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May 25, 2004

Dinner talk

S (my co-worker) and I had dinner together last night. S is 26 years old, and is of Indian descent (her parents came here from India many years ago). We get along very well. I kind of feel like a big sister to her sometime - okay, a much older sister, ok well, maybe a mom to her, and we have some interesting discussions.

My friend is a devout Hindu. She is a vegetarian as part of her faith, and she thinks the whole Vegan movement is very silly. She is going to be officially engaged in a couple of months, and is will get married in about a year. S has saved herself for marriage, also as her religion requires.

Somehow, our conversation turned to different religions - and we both felt that all religions have some truth, some value - and then S looked at me and said, of course except for that one religion. And this very kind, sweet, smart young woman said - you know, the whole Muslim thing. And I agree with her.

When I was in elementary school - all girl Catholic school - Mother Earhardt was our religion teacher from 1st to 4th grade. She once said that if you think of a tall tower, with windows all around the top of it, the view outside of each window could represent the different views of each religion - they all see part of the truth, but none of them see all of the truth.

I think that perhaps that Mother Earhardt was wrong - I think that perhaps one religion is in the basement, looking at the dirt around the tower and trying to figure out how to blow up the tower so that all the other religions will perish. So they can force all of us, Catholic, Hindu, Jewish, Animist, Buddhist, all of us, to face East, kneel and submit to their religion - so they can rule us and enslave us.

I think we need an exterminator to get that rat out of the Tower's basement before the foundation of all of faiths is fouled.

Posted by Beth at May 25, 2004 06:10 AM