Selective Amnesia

White people, black people, dumb people

Sowmi, in response to this post, says,

The holy institution cannot get a worse insult than this. If it is so that you dont believe in marriages, just stay away from it. Your idea of making other people’s life a gamble, stinks. Marriage is simply not about getting together for the heck of it. It involves deep rooted relationship,trust etc. Looking at such insane ideas, it makes me feel that our ethics are headed for a crash.

Meanwhile, Stephen Bock fiercely guards his morals, and faces the challenge of a Pagan god, corrupting his Christian Spirit.

Since I’m taller I was able to see into the room no problem, this I found to be very moving witnessing real idol worship. We were taking some pictures of the city from the high vantage point the temple gave us and a small boy who was 12 years old walked up. We started to talk and he asked me if I had seen the god and I said I had from the outside but I had not entered the room. I explained that I was a Christian and I lived by a different standard. We exchanged names and he said his name was Rachean. Turns out his Dad was one of the Hindu priests that was right inside performing the pagan worship! He brought me over to the door of the inner most room and as I looked in he called out to his dad. His dad smiled and waved from the front of the stone face of the elephant, I smiled and waved back, and then his dad called out, “please come inside”. Not only was God giving me an opportunity to speak to a priest son, but it seemed that God was leading me to the center of the pagan worship to meet the priest himself. Here was where the inner struggle began. That stone face is no match for Jesus Christ, what do I have to fear?

To which, Bala replies:

The trouble with evangelicals is their tendency to club anything other than jesus to satan…. One of the canadian jesus freaks who were camping in my apartment complex for the past two weeks has written the following about his visit to a hindu temple

..... We went on our one and only Hindu temple visit. We spent some time in prayer before hand and really tried to prepare the students for what they would be seeing as they entered this place of satanic worship…

I have always had this inkling that proselytizing religious types (regardless of their religion) have massive self doubt despite their fanaticism. Read what our dear canadian warrior for jesus writes about his terrible ordeal –
.....it seemed that God was leading me to the center of the pagan worship to meet the priest himself. Here was where the inner struggle began. That stone face is no match for Jesus Christ, what do I have to fear? It would be a great opportunity to show that a Christian can stand his ground right infront of this god. But would it look like I was paying my respects to this stone face? The moment seemed like an eternity, but it was only half a second. Everything inside of me screamed “go!” but part of me held fast, “I will be different. I will be different. I will not acknowledge that elephant. I will not even enter.”...

Get it?. This faithful follower of the carpenter of nazareth is afraid of the competition. mortally afraid.. In his mind, Jesus has to deliver a dozen drop kicks and a pile driver to the terrible elephant god (namma pillayar) before he can contemplate acknowledging the “stone face”.

Bala. Sarcasm rocks, as I am sure you will know. Which’s a pity, because you haven’t utilised its full potential. Madurai Nakkal enge pa?

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