Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Wei Ye came over my hse today to learn guitar. Amusing, but i taught him anyways. Looking at him play reminds me of myself when i was just starting out on the instrument 5 yrs ago. All that struggling with the fingerings, the pain in the fingers, the buzzing on the strings. Haha. Funny stuff. Shld have videotaped it down.
Anyways, been getting quite a bit of flak for my MSN nick. Yea, i put "Warped Christian Thinkings" since yesterday, and a few of my Christian friends kinda asked me what's with my nick.
Before u guys decide to group up and burn me on a cross, lemme tell u why. Story goes like this:
My uncle from Msia is a pastor. And he stayed over at my hse for the past 2 days. So yesterday while i was in my room using the com, he sat beside me and started preaching.
Personally i'm not anti-christ ok. Neither do i hate it when pple preach to me. It's just time-consuming. I've got better things to do. Yea anyways so out of respect, i just listened to what he has to say, and meanwhile MSN-ing with some of my friends.
K here's the warped part. While preaching he tends to drag in other religions and slams them like no tomorrow, and tt irks me totally. I mean u can believe in ur own God, but u dun have to slam other religions right. It's just not right to me. I dunno how u guys feel abt it, but tt's the major factor to why i dislike the whole Christian idea.
Here's some little excerpts from his speech which i find it hard to rationalize too:
1. "U cannot see God, but he's everywhere. Just like air, u cannot see it. But u need it to live. U feel it. That's the same for God. U cannot see him. But it doesnt mean he does not exist"
2. "Because he's everywhere, he's different from all the other Guan Yins and Buddhas. Y? Cos they are just figurines! They cannot be everywhere. They are forever stationary unless u move them. And THAT makes them not omnipotent. So God is better cos he can be everywhere."
3. "Satan is jealous of God, cos he gets worshipped by people whereas Satan has no followers. So Satan uses trickery to deceive mankind. How does he do that? He hides himself in those Guan Yin and Buddha statues, making people believe they are praying to God. But they are actually not."
4. "Other religions have something called enlightenment. But it's so hard to attain! U have to do good deeds, eat veg or whatever, to get a chance only! And even still u might not attain enlightenment. But, with God's membership, it's easy. Just believe in him and you will go to heaven."
Seriously this is enuff for me. So he's telling me half of the world is actually worshipping Satan? OMG. So half of us are going hell definitely baby. And tt last part, seriously this God allows a Brazilian drug lord to go to heaven, and let a monk burn in hell? Tt's so flawed.
What's worse, it's all coming out from my uncle. A pastor. I can't believe what his followers are thinking.
And the amusing part is, at the end of the conversation, he advises me to go to church with Shirui. And then he thinks really hard, and said,"Go to the church in Queenstown. There's 3 of them. Go to the one named Fisherman's Church (or smthing like tt)".
So the inquisitive me naturally asked,"What's wrong with the other 2?"
He claims tt only the Fisherman's Church tells the Truth. They teach closer to the Bible.
Ok, so in my mind, i'm like... so what about the rest of the churches in Singapore? What are they teaching? Half-truth? 1/4 truth? Or *gasp* Lies? And...what if actually he's the one who's been fooled by Satan all these while? *stunned*
So who's telling the Truth now?
I really think i'm gonna get flamed big time for this. But it's not gonna convince me if these questions are not answered well. And point to note: I used to go church last time with my grandma, tho i'm too young to understand a single thing on what's happening inside. Just filler crowd man. After she died i never stepped into a church anymore.
Forgive me if anyone of ur is offended. But seriously if our friendship is gonna be so superficial then i guess we shan't be friends anymore.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

For your information, being a Christian is not as easy as what your Uncle puts it. Duh... I cant believe what i am reading about your Uncle's preaching. -_-" hahahaa...

Anonymous said...

heehee.. this sounds oddly familar to my latest entry too =) but well enuff of complains + preaching + watever? how was the ubin trip?

Chang said...

To Anon: Well he's a damn respectable pastor in both Msia and Singapore. So i guess what he says does carry some weight? Or issit just cos he's a Methodist and they view things differently?

To Angela: Haha. Read urs. But has totally no relation, cos mine's an isolated case. Ubin trip was fun. Shld do it more often.

Me JT said...

eh... Shirui's a christian?? Mmm... Didn't noe that. heez. Why don't you ask her? And I'm v v v sure that not only that church teaches the 'right' stuff. erm, though there r some churches that don't follow Bible teaching one...

Chang said...

JT: Shirui's not a christian. And the fact tt there are churches not following bible teachings? And they are still called churches.

Convince me pple.

Anonymous said...

nice entry chang. that part about satan being jealous of god. and hides himself in figurines is really fucking lame. took me awhile to stop lafing. teaching to the bible means its more truthful? how come? the bible is the all great "truth"?

Anonymous said...

haha. looks like there are more supports than flamings. and i'd be blasted if i heard what he said from his mouth too. but i think it's an isolated case.
i do have very very nice christian friends who respect other religions and understands if you're not keen on preachings and christian talks. i think it's not a christian thing overall, it's a personality and mentality thing.

Chang said...

To BingZhi: it might be an isolated case. But remember. My uncle's a pastor. Think how many others will be influenced by him.

And it's not abt whether my christian friends preach to me or not. It's not tt. I'm totally cool with whatever religion u are and if u have interesting stuff to share i'll listen anytime.

I'm just intrigued by the logic system of some pple.

Me JT said...

Yah... there are churches who deny and modify the Bible.twisted teachings.overseas, there are some cults who call themselves churches too... quite scary one. But that's besides the point la. Guess your uncle means well lah.

Anonymous said...

yea, the lack of respect for other religions, and the ill labelling gets to me too..but am glad not all Christians think like that, even tho' i've heard of many such instances. -xiuqin