should NOT try.)

Who cares what the people of the religion think? It's the God's thoughts that really count and I can only vouch for mine, but He definitely forgives and knows I'm human

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Thank you.

But I'm damned, apparently.

Why would you want to go to Heaven? You'd be all alone up there, and all of us down here would be missing you at our barbecue party.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Translated this for you, Lou.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

The best missionaries let their deeds speak.

I wasn't really old enough to understand what my parents were going through. I myself, was having a deep crisis of faith because the waters were polluted and thus my entire stuffed animal family was unsalvageable. It seems sometimes, I saw things more clearly in childhood than at any other time. I didn't need anyone to tell me who the good people were back then or who the bad ones were. The bad ones brough words and wasted time. The good ones brought hot food and a sympathetic ear. The bad ones wore suit coats and ties and carried a book. The good ones wore jeans and flannel shirts and carried a hammer.

The bad ones were there during he day only, the good ones were there at night, sharing the misery with you. The bad ones wanted your attention. The good ones gave you theirs.

From the good ones I larned what Christian Charity is all about. I just learned to avoid the others.

 

[erise]

He then went on to say that Muslim countries should embrace Jesus.

Muslims do embrace Jesus. Hails him as one of the great prophets of their faith too, if I'm not mistaken. They just don't buy the whole son of God business, which, in fact, Jesus himself didn't ring any big bells about either. As an ambiguous on that point, I can see what they mean, that the bible intepretation might just be a legend exaggeation of his connection to the entity upstairs.

It sounds to me that you met a guy with bigger ambitions than knowledge. Always an annoying, and more often than not, dangerous combination. You did the right thing.