I liked this reading. What I liked was that the Native Americans showed the white men another point of view that was just as good as the white man's (if not, better! lol) I liked how he explained to the man that the white men came over to America to enjoy their religion, but now were trying to force it upon the Natives, and how that wasn't right. I feel like it may have opened the man's eyes a little, make him think like,"dang, we're doing the exact same thing that they were doing to us over in europe..."
I wish everyone could have an open mind about religion like that. I think this world would be more peaceful. I love God and I love when people are able to find a religion or something they believe in, but i just dont like it when they try to convert me to what they believe. i know what i believe.
I remember one of my good friends from my second year of high school. She was not really religious when i met her, but i didn't care. One day i moved up here to sacramento. me n her (she and i) kept in contact though. One day she told me that she had started going to church. i thought this was great, because she was so excited about it. But one time she called me, and i hadnt spoken to her in a long time, and i just wanted to catch up on things... but she started preaching to me and telling me that i'm a sinner and this and that and she went on and on for about an hour. While she was preachin to me on the phone, i was in downtown Chicago on vacation and i was thinking to myself, dang, if i'd had known she was going to preach to me, i wouldn't have picked up! I'm christian, and that's the religion she joined, but what she was trying to preach to me wasn't exactly what i believed in. and i mean, that's fine for her to believe a certain way, but i know what i believe, and i dont need to explain it to anyone, or try to convert anyone, or be converted to something else by anyone. i still was her friend after that... i was just afraid to call her. lol so we kinda lost touch. =/
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
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