Well, I’ve recently been spending a lot of time at different local coffee shops and book stores and there’s something I’ve noticed... When the people around me are talking about God and faith and church stuff, my heart always swells up. Humanity is not completely doomed like I thought! What’s more, when it’s young people, my heart swells to the point of bursting! As I write this, there’s a group of 7 elderly people discussing what’s going on in their church. These people are graying and retired, so there's not much else to do but spend quality time with God. But when it’s a young person! My gosh! What do you mean, they didn’t need to get drunken blackouts and the haze of youth out of their system?! Nooo. Earlier today (I told you I spend a lot of time at coffee shops) the girl beside me pulled out her heavily annotated Bible and began to journal. Part of me wanted to lean over and ask what she was reading; what was the message God was placing on her heart. This is all good and great. But then why is it that sometimes when I pull out my Bible in a public place I screen the people around me. I mean I wouldn’t want to offend anyone. Sometimes I feel like I’m living in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. So then I just go on and on in my head about what’s acceptable these days, why should I care about, wait, I should be able to read, speak, wear the Bible, wait wait, I wouldn’t want to cause a scene of sorts or receive atheist glares. It’s exhausting. So I came to my own conclusion... to use intellectual judgementalism (whoa, Religious Ethics and Moral Problems reference). It's a concept that points out being PC can dilute matters to no opinion at all. But, you aren’t going to save the sluts that walk to class in a miniskirt or the alcoholics that enjoy a beer or two on a Friday night- and shouting that they’re all going to hell across grounds [college campus] most definitely will not bring people to Jesus.
With that being said, you rock that Jesus flare.
