Let me give a little story about Christians that I knew: They used to try and force their beliefs on me, acted like I was crazy for not believing their fear-based religion, so I stopped hanging out with them so much. It's not the fact I didn't like them, it's the fact that they were closed-minded and would not look at my perspective at all, they were so immersed in their own belief system that they couldn't even mutter the words, "You could be right." So I decided that it was a part of myself that didn't believe my belief system, so I fixed that, and then since I got the inside congruent, the outside became better. I met people who were accepting of my beliefs and even gave me credit for thinking in such a profound way. I'm sure my ideas aren't new, but they encompass my set of experiences and the way I feel. So now I still talk to these Christian people, but I do not discuss such things such as life purpose or anything, which sort of makes the conversations exceedingly boring, so I usually move on to something else after a few minutes.
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