2007-09-03 - 10:31 a.m. We had Jehovah's Witnesses come by our place on Saturday. I do generally enjoy such experiences, and this experience was no different. I enjoyed it. I look at these attempts at my conversion as opportunities to convert other people. And no, not to Catholicism or Christianity in general, or to Wicca or Buddhism or Islam or Hinduism or any religion for that matter. I try to convert people to a more open-minded and active form of their own religion.So I spent some time questioning the one guy who did most of the speaking about his religion's beliefs on people outside his religion being able to be saved. And then I went into my 'brief history of major world relgions', explaining how Christianity evolved from Judaism, and then Islam evolved from Christianity, so really the people of both religions are like our cousins, if not our siblings. More to the point, I implied that Islam is the next step after Christianity (just how Christians view Christianity as the next step after Judaism). I also like making the point that, to be fair, Jesus himself never converted to Christianity. He was, in fact, a big advocate of people not worshipping himself as the Christ. He said to worship God the Father. Speaking of God the Father, Michael was very careful to drop a very pointed She into the discussion of god. Mr. Converter at Our Door picked it up immediately, laughing, "Well, god is never really spoken of as a she. God is only spoken of as a he..." So they debated that for a while, and Michael was able to get him to concede that god did not have sex or gender, so if it "wasn't important" that the pronoun used was he, then it also wasn't important if he chose to call god she. We also talked about empowerment, and how it bothered us that he came with a message that the whole world was falling apart, and so we should have hope in the Bible because God was going to come down and save us and fix it all. We held that that message actually made people give up their hope, because then they think they can't fix anything so they just wait around for god to come and save them. He said, well, you can't stop global warming. But Michael and I argued that yes, we can. We, of course, meaning all people, not just me and Michael. I explained a very, Very Christianized view of my practical spirituality. About how Jesus did not say pray for the poor, Jesus said feed the poor. And Jesus did not say to lay down and accept when your rulers are being unjust. Jesus in fact stood up to them many times. They killed him for it. He did not teach a passive waiting for god to come and save us. He was pretty specific that you should go out and help Her. Eventually they left. I think the man realized we were a lost cause, and that the woman was agreeing with a lot of what we said, which can be a very dangerous thing. Many religions do not want people to have a purpose in life. Only a purpose in death. Anyway, I got to thinking about this again this morning when my Aunt Rose came to visit. And by that, I am insinuating that I'm on the rag. Which means it's my time of the month. For the Menses. Not to be confused with Mensa. And I have to say that I truly believe that 1) It's one thing if God is gender-neutral and assigned different bodily experiences to different sexes. That, I can accept. 2) It's one thing if God is a woman, and felt that it was really important for women to have cramps and bleeding for about a quarter of the time during a majority of their adult lives. 3) It is another thing entirely if God is a man and decided to give this to women. Ergo, if God is a man, God is a jackass. And for any women who have bothered to read this far into this update, here are a few websites for you: http://www.hagrag.bigstep.com/ http://www.lunapads.com/ http://www.keeper.com/ Okay, that's all I got. peace.
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