i require thirty pieces of silver…
Of course as many of you may know The Dalai Lama has been in town for the past couple of days. Which has been most excellent of course. We went to qwest field to see him for the afternoon talk. Were walking into the outer court yard and there are a couple of men standing in the street yelling about jesus and god. Obviously those that know me, know I have absolutely nothing against anyone that is christian. My question is what do they think that they are going to achieve by standing on buckets holding huge signs and shouting at us about jesus ? Unless you were born under a rock and live in a cave you know full well who jesus is. I saw them and they appear to be well to do intelligent men. The clothes they were wearing were decent. Not too expensive and not rags either. Their hair was well kept and trimmed neatly. Yet they have these big hand made signs on sticks with bible passages on them. Yelling at all of us about how jesus died for our sins and god is compassion etc. Do they really think that anyone there is going to just up and change their mind ? Just make some snap decision, that oh what I`ve been doing is wrong and this is right because you say so ? Knee jerk snap judgement reactionary converts really aren`t going to stick around for the long haul. So I think these people were really just being antagonistic to what was happening. Does it really make the whole proceeding better to insult other people and tell them that they are going to hell etc. ? Obviously I can and do appreciate the fact that this is a free country and these men do have the right to say whatever they want. I think it takes great courage to stand there and adamantly express your beliefs so vigorously. Who knows maybe they really do believe what they are saying and truly believe that their ideas and ideals really are the right way. I guess in a way one persons truth is another persons lies.
S.
