Humility? Modesty? Healing?
So I was forced to listen to a sermon yesterday. Some CD given to my mother by some weird woman who is her business associate or something. This weird woman is a Christian.
My mum cooked up some excuse to get her off her back because this woman, X, is overbearing and definitely unreasonable. Heard that her colleagues buay song her also. That's sad. Such people live only to bring misery to others. Oh yea, my mum's excuse was that she needed to spend more time on me because I spend too much time on the computer, blah blah.
So a CD, 'Healing the sick' or something, was passed to her. Quite weird. My mum was supposed to meet her today, so I guess she was scared that X would ask her stuff regarding the CD. To prepare her, I decided to listen to the sermon, too.
It was funny. The pastor sounded really concerned. Perhaps even agitated. And the content was funny. Maybe it's just me. It was about games and television programs and how they can 'demonize' people.
So there was this son, I don't know who, who suddenly became dang evil, bad-tempered, blah blah blah. The parents didn't know what happened, and not knowing what happened, didn't know how to respond.
Then I forgot what actually happened, blah blah, then this happened!
So the father of the son was entering the son's room when he saw a demon escaping from the back of the son's neck. He was dang scared, and told the son what he saw, sparing no details of how the demon looked, blah blah blah. The son then took out a catalogue of the games and television programs, Pokemon, Digimon, and pointed at the character that the father saw escaping from the back of his neck.
At this point I rawred in laughter. I can really see the danger in a lesser/greater demon escaping from the back of my neck. In case you don't play Runescape, monsters are dang pixellized and definitely not scary. The only scary stuff are the revenants, which look like ghosts. I mean, OK, they are ghosts, but pixellized ones at that.
The moral of the story is that such entertainment could be harmful, so must moderate. OK, I got the point.
But still, it's amusing how Pokemon and Digimon can become monsters in their own rights.
Then again, I'm appreciative of the concern showed by X, because she doesn't even know me in the first place.
Being in a Catholic school, I sorta learnt that believing in God is learning how to be humble. Like how the prayers always go like 'We pray that we can understand that whatever we achieve is thanks to you, Lord'. Somewhere along those lines. Of course, learning to be humble is a good thing. You're humbled by God, you are thankful for everything you have. I respect that.
But it becomes unacceptable when believers think that their religion is the better of others. I was surfing blogs when I saw this comment. Something about atheists only questioning the truth and how buddhism is never questioned.
You know what? You're supposed to be humble. Modesty and humility should never breed whatever it was that made that person make that comment.
Isn't it the case of a 'I am superior'? Is this humility? Is this being a modest person? Is this the hallmark of believing in God?
-- 9/01/2008 01:09:00 AM
