A Lone Thought

The Son of Man has come again! At recess today Jesus was back, and bloodier than ever, with not one, but two crosses! One was left up in the middle of the stage from last time, and the other was heaved over his shoulder. Covered in his bloody robes, he stood still like a statue, portraying the terrible struggle Jesus had to go through carrying that big heavy cross up that big long hill. Today, the sign said

Jesus carries his cross. What crosses do you put on others?

Great moral, poor English. Who 'puts crosses on others'? But who cares about the wording, lets look at the content. Jesus carries his cross. Of course he does, no-one is doubting that for a second, just ignoring the fact it's three against one - but alright, technically there's nothing wrong with it - the sign just said 'Jesus carries his cross'. It's making no historical assertion what-so-ever. I still feel it's implying it none the less.

Today in religion we had a look at abortion. At the start of the lesson my teacher made a point of addressing how we would handle the issue - as it was a 'very touchy subject/hard to talk about/big issue'. Sure it is... Or at least, certainly not as much as she hyped it up to be. She made a firm point of saying what our personal religious beliefs were were completely irrelevant - to which someone called out condicendingly "yeah Aardvark!". Heh.

Unfortunately, I'm a counter apologetics person. And in this course, random counter arguments are completely irrelevant, as they serve no bearing on the content of the course. 'It's just my opinion' so to speak, however . However, there are certain moments I can 'question' the reasons they're giving for certain things, and have it seem perfectly valid. A great example of this would be the argument against abortion utilizing the Ten Commandments. 'The Commandments were given to the Jews...and apply to Jews only - so who the hell are you to say God was wrong and they're in fact for you too. How arrogant can you get?! And you're screwing with God's words! He didn't want them to be for you so they're not for you!' I might be wrong on that, and if so I'd like to hear about it. But based on my current understanding of things Christians are in no place to use ANY commandment given to the Jews by utilizing the Hebrew Bible.

After receiving some worksheets and having a brief read through them I saw the usual special pleading where Christians believe humans are above all animals. I told my friend sitting next to me about Australopithecus Afarensis, asking whether it would be wrong to abort it if we found one alive today?

This then reminded my friend sitting in front of me to tell me something. The other day Mary (the insecure one) was talking to her about me. She was quoting me having said "our school pushes their beliefs onto us", and then said she thought I did exactly the same thing to them.

When my friend started telling me this I automatically objected to her first premise. I had no recollection of making such a statement. Knowing them, it would be no surprise to see they had in fact twisted my words from something else. Such a statement is ridiculous - we go to a religious school! What do you expect! I attempted to once again justify my position, stating I wasn't pushing my beliefs onto anyone, I was just stating facts. If they don't want to listen that's their decision.

I then picked up a pen and said 'the pen is red. THE PEN IS RED!!!! But the pen isn't red is it, it's blue. If you don't want to believe it's red that's your choice, but the matter of the fact is the pen is blue.' Unfortunately I didn't think to also add "the only thing I 'believe' here is I don't accept the premise God exists". Oh well, not like it would make much of a difference anyway.

I then speculated to my friend why Mary might've been thinking about me so often. First deciding I'm a scientific humanist and now I push my beliefs onto everyone? It as if she was trying to rationalize my position as an evil person who's just as bad, nay, worse than everyone else. Therefore whatever I say is clearly worthless and should not be listened to. She's a very insecure person so this would make sense.